John Oliver spoofs Pence fay’s new kids’ book wh gay-themed ‘Marlon Bundo’ book - The Washgton Post

the gay bunny book

John Oliver’s book about gay bunni, supersed the sal of "Marlon Bundo's A Day the Life of the Vice Print" wrten by the vice print's dghter, Charlotte Pence.

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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

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.

BUNDO BOOM! THE GAY BUNNY BOOK IS ABSOLUTELY CSHG THE PENCE FAY VERSN

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 IS OUTSELLG THE MIKE PENCE BOOK IT’S TROLLGSORRY, MARLON BUNDO: APPARENTLY, AMAZON CTOMERS WOULD RATHER READ ABOUT YOUR LAST WEEK TONIGHT DOPPELGäNGER.BY HILLARY BISMARCH 20, 2018BY ERIC LIEBOWZ/COURTY OF HBO.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEGUS WHO JT MANAGED TO PULL A BT-SELLG BOOK OUT OF THEIR HAT? THAT’S RIGHT: ’S JOHN OLIVER AND THE STAFF OF LAST WEEK TONIGHT—SPECIFILLY, WRER JILL TWISS—WHOSE PICTURE BOOK, THE SOMEWHAT CUMBERSOMELY TLED LAST WEEK TONIGHT WH JOHN OLIVER PRENTS A DAY THE LIFE OF MARLON BUNDO, IS, AS OF THIS WRG, THE NO. 1 BT-SELLG BOOK ON AMAZON. IT’S A SWEET VICTORY, MA EVEN SWEETER BY THE BOOK THAT’S CURRENTLY DOWN AT FOURTH PLACE: MARLON BUNDO’S A DAY THE LIFE OF THE VICE PRINT, A PICTURE BOOK WRTEN BY MIKE PENCE’S 24-YEAR-OLD DGHTER, CHARLOTTE, AND ILLTRATED BY HIS WIFE, SEND LADY KAREN PENCE.THE RULTS MAY BE EVEN MORE SATISFYG FOR OLIVER ON THE CHILDREN’S BOOK CHART, WHERE THE PENCE JOT IS BEG OUTSOLD NOT ONLY BY THE HARDVER VERSN OF A DAY THE LIFE OF MARLON BUNDO, BUT ALSO BY THE LAST WEEK TONIGHT CREATN’S KDLE EDN. THE DAY THE LIFE OF MARLON BUNDO DBOOK, FEATURG THE TALENTS OF JIM PARSONS, JSE TYLER FERGON, JEFF GARL, ELLIE KEMPER, JOHN LHGOW, JACK MCBRAYER, AND RUPL, IS ALSO AUDIBLE’S CURRENT NO. 1 BT-SELLER, BEATG OUT SLIGHTLY MORE SUBSTANTIAL DBOOKS LIKE JAM COMEY’S A HIGHER LOYALTY AND THE MOVIE TIE- VERSN OF A WRKLE TIME.THIS, OF URSE, IS NO CINCE. LAST WEEK TONIGHT’S BUNNY BOOK, WHICH FOLLOWS A SPRIGHTLY YOUNG RABB NAMED MARLON AS HE MEETS AND FALLS LOVE WH A DASHG MALE RABB NAMED WLEY (AND FEATS A STK-BUG BAD GUY THAT DON’T THK BOY BUNNI SHOULD MARRY EACH OTHER, ONE WHO LOOKS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE MIKE PENCE), WOULD NOT EXIST WERE NOT FOR THE PENCE FAY’S BOOK, A GENTLE DRAMATIZATN OF LIFE THE NAVAL OBSERVATORY OM A BUNNY’S-EYE VIEW.THE LAST WEEK TONIGHT CREW SPECIFILLY WROTE THEIR TAKE ON MARLON BUNDO TO PISS OFF PENCE, WHO IS NOTORLY ANTI-GAY RIGHTS. IN A LICLY PETTY FLOURISH, OLIVER AND CO. MA THEIR BUNNY BOOK AVAILABLE ONE DAY BEFORE THE PENCE FAY’S—AND THEY ALSO GAVE THE BOOK A PURPOSEFULLY SIAR TLE AND VER, ALL THE BETTER TO ACCINTALLY ENSNARE UNSPECTG NSUMERS. PROCEEDS OM BOTH BOOKS WILL BE DONATED TO CHARY: THE PENCE FAY’S ARE GOG TO A21, WHICH WORKS TO END HUMAN TRAFFICKG, AND TRACY’S KIDS, AN ART-THERAPY PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN WH NCER, WHILE LAST WEEK TONIGHT CHOSE THE L.G.B.T.Q.-IENDLY TREVOR PROJECT AND AIDS UNED.“PLEASE, BUY FOR YOUR CHILDREN, BUY FOR ANY CHILD YOU KNOW, OR JT BUY BEE YOU KNOW WOULD ANNOY MIKE PENCE,” OLIVER SAID OF THE BOOK ON HIS SHOW SUNDAY. “YOU WOULD BE DOG A NICE THG A REALLY DICKISH WAY, AND ISN’T THAT THE DREAM AT THE END OF THE DAY?”AT LEAST THE REAL MARLON BUNDO—LOOKG MIGHTY SPIFFY A BOW TIE, JT LIKE HIS LAST WEEK TONIGHT TW!—APPEARS TO BE TAKG THE PETN STRI. PERHAPS HIS FIRST BGRAPHER, CHARLOTTE PENCE, WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO ADDRS THE RIVALRY WHEN SHE STOPS BY THE VIEW TUDAY AFTERNOON.INSTAGRAM NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.MOST POPULARNEW ON NETFLIX: SEPTEMBER 2023'S BT NEW MOVI & SHOWSBY CHRIS MURPHYAND JT LIKE THAT… HERE’S WHAT WE NEED SEASON 3BY HILLARY BISOUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLBARACK OBAMA AND JOE BIN: THE ULTIMATE FRIENDSHIP1 / 25CHEVRONCHEVRONCOURTY OF THE WHE HOE/BY PETE SOUZA.FIFTY PERCENT OF ALL MARRIAG THE UNED STAT END DIVORCE. THE OTHER 49 PERCENT OF MARRIAG ARE NOT AS STRONG AS THE OBAMA-BIN RELATNSHIP.HILLARY BIS

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. Last Week Tonight’s bunny book, which follows a sprightly young rabb named Marlon as he meets and falls love wh a dashg male rabb named Wley (and feats a stk-bug bad guy that don’t thk boy bunni should marry each other, one who looks an awful lot like Mike Pence), would not exist were not for the Pence fay’s book, a gentle dramatizatn of life the Naval Observatory om a bunny’s-eye Last Week Tonight crew specifilly wrote their take on Marlon Bundo to piss off Pence, who is notorly anti-gay rights. Not only do the show’s book feature a gay rabb ― and a stk bug villa that looks spicly like Pence ― but proceeds om s sal will be donated to the Trevor Project, which supports LGBTQ youth, as well as the AIDS Uned chary.

An image posted on Marlon Bundo’s official Instagram page on Monday showed the rabb a sassy bowtie much like the one his gay doppelgänger wears the Oliver-backed book: RelatedMike PenceJohn Oliverlast week tonightrabbsBooks and PublishgPopular the CommunyYou May Like. Charlotte Pence, dghter of Vice Print Mike Pence, says she bought the gay parody of her book about the fay bunny unveiled on “Last Week Tonight” on Sunday by John Oliver. In the “Last Week Tonight” versn, penned by show wrer Jill Twiss and illtrated by EG Keller, Marlon Bundo is gay and persecuted by a stkbug wh a strong remblance to Mike Pence, who is notorly hostile to LBGTQ issu.

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.

GAY BUNNY BOOK OUTSELLS PENCE FAY'S BUNNY BOOK

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.

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.

John Oliver’s children’s book about gay bunni, wrten to goad Vice Print Mike Pence and steal his thunr prr to the release of Pence's book about their pet bunny, Marlon Bundo, climbed the bt sellers list on Monday, leavg the vice print’s book the this pot, we’ve e to expect Oliver liver some sort of outlandish antic, his segment "Last Week Tonight wh John Oliver, " that quickly morphs to a viral trend. And wasn’t any different this time around when, on his show last week, he buted a children’s novel lled "Last Week Tonight wh John Oliver Prents a Day the Life of Marlon Bundo" — a book about star crossed gay lovers featurg the vice print’s pet bunny Marlon Bundo as the protagonist, who has gaed que a fan followg lately wh his own Instagram add sult to jury, Oliver’s book about gay bunni supersed the sal of "Marlon Bundo's A Day the Life of the Vice Print" wrten by the vice print's dghter Charlotte Pence, and illtrated by send lady Karen Pence, a waterlor artist.

CHARLOTTE PENCE: I BOUGHT THE GAY BUNNY BOOK

So, the release of the book about the vice print’s bunny, who is picted to be gay, n only be emed a ploy to provoke Pence, whose book was listed at the 15th posn on ’s book, currently baskg an elevated posn on the btseller's list garnered posive reviews om many, while also rivg censure om right-wg prs.

(Vio: The Washgton Post, Photo: MANDEL NGAN/The Washgton Post)Oliver announced his book toward the end of a segment which he skewered Vice Print Pence’s social nservatism, pecially, the host said, “his hostily to LGBT rights” and his rerd of not beg “a iend to the gay muny. ” Oliver also noted that the Pence book tour clus a Colorado stop at the Foc on the Fay anizatn, which, the host said, promot gay-nversn, “It turns out, a plete cince, we also wrote a book about Mike Pence’s rabb that has also been published, ” Oliver said on Sunday’s show.

JOHN OLIVER'S 'BETTERBUNDOBOOK' ABOUT GAY BUNNY OUTSELLS BOOK ABOUT MIKE PENCE'S RABB

… Our Marlon Bundo is gay.

WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

JOHN OLIVER SPOOFS PENCE FAY’S NEW KIDS’ BOOK WH GAY-THEMED ‘MARLON BUNDO’ BOOK

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