HBO's Last Week Tonight is on hiatus until Sept. 25, but on Sunday night, John Oliver posted a brief rant about, of all things, birds. Sure, you may know birds as our "fine feathered friends," but Oliver calls them "cat feeders," and the prompt for this profane (but mostly SFW) takedown was apparently fall. Birds are beginning their annual flight to warmer climes, Oliver said, and "before the migration begins, I have a brief message for the birds of the Northeast as they begin their journey southward." It wasn't so much a message as a verbal middle finger, and Oliver interpreted "the Northeast" liberally.
He dismissed geese as "ducks that played football in high school and never stopped going to the gym," called hummingbirds "obese bees in need of a nose job," and had lots of bad things to say about ostriches. "And you know what? You're not off the hook either, parrots," Oliver said. "Oh what, I'm supposed to like parrots just because they can talk? Basically every human being talks and I hate most of them!" There is only one bird Oliver appears to like, and you can find out which on in the video below. Peter Weber
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