John Oliver‘s Last Week Tonight last night went deep on Donald Trump‘s use of presidential pardon power. Spoiler alert: it has not been ethical or equitable.
One particular part of the full-30-minute dissection took a left turn — and took a buzzsaw to new BuzzFeed owner Byron Allen. No, the media mogul has not been on the receiving end of a Trump pardon — the only crime Allen has committed here is replacing Stephen Colbert’s CBS late night show.
Oliver and Colbert are old buds, both from the Jon Stewart Daily Show family tree. Allen is the comedian-turned-Weather Channel owner who now leases The Late Show‘s vacated time slot from Paramount. His Comics Unleashed is a pretty milquetoast panel show, inoffensive to Presidents and advertisers alike. Clearly, Oliver takes offense to what CBS has does with the 11:30 p.m. slot.
It took a while to get there, but Allen eventually got his. Mocking a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter, who was draped in a comically large scarf, Oliver commented, “He looks like what had happened if Steve Carell fucked Gru, which must be something that Steve’s thought about, right?”
“Doesn’t every voice actor wonder what it’d be like to have sex with the cartoon character that they voice? I know I have,” he continued. “I’ve thought about what it would be like to fuck Vanity Smurf and what it would be like to fuck Zazu. It’s not because I find it arousing, I don’t, but you can’t tell me that you wouldn’t be curious what it’d be like to fuck someone and hear your own voice coming out of their mouths. It’ll be so strange.”
