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Video: Sasha Grey Appears In Spoof Ad For NSA Sex Hotline
Whether it's at the hands of a peeping Tom, a leaked sex tape, or a major government agency listening to your phone calls and reading your emails and text messages, there's nothing sexier than having your privacy infringed upon.
To illustrate that point, Funny or Die has made an ad with Sasha Grey for the only logical next step in the NSA debacle—a sex hotline that allows callers to listen in to any phone call, anywhere, at any time.
Grey, appearing sultry in a leopard print robe, asks the obvious:
Why settle for just one phone sex hotline when becoming a contractor for the NSA gives you unlimited access to any private contact made over AT&T and Verizon?
The ad goes on to inform viewers that upon signing up, they'll be able to just pick up the phone and have a good, sexy eavesdrop, just like President Obama:
Grey: What are you waiting for? Even President Obama likes to listen in. Obama (Impersonator): Uh, I just want to say, thank you for your service to our country, and uh, I uh, have a huge boner right now.
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