President Matt Damon? Five Celebrities Who’ve Been Called To Run For Office

The Oprah for President vibe has been around for awhile. In 2006, the queen of talk even had to issue a cease and desist letter to a fan who was forcefully pushing a campaign for her presidential bid. And after she announced that she was ending her show, fans started urging her once again. It's not too hard to see why people ... won't let it go–Oprah's smart, powerful and extraordinarily popular. We just hope there will still be a book club.

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NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams is a good-looking, knowledgeable guy–which seems to be enough for a presidential run according to The Full Ginsberg, a political comedy group. They've started a campaign in the anchor's honor, despite the fact the "BriWi" (as they call him) probably isn't aware that it exists.

The Daily Show's Jon Stewart definitely knows his politics, so it's not a huge surprise that there's a Facebook page dedicated to him running in 2016. But if Jon Stewart is president, who will make fun of politicians?

Suggestions that George Clooney run for president were made mostly in jest after he admitted in an interview that he'd slept with too many women and experimented with too many drugs (we're politely paraphrasing here) to run for political office. The Village Voice noted that that experience and refreshing honesty was "precisely why he would be the perfect politician." We suspect, however, the interest mostly stems from how good Clooney looks in a suit.