John Oliver determined to deal with Elon Musk on Last Week Tonight‘s last new episode of 2023. The comedian roasted the billionaire by recounting all the controversies he’s been concerned on this previous 12 months and mentioned he “could pull off any bad guy in a movie.”
“There’s Lex Luthor posing for the cover of Metropolis Maniacs monthly. There’s ‘Why No Mr. Bond. I and my child bride expect you to die,’” Oliver joked. There’s, ‘I just bought your media company, I’m about to strip you for elements.’ There’s, ‘First racist sheriff.’”
He continued, “And finally, the less fuckable reimagining of Billy Zane’s character in Titanic. Truly, the man has range.”
Oliver recalled Musk’s headlines from testing “the most powerful rocket ever built” to the Tesla recall that concerned two million automobiles over the autopilot software program. The HBO host additionally performed the clip of Musk telling advertisers the place to go after backlash over antisemitic posts on X, the social media platform previously referred to as Twitter. It was at this level that Oliver mentioned Musk was dressed as Chip from the Disney animated sequence Rescue Rangers.
John Oliver compares Elon Musk to Chip from ‘Rescue Rangers’
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Oliver went on to clarify that Musk modified the way in which folks understand him within the final 12 months. The comic cited that at one level, Musk was described as “the real-life Iron Man” and remembered the billionaire made a cameo in Marvel’s Iron Man 2 movie alongside Robert Downey Jr.
As Oliver recalled Musk’s ascension, he performed a clip of the Tesla proprietor being in comparison with Henry Ford, the enterprise magnate and founding father of the Ford Motor Company.
“Like Henry Ford, Elon Musk managed to build on the technology that others had invented,” Oliver mentioned earlier than releasing the zing, including, “That’s not actually the only way he’s like Henry Ford, which you’d know if you ever Google either of their names and the word antisemitism.”