John Oliver Takes Swipe at David Ellison and His ‘Business Daddy’ Larry Ellison on ‘Last Week Tonight’

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When we last saw John Oliver behind the desk of “Last Week Tonight,” he was mocking Trump for sacrificing a number of members of his senior staff on a decoy plane amidst his peculiar catering truck escape in Turkey.

On Sunday night, the funnyman returned to his Emmy-winning HBO series after a monthlong summer break and aimed his ire at a variety of targets, from Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) getting loudly booed during an appearance on ESPN’s “College GameDay” in Austin, Texas, to UnitedHealthcare’s notorious history of denying health claims in advance of Luigi Mangione’s December sentencing for killing its CEO Brian Thompson.

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