Delivering on the “hot take” that his corporate bosses anticipated over the ongoing fiasco that is Warner Bros. Discovery’s branding of its premier HBO streaming service, John Oliver slammed the “genius” behind the move while comparing it to Donald Trump’s “Gulf of America” name change.
At the same time, the Last Week Tonight host took exception to the company’s executives saying at WBD’s upfront presentation last week that they “cannot wait for his hot take on this whole rebrand” because they “think it’s going to be pretty hot,” making it clear it was his choice to mock them.
