John Oliver has a conspiracy concept surrounding the “Mission: Not possible” movies, however he’s not legally allowed to say it. So, on Sunday night time’s episode of “Final Week Tonight,” he technically didn’t.
The HBO host devoted the principle story of his present to presidential libraries this week, explaining how they work and, extra importantly, how they’re funded. Oliver defined that almost all presidents fundraise for his or her private library whereas in workplace, and that features President Trump. For this half, Trump has required a number of authorized settlements he’s acquired this yr — together with from ABC, Meta and Paramount — to incorporate hefty donations to his presidential library.
“Trump’s presidential library basis appears to be the popular automobile for what I’m apparently legally not allowed to name shakedowns or extortion makes an attempt,” Oliver stated. “So I gained’t! It’s really one in all many issues I’m not allowed to say.”
Amongst these “many issues” have been Oliver’s ideas on why Chipotle’s guacamole prices a lot — spoilers: it’s a gross secret ingredient from frogs — and likewise “that I personally imagine dozens of males have died on the set of ‘Mission: Not possible’ films.”
“There may be simply no means Tom Cruise is the primary particular person making an attempt these stunts,” Oliver joked. “And you understand that Scientology is masking it up. If they’ll cover Shelly Miscavige for 18 years, they’ll positively bury a number of handfuls of stunt males. No drawback!”
Shelly Miscavige is the spouse of David Miscavige, the present chief of the Church of Scientology. She has not been seen publicly since 2007.
Earlier this yr, Oliver poked enjoyable at Tom Cruise and the “Mission: Not possible” movies as soon as once more, because the host supplied the one attainable means the actor might die peacefully in his sleep.
“I’m not saying that he’s attempting to die on digital camera, I’m simply saying the one means Tom Cruise passes away peacefully in his mattress is that if the mattress is being dropped into an energetic volcano to in some way save the reside movie-going expertise,” Oliver joked.
You’ll be able to watch Oliver’s full story from Sunday night time within the video above.
