Will Ferrell Rolls the Cause Dice for Burma

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Whether you’re an air traffic controller or some random kid in Toledo, Burma could use your help tackling that slippery “human rights” concept.

Seriously. There’s some screwed-up stuff happening there, including ethnic cleansing and the imprisonment of a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and Will Ferrell took time out of his busy Funny or Die schedule just to tell you so.

In the next 30 days, other celebs will lend their earnest faces and awkward jokes to Burma: It Can’t Wait, orchestrated by Fanista and Digital Influence Group. Up to bat tomorrow: Jennifer Aniston and Woody Harrelson. Sure it’s an odd pairing (Natural Born Killers meets Friends?), but crisis has a way of making unlikely bedfellows.

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