John Oliver Flips His Usual Question Around and Asks, ‘How Is This Not a Thing?’ (Video)
The "Last Week Tonight" host gives us a few reasons to laugh with his hilarious list of things that should be "thingified."The “Last Week Tonight” host gives us a few reasons to laugh with his hilarious list of things that should be “thingified” in a reversal of the show’s well-known segment “How is this still a thing?“
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