Clint Eastwood's RNC Speech To An Invisible Obama Mocked By Hollywood On Twitter

Clint Eastwood made Twitter's Day — or at least its night. The veteran actor and filmmaker's bizarre, aimless speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa on Thursday night — to a chair that purportedly contained an invisible President Obama — brought out plenty of celebrity tweeters on the social media site.

As of Friday morning "Eastwood" was still trending intermittently on the Twitter, and a number of actors and filmmakers' comments were among the reactions to the Unforgiven actor's speech.

Among them was Magic Mike actress Olivia Munn who tweeted: "Clint Eastwood was talking to an empty chair at the RNC...No, that's not the set-up to a joke. Its not even a joke."

This Is 40 filmmaker Judd Apatow had fun with the subject on a more oblique level.  "Clint used to be Every Which 'But'Loose. Tonight he got loose,"  Apatow tweeted. The truncated film title was a reference to Eastwood's  1978 buddy picture with an orangutan, Every Which Way But Loose, which seemed to mystify Apatow:  "How does that title refer to a relationship with orangutans?" He wrote. "Really. How?"

Shaun of the Dead filmmaker Simon Pegg weighed in from the UK, tweeting: "Woken up to excited chatter in the US. Apparently Clint Eastwood had an argument with an empty chair regarding its political standpoint."

Star Trek actor George Takei also weighed in tweeting: Clint Eastwood's RNC speech was to imaginary Obama in an empty chair. I'm drafting a DNC speech to imaginary Romney in an empty factory."

Nice.

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