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• WATCH: GAY GUYS TOTALLY STROY JOHN OLIVER BY TELLG HIM THEY DON’T KNOW WHO HE IS
• IS JOHN OLIVER GAY?
• JOHN OLIVER BOOK ABOUT MIKE PENCE'S GAY BUNNY A BT-SELLER
• JOHN OLIVER RIPS TO DISNEY FOR S RPONSE TO FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL
• JOHN OLIVER DRAGS DISNEY TO HELL OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• 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 BLASTS DISNEY’S RPONSE TO FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL“MARGALIZED CREATORS HAVE MA BILLNS OF DOLLARS FOR DISNEY,” HE SAID ON LAST WEEK TONIGHT. “SHOULD EMBARRASS THEM THAT TOOK THEM UNTIL THIS WEEK TO REALIZE THAT THEY SHOULDN’T TAKE THAT MONEY AND E TO ACTIVELY UNRME THOSE CREATORS’ TERTS?”BY SAVANNAH WALSHMARCH 14, 2022COURTY OF HBOSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEJOHN OLIVER DIDN’T MCE WORDS WHEN BLASTG DISNEY’S BUNGLED RPONSE TO FLORIDA’S NTROVERSIAL “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL ON LAST WEEK TONIGHT. CEO BOB CHAPEK’S IAL SILENCE ON THE DISCRIMATORY LEGISLATN, AS WELL AS THE STUD’S REPORTED FANCIAL BACKG FOR ALL OF THE BILL’S SPONSORS AND SPONSORS, HAS EARNED THE IRE OF MANY, CLUDG EMPLOYE AT PIXAR, A DISNEY SUBSIDIARY. THAT LIST ALSO CLUS OLIVER, WHO SAID ON SUNDAY’S EPISO THAT FLORIDA’S BILL IS “NOT ABOUT SEX AT ALL—’S ABOUT NYG THE EXISTENCE OF GAY PEOPLE.”THE LAST WEEK TONIGHT HOST BEGAN BY NOTG SOME OF THE RPORATNS THAT HAVE SUPPORTED SPONSORS OF THE BILL, CLUDG “AT&T, OUR SOON-TO-BE EX-BS-DADDY,” AND DISNEY, WHICH HAS REPORTEDLY DONATED NEARLY $300,000 TO FLORIDA POLICIANS WHO BACKED THE LEGISLATN, CLUDG GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS. “ARE THEY MORALLY BANKPT FOR [DONATG THE MONEY]? WHO’S TO SAY? I’LL TELL YOU: I AM. I AM TO SAY. AFTER ALL, I’M ZAZU,” OLIVER SAID, REFERENCG HIS VOICE ROLE DISNEY’S 2019 REMAKE OF THE LN KG. HE THEN CRICIZED CHAPEK FOR ASSERTG, A LL WH DISNEY SHAREHOLRS, THAT THE PANY DO NOT KNOW HOW POLIL NDIDAT WILL VOTE WHEN DONAT MONEY TO THEM. OLIVER LLED THIS STATEMENT “BULLSH,” ADDG, “IT IS ACTIVELY SULTG, BEE THAT’S JT NOT HOW DONATG WORKS. WHEN YOU DONATE MONEY, YOU GENERALLY KNOW WHAT THE RECIPIENT IS GOG TO DO WH . THAT IS WHY PEOPLE GIVE TO FEEDG AMERI AND NOT ‘FEEDG AMERI, OR MAYBE TAKE FOOD AWAY FROM AMERI.’”CHAPEK HAD TRIED TO EXCE DISNEY’S SILENCE ABOUT THE BILL BY PRAISG S ABILY TO TELL “DIVERSE STORI” PROJECTS LIKE ENNTO, BLACK PANTHER, AND MORN FAY. “IS THIS REALLY A PATH THAT YOU WANT TO GO DOWN, DISNEY?” OLIVER ASKED. “BEE YOU’RE THE SAME PANY THAT’S D BASILLY EVERY VILLA YOUR MOVI AS GAY, STEREOTYPED MORI TO A BREATHTAKG GREE, AND HAD SOMETHG LLED A WENCH CTN PLACE AT DISNEYLAND UNTIL 2018. SO, I DON’T KNOW IF YOU’VE HAD A 100 PERCENT -POSIVE EFFECT HERE.” (CHAPEK APOLOGIZED FOR HIS MISHANDLED RPONSE TO THE LEGISLATN A PANY-WI EMAIL ON FRIDAY.)OLIVER THEN POTED OUT THAT EARLIER THIS YEAR, BLACK PANTHER DIRECTOR RYAN COOGLER WAS FALSELY ACCED OF ROBBG A BANK AND HANDCUFFED BY POLICE WHILE ATTEMPTG TO WHDRAW MONEY OM HIS OWN BANK ACUNT. “MARGALIZED CREATORS HAVE MA BILLNS OF DOLLARS FOR DISNEY,” THE HOST EXPLAED. “NOW, SHOULD EMBARRASS THEM THAT TOOK THEM UNTIL THIS WEEK TO REALIZE THAT THEY SHOULDN’T TAKE THAT MONEY AND E TO ACTIVELY UNRME THOSE CREATORS’ TERTS? WHO’S TO SAY? I’LL TELL YOU: I AM. I’M ZAZU, REMEMBER? AND WHILE I HAVEN’T BEEN VED BACK FOR THE PREQUEL YET, AFTER TONIGHT I’VE GOT A PRETTY GOOD FEELG ABOUT .”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— JERRY LEWIS’S COSTARS SPEAK OUT: “HE GRABBED ME. HE BEGAN TO FONDLE ME. I WAS DUMBSTCK”— INSI CHARLIZE THERON AND TOM HARDY’S MAD MAX WAR— INVENTG ANNA IS A “DANGERO” DISTORTN, SAYS RACHEL WILLIAMS— HOW THE GUN ALEC BALDW’S HANDS TURNED THE RT SET DEADLY— LOVE IS BLD SEASON TWO IS PEAK RED FLAG TELEVISN— PACHKO FIRST LOOK: AN EPIC TALE, AND A HISTORY-MAKG SHOW— VANY FAIR’S HOLLYWOOD ISSUE 2022: SEE THE FULL PORTFOL FEATURG NILE KIDMAN, KRISTEN STEWART, AND MORE— THE UGLY TTH OF HOW MOVIE SR ARE MA— KIRSTEN DUNST ON HER FIRST OSR NOMATN FOR THE POWER OF THE DOG— FROM THE ARCHIVE: WH FRIENDS LIKE THE— SIGN UP FOR THE “HWD DAILY” NEWSLETTER FOR MT-READ DTRY AND AWARDS VERAGE—PL A SPECIAL WEEKLY EDN OF “AWARDS INSIR.”MOST POPULAROUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLNEW ON NETFLIX: SEPTEMBER 2023'S BT NEW MOVI & SHOWSBY CHRIS MURPHYFLORENCE PUGH SAYS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN “APOLOGIZED” FOR HER SMALL OPPENHEIMER ROLEBY SAVANNAH WALSHSAVANNAH WALSH
• JOHN OLIVER THKS RON DESANTIS IS A “RIGHT-WG DIPSH WHO’S SRED OF GAY PEOPLE”THE EDIAN LLED OUT FLORIDA’S REPUBLIN ERNOR FOR ATTEMPTG TO DISSOLVE DISNEY’S SELF-ERNG STAT OVER THE STATE’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL.BY CHRIS MURPHYMAY 2, 2022LLOYD BISHOP/HBOSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEJOHN OLIVER IS STICKG UP FOR THE HOE OF MOE. ON SUNDAY’S EPISO OF LAST WEEK TONIGHT, OLIVER L TO FLORIDA ERNOR RON DESANTIS, WHOM HE RRECTLY SCRIBED AS HAVG “GREEN BOOK VIB,” AND TOOK THE POLICIAN TO TASK FOR HIS CSA AGAST DISNEY. LAST MONTH THE REPUBLIN POLICIAN SIGNED A BILL TARGETG DISNEY WORLD, EFFECTIVELY DISSOLVG DISNEY’S SELF-ERNG DISTRICT AND SUBSEQUENT TAX BREAKS AS RETALIATN FOR THE PANY’S BELATED NMNATN OF FLORIDA’S NTROVERSIAL “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL. DISNEY WORLD’S PRIVATE-ERNMENT STAT WAS SET UP 1967 AND ED TO ENTICE DISNEY TO VELOP THE SE CENTRAL FLORIDA, SAVG THE RPORATN LNS ANNUAL FE AND TAX.“YEAH, ’S TE: IN THE PART OF CENTRAL FLORIDA WHERE DISNEY WORLD IS, THE PANY TECHNILLY FUNCTNS AS A SELF-NTAED ERNMENT, PROVIDG SENTIAL SERVIC—EXCEPT, CCIALLY, A MUE,” OLIVER SAID. “WHY? BEE NO ONE—LOOK AT ME—NO ONE HAS EVER DIED AT DISNEY, AND NO ONE WILL EVER DIE AT DISNEY. DO YOU HEAR ME? THERE IS NO FUCKG MUE AT DISNEY. NOD IF YOU UNRSTAND ME.”OLIVER WENT ON TO SAY THERE ARE SIGNS THAT DESANTIS MIGHT NOT HAVE ENTIRELY THOUGHT HIS PLAN THROUGH, NOTG THAT THE NEW LAW MAY VLATE THE NTRACT CLSE OF THE FLORIDA NSTUTN. FLORIDA STATE LAW ALSO REQUIR THAT THE UNTY ASSUME THE DISTRICT’S BT WHEN IS DISSOLVED, WHICH ULD MEAN A HEFTY $1 BILLN FEE FOR ORANGE AND OSCEOLA UNTI, WHERE DISNEY WORLD’S DISTRICT IS LOTED. OLIVER THEN CUT TO A CLIP OF DESANTIS ATTEMPTG TO REASSURE FOLKS THAT HE’S GOT EVERYTHG UNR NTROL. “WE’RE GONNA TAKE RE OF ALL THAT,” SAID DESANTIS. “DON’T WORRY, WE HAVE EVERYTHG THOUGHT OUT. DON’T LET ANYONE TELL YOU THAT SOMEHOW DISNEY’S GOG TO GET A TAX CUT OUT OF THIS. THEY’RE GOG TO PAY MORE TAX AS A RULT OF .”OLIVER, HOWEVER, WASN’T BUYG . “THERE IS JT NOTHG MORE IMMEDIATELY OFF-PUTTG THAN SOMEONE STARTG A SENTENCE WH ‘DON’T WORRY,’” OLIVER SAID. “IT SOUNDS LIKE A AT BOY TRYG TO REASON WH THE PS AFTER A NOISE PLAT: ‘DON’T WORRY, MAN. WE’RE GONNA TAKE RE OF ALL OF THAT. WE GOT EVERYTHG THOUGHT OUT. YOU GUYS WANT A BEER OR SOMETHG? YOU WANNA HANG OUT?’”SUBSEQUENT STATEMENTS OM THE ERNOR’S OFFICE HAVE ALSO BEEN VAGUE ON TAILS, OLIVER NOTED, “WH ONE SPOKWOMAN ADMTG THE ERNOR’S OFFICE DO NOT HAVE A WRTEN PLAN ON HOW THE DISSOLUTN WILL PROCEED, WHICH OF URSE DON’T,” HE SAID. “AND LOOK, DO I THK ’S BAD IF DISNEY PAYS MORE TAX? NO, I DON’T. THAT WOULD BE A GOOD THG. I DON’T LOVE THAT MIGHT HAPPEN NOT THROUGH MEANGFUL TAX REFORM BUT ON THE WHIM OF ONE RIGHT-WG DIPSH WHO’S SRED OF GAY PEOPLE AND DON’T UNRSTAND THE FIRST AMENDMENT. BUT HEY: ENDS, MEANS, WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO?”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— THE “HOT MS” DUCHS AT THE CENTER OF A ’60S SEX SNDAL— JTICE FOR GIRLS: LOOKG BACK ON THE SHOW 10 YEARS LATER— THE JOHNNY DEPP–AMBER HEARD TRIAL: HOW DID IT COME TO THIS?— AMANDA SEYIED WANTS TO REPRISE HER ROLE AS ELIZABETH HOLM— HOW THE CAST OF THIS IS US WON EQUAL PAY— WILL SMH BANNED FROM THE OSRS FOR 10 YEARS AFTER THE SLAP— NETFLIX’S THE ULTIMATUM OFFERS A SADISTIC TWIST ON REALY ROMANCE— FROM THE ARCHIVE: HOW DAVID ZASLAV BEME AMERI’S KG OF CONTENT— SIGN UP FOR THE “HWD DAILY” NEWSLETTER FOR MT-READ DTRY AND AWARDS VERAGE—PL A SPECIAL WEEKLY EDN OF “AWARDS INSIR.”MOST POPULAROUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLNEW ON NETFLIX: SEPTEMBER 2023'S BT NEW MOVI & SHOWSBY CHRIS MURPHYFLORENCE PUGH SAYS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN “APOLOGIZED” FOR HER SMALL OPPENHEIMER ROLEBY SAVANNAH WALSHCHRIS MURPHY
• JOHN OLIVER LLS DISNEY 'MORALLY BANKPT' FOR DONATG TO 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL POLICIANS
• JOHN OLIVER'S GAY RABB BOOK PARODY OUTSELLS MIKE PENCE'S ORIGAL ON AMAZON
• JOHN OLIVER MOCKS RON DESANTIS: ‘A RIGHT-WG DIPSH*T WHO’S SRED OF GAY PEOPLE’
• JOHN OLIVER RIPS 'MORALLY BANKPT' DISNEY OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• 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

WATCH: GAY GUYS TOTALLY STROY JOHN OLIVER BY TELLG HIM THEY DON’T KNOW WHO HE IS

But as we found out on Tuday, there may be one mographic that don’t really seem to give a damn about John Oliver or whom he’s stroyg this week: gay men.

IS JOHN OLIVER GAY?

TTV’s Billy Eichner and his show Billy on the Street took Oliver to the avenu and blocks of what appears to be Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood and asked gay men for their opn — or, really, jt awarens — of Oliver.

JOHN OLIVER BOOK ABOUT MIKE PENCE'S GAY BUNNY A BT-SELLER

Jt like many other celebri, happens to be speculated the qutn - John Oliver is gay? However, you will fd people that say John Oliver is gay, but their ments have no nsistency or accuracy of any kd.

The g out of John Oliver would greatly benef an credible number of homosexuals all over the world who are still the closet.

In any se, celebri too often refe to speak about their private liv, so we never know if they are gay or straight. "Discrimatg agast gay people is surprisgly legal much of the untry, " 'Last Week Tonight' host says latt report.

JOHN OLIVER RIPS TO DISNEY FOR S RPONSE TO FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL

We’ve ma progrs toward gay equaly the U. The host c a “genuely enuragg sign” om the recent Republin printial bate, where the ia of attendg a gay weddg earned applse om the dience.

“While the ia of a gay weddg is creasgly wily accepted, ” Oliver says, “’s worth nothg there are still a number of surprisg ways to a gay honeymoon. “Discrimatg agast gay people is surprisgly legal much of the untry, ” he ntu.

“The fact is, 31 stat, people are at risk of beg fired, evicted or refed service jt bee they’re gay.

JOHN OLIVER DRAGS DISNEY TO HELL OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

So while feral law may guarantee a gay uple’s right to get married, offers exactly zero guarante about their rights to do the thgs that follow that. Oliver c exampl om recent years where gay upl were nied service bee of their sexual orientatn. ” Right now, Arkansas has an anti-anti-discrimatn ordance that “prevents any cy or untry om extendg civil rights protectns to gay people.

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

“We’re not creatg Lbians Only sectns on airplan or puttg up signs at Six Flags sayg, ‘You Mt Be This Gay to Go on This Ri. “And this should be what reprents the thrhold of te gay tolerance – not whether you’d nsir attendg a gay weddg. Is John Oliver Gay?

JOHN OLIVER BLASTS DISNEY’S RPONSE TO FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL“MARGALIZED CREATORS HAVE MA BILLNS OF DOLLARS FOR DISNEY,” HE SAID ON LAST WEEK TONIGHT. “SHOULD EMBARRASS THEM THAT TOOK THEM UNTIL THIS WEEK TO REALIZE THAT THEY SHOULDN’T TAKE THAT MONEY AND E TO ACTIVELY UNRME THOSE CREATORS’ TERTS?”BY SAVANNAH WALSHMARCH 14, 2022COURTY OF HBOSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEJOHN OLIVER DIDN’T MCE WORDS WHEN BLASTG DISNEY’S BUNGLED RPONSE TO FLORIDA’S NTROVERSIAL “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL ON LAST WEEK TONIGHT. CEO BOB CHAPEK’S IAL SILENCE ON THE DISCRIMATORY LEGISLATN, AS WELL AS THE STUD’S REPORTED FANCIAL BACKG FOR ALL OF THE BILL’S SPONSORS AND SPONSORS, HAS EARNED THE IRE OF MANY, CLUDG EMPLOYE AT PIXAR, A DISNEY SUBSIDIARY. THAT LIST ALSO CLUS OLIVER, WHO SAID ON SUNDAY’S EPISO THAT FLORIDA’S BILL IS “NOT ABOUT SEX AT ALL—’S ABOUT NYG THE EXISTENCE OF GAY PEOPLE.”THE LAST WEEK TONIGHT HOST BEGAN BY NOTG SOME OF THE RPORATNS THAT HAVE SUPPORTED SPONSORS OF THE BILL, CLUDG “AT&T, OUR SOON-TO-BE EX-BS-DADDY,” AND DISNEY, WHICH HAS REPORTEDLY DONATED NEARLY $300,000 TO FLORIDA POLICIANS WHO BACKED THE LEGISLATN, CLUDG GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS. “ARE THEY MORALLY BANKPT FOR [DONATG THE MONEY]? WHO’S TO SAY? I’LL TELL YOU: I AM. I AM TO SAY. AFTER ALL, I’M ZAZU,” OLIVER SAID, REFERENCG HIS VOICE ROLE DISNEY’S 2019 REMAKE OF THE LN KG. HE THEN CRICIZED CHAPEK FOR ASSERTG, A LL WH DISNEY SHAREHOLRS, THAT THE PANY DO NOT KNOW HOW POLIL NDIDAT WILL VOTE WHEN DONAT MONEY TO THEM. OLIVER LLED THIS STATEMENT “BULLSH,” ADDG, “IT IS ACTIVELY SULTG, BEE THAT’S JT NOT HOW DONATG WORKS. WHEN YOU DONATE MONEY, YOU GENERALLY KNOW WHAT THE RECIPIENT IS GOG TO DO WH . THAT IS WHY PEOPLE GIVE TO FEEDG AMERI AND NOT ‘FEEDG AMERI, OR MAYBE TAKE FOOD AWAY FROM AMERI.’”CHAPEK HAD TRIED TO EXCE DISNEY’S SILENCE ABOUT THE BILL BY PRAISG S ABILY TO TELL “DIVERSE STORI” PROJECTS LIKE ENNTO, BLACK PANTHER, AND MORN FAY. “IS THIS REALLY A PATH THAT YOU WANT TO GO DOWN, DISNEY?” OLIVER ASKED. “BEE YOU’RE THE SAME PANY THAT’S D BASILLY EVERY VILLA YOUR MOVI AS GAY, STEREOTYPED MORI TO A BREATHTAKG GREE, AND HAD SOMETHG LLED A WENCH CTN PLACE AT DISNEYLAND UNTIL 2018. SO, I DON’T KNOW IF YOU’VE HAD A 100 PERCENT -POSIVE EFFECT HERE.” (CHAPEK APOLOGIZED FOR HIS MISHANDLED RPONSE TO THE LEGISLATN A PANY-WI EMAIL ON FRIDAY.)OLIVER THEN POTED OUT THAT EARLIER THIS YEAR, BLACK PANTHER DIRECTOR RYAN COOGLER WAS FALSELY ACCED OF ROBBG A BANK AND HANDCUFFED BY POLICE WHILE ATTEMPTG TO WHDRAW MONEY OM HIS OWN BANK ACUNT. “MARGALIZED CREATORS HAVE MA BILLNS OF DOLLARS FOR DISNEY,” THE HOST EXPLAED. “NOW, SHOULD EMBARRASS THEM THAT TOOK THEM UNTIL THIS WEEK TO REALIZE THAT THEY SHOULDN’T TAKE THAT MONEY AND E TO ACTIVELY UNRME THOSE CREATORS’ TERTS? WHO’S TO SAY? I’LL TELL YOU: I AM. I’M ZAZU, REMEMBER? AND WHILE I HAVEN’T BEEN VED BACK FOR THE PREQUEL YET, AFTER TONIGHT I’VE GOT A PRETTY GOOD FEELG ABOUT .”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— JERRY LEWIS’S COSTARS SPEAK OUT: “HE GRABBED ME. HE BEGAN TO FONDLE ME. I WAS DUMBSTCK”— INSI CHARLIZE THERON AND TOM HARDY’S MAD MAX WAR— INVENTG ANNA IS A “DANGERO” DISTORTN, SAYS RACHEL WILLIAMS— HOW THE GUN ALEC BALDW’S HANDS TURNED THE RT SET DEADLY— LOVE IS BLD SEASON TWO IS PEAK RED FLAG TELEVISN— PACHKO FIRST LOOK: AN EPIC TALE, AND A HISTORY-MAKG SHOW— VANY FAIR’S HOLLYWOOD ISSUE 2022: SEE THE FULL PORTFOL FEATURG NILE KIDMAN, KRISTEN STEWART, AND MORE— THE UGLY TTH OF HOW MOVIE SR ARE MA— KIRSTEN DUNST ON HER FIRST OSR NOMATN FOR THE POWER OF THE DOG— FROM THE ARCHIVE: WH FRIENDS LIKE THE— SIGN UP FOR THE “HWD DAILY” NEWSLETTER FOR MT-READ DTRY AND AWARDS VERAGE—PL A SPECIAL WEEKLY EDN OF “AWARDS INSIR.”MOST POPULAROUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLNEW ON NETFLIX: SEPTEMBER 2023'S BT NEW MOVI & SHOWSBY CHRIS MURPHYFLORENCE PUGH SAYS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN “APOLOGIZED” FOR HER SMALL OPPENHEIMER ROLEBY SAVANNAH WALSHSAVANNAH WALSH

John Oliver is not a Gay.

He has not revealed much rmatn about his personal life, but is nfirmed that he is not gay. “If there’s one thg we know he hat, other than gay people, Jews, his own bald head, and anyone who disagre wh him, is teddy bears, ” Oliver explaed, as the bears are “everythg that he’s not: cute, lovable, and vered thick, natural hair all the way around. “There are a few small differenc between the two books, ” Oliver said on his show, notg Pence’s opposn to gay marriage and other LGBTQ rights.

Dpe voicg Zazu Disney’s remake of The Ln Kg, John Oliver let Disney have his most recent episo of Last Week Tonight, cricizg the pany’s ntroversial rponse to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill. “Bee you are the same pany that’s d basilly every villa your movi as gay, stereotyped mori to a breathtakg gree, and had somethg lled a ‘wench ctn’ place at Disneyland until 2018, so I don’t know that you’ve had a 100% posive effect here. Chapek has sce changed his tune regardg the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

JOHN OLIVER THKS RON DESANTIS IS A “RIGHT-WG DIPSH WHO’S SRED OF GAY PEOPLE”THE EDIAN LLED OUT FLORIDA’S REPUBLIN ERNOR FOR ATTEMPTG TO DISSOLVE DISNEY’S SELF-ERNG STAT OVER THE STATE’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL.BY CHRIS MURPHYMAY 2, 2022LLOYD BISHOP/HBOSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEJOHN OLIVER IS STICKG UP FOR THE HOE OF MOE. ON SUNDAY’S EPISO OF LAST WEEK TONIGHT, OLIVER L TO FLORIDA ERNOR RON DESANTIS, WHOM HE RRECTLY SCRIBED AS HAVG “GREEN BOOK VIB,” AND TOOK THE POLICIAN TO TASK FOR HIS CSA AGAST DISNEY. LAST MONTH THE REPUBLIN POLICIAN SIGNED A BILL TARGETG DISNEY WORLD, EFFECTIVELY DISSOLVG DISNEY’S SELF-ERNG DISTRICT AND SUBSEQUENT TAX BREAKS AS RETALIATN FOR THE PANY’S BELATED NMNATN OF FLORIDA’S NTROVERSIAL “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL. DISNEY WORLD’S PRIVATE-ERNMENT STAT WAS SET UP 1967 AND ED TO ENTICE DISNEY TO VELOP THE SE CENTRAL FLORIDA, SAVG THE RPORATN LNS ANNUAL FE AND TAX.“YEAH, ’S TE: IN THE PART OF CENTRAL FLORIDA WHERE DISNEY WORLD IS, THE PANY TECHNILLY FUNCTNS AS A SELF-NTAED ERNMENT, PROVIDG SENTIAL SERVIC—EXCEPT, CCIALLY, A MUE,” OLIVER SAID. “WHY? BEE NO ONE—LOOK AT ME—NO ONE HAS EVER DIED AT DISNEY, AND NO ONE WILL EVER DIE AT DISNEY. DO YOU HEAR ME? THERE IS NO FUCKG MUE AT DISNEY. NOD IF YOU UNRSTAND ME.”OLIVER WENT ON TO SAY THERE ARE SIGNS THAT DESANTIS MIGHT NOT HAVE ENTIRELY THOUGHT HIS PLAN THROUGH, NOTG THAT THE NEW LAW MAY VLATE THE NTRACT CLSE OF THE FLORIDA NSTUTN. FLORIDA STATE LAW ALSO REQUIR THAT THE UNTY ASSUME THE DISTRICT’S BT WHEN IS DISSOLVED, WHICH ULD MEAN A HEFTY $1 BILLN FEE FOR ORANGE AND OSCEOLA UNTI, WHERE DISNEY WORLD’S DISTRICT IS LOTED. OLIVER THEN CUT TO A CLIP OF DESANTIS ATTEMPTG TO REASSURE FOLKS THAT HE’S GOT EVERYTHG UNR NTROL. “WE’RE GONNA TAKE RE OF ALL THAT,” SAID DESANTIS. “DON’T WORRY, WE HAVE EVERYTHG THOUGHT OUT. DON’T LET ANYONE TELL YOU THAT SOMEHOW DISNEY’S GOG TO GET A TAX CUT OUT OF THIS. THEY’RE GOG TO PAY MORE TAX AS A RULT OF .”OLIVER, HOWEVER, WASN’T BUYG . “THERE IS JT NOTHG MORE IMMEDIATELY OFF-PUTTG THAN SOMEONE STARTG A SENTENCE WH ‘DON’T WORRY,’” OLIVER SAID. “IT SOUNDS LIKE A AT BOY TRYG TO REASON WH THE PS AFTER A NOISE PLAT: ‘DON’T WORRY, MAN. WE’RE GONNA TAKE RE OF ALL OF THAT. WE GOT EVERYTHG THOUGHT OUT. YOU GUYS WANT A BEER OR SOMETHG? YOU WANNA HANG OUT?’”SUBSEQUENT STATEMENTS OM THE ERNOR’S OFFICE HAVE ALSO BEEN VAGUE ON TAILS, OLIVER NOTED, “WH ONE SPOKWOMAN ADMTG THE ERNOR’S OFFICE DO NOT HAVE A WRTEN PLAN ON HOW THE DISSOLUTN WILL PROCEED, WHICH OF URSE DON’T,” HE SAID. “AND LOOK, DO I THK ’S BAD IF DISNEY PAYS MORE TAX? NO, I DON’T. THAT WOULD BE A GOOD THG. I DON’T LOVE THAT MIGHT HAPPEN NOT THROUGH MEANGFUL TAX REFORM BUT ON THE WHIM OF ONE RIGHT-WG DIPSH WHO’S SRED OF GAY PEOPLE AND DON’T UNRSTAND THE FIRST AMENDMENT. BUT HEY: ENDS, MEANS, WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO?”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— THE “HOT MS” DUCHS AT THE CENTER OF A ’60S SEX SNDAL— JTICE FOR GIRLS: LOOKG BACK ON THE SHOW 10 YEARS LATER— THE JOHNNY DEPP–AMBER HEARD TRIAL: HOW DID IT COME TO THIS?— AMANDA SEYIED WANTS TO REPRISE HER ROLE AS ELIZABETH HOLM— HOW THE CAST OF THIS IS US WON EQUAL PAY— WILL SMH BANNED FROM THE OSRS FOR 10 YEARS AFTER THE SLAP— NETFLIX’S THE ULTIMATUM OFFERS A SADISTIC TWIST ON REALY ROMANCE— FROM THE ARCHIVE: HOW DAVID ZASLAV BEME AMERI’S KG OF CONTENT— SIGN UP FOR THE “HWD DAILY” NEWSLETTER FOR MT-READ DTRY AND AWARDS VERAGE—PL A SPECIAL WEEKLY EDN OF “AWARDS INSIR.”MOST POPULAROUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLNEW ON NETFLIX: SEPTEMBER 2023'S BT NEW MOVI & SHOWSBY CHRIS MURPHYFLORENCE PUGH SAYS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN “APOLOGIZED” FOR HER SMALL OPPENHEIMER ROLEBY SAVANNAH WALSHCHRIS MURPHY

Oliver also spent time dissectg what the “Don’t Say Gay” bill would actually do, ncludg that, “It’s not about sex at all; ’s about nyg the existence of gay people. In Florida, the Parental Rights Edutn bill—more monly known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill—would prohib any teachg ncerng sexual orientatn or genr inty “ krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards. It’s about nyg the existence of gay people.

”The Last Week Tonight host proceed to take aim at the rporatns who have backed the bill’s sponsors and supporters, cludg, “AT&T, our soon to be ex-bs daddy, ” and Disney, which has donated $299, 126 to supporters of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill the past two years. After all, I’m Zazu, ” throwg to a picture of the red-billed hornbill he voiced Disney’s The Ln Kg the news broke that Disney had donated large sums of money to the backers of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, Disney CEO Bob Chapek fend the pany’s silence on , issug the followg statement:“We are tellg important stori, raisg voic, and I believe, changg hearts and mds. “Bee you’re the same pany that’s d basilly every villa your movi as gay, stereotyped mori to a breathtakg gree, and had somethg lled a ‘wench ctn’ place at Disneyland until 2018.

JOHN OLIVER LLS DISNEY 'MORALLY BANKPT' FOR DONATG TO 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL POLICIANS

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.

JOHN OLIVER'S GAY RABB BOOK PARODY OUTSELLS MIKE PENCE'S ORIGAL ON AMAZON

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 didn’t mce words when blastg Disney’s bungled rponse to Florida’s ntroversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill on Last Week Tonight.

JOHN OLIVER MOCKS RON DESANTIS: ‘A RIGHT-WG DIPSH*T WHO’S SRED OF GAY PEOPLE’

That list also clus Oliver, who said on Sunday’s episo that Florida’s bill is “not about sex at all—’s about nyg the existence of gay people.

JOHN OLIVER RIPS 'MORALLY BANKPT' DISNEY OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

“Bee you’re the same pany that’s d basilly every villa your movi as gay, stereotyped mori to a breathtakg gree, and had somethg lled a wench ctn place at Disneyland until 2018.

Last month the Republin polician signed a bill targetg Disney World, effectively dissolvg Disney’s self-erng district and subsequent tax breaks as retaliatn for the pany’s belated nmnatn of Florida’s ntroversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

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

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