John Oliver Dings Himself On ‘Final Week Tonight’ For Present’s Title “Fully Devoid Of Creativeness”

John Oliver poked enjoyable at himself on the most recent episode of Final Week Tonight on HBO.

The late-night host devoted his present to speaking concerning the ocean and the mining of Manganese nodules discovered on the seafloor.

Oliver defined that the Worldwide Seabed Authority oversees the seabed in worldwide waters and joked concerning the ISA calling this “The Space,” saying, “It’s a wildly lazy placeholder title.”

The comic went on to ding his present’s title, saying, “It’s like calling a person who’s tremendous, Superman, or calling a present the place you discuss final week that night time, Final Week Tonight. It’s simply utterly devoid of creativeness.”

Whereas discussing deep-sea mining, Oliver centered on The Metals Firm’s proposal to mine the nodules. Oliver identified that mining the nodules might disrupt the ocean’s ecosystem by creating mud clouds underwater.

“Can do much more injury than you may assume,” he mentioned. “They’ve the potential to bury fields of nodules, choke the filters of sponges and anemones, even these residing exterior the mining zone, and obscure bioluminescence that squid and fish use to hunt and mate.”

He continued, “Principally, it might f*** everybody’s shit up.”

Oliver then invoked the Denis Villeneuve movie saga based mostly on Frank Herbert’s novel, including, “Assume much less, gently lifting golf balls off the driving vary and extra a scene of Dune 3: Even Extra Sand.”

Closing out the present, he moved on to debate the controversy surrounding his shopping for a Crimson Lobster in Kingston, New York. A bakery proprietor was upset Oliver purchased out the closed-down restaurant as he had hoped to have a possibility to purchase among the tools for his institution.

Oliver reduce to a clip of an area information report displaying the person watching his present on a cellular system, and the comic identified that’s precisely how most of his viewers eat his present.

“I do love that he’s watching our present in the identical approach everybody else does — on a cellphone, in the course of a piece day with out even a touch of enjoyment on his face,” Oliver joked.