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- BUNDO BOOM! THE GAY BUNNY BOOK IS ABSOLUTELY CSHG THE PENCE FAY VERSN
- JOHN OLIVER’S GAY BUNNY BOOK OUTSELLS THE PENC’YOU GO, MARLON BUNDOTHE PENC’ PUBLISHER BLASTED OLIVER FOR POLICIZG THEIR CHILDREN’S BOOK. WE’VE READ OLIVER’S VERSN. IT IS POLIL, BUT S LOVE-IS-LOVE MSAGE SHOULDN’T BE PARTISAN.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED MAR. 20, 2018 5:41AM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 19, 2018 4:31PM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEASTLERALLY OVERNIGHT, THE BIGGT STAR THE LERARY WORLD HAS BEE A GAY BUNNY NAMED MARLON BUNDO.ON SUNDAY NIGHT JOHN OLIVER ANNOUNCED ON HBO’S LAST WEEK TONIGHT THAT A DAY THE LIFE OF MARLON BUNDO, A CHILDREN’S BOOK ABOUT A GAY BUNNY, NAMED AFTER A PET RABB OWNED BY THE FAY OF VICE PRINT MIKE PENCE, WOULD BE AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY. THAT MEANT BEAT A RIVAL CHILDREN’S BOOK, MARLON BUNDO’S DAY THE LIFE OF THE VICE PRINT, WRTEN BY PENCE’S DGHTER CHARLOTTE, AND ILLTRATED BY HIS WIFE, KAREN, BY MERE HOURS TO THE DIGAL SHELV.AS OF MONDAY AFTERNOON, LAST WEEK TONIGHT’S BOOK—WHICH WAS WRTEN BY JILL TWISS AND ILLTRATED BY E.G. KELLER, AN ARTIST OM PENCE’S HOME STATE OF INDIANA—WAS THE NO. 1 SELLER ON AMAZON, WH THE PENC’ BOOK LAGGG NOTICEABLY BEHD AT NO. 6. WH OVER 1,200 ER REVIEWS BY THAT TIME, THE LAST WEEK TONIGHT BOOK EARNED A RARE FIVE-STAR RATG. THE PENC’ EFFORT HAD LS THAN 50 REVIEWS, AND A WOEFUL ONE-AND-A-HALF-STAR RATG.THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS BEGAN AFTER THE SURPRISE RELEASE OF A DAY THE LIFE OF MARLON BUNDO SUNDAY NIGHT, ORCHTRATED RPONSE TO THE PENCE BOOK TOUR’S STOP AT FOC ON THE FAY, A NSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN GROUP THAT THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN LLS “ONE OF THE MOST WELL-FUND ANTI-LGBTQ ANIZATNS AMERI.” Y, THE VICE PRINT’S HISTORY OF PROMOTG ANTI-LGBTQ POLICI FILTRAT EVEN HIS DGHTER’S SEEMGLY NOCUO CHILDREN’S BOOK ABOUT THEIR PET RABB. OLIVER CHEEKILY POTED OUT THE DIFFERENC BETWEEN MARLON BUNDO AS PORTRAYED THE RPECTIVE BOOKS. FOR ONE, HIS MARLON WEARS A JNTY BOWTIE. “ALSO, OUR STORY IS ABOUT MARLON BUNDO FALLG LOVE WH ANOTHER BOY RABB, BEE OUR MARLON BUNDO IS GAY—JT LIKE THE REAL MARLON BUNDO.”TO ADD NOBILY TO HIS TROLLG OF PENCE’S POLICIZED HOMOPHOBIA, OLIVER ALSO SAID THAT ALL PROCEEDS OM THE BOOK WILL GO TO THE TREVOR PROJECT AND AIDS UNED. AN DBOOK VERSN FEATUR THE VOIC OF JIM PARSONS, JSE TYLER FERGON, AND RUPL.REGNERY PUBLISHG, WHICH RELEASED PENCE’S BOOK, BLASTED OLIVER A STATEMENT FOR BRGG PARTISAN POLICS TO THE RELEASE OF A CHILDREN’S STORY.“IT’S UNFORTUNATE THAT ANYONE WOULD FEEL THE NEED TO RIDICULE AN TNAL CHILDREN’S BOOK AND TURN TO SOMETHG NTROVERSIAL AND PARTISAN. OUR AND MRS. CHARLOTTE PENCE’S GOAL IS—AND WILL NTUE TO BE—TO TE YOUNG REARS ABOUT THE IMPORTANT ROLE OF THE VICE PRINT, AS WELL AS TO HIGHLIGHT THE CHARI TO WHICH PORTNS OF THE BOOK PROCEEDS WILL BE DONATED,” A SPOKPERSON SAID A STATEMENT TO CNN.IT’S CERTALY TE THAT OLIVER IS TENDG THE PURCHASE OF HIS MARLON BUNDO BOOK TO E WH A PARTISAN MSAGE. (HE LISTED “SELLG MORE BOOKS THAN PENCE WILL PROBABLY REALLY PISS HIM OFF” AS ONE OF THE REASONS HIS VIEWERS SHOULD PURCHASE .) BUT AS HE ALSO POTED OUT, WAS THE PENC WHO ST THE FIRST POLIL STONE BY PARTNERG WH FOC ON THE FAY TO PROMOTE , UNRLG THE PARTISAN IA THAT FAY-IENDLY MEANS “NOT GAY.”OLIVER ALSO STRSED THAT THIS ISN’T JT SOME ADULT PARODY MIDDLE FGER TO PENCE, BUT A LEGIMATE CHILDREN’S BOOK MEANT TO ENTERTA, SPIRE, AND BE READ BY KIDS. WE’VE READ THROUGH A REVIEW PY OF A DAY THE LIFE OF MARLON BUNDO, AND WHILE THAT’S 100 PERCENT TE—THIS IS A SWEET AND VAL STORY ABOUT LOVE THAT CHILDREN N AND SHOULD READ AND ENJOY—’S ALSO AS POLIL AS IS TOUCHG. (WE ULDN’T EVEN GET PAST THE “FOR EVERY BUNNY WHO HAS EVER FELT DIFFERENT” DITN WHOUT GENTLY WEEPG AT OUR SK.)WHILE HOPPG THROUGH HIS DAY AS A PET OF THE VICE PRINT, MARLON BUNDO SPOTS ANOTHER BUNNY NAMED WLEY, AND IS SMTEN. “HE WAS A BIG, FLUFFY BUNNY WH THE FLOPPIT FLOPPY EARS AND THE BHIT TAIL. HE WAS BUNNY-BETIFUL,” MARLON BUNDO NARRAT. “I WAS STANDG STILL. BUT BEG NEAR HIM MA ME FEEL LIKE MY HEART WAS STILL HOPPG.”MARLON AND WLEY HOPPED AROUND ALL DAY. AT THE END OF THE DAY, MARLON SAYS, “WLEY, I DON’T WANT TO HOP WHOUT YOU EVER AGA.” WLEY SAYS BACK, “THAT’S FUNNY BEE I NEVER WANT TO HOP WHOUT YOU, MARLON BUNDO, EVER AGA.” THEY CI TO GET MARRIED AND HOP TOGETHER FOREVER.THE ILLTRATNS ARE BETIFUL. YOU SEE THE UPLE STARG LOVGLY AT EACH OTHER NEXT TO A FIRE. YOU SEE THEM ADORABLY HOLDG HANDS. IT’S LOVE PORTRAYED AS MATTER-OF-FACTLY AS EVER IS WHEN ’S BETWEEN A BOY AND A GIRL A CHILDREN’S BOOK, WHICH IS IMPORTANT. BUT THERE’S A POLIL POT TO BE MA STILL, AND THE BOOK MAK PRETTY POWERFULLY.WHILE ALL OF MARLON AND WLEY’S IENDS CHEER THEIR CISN TO GET MARRIED, THE STK BUG, WHO IS CHARGE OF ALL THE ANIMALS AND BEARS A NOT-SO-SUBTLE REMBLANCE TO MIKE PENCE, ANNOUNC THAT BOY BUNNI ARE ONLY ALLOWED TO MARRY GIRL BUNNI. “YOU. ARE. DIFFERENT,” HE SHOUTS. “AND. DIFFERENT. IS. BAD.”MARLON AND WLEY ARE CRTFALLEN. “BUT THIS IS THE BUNNY I LOVE,” WLEY SAYS. MARLON SAYS THE SAME. “JT BEG NEXT TO WLEY MA ME A LTLE BRAVER,” HE NARRAT, A SCRIPTN OF LOVE SO SIMPLE AND TE THAT WE FY YOUR HEART NOT TO BREAK.THEIR IENDS RALLY AROUND MARLON AND WLEY, REGNIZG THAT EACH OF THEM IS DIFFERENT THEIR OWN WAY, AND THEY VISE A PLAN. THEY MT VOTE THE STK BUG OUT OF OFFICE SO THAT LOVE N W AGA.AS A STUNT, THIS WHOLE GAY BUNNY BOOK THG IS A BRILLIANT, HEADLE-MAKG GAG TO GIGGLE OVER AND APPLD—TROLLG AT S BT, OM JOHN OLIVER, THE MASTER OF TROLLS. BUT AS A BOOK, FI ALL OF THAT. WHAT A BETIFUL CHILDREN’S BOOK, WH A SIMPLE MSAGE OF LOVE. KEV FALLON
- JOHN OLIVER RELEAS CHILDREN'S BOOK ABOUT GAY BUNNY TO SPE PENCE
- JOHN OLIVER'S GAY RABB BOOK PARODY OUTSELLS MIKE PENCE'S ORIGAL ON AMAZON
BUNDO BOOM! THE GAY BUNNY BOOK IS ABSOLUTELY CSHG THE PENCE FAY VERSN
A Day In The Life Of Marlon Bundo, a children’s book which the rabb belongg to the fay of Vice Print Mike Pence is gay, topped the sal charts one week after was troduced by John Oliver on “Last Week Tonight. Lerally overnight, the biggt star the lerary world has bee a gay bunny named Marlon Sunday night John Oliver announced on HBO’s Last Week Tonight that A Day the Life of Marlon Bundo, a children’s book about a gay bunny, named after a pet rabb owned by the fay of Vice Print Mike Pence, would be available immediately. “Also, our story is about Marlon Bundo fallg love wh another boy rabb, bee our Marlon Bundo is gay—jt like the real Marlon Bundo.
”To add nobily to his trollg of Pence’s policized homophobia, Oliver also said that all proceeds om the book will go to The Trevor Project and AIDS Uned. ) But as he also poted out, was the Penc who st the first polil stone by partnerg wh Foc on the Fay to promote , unrlg the partisan ia that fay-iendly means “not gay. They mt vote the Stk Bug out of office so that love n w a stunt, this whole gay bunny book thg is a brilliant, headle-makg gag to giggle over and appld—trollg at s bt, om John Oliver, the master of trolls.
JOHN OLIVER’S GAY BUNNY BOOK OUTSELLS THE PENC’YOU GO, MARLON BUNDOTHE PENC’ PUBLISHER BLASTED OLIVER FOR POLICIZG THEIR CHILDREN’S BOOK. WE’VE READ OLIVER’S VERSN. IT IS POLIL, BUT S LOVE-IS-LOVE MSAGE SHOULDN’T BE PARTISAN.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED MAR. 20, 2018 5:41AM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 19, 2018 4:31PM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEASTLERALLY OVERNIGHT, THE BIGGT STAR THE LERARY WORLD HAS BEE A GAY BUNNY NAMED MARLON BUNDO.ON SUNDAY NIGHT JOHN OLIVER ANNOUNCED ON HBO’S LAST WEEK TONIGHT THAT A DAY THE LIFE OF MARLON BUNDO, A CHILDREN’S BOOK ABOUT A GAY BUNNY, NAMED AFTER A PET RABB OWNED BY THE FAY OF VICE PRINT MIKE PENCE, WOULD BE AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY. THAT MEANT BEAT A RIVAL CHILDREN’S BOOK, MARLON BUNDO’S DAY THE LIFE OF THE VICE PRINT, WRTEN BY PENCE’S DGHTER CHARLOTTE, AND ILLTRATED BY HIS WIFE, KAREN, BY MERE HOURS TO THE DIGAL SHELV.AS OF MONDAY AFTERNOON, LAST WEEK TONIGHT’S BOOK—WHICH WAS WRTEN BY JILL TWISS AND ILLTRATED BY E.G. KELLER, AN ARTIST OM PENCE’S HOME STATE OF INDIANA—WAS THE NO. 1 SELLER ON AMAZON, WH THE PENC’ BOOK LAGGG NOTICEABLY BEHD AT NO. 6. WH OVER 1,200 ER REVIEWS BY THAT TIME, THE LAST WEEK TONIGHT BOOK EARNED A RARE FIVE-STAR RATG. THE PENC’ EFFORT HAD LS THAN 50 REVIEWS, AND A WOEFUL ONE-AND-A-HALF-STAR RATG.THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS BEGAN AFTER THE SURPRISE RELEASE OF A DAY THE LIFE OF MARLON BUNDO SUNDAY NIGHT, ORCHTRATED RPONSE TO THE PENCE BOOK TOUR’S STOP AT FOC ON THE FAY, A NSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN GROUP THAT THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN LLS “ONE OF THE MOST WELL-FUND ANTI-LGBTQ ANIZATNS AMERI.” Y, THE VICE PRINT’S HISTORY OF PROMOTG ANTI-LGBTQ POLICI FILTRAT EVEN HIS DGHTER’S SEEMGLY NOCUO CHILDREN’S BOOK ABOUT THEIR PET RABB. OLIVER CHEEKILY POTED OUT THE DIFFERENC BETWEEN MARLON BUNDO AS PORTRAYED THE RPECTIVE BOOKS. FOR ONE, HIS MARLON WEARS A JNTY BOWTIE. “ALSO, OUR STORY IS ABOUT MARLON BUNDO FALLG LOVE WH ANOTHER BOY RABB, BEE OUR MARLON BUNDO IS GAY—JT LIKE THE REAL MARLON BUNDO.”TO ADD NOBILY TO HIS TROLLG OF PENCE’S POLICIZED HOMOPHOBIA, OLIVER ALSO SAID THAT ALL PROCEEDS OM THE BOOK WILL GO TO THE TREVOR PROJECT AND AIDS UNED. AN DBOOK VERSN FEATUR THE VOIC OF JIM PARSONS, JSE TYLER FERGON, AND RUPL.REGNERY PUBLISHG, WHICH RELEASED PENCE’S BOOK, BLASTED OLIVER A STATEMENT FOR BRGG PARTISAN POLICS TO THE RELEASE OF A CHILDREN’S STORY.“IT’S UNFORTUNATE THAT ANYONE WOULD FEEL THE NEED TO RIDICULE AN TNAL CHILDREN’S BOOK AND TURN TO SOMETHG NTROVERSIAL AND PARTISAN. OUR AND MRS. CHARLOTTE PENCE’S GOAL IS—AND WILL NTUE TO BE—TO TE YOUNG REARS ABOUT THE IMPORTANT ROLE OF THE VICE PRINT, AS WELL AS TO HIGHLIGHT THE CHARI TO WHICH PORTNS OF THE BOOK PROCEEDS WILL BE DONATED,” A SPOKPERSON SAID A STATEMENT TO CNN.IT’S CERTALY TE THAT OLIVER IS TENDG THE PURCHASE OF HIS MARLON BUNDO BOOK TO E WH A PARTISAN MSAGE. (HE LISTED “SELLG MORE BOOKS THAN PENCE WILL PROBABLY REALLY PISS HIM OFF” AS ONE OF THE REASONS HIS VIEWERS SHOULD PURCHASE .) BUT AS HE ALSO POTED OUT, WAS THE PENC WHO ST THE FIRST POLIL STONE BY PARTNERG WH FOC ON THE FAY TO PROMOTE , UNRLG THE PARTISAN IA THAT FAY-IENDLY MEANS “NOT GAY.”OLIVER ALSO STRSED THAT THIS ISN’T JT SOME ADULT PARODY MIDDLE FGER TO PENCE, BUT A LEGIMATE CHILDREN’S BOOK MEANT TO ENTERTA, SPIRE, AND BE READ BY KIDS. WE’VE READ THROUGH A REVIEW PY OF A DAY THE LIFE OF MARLON BUNDO, AND WHILE THAT’S 100 PERCENT TE—THIS IS A SWEET AND VAL STORY ABOUT LOVE THAT CHILDREN N AND SHOULD READ AND ENJOY—’S ALSO AS POLIL AS IS TOUCHG. (WE ULDN’T EVEN GET PAST THE “FOR EVERY BUNNY WHO HAS EVER FELT DIFFERENT” DITN WHOUT GENTLY WEEPG AT OUR SK.)WHILE HOPPG THROUGH HIS DAY AS A PET OF THE VICE PRINT, MARLON BUNDO SPOTS ANOTHER BUNNY NAMED WLEY, AND IS SMTEN. “HE WAS A BIG, FLUFFY BUNNY WH THE FLOPPIT FLOPPY EARS AND THE BHIT TAIL. HE WAS BUNNY-BETIFUL,” MARLON BUNDO NARRAT. “I WAS STANDG STILL. BUT BEG NEAR HIM MA ME FEEL LIKE MY HEART WAS STILL HOPPG.”MARLON AND WLEY HOPPED AROUND ALL DAY. AT THE END OF THE DAY, MARLON SAYS, “WLEY, I DON’T WANT TO HOP WHOUT YOU EVER AGA.” WLEY SAYS BACK, “THAT’S FUNNY BEE I NEVER WANT TO HOP WHOUT YOU, MARLON BUNDO, EVER AGA.” THEY CI TO GET MARRIED AND HOP TOGETHER FOREVER.THE ILLTRATNS ARE BETIFUL. YOU SEE THE UPLE STARG LOVGLY AT EACH OTHER NEXT TO A FIRE. YOU SEE THEM ADORABLY HOLDG HANDS. IT’S LOVE PORTRAYED AS MATTER-OF-FACTLY AS EVER IS WHEN ’S BETWEEN A BOY AND A GIRL A CHILDREN’S BOOK, WHICH IS IMPORTANT. BUT THERE’S A POLIL POT TO BE MA STILL, AND THE BOOK MAK PRETTY POWERFULLY.WHILE ALL OF MARLON AND WLEY’S IENDS CHEER THEIR CISN TO GET MARRIED, THE STK BUG, WHO IS CHARGE OF ALL THE ANIMALS AND BEARS A NOT-SO-SUBTLE REMBLANCE TO MIKE PENCE, ANNOUNC THAT BOY BUNNI ARE ONLY ALLOWED TO MARRY GIRL BUNNI. “YOU. ARE. DIFFERENT,” HE SHOUTS. “AND. DIFFERENT. IS. BAD.”MARLON AND WLEY ARE CRTFALLEN. “BUT THIS IS THE BUNNY I LOVE,” WLEY SAYS. MARLON SAYS THE SAME. “JT BEG NEXT TO WLEY MA ME A LTLE BRAVER,” HE NARRAT, A SCRIPTN OF LOVE SO SIMPLE AND TE THAT WE FY YOUR HEART NOT TO BREAK.THEIR IENDS RALLY AROUND MARLON AND WLEY, REGNIZG THAT EACH OF THEM IS DIFFERENT THEIR OWN WAY, AND THEY VISE A PLAN. THEY MT VOTE THE STK BUG OUT OF OFFICE SO THAT LOVE N W AGA.AS A STUNT, THIS WHOLE GAY BUNNY BOOK THG IS A BRILLIANT, HEADLE-MAKG GAG TO GIGGLE OVER AND APPLD—TROLLG AT S BT, OM JOHN OLIVER, THE MASTER OF TROLLS. BUT AS A BOOK, FI ALL OF THAT. WHAT A BETIFUL CHILDREN’S BOOK, WH A SIMPLE MSAGE OF LOVE. KEV FALLON
Carolyn Kaster/Associated PrsMarch 20, 2018This is the story of a ltle gay bunny. A ltle gay bunny who belongs to Vice Print Mike Pence. A ltle fictnal gay bunny whose book is beatg the memoir of Jam B.
Pence’s dghter Charlotte that foc on the bunny’s observatns of the vice print, wh illtratns by his wife, other, “Last Week Tonight Wh John Oliver Prents a Day the Life of Marlon Bundo, ” is a gay romance between two bunni that was the brachild of the HBO edy host John far, that is the more popular of the Oliver revealed the book, which was wrten by Jill Twiss and creds the tular bunny as a -thor, on his weekly late-night show on Sunday.
He scribed as a mockg rebe of the vice print’s longtime opposn to gay and transgenr rights.
JOHN OLIVER RELEAS CHILDREN'S BOOK ABOUT GAY BUNNY TO SPE PENCE
Pence has also long been dogged by claims that he supports anti-gay nversn therapy due part to language ntaed on the webse of his 2000 mpaign for Congrs. Rights has turned to a pop culture January, the figure skater Adam Rippon, the first openly gay Amerin man to qualify to pete the Wter Gam, attracted wi media attentn and beme an overnight gay in when he nounced Mr. Pence’s gay rights rerd and refed to meet wh him durg the Gam.
Bundo will be tourg the untry ('s not clear which Pence will be takg him on tour), wh a stop at the Foc on the Fay, a nservative relig anizatn that had a homosexual nversn therapy program until 2009.
JOHN OLIVER'S GAY RABB BOOK PARODY OUTSELLS MIKE PENCE'S ORIGAL ON AMAZON
Oliver took some lerary liberti wh his versn of Bundo's life: the late night host ma the protagonist bunny gay, jabbg at Pence's social nservatism, which has put him at odds wh the LGBTQ muny. "Also, our story is about Marlon Bundo fallg love wh another boy rabb, bee our Marlon Bundo is gay, jt like the real Marlon Bundo. Oliver's book had already topped the Amazon btseller chart by Monday morng and is available for purchase on Amazon and at, wh all of the proceeds gog to AIDS Uned and the Trevor Project, a nonprof helpg prevent suici among gay youth.
The dbook is also available at and featur readgs by gay ins like RuPl and Jse Tyler Fergon.