HBO’s Last Week Tonight With John Oliver by no means fails to be hilarious. Case in level: this week’s section on New Zealand’s essential upcoming Bird of the Century election is so humorous that it had me in tears.
The writers of Last Week Tonight are completely sensible. Every week they steadiness heavy, critical matters with excellent humor. John Oliver’s comedic fashion completely fits the age of the web. I imply, horny photographs of him as soon as took over Reddit. And his crush on Adam Driver was sort of sizzling. We can’t get sufficient of this man. At the tip of this week’s episode, Oliver introduced up a vital election happening presently in New Zealand: the Bird of the Century. It brings two of Oliver’s nice passions collectively: voting and birds.
Every yr, New Zealand has a really critical election to resolve the Bird of the Year. That title has gone 3 times to the “shagging parrot” who “smells nice,” the kakapo. However, the kakapo has now been disqualified for profitable too many instances. These elections are a giant deal in New Zealand, the place every hen has a marketing campaign supervisor who might debate different managers to make sure the fitting hen will get the vote. The debates might embody the managers attempting to duplicate the hen calls. There are additionally some fairly superb marketing campaign posters, certainly one of which was a mashup of the rockhopper penguin and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Yes, the Rocky Hopper Picture Show.
Oliver is backing one particular hen for Bird of the Century: the pūteketeke, also called the Australasian crested grebe. Describing the hen, Oliver says it “looks like Pauly D f*cked a swan.” Also, Oliver mentioned he deeply identifies with the pūteketeke’s mating dance, the place the birds “grab a clump of wet grass and chest bump each other before standing around, unsure of what to do next.” So awkward and so lovely. Since the pūteketeke is endangered, Oliver went all-out for an advert marketing campaign. Essentially, Last Week Tonight is spending HBO’s money to hilarious ends around the globe. This consists of advertisements in New Zealand, Japan, France, and Manitowoc, Wisconsin. My private favourite is the driving billboard in London that claims “Help Us Crown a Real King.” Perfection, no notes.
Let’s all assist John Oliver out by visiting his web site, votethisbird.com, earlier than voting closes on Friday, November 10 to vote for the pūteketeke as Bird of the Century. They are relying on us!
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