HBO show Last Week Tonight, Oliver set up a trap in which he paid local stations to advertise ‘Oliver’s Venus Veil’ to highlight how easy it is to advertise fake items on television.Austin-based KVUE-TV, Denver’s KMGH-TV and KTVX-TV in Utah all ran the adverts, with the former two now launching investigations following the mishap.“Right now, it’s far too easy to make a ridiculous product that makes outlandish claims and get it onto local TV.
And the reason I know that is, we did,” Oliver said of the stunt.“We started a company called Venus Inventions and created something called the Venus Veil, an absurd medical product based on technology that absolutely doesn’t exist.”See the Last Week Tonight segment discussing the event below.Following.
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