Hollywood helps Joe Biden raise $30 million for campaign

Los Angeles: Some of Hollywood's brightest stars headlined a

fundraiser

for Prez Joe Biden that took in a record $30 million-plus for a Democratic candidate, according to his

campaign

. George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Barbra Streisand were among those who took the stage at the 7,100-seat Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles on Saturday. Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel interviewed Biden and former prez Barack Obama, who both stressed the need to defeat former president Donald Trump in a race that's expected to be exceedingly close.
During more than half an hour of discussion, Kimmel asked if the country was suffering from amnesia about the ex-prez, to which Biden responded, "all we gotta do is remember what it was like" when Trump was in the White House.
The amount raised outpaced the then-record $26 million from Biden's fundraiser in March in New York that featured late-night host Stephen Colbert interviewing Biden, Obama and Bill Clinton.