Directed by Chris Renaud, the movie adaptation will feature Ed Helms as the enigmatic Once-ler, fellow former Daily Show correspondent Rob Riggle as financial king O’Hare, and Betty White as Ted’s wise Grammy Norma, among others.
What if laughing with your favorite comedians could save a life in Africa? That’s the question posed by “Comedy Fights Malaria,” a new campaign from Malaria No More, a non-profit that aims to end malaria deaths in Africa — where a child dies from the disease every 45 seconds — by 2015. The organization’s latest campaign features PSA and viral videos from 25 comedians and celebrities including John Mayer, Orlando Bloom, Jason Schwartzman, Ted Danson and Aziz Ansari, among others. PSAs like the one above will be joined by more ridiculous takes like the video from Ed Helms. In it, Helms plans to end malaria by recruiting a group of sexy female mosquitoes to kill off their disease-spreading counterparts. The code name? “La Femme Mosquita.”