John Oliver's Last Week Tonight

"I'm tearing Maher a new one! Also, Bill, please like and subscribe."

Just checking, but Noah isn't a millionaire, right?

Huh seems he is. Noah has a networth of 30 million

He had a best selling book. As Bernie Sanders proved, that basically instantly makes you a millionaire.

Of course, if you're an author without a best-selling book, you're probably making less than minimum wage. Big-name authors get lots of attention (and money), but overall it's not a very profitable profession.

This is why a lot of writers have to depend on other sources of income when starting out.

i think it's easier becoming a millionaire being a late-night talkshow host than it is being an author

Having such a prominent platform on television also makes it a lot more likely that any book you write will become a bestseller...

So John Oliver actually explained how it came about during an interview with Seth Meyer, the joke was a one-off that didn’t land well with the audience and the team repeated it several times to try and get it to work. They kinda wrapped it up as best they could and then reached out to Driver, who said that he had heard about the joke and was happy to do a bit on it towards the end of the year. It seems that then they bought the joke back because they knew they were building to something with it.

"The joke was a one-off that didn’t land well with the audience and the team repeated it several times to try and get it to work."

In other words, they kept repeating a joke until it got the desired laughs. Classic.

I... Actually don't like it when comedians do that.

If it at first you don't succeed...

Honestly, it sounds more like "the audience hated the joke, so we just kept doing it some more for our own amusement".

Which is something I get - I like tormenting my friends with groan-inducing puns all the time.

I love that style of joke. Take a bit and keep doing it because the audience supposedly hates it, making a triple-layer Running Gag. Layered humor is one of my favorite kinds.

I watched the first time he did the bit, and the audience didn't even seem to hate it all that much. There were plenty of laughs.

This one picture looks like somebody just slapped the Pringles guy's head on the body of Commander Badass.

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Dec 7th 2020 at 9:06:30 PM

I always figured the Pringles Guy didn't have a body period and was just this giant floating head.

I assumed he was literally a potato chip with facial features.

Iirc, some of the commercials had him eating Pringles. So if your idea was correct he'd be a cannibal.

That's fairly common for food mascots, though.

If he's meant to be a Pringle then he's a shitty Pringle. He's not even curved.

I love that his name is Julius, BTW. I never considered a name for Pringles man but that's just...so fitting.

Well, he is curved, you're just looking at him top-down. I assume that his face looks MUCH weirder from every other possible angle.

I vaguely remember some commercials from the late 90s/early 00s that implied his body is the canister itself.

...Why are all the food mascots so weird.

They need something to draw attention to the product I guess.

It's also kind of weird that cannibalism is so common among them.

I'm surprised more commercials don't have the food mascots trying to eat themselves.