Ready your Emmys: John Oliver and Last Week Tonight just won another defamation suit

Morley did not take kindly to these ball-tetanus wishes, launching a defamation suit against Oliver and his production company about a year after the episode aired. Morley apparently felt that Oliver had misrepresented his remarks, leading viewers into “falsely conflating the experiences of two Iowa patients with cerebral palsy because one wore a diaper and one did not.” The judge in the case sided pretty firmly on the side of the rusty canoe, though, stating, in her dismissal of the suit, that “In this Court’s view, the trauma and loss of human dignity that befalls a man with cerebral palsy who has trouble cleaning himself and is left for days in his own fecal matter is the same, regardless of whether or not he wears a diaper.”

This is not Oliver’s first time at the defamation lawsuit rodeo; in fact, the last time he won such a case—against now-deceased mining magnate Robert Murray—he celebrated by turning the whole ordeal into a segment on the show, including an elaborate musical number. That, in turn, won the series two more of its ever-rising stack of Emmys, so god knows what kind of highly celebrated hay they’ll make out of this latest legal win.