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And Now, LeVar Burton Reading Go The F**k To Sleep 

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Here’s renowned actor, director, and reader of children’s books delivering a stirring narration of Go the F**K to Sleep. For charity. In a Captain Planet t-shirt.

Burton read Adam Mansbach’s satirical bedtime story as part of a stretch goal for Rooster Teeth’s Extra Life charity drive. Believe it or not, we actually enjoy his delivery better than Samuel L. Jackson’s. That’s no slight against Jackson, by the way – his version is excellent. But let’s be real now, who can honestly hold a candle to Burton, when he puts on that nostalgia-stoking Reading Rainbow voice?

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