John Oliver Is Very Confused Why His ‘Not A Joke’ About Queen Elizabeth Was Censored In The U.K.

John Oliver Is Very Confused Why His ‘Not A Joke’ About Queen Elizabeth Was Censored In The U.K.

Uproxx - News·2022-09-21 07:34

Everyone responded to the death of Queen Elizabeth II differently. Some waited in line for over 24 hours to see a coffin; others watched The Emoji Movie. John Oliver, meanwhile, expressed his, uh, grief with a casual remark on HBO’s Last Week Tonight — a fact, really — that was bizarrely censored in the U.K.

After joking on Monday’s episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers that he’ll appear on the show whenever a senior royal kicks the bucket to “give it the disrespect it deserves,” Oliver called it a weird time to be in Britian. “This 10 days in forced mourning, apparently, has been very, very strange,” he said, including Sky censoring his Emmy-winning series.

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