{"id":2309516,"date":"2026-03-03T02:27:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T02:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2309516"},"modified":"2026-03-03T02:27:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T02:27:30","slug":"how-the-fk-john-oliver-roasts-potential-new-business-daddy-paramount-in-r-rated-riff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-the-fk-john-oliver-roasts-potential-new-business-daddy-paramount-in-r-rated-riff\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;How The F**k&#8230;&#8217;: John Oliver Roasts Potential \u2018New Business Daddy\u2019 Paramount In R-Rated Riff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>John Oliver couldn\u2019t resist taking a swipe at his likely \u201cnew business daddy\u201d during Sunday\u2019s episode of HBO\u2019s \u201cLast Week Tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Reacting to Trump-friendly Paramount Skydance\u2019s move closer to acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery \u2014 the parent company of HBO \u2014 the Trump-critical Oliver quipped: \u201cYeah, not great news.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Then he added: \u201cIf I may quote anyone who\u2019s ever accidentally sat on their Roku remote, \u2018Oh shit, I\u2019m in Paramount now, how the fuck do I get out of this?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Oliver returned to the theme later in the episode during a deep dive into the use and misuse of police body cameras.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Arguing there is \u201cno point in the police just stacking up thousands of hours of footage that no one\u2019s ever going to see,\u201d he zinged: \u201cEspecially given that we all know that that is Paramount+\u2019s job.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cHey. What\u2019re they gonna do?\u201d he added. \u201cTake us over and immediately cancel us? I\u2019m genuinely asking.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Watch Oliver\u2019s full monologue here:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Oliver couldn\u2019t resist taking a swipe at his likely \u201cnew business daddy\u201d during Sunday\u2019s episode of HBO\u2019s \u201cLast Week Tonight.\u201d Reacting to Trump-friendly Paramount Skydance\u2019s move closer to acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery \u2014 the parent company of HBO \u2014 the Trump-critical Oliver quipped: \u201cYeah, not great news.\u201d Then he added: \u201cIf I may quote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2309517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[310365,309230],"class_list":["post-2309516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-john-oliver","tag-paramount"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/How-The-Fk-John-Oliver-Roasts-Potential-\u2018New-Business-Daddy.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2309516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2309518,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309516\/revisions\/2309518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2309517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2309516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2309516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2309516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}