Nessa Norich

Starring: Nessa Norich as Ruth Bader Gibsburg & Ali Levin as Melania Trump

Written and Directed by Nessa Norich & Ali Levin

Cinematographer: Andy Zou

Editor: Michael Parella

Music and vocals mixed and mastered by Mauricio Escamilla

“MAKE HAPPY” is a satirical fantasy musical encounter between first lady Melania Trump and the ghost of the late Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Two days before the 2020 election, a lonely and fed up Melania Trump visits the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park to ask her only friend - an angel made of stone - for a “real life human friend” to give her comfort.  An unexpected someone appears and offers us all a powerfully timely message of how to make life meaningful in these dark times. 

“MAKE HAPPY” realizes the music video fantasy that comedian/performance artists Ali Levin and Nessa Norich would like to see in this world just before election day. Levin and Norich embody their political alter-egos, Melania Trump and Ruth Bader Ginsburg to take you on a whimsical journey of an unlikely friendship. A cover of the epic diva duet of “Happy Days/ Get Happy” that the iconic Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland sang/pleaded together in 1963, “Make Happy” is an uplifting, hilarious swan song for two American icons to come together as this deeply divided world approaches monumental change.