John Oliver reflected on the recent controversy around Mel Gibson on Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight. The late-night host recapped the news about U.S. pardon attorney Liz Oyer, who wrote in a column for Rolling Stone that she was fired after refusing to allow the right-wing actor to have guns.
After playing a clip of Oyer on CNN saying she thought that “Mel Gibson might be my downfall,” Oliver commented, “Wow, that is, frankly, incredible. She got fired because she didn’t think Mel Gibson, best known for his work in screaming, should have guns.”
Oliver then urged viewers to look at Gibson’s Wikipedia page “if you’ve forgotten the specifics of his various scandals.” He added that Gibson’s father’s Wikipedia page is also worth reading for the “opening paragraph alone [which] is spectacular.”
The host read, “‘Hutton Peter Gibson…
