The talented Kristen Bell had her year when she voiced and sang as the young and teenage Anna in Disney's blockbuster animated hit "Frozen." In the latest Funny or Die video, the actress will soon be carving another household name as the "minimum wage" Mary Poppins, Buzzfeed reported
In the almost three-minute skit, Bell, dressed as the iconic character played by Dame Julie Andrews, is seen packing up her things as two of her wards beg her to stay. In true Poppins fashion, and with an uncanny speaking and singing voice to boot, Bell easily swings from talking in poem-like verses to singing in the popular music of the American fantasy film, explaining to the children how a meager three dollars would allow her to stay and be their magical nanny.
Lamenting over her measly $7.25 an hour minimum wage, she sang, "In every job that must be done, you must be paid in more than fun. You get your paycheck, and snap! Federal and state income tax, Medicare and social security? Why, you're living below the poverty line!"
Poppins then later went into song about a penguin family of four, which was an allegory to the state of the American family today whose parents are holding minimum-wage jobs. She singsonged her way into the effects of living under the poverty line, saying that parents fight about not having money, with at least one succumbing to nasty health vices like smoking and drinking.
Poppins then sang about high-paid executives who do not experience the problems of getting paid the federal minimum wage. There was also this moment in her song that she looks into the mirror and found out that her reflection, who is a Republican, is trying to convince her that getting $10.10 an hour is not the answer to her problems.
She then capped her song with her signature style of opening her umbrella, which, to her display, is battered and broken.
USA Today noted that it has been five years since the topic of increasing the current federal minimum wage has broached in Washington. On Thursday, a group of US lawmakers made another push for a minimum wage hike by citing recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
Democrat Senator Tom Harkin told reporters that the bill he and Representative George Miller to raise the country's pay floor to $10.10 hourly has once again, been blocked by Republicans in the Senate.
"It has been five long years since minimum wage workers last received a raise - five long years that the minimum wage has been a poverty wage and five long years as costs have climbed for everything that workers need to buy," Harkin said to reporters.
