John Oliver ‘honored’ in Connecticut: Mayor names sewer plant after him

The war of words between Last Week Tonight host John Oliver and Danbury, Connecticut MayorMark Boughton may finally be coming to a close. On Saturday,Boughton saidhe would accept Oliver’s challenge to name the city’s sewage plant after the HBO host following Oliver's offer to donate $55,000 to local charities.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterIn what could be the greatest — and most hilariously friendly — feud of 2020, John Oliver has been putting the city of Danbury, Connecticut on blast for the past couple of weeks on Last Week Tonight. During one episode while unpacking the racial disparities when it came to jury selection process in Connecticut, the host said “If you’re going to forget a town in Connecticut, why not forget Danbury? Because, and this is true, f*** Danbury!” There was really

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John Oliver on Sunday used the entirety ofLast Week Tonight to discuss the incendiary rhetoric from Donald Trump and others during the Republican National Convention, which the host tied to the deadly shooting during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin last week.

When OK! caught up with ITV star Carol McGiffin at her home in the south of France, it was hard not to fall in love with her and her husband Mark Cassidy’s quarantine life. But before you go thinking how idyllic it all looks, behind the scenes Carol has suffered anxiety and stress about the state of the world.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterLast Week Tonight With John Oliver wasted no time in diving right into two major stories that happened last week: the RNC and the events of Kenosha, Wisconsin.First off, John Oliver pointed out the main theme of the RNC was “telling lies in front of flags” as it was four days of “full-throated denial of objective reality.”  RNC speakers painted a misleading portrait of Biden saying that he would be controlled by environmental extremists and that there

John Oliver, as the star insulted the town in a rant on his U.S. late-night show.Danbury’s Mayor Mark Boughton announced the dubious accolade in a video posted on his Facebook page on Sunday (August 23, 2020), responding to a bizarre rant Oliver embarked on about the town on his HBO show, Last Week Tonight.“We are going to rename it the John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant,” the Republican mayor said of the City of Danbury Sewer Plant.

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Sarah Harding’s Girls Aloud bandmates are among those sending their love to the singer after she revealed she was fighting advanced breast cancer.The 38-year-old returned to social media for the first time in over a year to announce she was battling the disease, which had spread to other parts to her body.Moments after the news broke on Twitter, Cheryl posted a broken-hearted emoji – her first tweet in three months.Elsewhere, former I’m a Celebrity...

Cheryl has posted on social media for the first time in months after her Girls Aloud bandmate Sarah Harding revealed that she has been secretly battling breast cancer. In an incredibly emotional post, Sarah, 38, revealed that she has been battling breast cancer, which has now spread to other parts of her body.

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Local officials in Danbury, Connecticut have named a sewage plant after comedian John Oliver, as the star insulted the town in a rant on his U.S.

It was supposed to be the Democratic Convention – so why were so many “Never Trump” Republicans participating? That’s what comedian John Oliver wanted to know during Sunday’s edition of “Last Week Tonight.” The host questioned the Democratic National Committee’s strategy of inviting Republican critics of President Trump -- such as John Kasich, Meg Whitman and Colin Powell -- to address voters during the party’s four-night nominating event last week.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterIt’s become normal that John Oliver starts every episode of Last Week Tonight by saying “A lot happened this week” because it is wildly accurate. It seemed that this week he was speaking a mile-a-minute in order to try to fit in pertinent news at the top of the show.First on the list was the Democratic National Convention which many were calling an “unconventional” convention, thinking that they were the ones that coined that phrase.

John Oliver kicked off Sunday's episode of Last Week Tonight by addressing last week's Democratic National Convention —or, what many in the media took to calling "an unconventional convention" due to its virtual nature and lack of attendees amid the coronavirus pandemic. "That's one of those things that sounds like it has gravity but actually means next to nothing, like 'it is what it is' or 'Quibi exclusive,'" Oliver quipped.

The town of Danbury, Connecticut has responded to John Oliver‘s dig on their town in a very savage way.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterDuring the most recent episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver unpacked the racial disparities that come with the jury selection process in Connecticut and at one point, dragged the city of Danbury saying “If you’re going to forget a town in Connecticut, why not forget Danbury? Because, and this is true, f*** Danbury!” It didn’t take long for Danbury’s Mayor Mark Boughton to retaliate on Facebook.“John Oliver, don’t mess with Danbury,” Bougton wrote