{"id":144107,"date":"2025-06-02T06:14:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T06:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/02\/john-oliver-tackles-air-traffic-control-crisis-with-faa-ad-spoof\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T06:14:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T06:14:24","slug":"john-oliver-tackles-air-traffic-control-crisis-with-faa-ad-spoof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/02\/john-oliver-tackles-air-traffic-control-crisis-with-faa-ad-spoof\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver Tackles Air Traffic Control Crisis With FAA Ad Spoof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBack after the Memorial Day weekend break, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/john-oliver\/\" id=\"auto-tag_john-oliver\" data-tag=\"john-oliver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Oliver<\/a> wasted no time hovering via a subject needing pressing consideration: the air site visitors management disaster that has been looming and ongoing for years on account of lack of funding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBeginning <em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/last-week-tonight\/\" id=\"auto-tag_last-week-tonight\" data-tag=\"last-week-tonight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Last Week Tonight<\/a><\/em>, the host made a quip a couple of 2023 headline regarding a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/06\/06\/us\/near-collision-airport-runway-austin\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FedEx airplane that just about crashed right into a Southwest airliner in Austin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cWell, that is terrifying! Planes should definitely not be landing on top of each other and I say that knowing that there is a nonzero chance Tom Cruise will hear me and immediately greenlight a new <em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/mission-impossible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mission: Impossible<\/a> <\/em>to do exactly that himself,\u201d Oliver mentioned. \u201cI am not saying that he is trying to die on camera, I\u2019m just saying the only way Tom Cruise passes away peacefully in his bed is if the bed is being dropped into an active volcano to somehow save the \u2018live moviegoing experience.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThroughout the episode, Oliver outlined how the U.S. historical past of aviation has led to the issue, saying, \u201cas with so many things on this show, at least some of the blame lies with Ronald Reagan,\u201d pointing to the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/08\/05\/1025018833\/looking-back-on-when-president-reagan-fired-air-traffic-controllers\" target=\"_blank\">11,000 air site visitors controllers the late president fired amid an enormous union strike<\/a> \u2014 a quantity that was by no means fairly recuperated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFrom the Federal Aviation Administration\u2019s designation as discretionary spending and never necessary to low success and recruitment charges, Oliver remarked that the difficult nature of the position itself \u2014 and the shortage of funding the sector receives \u2014 is \u201clike <em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/squid-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Squid Game<\/a><\/em> if the prize of Squid Game was to just keeping doing Squid Game as a job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThus the phase culminated in an advert spoofing an actual <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/faa\/\" id=\"auto-tag_faa\" data-tag=\"faa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FAA<\/a> spot performed earlier within the night, that includes actors H. Jon Benjamin (<em>Bob\u2019s Burgers<\/em>), Lauren Adams (<em>Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt<\/em>), <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/lil-rel-howery\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lil-rel-howery\" data-tag=\"lil-rel-howery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lil Rel Howery<\/a> (<em>Get Out<\/em>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/keyla-monterroso-mejia\/\" id=\"auto-tag_keyla-monterroso-mejia\" data-tag=\"keyla-monterroso-mejia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keyla Monterroso Mejia<\/a> (<em>The Studio<\/em>) as beleaguered employees. What begins as a seemingly regular advert shortly descends into chaos because the workers offers with bats, bees and damaged elevators (all actual issues reported by air site visitors controllers). <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cMy father was an air traffic controller, and I feel a real connection with him here at this job, especially because this is the exact same computer he used,\u201d Benjamin\u2019s character remarks as he factors to a sticker that reads \u201cDukakis for President \u201988.\u201d \u201cHe had to retire because the doctor said he had more ulcer than stomach. What are you gonna do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMeanwhile, in a second parodying the actual expertise lag in management towers, Mejia\u2019s younger employee is proven confused when confronted with a floppy disk, opting to place it into the toaster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s a lot like a video game, except we can never hit pause, there are no extra lives and instead of NPCs, it\u2019s you and your loved ones,\u201d her character says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs the filming of the parody will get interrupted by energy outages (\u201cDave, one flush, we talked about this!\u201d Benjamin yells out to Howery\u2019s character), Mejia\u2019s plea to her colleagues to return from a photograph op \u2014 \u201cI\u2019m juggling like seven f\u2014ing flights\u201d \u2014 ends the sketch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Back after the Memorial Day weekend break, John Oliver wasted no time hovering via a subject needing pressing consideration: the air site visitors management disaster that has been looming and ongoing for years on account of lack of funding. 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