John Oliver Is Back and Shooting from The Void in Third Coronavirus-Focused Last Week Tonight

Live from The Void, it’s Last Week Tonight!

John Oliver resumed his hosting duties from home on Sunday night after shutting down production due to coronavirus precautions on March 13. Sitting in front of a blank white background (in contrast with his other late-night peers’ hallway, game room or bathtub), Oliver acknowledged his shift in locale to “a blank white void full of sad facts. Where else did you think I lived?” Wherever he lives, it’s got a commendably high homemade production value.

In his third segment on the coronavirus, Oliver delved into Trump’s threw-a-dartboard-on-a-calendar promise to “open the country back up” by Easter, and the newly minted “death cult” of older conservative leaders bizarrely enthusiastically insisting on throwing themselves at the altar of the American stock market in order to revive the economy and die via a preventable disease.

“If you really want to die so the American economy can boom, we already have a system in place for that and it’s called Black Friday,” jokes Oliver.

Oliver pointed out that nations like Iran and Spain tried the Black Friday approach to the coronavirus, neglecting to practice safe social distancing measures, and are now “home to mass graves you can see from space and ice skating rinks being used as morgues.”