John Oliver used his opening phase on Sunday’s Final Week Tonight to speak concerning the “onerous crackdown” on faculty college students within the U.S. protesting the Israel-Hamas battle.
He confirmed clips from a dwell Fox Information report at Columbia College in New York.
“Police swarmed campuses in numbers so excessive; this scholar summed it up fairly properly,” he mentioned.
The clip began out with a reporter asking a scholar protestor, “What do you consider the NYPD shifting in?”
Replied the coed: “It’s insane. We’ve got a proper to protest. We’ve got a proper. Take a look at that. That’s fucking loopy.”
The reporter then requested: “What are you gonna do if you happen to get arrested?”
The scholar replied: “I can’t actually do a lot.”
The reporter pressed on: “Will you go along with the police in the event that they make an arrest?”
Shrugged the coed: “I suppose so.”
In the reduction of to Oliver: “Did that reporter simply ask, ‘Are you going to go along with the police in the event that they arrest you?’ Kudos to that scholar for giving the calmest doable reply to what is likely to be the dumbest query ever requested on TV. ‘If the blokes with weapons put you in handcuffs and drag you to the jail, will you go along with them?’ ‘Yeah, I suppose so.’”
He continued: “Additionally ideas and prayers to the family members of the one boomer who was killed by listening to that scholar say ‘fuck’ on Fox Information. Someplace, a household’s writing [his] obituary. ‘Paul John Roberts handed away in his residence when his eyeballs, coronary heart and butthole exploded. On the identical time, he’s survived by his spouse and three grownup youngsters, who not converse to him.’”
By the way, Sunday evening’s episode marked the three hundredth installment of Final Week Tonight. The present famous the milestone with a picture of a cake topped with candles studying “300” on the finish of the opening credit.