As we told you last week, Russian scientists sent a gecko orgy into space and now they have no idea where it is. The pod the lizards were boning aboard — as part of the Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems’ study of how zero gravity affects animal reproduction — just stopped working.
This concerns John Oliver. It concerns him so much that he dedicated more than three minutes of Last Week Tonight to raise awareness. He also created a hashtag (#GoGetThoseGeckos) and put together a celebrity montage (featuring the likes of Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Patrick Stewart). Most impressively, he managed to track down a spacesuit-wearing gecko mascot for the occasion.
Oliver tries to make the point that a cause like this can bring people together, but if his final act of awareness-raising — imploring viewers to flood Kremlin.ru with very specific letters to Vladimir Putin — is any indication, he’s fully committed to starting World War III over this.
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This is too much for me, LMAO, John Oliver needs to be given all the awards ever made. ALL OF THEM!
eh, those actors are cool, but he got BUZZ ALDRIN in on the movement. BUZZ ALDRIN, YOU GUYS. KING OF SPACE HIMSELF, BUZZ ALDRIN
Am I alone in thinking this was the weakest show so far? Seemed like he was trying too hard
I think he’s continuing to up himself, personally. He doesn’t have to try too hard when the material is right there in front of him (and us).
I dug it. Obviously, he’s not touching on the two biggest stories (Gaza and MH17) but beyond a mention at the start because, let’s face it, they’re complex and fucking depressing stories that shouldn’t be a source for comedy. But he’s using the show to highlight all sorts of topics that go unmentioned in the 24 hours news cycle like our nuclear arsenal and the prison industrial complex.
Good news everyone the geckos are safe!
When WWIII does inevitably happen, I hope and pray this is at least a footnote.
“You wanna shout at the moon with Buzz Aldrin?”
“I own you, I walked on your face!”