In the past, Last Week Tonight has always asked, “How is this still a thing?” to question the continued existence of practices that are either terrible, like whitewashing, or kind of useless, like daylight saving time. To switch it up for Memorial Day, John Oliver takes a more productive approach to that question in this exclusive web clip, which dares instead to ask: “How is this not a thing?”
Sure, it’s outrageous that we don’t yet have an easy exit strategy for small talk, nor a search engine for clueless parents trying to remember the names of celebrities. But Oliver, who’s already a pretty passionate guy, gets as worked up as we’ve ever seen him over an ingenious proposal of his own: bread pants.
