John Oliver after Mike Pence wh surprise children's book about gay bunny
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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
- JOHN OLIVER'S GAY RABB BOOK PARODY OUTSELLS MIKE PENCE'S ORIGAL ON AMAZON
- JOHN OLIVER RELEAS CHILDREN'S BOOK ABOUT GAY BUNNY TO SPE PENCE
- JOHN OLIVER AFTER MIKE PENCE WH SURPRISE CHILDREN'S BOOK ABOUT GAY BUNNY
- 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 POPULARTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE: THE 6 BIGGT CHANG FROM BOOK TO MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHBARACK 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
- JOHN OLIVER REVEALS HIS GAY BUNNY BOOK TROLLG PENCE FAY SOLD 180,000 COPIVICTORY LAP‘IT’S GETTG RIDICULO,’ THE ‘LAST WEEK TONIGHT’ HOST TOLD SETH MEYERS ON TUDAY NIGHT.MATT WILSTESENR EDORUPDATED MAR. 21, 2018 11:15AM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 21, 2018 1:50AM EDT NBCWHEN JOHN OLIVER ANNOUNCED THE RELEASE OF HIS OWN PARODY VERSN OF A NEW CHILDREN’S BOOK ABOUT THE PENCE FAY’S PET BUNNY, MARLON BUNDO, EVEN HE DIDN’T THK WOULD REACH THE TOP OF AMAZON’S BT-SELLER LIST THE FIRST 24 HOURS. AND YET THERE SS, AHEAD OF NOT JT CHARLOTTE PENCE’S BOOK BUT ALSO JAM COMEY’S NEW MEMOIR. “I HAVE NO BEEF WH HIS BUNNY,” OLIVER TOLD SETH MEYERS ON A VICTORY LAP OF SORTS TUDAY NIGHT. “THE BEEF REGARDG MICHAEL PENCE, WHO HAS A HISTORY OF, LET’S SAY, HOMOPHOBIC VIEWS.” HE THEN ADD, “I JT SOUND LIKE I WAS TALKG AROUND , BUT I WAS ACTUALLY JT SAYG THE WORD OF THE THG THAT HE EMPHATILLY IS: A HOMOPHOBE.” WHEN MEYERS BROUGHT UP THE OVERWHELMG SUCCS OF THE BOOK, THE PROCEEDS OF WHICH ARE GOG TO CHARI THAT BENEF LGBTQ YOUTH AND AIDS REARCH, OLIVER REVEALED THAT JT BEFORE THE LATE NIGHT TAPG, HE HAD RECEIVED THE LATT SAL NUMBERS. “I’M SURE HBO WOULD FD ABSOLUTELY HILAR THEY’RE GETTG NO MONEY OUT OF THIS,” HE SAID. “IT’S GETTG RIDICULO,” OLIVER SAID. “I JT FOUND OUT, I JT GOT THE LATT FIGUR THIS AFTERNOON, SOLD 180,000 PI SO FAR, WHICH IS FELY MORE THAN WE WERE PREPARED FOR.” HE ADMTED THAT ALL THE BOOKS THEY HAD PRTED ARE ALREADY GONE, BUT THEY ARE THE PROCS OF MAKG MORE TO FILL THE ORRS THAT NTUE TO E . LATER, MEYERS BROUGHT UP THE UNIQUE WAY OLIVER’S FANS ARE TROLLG PENCE’S SUPPORTERS, WHO WERE HOPG TO SEE THE RIVAL BOOK FAIL. WHILE OLIVER’S BOOK STILL HAS AN IMPRSIVE 4.9 OUT OF 5 STAR RATG ON AMAZON, FANS HAVE BEEN POSTG ONE-STAR REVIEWS WHICH THEY ARE “TROLLG THE PEOPLE THEY’RE THKG ARE GOG TO GIVE ONE-STAR REVIEWS,” AS THE HOST PUT . FOR EXAMPLE, ONE REVIEWER WROTE, “LOVE THIS BOOK. POSTG ONE STAR TO ANNOY ALL THE HOMOPHOB WHO WILL READ THIS AND FD OUT I THK THE BOOK IS ABSOLUTELY FABULO.”“THAT IS SOME HIGH-LEVEL TROLLG THERE,” OLIVER RPOND. “THAT’S VERY GOOD. WELL DONE, TER. THE TER DON’T ALWAYS ACT PARTICULARLY WELL, BUT THAT’S RATHER NICE.” MATT WILSTE
- JOHN OLIVER REVEALS GAY BUNNY TALE ‘MARLON BUNDO’ HAS SOLD OUT
- JOHN OLIVER WROTE A CHILDREN'S BOOK ABOUT MIKE PENCE'S GAY PET BUNNY FOR LAST WEEK TONIGHT
- JOHN OLIVER’S PENCE-TROLLG GAY-BUNNY BOOK SOLD 180,000 COPI TWO DAYS
- JOHN OLIVER BOOK ABOUT MIKE PENCE'S GAY BUNNY A BT-SELLER
- JOHN OLIVER TROLLS PENCE WH GAY BUNNY ROMANCE BOOK HS NO.1 ON AMAZON
- JOHN OLIVER’S BOOK ABOUT MIKE PENCE’S GAY RABB NAMED ONE OF AMERI’S MOST CHALLENGED TL
- 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
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 RABB BOOK PARODY OUTSELLS MIKE PENCE'S ORIGAL ON AMAZON
A children’s picture book released by edian John Oliver about a gay bunny has h the top spot on Amazon, outsellg a vanilla versn featurg US vice-print’s Mike Pence’s pet satiril doppelganger tled Last Week Tonight wh John Oliver Prents A Day the Life of Marlon Bundo was strategilly released by the Brish late-night TV host a day before Marlon Bundo’s A Day the Life of the Vice Print, which was wrten by Pence’s dghter Charlotte and illtrated by his wife, two days of s release, Oliver’s Marlon Bundo had sold 180, 000 pi on Amazon and bee the btsellg book on the se, outstrippg the Pence versn which at the time of wrg languished fourth Pence book tells the tale of Marlon Bundo trailg his master for a day, but Oliver’s versn, wrten by edian and staff wrer Jill Twiss, is about “a lonely bunny who liv wh his grampa, the vice-print of the Uned Stat” who one day “falls love wh another boy bunny”’s book explor the rabb’s stggle to marry a handsome bunny lled Wley, and is a tale “of tolerance and advocy...
Proceeds om Oliver’s book, which is “dited to every bunny who has ever felt different”, go to Aids Uned and the LGBTQ chary the Trevor is stnchly opposed to gay marriage, warng 2006 would lead to the “terratn of the fay” and “societal llapse” Sunday Oliver enuraged his viewers to purchase his book, sayg: “Sellg more books than Pence will probably really piss him off.
John Oliver trolls Pence wh a gay bunny book.
JOHN OLIVER RELEAS CHILDREN'S BOOK ABOUT GAY BUNNY TO SPE PENCE
Related: John Oliver is trollg Pence wh a book about a gay bunny. 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. 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.
JOHN OLIVER AFTER MIKE PENCE WH SURPRISE CHILDREN'S BOOK ABOUT GAY BUNNY
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. John Oliver after Mike Pence wh surprise children's book about gay bunny Each product we feature has been penntly selected and reviewed by our edorial team.
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.
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 POPULARTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE: THE 6 BIGGT CHANG FROM BOOK TO MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHBARACK 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
Pence has not rpond to Oliver’s Sunday night segment — which addn to revealg the Last Week Tonight children’s book also tailed Pence’s history of discrimatory stanc, cludg an opposn to both same-sex marriage and gays the ary. 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.
“The beef regardg Michael Pence, who has a history of, let’s say, homophobic views.
JOHN OLIVER REVEALS HIS GAY BUNNY BOOK TROLLG PENCE FAY SOLD 180,000 COPIVICTORY LAP‘IT’S GETTG RIDICULO,’ THE ‘LAST WEEK TONIGHT’ HOST TOLD SETH MEYERS ON TUDAY NIGHT.MATT WILSTESENR EDORUPDATED MAR. 21, 2018 11:15AM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 21, 2018 1:50AM EDT NBCWHEN JOHN OLIVER ANNOUNCED THE RELEASE OF HIS OWN PARODY VERSN OF A NEW CHILDREN’S BOOK ABOUT THE PENCE FAY’S PET BUNNY, MARLON BUNDO, EVEN HE DIDN’T THK WOULD REACH THE TOP OF AMAZON’S BT-SELLER LIST THE FIRST 24 HOURS. AND YET THERE SS, AHEAD OF NOT JT CHARLOTTE PENCE’S BOOK BUT ALSO JAM COMEY’S NEW MEMOIR. “I HAVE NO BEEF WH HIS BUNNY,” OLIVER TOLD SETH MEYERS ON A VICTORY LAP OF SORTS TUDAY NIGHT. “THE BEEF REGARDG MICHAEL PENCE, WHO HAS A HISTORY OF, LET’S SAY, HOMOPHOBIC VIEWS.” HE THEN ADD, “I JT SOUND LIKE I WAS TALKG AROUND , BUT I WAS ACTUALLY JT SAYG THE WORD OF THE THG THAT HE EMPHATILLY IS: A HOMOPHOBE.” WHEN MEYERS BROUGHT UP THE OVERWHELMG SUCCS OF THE BOOK, THE PROCEEDS OF WHICH ARE GOG TO CHARI THAT BENEF LGBTQ YOUTH AND AIDS REARCH, OLIVER REVEALED THAT JT BEFORE THE LATE NIGHT TAPG, HE HAD RECEIVED THE LATT SAL NUMBERS. “I’M SURE HBO WOULD FD ABSOLUTELY HILAR THEY’RE GETTG NO MONEY OUT OF THIS,” HE SAID. “IT’S GETTG RIDICULO,” OLIVER SAID. “I JT FOUND OUT, I JT GOT THE LATT FIGUR THIS AFTERNOON, SOLD 180,000 PI SO FAR, WHICH IS FELY MORE THAN WE WERE PREPARED FOR.” HE ADMTED THAT ALL THE BOOKS THEY HAD PRTED ARE ALREADY GONE, BUT THEY ARE THE PROCS OF MAKG MORE TO FILL THE ORRS THAT NTUE TO E . LATER, MEYERS BROUGHT UP THE UNIQUE WAY OLIVER’S FANS ARE TROLLG PENCE’S SUPPORTERS, WHO WERE HOPG TO SEE THE RIVAL BOOK FAIL. WHILE OLIVER’S BOOK STILL HAS AN IMPRSIVE 4.9 OUT OF 5 STAR RATG ON AMAZON, FANS HAVE BEEN POSTG ONE-STAR REVIEWS WHICH THEY ARE “TROLLG THE PEOPLE THEY’RE THKG ARE GOG TO GIVE ONE-STAR REVIEWS,” AS THE HOST PUT . FOR EXAMPLE, ONE REVIEWER WROTE, “LOVE THIS BOOK. POSTG ONE STAR TO ANNOY ALL THE HOMOPHOB WHO WILL READ THIS AND FD OUT I THK THE BOOK IS ABSOLUTELY FABULO.”“THAT IS SOME HIGH-LEVEL TROLLG THERE,” OLIVER RPOND. “THAT’S VERY GOOD. WELL DONE, TER. THE TER DON’T ALWAYS ACT PARTICULARLY WELL, BUT THAT’S RATHER NICE.” MATT WILSTE
” He then add, “I jt sound like I was talkg around , but I was actually jt sayg the word of the thg that he emphatilly is: a homophobe. Postg one star to annoy all the homophob who will read this and fd out I thk the book is absolutely fabulo. For stance, the past Pence has said that neher women nor gay people should be able to serve the ary and and has stated opposn to LGBT rights, cludg marriage equaly and, per Oliver, possibly supportg so-lled gay nversn therapy.
In Oliver’s versn, om illtrator EG Keller and Last Week Tonight staffer Jill Twiss, Marlon Bundo wears a bow tie, is gay and wants to get married to another boy rabb, until a stk bug along.
“I don’t actually dislike this book at all, ” one review reads, “I jt wanted the upset homophob to read my ment as they sur the one-star sectn for appeasement. “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. He ma stops this week at Ellen and Late Night Wh Seth Meyers to promote the children's book, which picts Mike Pence's pet bunny as gay and fightg for marriage of now, the book, wrten by Jill Twiss but prentied and heavily promoted by Oliver, is the Amazon bt seller books, ahead of pre-orrs for the tell-all of the former FBI director Jam Comey.
JOHN OLIVER REVEALS GAY BUNNY TALE ‘MARLON BUNDO’ HAS SOLD OUT
Let's say homophobic views. I didn't even try to talk around , I jt said : homophobic views. I jt sound like I was talkg around but I was jt sayg the word of the thg that he emphatilly is: a homophobe.
One of John Oliver’s most endurg jib at the Tmp admistratn began last March, when he released “A Day the Life of Marlon Bundo, ” a children’s parody book centered around Mike Pence’s fay pet rabb disverg is gay and fallg love wh a male hare.
JOHN OLIVER WROTE A CHILDREN'S BOOK ABOUT MIKE PENCE'S GAY PET BUNNY FOR LAST WEEK TONIGHT
The book was a rponse to Pence’s history of homophobia, wh 100% of the proceeds gog to LBGTQ non-profs such as The Trevor Project and AIDS Uned.
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.