John Oliver's Last Week Tonight

John is a Troll. It's what he does.

It's exactly professional trolling. Yahtzee Croshaw of Zero Punctuation continually alludes to being sexually attracted to sea mammals (among other things). Why? Rule of Funny. He also opines that Sonic The Hedgehog has remained successful despite its awful quality largely because of young adults who fetishize the characters.

Furries are an acceptable target of comedy because everyone agrees they're weird, zoophilic furries even more so, but zoophilia itself has been a staple joke for thousands of years.

Edited by Fighteer on Feb 16th 2021 at 3:27:13 PM

I wouldn't even call it trolling because it's not even that uncommon a joke. Whenever the topic of zoonotic diseases come up, somebody always makes a joke about kissing or even fucking bats, pigs, mice, or whatever. It's edgy, but it doesn't make me suspect anybody's got a fetish especially given the context of the joke. At its core, it's absurd comedy where the joke is that a picture of an animal isn't really sexy in itself.

Now the rat erotica thing...yeah, that's more obviously a furry thing.

Edited by mightymewtron on Feb 16th 2021 at 4:03:06 AM

He also opines that Sonic the Hedgehog has remained successful despite its awful quality largely because of young adults who fetishize the characters.

I mean...

It's a lot like cannibalism: shocking enough to make one go "oh God", but not really the sort of thing anyone would find objectionable to joke about because, well, how many people are at the risk of being eaten alive, anyway?

Meatpacking.

While it's a coincidence, the fact that a vid about meatpacking was brought up after the post mentioning cannibalism is kind of amusing in a Black Comedy manner.

Edited by M84 on Feb 23rd 2021 at 4:58:43 AM

Actually, considering that safety standards were so lax in the past that people would sometimes fall into the machine...

I can no longer hear "meat packing" without thinking about its description in The Jungle. If you think it's bad now...

"Surely this is not our country." Oh man. As I just pointed out with that book above, this is not only your country now, this has always been your country.

Americans really don't know just how much their lives depend on immigrant wage slaves, do they?

Edited by Redmess on Feb 22nd 2021 at 12:27:34 PM

Some of us are very aware, it's just that it's difficult to convince others (read: Republicans and the federal government) to do anything about it.

Edited by Aleistar on Feb 22nd 2021 at 9:01:33 AM

Anyone else reminded of the mirror universe episode of the original Star Trek when they heard about the COVID betting pool?

Edited by MFLuder on Feb 22nd 2021 at 12:08:08 PM

John Oliver looks at police raids.

Okay, 2020 disillusioned me with cops, but who the hell thinks grenading a baby is something that's excusable? Or even just allowed under qualified immunity?

Edited by Aleistar on Mar 1st 2021 at 9:16:35 AM

This is a straight-line outcome of the War on Drugs, of course. It's not an accident that a black man smoking a joint can have his home broken into and be thrown in prison for years while a white man gets off with a warning for the same thing.

Terror tactics have been used by police against minorities for hundreds of years with the approval, nay applause of society as a whole. Think about all the TV shows glorifying this behavior.

Edited by Fighteer on Mar 1st 2021 at 9:24:41 AM

Huh we actually have a page to Cop Rock. Man such a weird thing that they did. (I FULLY expect it to boom after this mention)

Thought baby merchant is weirdly catchy.

Edited by miraculous on Mar 1st 2021 at 8:50:02 AM

The more I learn, the more it seems like the War o Drugs was Nixon's biggest sin, above Watergate.

This is utterly bizarre.

John missed the best part of that scene. After that entire three minute number he just goes to listing the price of the kid he's selling casually as if the entire musical number hadn't just happened.

Its funny but I never knew policing was anywhere this bad till 2020. The sheer number of horror stories is insane.

At long as qualified immunity exists I don't think anything will change. If they could get directly held liable then they would change their tune big time.

Even just departments being held liable would be a huge change, they’d then either have to swallow their punishment or reform.

So, apparently, they want to make Cop Rock The Movie.

The video I linked has indeed gained a huge influx of views. Like it went from 20, 000 views yesterday to 76, 000 views today.

The Colbert Bump strikes again.

The Oliver Bump, in this case.

3 times John’s been angry/tearful:

1) When Trump insulted the Muslim soldier.

2) The Latino boy crying in bed after being separated.

3) After that lady’s video at the end of the police video.

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