--- title: ALS Ice Bucket Challenge: Patrick Stewart Video description: Patrick Stewart sits quietly writing a check, pulls a bucket of ice onto his desk, and makes himself a nice, stiff drink. canonical: https://time.com/3160870/patrick-stewart-als-ice-bucket-challenge-video/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-22T16:51:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:41.493Z og:title: Patrick Stewart Does the Ice Bucket Challenge in the Classiest Way Possible og:description: He sits quietly writing a check, pulls a bucket of ice onto his desk, and makes himself a nice, stiff drink. og:url: https://time.com/3160870/patrick-stewart-als-ice-bucket-challenge-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c8ea9c5fef19c9f/6986a093d0b6f21036305cd3/screen-shot-2014-08-22-at-12-50-41-pm.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-08-22 at 12.50.41 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Patrick Stewart Does the Ice Bucket Challenge in the Classiest Way Possible twitter:description: He sits quietly writing a check, pulls a bucket of ice onto his desk, and makes himself a nice, stiff drink. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c8ea9c5fef19c9f/6986a093d0b6f21036305cd3/screen-shot-2014-08-22-at-12-50-41-pm.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Patrick Stewart Does the Ice Bucket Challenge in the Classiest Way Possible  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Aug 22, 2014 4:51 PM UTC   by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Aug 22, 2014 4:51 PM UTC While everyone else is dumping big buckets of ice water over themselves and screaming their heads off on Facebook, Patrick Stewart — aka _Star Trek_ Captain Jean-Luc Picard _—_ took a more refined approach to the Ice Bucket Challenge, which is raising money and awareness for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) research. [In the video](http://youtu.be/wkO4NIqAMss), Stewart sits quietly writing a check, pulls a bucket of ice onto his desk…. and makes himself a nice, stiff drink. The viral fundraising campaign has raised more than $50 million so far. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3160870/patrick-stewart-als-ice-bucket-challenge-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3160870/patrick-stewart-als-ice-bucket-challenge-video/"},"headline":"Patrick Stewart Does the Ice Bucket Challenge in the Classiest Way Possible","datePublished":"2014-08-22T16:51:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:41.493Z","description":"He sits quietly writing a check, pulls a bucket of ice onto his desk, and makes himself a nice, stiff drink.","url":"https://time.com/3160870/patrick-stewart-als-ice-bucket-challenge-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c8ea9c5fef19c9f/6986a093d0b6f21036305cd3/screen-shot-2014-08-22-at-12-50-41-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c8ea9c5fef19c9f/6986a093d0b6f21036305cd3/screen-shot-2014-08-22-at-12-50-41-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-08-22 at 12.50.41 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3160870/patrick-stewart-als-ice-bucket-challenge-video/","name":"Patrick Stewart Does the Ice Bucket Challenge in the Classiest Way Possible"}}]}] ```