Final Week Tonight‘s John Oliver piled on Dean Cain throughout his telecast after the actor introduced earlier this week he can be becoming a member of ICE.
“You understand, there’s an previous saying in Hollywood: ‘If all you may get is Dean Cain, you’re f—ed,’” Oliver mentioned throughout this system, which largely lined immigration enforcement and president Donald Trump‘s mass deportation promise.
“Now, I’m not saying that ICE isn’t discovering individuals,” he continued. “I’m simply saying, if you end up decreased to pinning a badge on the 59-year-old star of The Canine Who Saved Christmas, The Canine Who Saved Christmas Trip, The Canine Who Saved the Holidays, The Canine Who Saved Halloween, The Canine Who Saved Easter and The Canine Who Saved Summer season, possibly you’re in hassle. Though, on the plus facet, no want for that man to put on a masks as a result of the probabilities of anybody recognizing him are f—ing zero.”
He added later, “And I acknowledge that in some circumstances, you could be unable to assist your self from saying: ‘Didn’t you utilize to be Superman? I believed you died. I can’t imagine I’m assembly a filmmaker.’”
The late-night host was the newest to dunk on Cain, after actor John Leguizamo known as him a “loser” and has-been forward of the weekend.
Earlier within the night time, whereas citing a report from The Atlantic that ICE brokers are being redirected away from human trafficking, drug and youngster exploitation circumstances to deal with low-level deportations of undocumented immigrants, Oliver quipped, “For a man who pandered so closely to individuals satisfied pedophiles, intercourse offenders and traffickers had infiltrated our authorities, Trump’s positive making the federal government loads friendlier to them: Ghislaine Maxwell’s in a nicer cell now, Lawrence Taylor’s advising on youngsters’ bodily health. F— it, at this level, if he’s prepared to put on a MAGA hat, I don’t see why Roman Polanski can’t come again.”
Elsewhere, Oliver addressed official authorities social media pages endorsing the aggressive deportation techniques, together with one which depicted the Border Patrol’s Premier Sector as Darth Vader, among the many most notorious fictional villains.
When the present reached out to the Division of Homeland Safety for media remark, the company mentioned in response: “To not spoil the plot, however as any Star Wars fan is aware of, Darth Vader can be Anakin Skywalker. I don’t assume the DHS must regale the American public on the heroism of Skywalker, they know,” which bought loud laughs from the viewers. Oliver known as the assertion “simply an unimaginable, deeply sh—y response” and joked he can be curious to listen to the group’s misreading of the MCU’s Huge Dangerous Thanos.
