John Oliver Calls Tucker Carlson a White Supremacistanda Wedge Salad

Last night, John Oliver addressed the elephant (farting) in the room (making it smell like absolute butt): The fact that Tucker Carlson continues to exist on millions of peoples television screens, spewing barely coded white-nationalist talking points and misinformation through a veneer of befuddlement. During the main segment of Last Week Tonight, Oliver charted Carlsons

Last night, John Oliver addressed the elephant (farting) in the room (making it smell like absolute butt): The fact that Tucker Carlson continues to exist on millions of people’s television screens, spewing barely coded white-nationalist talking points and misinformation through a veneer of befuddlement. During the main segment of Last Week Tonight, Oliver charted Carlson’s underwhelming and opportunistic history in broadcast media, including a particularly lame interview with Britney Spears in 2003 (Oliver: “She is the definitional diva of the 2000s … put some respect on her name, and of course, #freebritney”). He also brought to light the ways in which more explicit white supremacists, like David Duke and James Allsup, follow and praise Carlson. Most hilariously, though, Oliver called Carlson the following:

— “A man who gives Tuckers an even worse name than they already have.”
— “You performatively outraged wedge salad.”
— “You relentlessly indignant picket fence.”
— “This humble TV-dinner princeling.”
— “A walking yacht club, scrunching its face up for an hour every night.”

The writers room really freaked it with this one.

John Oliver Calls Tucker Carlson Out as a White Supremacist

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