Comedian John Oliver has long used his “Last Week Tonight” platform to mock government agencies and public officials. Now the tables have turned.
Mayor Mark Boughton of Danbury, Conn., says the city has decided to name a local sewer plant after the British-born comedian after Oliver mocked Danbury on his Aug.
16 show. Boughton, in a Facebook post Saturday, said a sewer plant seemed the perfect fit for an Oliver tribute. “Why? Because it’s full of (bleep) like you,” the mayor says in the post, which includes a mock-up of a green road sign saying “John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant.” On the show, Oliver rattled off a series of jokes about Danbury as part of a segment about racial disparities on juries in some Connecticut towns, The New York.
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