John Oliver Last week tonight Last night I delved into Donald Trump’s use of the presidential pardon power. Spoiler alert: It wasn’t ethical or fair.
One particular portion of the entire 30-minute dissection took a left turn — and took a buzzsaw to new BuzzFeed owner Byron Allen. No, the media mogul wasn’t on the receiving end of Trump’s pardon — Allen’s only crime here was replacing Stephen Colbert’s CBS late-night show.
Oliver and Colbert are old buds, both from Jon Stewart Daily show family tree. Allen is a comedian turned Weather Channel owner who now rents Late ShowThe time period that was vacated by Paramount. for him Comics unleashed It’s a nice, harmless group show for bosses and advertisers alike. Oliver clearly takes offense to what CBS did at 11:30 p.m.
It took a while to get there, but Allen eventually got it. Mocking one of the pardoned rioters on January 6, who was wrapped in a comically large scarf, Oliver commented: “It looks like what happened if Steve Carell had sex with a puppy, which must be something Steve thought about, right?”
He continued, “Doesn’t every voice actor wonder how to have sex with the cartoon character they’re voicing? I know I did.” “I thought about what it would be like to have sex with Vanity Smurf and what it would be like to have sex with Zazu. Not that I find that sexy, I don’t, but you can’t tell me that you wouldn’t be curious about what it would be like to have sex with someone and hear your voice coming out of their mouth. It would be so weird.”
It certainly will be. Oliver voiced Vanity Smurf in the 2011 film Smurfs And its sequel in 2013 The Smurfs 2And Zazou Al-Tair in 2019 The lion king. He has also voiced “Ian” on a pair of Bob’s Burger “Thumb Bringer” episodes in an episode of the series Love, death and robots“Weather-loving Winston” on Helpers“Henry” on Big mouth“Steve” in Wonder Park“Augustus B. Cromhorn IV.” Danger mouse“Booth Wilkes John” on The Simpsons“Dr. Zenon Bloom” on Rick and Mortyet al.
“And if you’re thinking: Why do you find a cartoon character sexually attractive in the first place?” “First, a lot of people do it, but that’s not what this intellectual exercise is really asking for,” Oliver said. “For the record, I don’t find either of these characters attractive, but let’s say there was a world where I did that, and they found me attractive – could I move on if they looked exactly like me? Because it’s not like I’m going to fuck myself, right? I’m going to fuck someone else who only has my voice. How would that feel? How would I react if, mid-coitus, I heard my own moments of pleasure coming out of Zazu’s beak? Would that ruin it? Would I enjoy the whole thing somehow, and if so, would that make me Narcissistically?
That would definitely make you…something.
“Also, would it be weird for them? Because for Vanity Smurf and Zazu, I have their voices, right? So, could we they Do it?” He went. “Of course, they’re cartoon characters. This could just be projecting my humanity onto a Smurf and a talking bird when they exist on their own level of morality and biological motivation that doesn’t necessarily align with what we say is right or wrong, you know? After a lot of thought and consideration, I finally think I… He was I’d be able to have sex with Vanity Smurf and Zazu, but I’d feel really guilty about it afterward, and I’m not entirely sure why.
“Anyway, I’d like to talk about this more, but we don’t have time, so I’ll conclude by saying this: Let’s see Byron Allen do it,” Oliver said. Which on Comics unleashed“.
If Allen does that, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr will have actual late-night trouble, not just some petty personal problem with Jimmy Kimmel.
Watch Oliver’s clip here:
