The greatest thing going in American television today is John Oliver’s relentless pursuit of exposing corruption in hilarious fashion, which means his near weekly screed against the Fédération Internationale de Football Association, better known to most citizens of Earth as the Evil Empire—wait, sorry, sorry, I mean FIFA. These commentaries are always a must see moment on HBO’s Last Week Tonight.
Last night on Last Week Tonight, Oliver updated viewers on the first trip Sepp Blatter has taken outside of Switzerland since the FIFA indictments were brought down on nearly a dozen members of the executive committee, leading the newly-reelected Blatter to announce he will leave his post as president at some point six or seven months from now, if we still remember he agreed to leave in the first place.
Wouldn’t it be great if this was Blatter’s plan all along–travel to Russia and hang out with other super villains while avoiding any country that could extradite you to the closet in Loretta Lynch’s office for however long it takes for the rest of us to forget any of this mess ever happened? Blatter made it clear in a press conference last week he did not resign as president of FIFA, but is retiring to host a—and I could not make this up if I tried—geopolitical radio program, because he loves both geography and politics.
But what if this is all just a clever ruse to buy time until everyone moves past this whole corruption mess and Blatter is able to stay forever?
He would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn’t for those meddling kids…with TV shows on HBO where they won’t let ANYTHING Blatter does slide past them. Via 101GreatGoals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6jws7mP4Wg&feature=youtu.be
In a succinct two and a half minutes on Sunday, Oliver managed to recap his audience on the on-going corruption scandal in FIFA, mock both Blatter and Putin for being dark lords of the Sith, touch on former CONCACAF chief Jeffery Webb’s hysterically exorbitant bail bond (what Oliver mentioned isn’t even half of what Webb had to put up as collateral, for what it’s worth) and, just for good measure, take down McDonald’s for their statement regarding satisfaction, reminding viewers of the company’s meat and chicken-like offerings.
I don’t know if Oliver’s consistent badgering of FIFA and its corporate partners is a branded segment with its own slogan on his show at this point, but I know one thing’s for sure: I’m lovin’ it.
