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John Oliver determined to concentrate on Elon Musk on Final Week Tonight‘s final new episode of 2023. The comic roasted the billionaire by recounting all of the controversies he’s been concerned on this previous yr and stated he “may pull off any unhealthy man in a film.”
“There’s Lex Luthor posing for the quilt of Metropolis Maniacs month-to-month. There’s ‘Why No Mr. Bond. I and my baby bride anticipate you to die,’” Oliver joked. There’s, ‘I simply purchased your media firm, I’m about to strip you for components.’ There’s, ‘First racist sheriff.’”
He continued, “And at last, the much less fuckable reimagining of Billy Zane’s character in Titanic. Really, the person has vary.”
Oliver recalled Musk’s headlines from testing “probably the most highly effective rocket ever constructed” to the Tesla recall that concerned two million automobiles over the autopilot software program. The HBO host additionally performed the clip of Musk telling advertisers the place to go after backlash over antisemitic posts on X, the social media platform previously often known as Twitter. It was at this level that Oliver stated Musk was dressed as Chip from the Disney animated sequence Rescue Rangers.
John Oliver compares Elon Musk to Chip from ‘Rescue Rangers’
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Oliver went on to clarify that Musk modified the way in which folks understand him within the final yr. The comic cited that at one level, Musk was described as “the real-life Iron Man” and remembered the billionaire made a cameo in Marvel’s Iron Man 2 movie alongside Robert Downey Jr.
As Oliver recalled Musk’s ascension, he performed a clip of the Tesla proprietor being in comparison with Henry Ford, the enterprise magnate and founding father of the Ford Motor Firm.
“Like Henry Ford, Elon Musk managed to construct on the know-how that others had invented,” Oliver stated earlier than releasing the zing, including, “That’s not really the one means he’s like Henry Ford, which you’d know in the event you ever Google both of their names and the phrase antisemitism.”
