John Oliver

You don't often get to laugh out loud about our hell-in-a-handbasket present reality, but John Oliver does it for me. One example was the way he described this guy:


That's Roger Stone, who Oliver described as "basically steampunk Andy Warhol."

And then there was the elaborate song and dance sequence at the end of the same episode. This concerned coal baron Bob Murray, who sued the show several years ago for libel. They and HBO recently won the lawsuit, so Oliver gave a great explanation of how SLAPP suits by rich people and companies work to suppress free speech, and then ended with this NSFW bit:


I watched it twice and got a lot more out of the lyrics on second hearing. Murray, by the way, rhymes with furry.