John Oliver did a deep dive into Elon Musk on Sunday’s Final Week Tonight, and got here up with a slew of insults to lob on the billionaire tech mogul.
“That is our last present of the 12 months, so we thought we’d give attention to somebody who’s had a fairly large 12 months,” the HBO late-night present mentioned.
He known as Musk — proprietor of six firms, together with SpaceX, Tesla, X (previously Twitter), The Boring Firm, Neuralink and xAI —”a person who can pull off just about any unhealthy man in a film.”
Exhibiting numerous photographs of Musk giving totally different appears to be like and carrying numerous outfits, Oliver went down his checklist of “unhealthy guys” that he says Musk resembles: “There’s Lex Luthor posing for the duvet of Metropolis Maniacs Month-to-month. There’s ‘Why no, Mr. Bond, I and my baby’s bride count on you to die.’ There’s ‘I simply purchased your media firm and I’m about to strip you for elements.’ There’s house’s first racist sheriff and, lastly, the much less fuck-able reimagining of Billy Zane’s character in Titanic. Really, the person has vary.”
Oliver then famous that Musk has made headlines this 12 months “from take a look at launching probably the most highly effective rocket ever constructed to simply this week having to recall 2 million vehicles resulting from security issues.” He additionally famous how Musk challenged Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to a cage struggle, “to which Zuckerberg replied, ‘Ship me location,’ and will I recommend to each of them, ‘inside volcano’?”
Oliver continued: “After which in fact, there may be Twitter. He now calls it X, however the remainder of us nonetheless name it Twitter. He formally acquired it 12 months in the past. And since then it has been one fiasco after one other with the newest coming when he tweeted his settlement with [an] antisemitic publish calling the good alternative principle the precise reality. That precipitated many huge advertisers to flee. After which within the midst of denying any antisemitic intent, Ian determined to taunt the sponsors who had left.”
Oliver performed a clip from a Nov. 29 interview by which Musk attacked the businesses whose execs mentioned they had been going to drag their adverts off the social media platform because of Musk’s posts.
“If somebody goes to attempt to blackmail me with promoting? Blackmail me with cash? Go fuck your self,” Musk mentioned. “Go fuck your self, is that clear? I hope it’s.”
Replied Oliver: “Wow, it’s arduous to say what’s most embarrassing there. The truth that the world’s richest man is enjoying the ‘you’re not breaking apart with me, I’m breaking apart with you’ card, or that he’s doing it to confused silence whereas carrying a jacket from Ralph Lauren’s ‘Midlife Disaster’ assortment. He’s clearly going for a foul boy there however ended up wanting extra like … Chip from Rescue Rangers.”
Oliver additionally confirmed one other clip from the identical interview, by which Musk mentioned: “What this promoting boycott is gonna do, it’s gonna kill the corporate. And the entire world will know that these advertisers killed the corporate and we’ll doc it in nice element.”
When the interviewer mentioned that the advertisers will push again in opposition to that assertion, Musk replied: “Oh yeah, oh inform that to Earth. Let’s see how Earth responds to that.”
Oliver joked that he hope Musk follows by means of with that.
“I hope he tries telling each residing creature on the planet, together with these bizarre deep sea fish, all about how advertiser boycotts are gonna kill Twitter. Simply so one among them can open its objectively horrifying jaws and say, ‘Yeah, man, ’trigger he mentioned that bizarre shit about Jews. We dwell in a black void and even we perceive the order of operations right here.”
Oliver went on to notice that, because of the “curler coaster fortunes” of the businesses that he owns, Musk additionally has the doubtful distinction of being “each the richest particular person on the planet and the primary particular person ever to lose $200 billion, which is difficult to even wrap your head round. It’s like listening to somebody run a marathon after unintentionally operating 200 miles within the incorrect route.”
Oliver famous how Musk has boasted that he’s accomplished extra to assist the setting than every other particular person, referring to electrical automotive maker Tesla, “demonstrating a reasonably sturdy Messianic streak,” opined Oliver. “Actually, Sam Altman, the CEO of openAI who’s each labored with and clashed with Musk, has mentioned Elon desperately desires the world to be saved, however provided that he could be the one to put it aside, which is a fairly large asterisk. It’s like Jesus says within the e book of Matthew, ‘Love thy neighbor, however extra importantly, me,and when you don’t, fuck you. Discover your individual heaven. J-Crizzle, out.”
