John Oliver used his opening section on Sunday’s Final Week Tonight to speak in regards to the “arduous crackdown” on faculty college students within the U.S. protesting the Israel-Hamas struggle.
He confirmed clips from a stay Fox Information report at Columbia College in New York.
“Police swarmed campuses in numbers so excessive; this pupil summed it up fairly properly,” he stated.
The clip began out with a reporter asking a pupil protestor, “What do you concentrate on the NYPD shifting in?”
Replied the coed: “It’s insane. We now have a proper to protest. We now have a proper. Have a look at that. That’s fucking loopy.”
The reporter then requested: “What are you gonna do should you 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 assume 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 pupil for giving the calmest potential reply to what could 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 assume so.’”
He continued: “Additionally ideas and prayers to the family members of the one boomer who was killed by listening to that pupil say ‘fuck’ on Fox Information. Someplace, a household’s writing [his] obituary. ‘Paul John Roberts handed away in his dwelling when his eyeballs, coronary heart and butthole exploded. On the similar time, he’s survived by his spouse and three grownup kids, who not communicate to him.’”
By the way, Sunday night time’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.