John Oliver began Last Week Tonight toasting Fox News for the second week in a row. HBO Max’s show began by noting that Donald Trump and US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg attended the Ohio train derailment.
However, over on Fox News, Jesse Watters and Rachel Campos-Duffy asked why some personalities had not visited the site in East Palestine.
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“Think of the environmentalists and American corporations, they weren’t there,” Campos-Duffy said on Fox & Friends Weekend.
The Real World: San Francisco alum continued, “This is an Erin Brockovich moment. There was an Oscar-winning blockbuster film written about something like that.”
Watters added Brockovich did in fact pay a visit to East Palestine, with Campos-Duffy asking, “But where’s Julia Roberts?”
Oliver’s reaction to Fox News’ segment left him confused and asked what they were talking about before enlightening television personalities about Robert’s profession.
“You do realize that Julia Roberts is an actress, right? She acted like she wasn’t really Erin Brockovich,” Oliver quipped.
He then added, “Plus, I can’t believe I’m the one who has to tell you this … She didn’t actually ruin her best friend’s wedding (My Best Friend’s Wedding), she’s not a sex worker (Pretty Woman) and she died in a small town in Louisiana (Steel Magnolias) in 1989. What the hell is wrong with you?”
Oliver didn’t stop roasting conservative media personalities there. In the next segment, he presented Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens and Stephen Bannon, who were upset that James O’Keefe was ousted from Project Veritas, an activist group opposed to Democrats, liberals and the media.
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Bannon called O’Keefe a national treasure, but Oliver disagreed, adding: “The only national treasures in this country are Dolly Parton, Pedro Pascal and Cocaine Bear. And I’m saying what we’re all thinking – threesome, when?”
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