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• JOHN OLIVER'S GAY RABB BOOK PARODY OUTSELLS MIKE PENCE'S ORIGAL ON AMAZON
• MIKE PENCE'S GAY RABB IS THE NEWT KID-L SENSATN
• 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 WROTE A CHILDREN'S BOOK ABOUT MIKE PENCE'S GAY PET BUNNY FOR LAST WEEK TONIGHT
• JOHN OLIVER TROLLS MIKE PENCE WH A BOOK ABOUT A GAY RABB
• TWIST! MIKE PENCE’S DGHTER LOV JOHN OLIVER’S GAY MARLON BUNDO BOOK
• JOHN OLIVER SPOOFS PENCE FAY’S NEW KIDS’ BOOK WH GAY-THEMED ‘MARLON BUNDO’ BOOK
• JOHN OLIVER RELEAS CHILDREN'S BOOK ABOUT GAY BUNNY TO SPE PENCE
• JOHN OLIVER'S PENCE PARODY ABOUT GAY RABB AMONG MOST-OBJECTED BOOKS
• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
• JOHN OLIVER’S BOOK ABOUT MIKE PENCE’S GAY RABB NAMED ONE OF AMERI’S MOST CHALLENGED TL
• GAY BUNNY BOOK OUTSELLS PENCE FAY'S BUNNY BOOK
• YOU CRAZY KIDS LERALLY BOUGHT ALL OF JOHN OLIVER’S GAY RABB CHILDREN’S BOOKS

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...

MIKE PENCE'S GAY RABB IS THE NEWT KID-L SENSATN

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. Mike Pence, the man most likely to be print by October 2020, gets a lot of attentn for dog dumb thgs like blowg money on anti-ee speech stunts or beg, famoly, not a fan of gay stuff. 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.

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

“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.

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.

JOHN OLIVER WROTE A CHILDREN'S BOOK ABOUT MIKE PENCE'S GAY PET BUNNY FOR LAST WEEK TONIGHT

"Our story is about Marlon Bundo fallg love wh another boy rabb bee our Marlon Bundo is gay.

Pence has been an outspoken cric of gay marriage, opposed the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and as the ernor of Indiana, signed to law the Relig Freedom Rtoratn Act, which crics claimed would allow bs to discrimate agast the LGBTQ muny.

JOHN OLIVER TROLLS MIKE PENCE WH A BOOK ABOUT A GAY RABB

And as John Oliver himself would say, here’s a quick rep of the week: On Sunday, the day before Mike Pence’s fay released their Marlon Bundo’s A Day the Life of the Vice Print children’s rabb book, Oliver and his Last Week Tonight team released a children’s rabb book of their own, turng Marlon Bundo to a gay in who fights agast a tyrannil “stkbug” to marry his fluffy love. Mike Pence’s Dghter Lov John Oliver’s Gay Rabb Book. (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.

… Our Marlon Bundo is gay. 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.

TWIST! MIKE PENCE’S DGHTER LOV JOHN OLIVER’S GAY MARLON BUNDO BOOK

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.

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

Not everyone was amed by John Oliver’s send-up of a picture book by the wife and dghter of the US vice-print, Mike Week Tonight Wh John Oliver Prents A Day the Life of Marlon Bundo, which the Pence’s fay bunny turns out to be gay, was among the books most objected to 2018 at US public bt-sellg parody ranked No 2 on the list of “challenged” books piled by the Amerin Library Associatn (ALA), wh some plag about s gay-themed ntent and polil up for the US morng briefgOliver’s book, creded to staff wrer Jill Twiss, was a rponse to the Penc’ A Day the Life of Marlon Bundo and the fay’s nservative social viewpot. Others clud Angie Thomas’s btseller about a teenage girl whose iend is shot by police, The Hate U Give (dg e, profany, “anti-p” bias); and Dav Pilkey’s Capta Unrpants seri (same-sex uple, “enuragg disptive behavr”) report also clus Raa Telgemeier’s Drama, Jay Asher’s Thirteen Reasons Why, Sherman Alexie’s prize-wng The Absolutely Te Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Mariko and Jillian Tamaki’s This One Summer and Judy Schachner’s Skippyjon Jon clud on the list prev years range om To Kill a Mockgbird to the Harry Potter ALA ually lists 10 books, but clud 11 this year bee two tied for 10th place: Gayle E Pman’s and Kristyna Lten’s This Day June and David Leviathan’s Two Boys Kissg, both ced for LGBT ntent and both among books burned last October Orange Cy, Iowa, by the director of a “pro-fay” group lled Rcue the Perishg.

Deborah Caldwell Stone, terim director of the library associatn’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, said the protts om parents and other lol rints about gay ntent reflected a “phback” as “wrers work to be more clive of unrreprented or margalized muni” list is part of the associatn’s State of Ameri’s Librari Report and at the start of Natnal Library Week, which begs on Wednday. The top motive, ced 64 percent of the picture-book plats, was a wish to prevent children om readg about lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, nonbary and queer liv.

At the same time, 77 percent of Amerins say they are “extremely” or “very” ncerned by book rtrictns schools, acrdg to a March poll om Fox is also the se, said Skidmore College profsor Cathere Goln, who teach a class on 19th-century children’s lerature, that objectns are surgg bee the number of visual-rich picture books portrayg what ’s like to have gay parents or be transgenr has explod.

JOHN OLIVER RELEAS CHILDREN'S BOOK ABOUT GAY BUNNY TO SPE PENCE

Send, he said, readg books about LGBTQ people will not turn young stunts gay, bisexual or transgenr. 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.

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. 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.

JOHN OLIVER'S PENCE PARODY ABOUT GAY RABB AMONG MOST-OBJECTED BOOKS

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 Communy. Advertisement - Contue Readg Below16Cy of Night by John Rechy16Cy of Night by John RechyNow 12% OffCred: Grove PrsTake a trip to the unrground world of gay htlers, drag queens, and sex workers this book that sndalized the lerary world when first me out but went on to bee a mt-read.

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

John Oliver’s gay rabb children’s book is gleefully hoppg down a trail to greatns. John Oliver’s Gay Rabb Children’s Book Sold Out a Day.

JOHN OLIVER’S BOOK ABOUT MIKE PENCE’S GAY RABB NAMED ONE OF AMERI’S MOST CHALLENGED TL

GAY BUNNY BOOK OUTSELLS PENCE FAY'S BUNNY BOOK

YOU CRAZY KIDS LERALLY BOUGHT ALL OF JOHN OLIVER’S GAY RABB CHILDREN’S BOOKS