HBO’s John Oliver rehashed many of the old and familiar arguments in defense of public broadcasting on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, but because Oliver views himself as a man of action, he announced an auction to help save public media because otherwise “people would die.” Things Oliver put up for sale included, but were not limited to, actor Russell Crowe’s jockstrap, his cabbage wife, and a giant replica of President Lyndon Johnson’s man parts.
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Nevertheless, Oliver thought that public media was such a noble cause that he later proclaimed that, “I am proud to announce Last Week Tonight’s first-ever auction in aid of public media. This is real. It will be running through November 24th, and you can bid at the website johnoliversjunk.com, which was inexplicably available.”
Oliver then rattled off several possible items, including “Russell Crowe's jockstrap from Cinderella Man when he held a, quote, ‘Art of divorce auction.’ He then used the proceeds to fund a koala chlamydia ward in Australia in my name. Well, I'm now happy to say this life-saving jockstrap can be yours.
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