Last Week Tonight returns to assert that, with Brexit, Britain has not yet begun to fuck itself
John Oliver returned on Sunday with Last Week Tonight, the answer to the question, “What does it feel like when a cheeky British man makes you laugh while imparting truly horrifying world news analysis?” (It apparently makes Emmy voters feel pretty good, actually.) Perhaps feeling a bit homesick for the land of his birth, or because the hard deadline for the “playful, fun name that’s been given to a disaster” that is Brexit is looming in now 39 days, he spent the bulk of his sixth season premiere examining that encroaching social and economic disaster. You know the one where a slim margin of the populace made a snap judgement based on racist lies and fear-mongering politicking to turn their fates over to a completely unvetted and potentially catastrophic result based on one, single vote? Hah! Those stupid Brits! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! We’d never do something so narrow-mindedly stupid just to pander to our basest, most shameful white supremacist atavistic impulses! U.S.A.! (Note: Technically true. See: Popular vote vs. electoral college.) U.S.A.!