John Oliver helpfully gets cicadas up to speed on politics and pop culture

This summer, the experts are already saying, will belong to the cicadas, at least in the Northeast. Due to their “unusually long reproductive cycle,” the large, noisy insects that will soon be crawling out of the ground and into humanity’s nightmares were originally conceived way back in 1999. The world was a very different place 17 years ago, and concerned comedian John Oliver wants to make sure these bugs have been fully debriefed on what to expect in 2016. In another web-exclusive video made during a bye week for HBO’s Last Week Tonight, Oliver gives the cicadas an update on what’s been happening in the new millennium. For instance, he says, “a lot fewer people are calling it the Willennium than we thought they would in 1999.”