In an unusual move, John Oliver addressed his audience before the intro for Last Week Tonight, acknowledging the violence in Israel and Gaza. “Without all the music and the lights and – at least theoretically – the laughter, I wanted to briefly talk to you about what has clearly been a terrible week,” he said. “The immense suffering in Israel and Gaza has been sickening to watch, and we’re not gonna be covering it in the main body of our show tonight for a couple of reasons.
“First, it’s horrific. I don’t really want to tell jokes about carnage right now, and I’m pretty sure that you don’t want to hear them,” he continued. And second, there was a delay between the Saturday taping of the show and its Sunday airtime.
