Comedian Moshe Kasher Opens GoFundMe Campaign to Pay His Rent

And no, he's not short on money. Kasher makes it clear in the description of his GoFundMe campaign that he's actually making an increase of money these days. In a move that seems completely satirical, Kasher states that he just doesn't want to pay rent for the month of June, especially since he apparently isn't even going to be home for the majority of the month. This comes on the heels of seemingly everybody coming out with some sort of crowd-funding campaign for just about any frivolous purpose one can imagine. How many well-known figures have you seen post a campaign for their new project over the past couple years? Too many to list, right? Some of which have enough of a following where people will gladly support them to help make that individual's movie in hopes of getting rewarded with promised perks that sometimes never happen. However, some times these campaigns give off a vibe that feels like the producer of the content really wants this project to happen, they just don't want to actually contribute any of their own money. Of course, that's painting with a pretty broad brush and companies like Rooster Teeth used IndieGoGo as a way to involve their active community to be a part of their first feature film, using the funds to enhance the movie after already using their own income to fund the majority of the film. And then there's companies like Rocket Jump that made 3 seasons of Video Game High School, all crowd-funded, and at the end of each season, they realized a detailed run-down of exactly how they used every penny raised on Kickstarter.

Following your dreams can be expensive and if you can get enough people to help out make it possible, then why not go for it? And honestly, it doesn't matter if wealthy people use it to not have to pay for their own projects. And honestly, crowd-funded movies can be a good gauge on if people actually want to see it and that's way better than the giant studios throwing money at garbage movies that nobody wants to see. That's how you get 47 Ronin or Jupiter Ascending or every Adam Sandler movie he's made since "You Don't Mess With the Zohan" (Sandler, you're not funny and nobody likes you anymore).

But as for other funded "projects," people spend money on dumb stuff every day, why not try to get them to pay for your dumb stuff. Kasher has become one of my favorite comedians over the last couple years and I laughed hysterically at his proposal because I could hear him reciting to an audience as an over-the-top satirical piece. And hey, if he can get his rent paid for this month without spending a dime of his own money, more power to him. Although, I don't like his chances, he's still at $331, a far reach from his $11k goal.