Sean Penn has been suspiciously quiet for a few months. Perhaps he’s been prepping his follow-up interview with El Chapo, who knows? But he appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last week, and he ended up giving an endorsement to Hillary Clinton. I’m a little bit surprised by this? Penn is political, obviously, and he definitely falls on the progressive/liberal/almost-socialist side of the political realm. I thought he would probably be a Bernie or Bust guy, or trying to convince people to vote for Jill Stein. But no! He thinks we should vote for Hillary Clinton. Meaning Hillary just scored a very important endorsement from the all-powerful ham-faced demographic.

Sean Penn rarely makes late night appearances but he stopped by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to promote the audiobook he narrated, Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff. Apart from the book, Penn and Colbert talked about the recent presidential debate, with Penn saying he didn’t watch it because he feels it was more of a “social debate” than a political one. He elaborated by saying the author of his audio book, Pappy Pariah, described the current election in a way that impacted how Penn sees it.

“There are two options: Either you can decide to divorce yourself from loving your children and piss on a tree and show that you have the power to piss on a tree,” said Penn, “Or you can go out and vote in a very big way for someone like Hillary Clinton — who then you can challenge and support which is the only way that any kind of president can have any success — and you stick it out for four years, or we can just masturbate our way into hell with a guy who looks like the only blonde magician.”

Colbert responded by laughing and saying that if Penn is referring to Trump, he doesn’t think he can “masturbate his way into hell” because his hands are too small.

“Proportional match,” responded Penn with a smile.

[From The Hollywood Reporter]

I’m including the clip below – it also features Colbert signing Penn up for Twitter. As for the endorsement… it’s strangely agreeable for Hillary – “who then you can challenge and support which is the only way that any kind of president can have any success” is a very pragmatic view about how our political system works. I also think Penn’s self-aware enough to know that his endorsement doesn’t really help a candidate, which is why he’s not offering some full-throated defense of all things Hillary-related.

PS… On a more serious note, LeBron James also endorsed Hillary Clinton this weekend. You can read some of his endorsement here.

Photos courtesy of WENN.