So-called comedian John Oliver was today told to keep his nose out of British politics after he urged the UK to ‘wash itself clean of 14 miserable years of Conservative rule’ as he soaked himself on TV.
The 47-year-old talk show host, who has not lived in Britain since 2006 and became an American citizen in 2019, said July 4 will be the UK’s ‘Independence Day’ if Rishi Sunak loses power.
In a swear-filled rant aimed at the Tories and their past five prime ministers, Oliver tacitly backed Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour to take power in nine days.
‘F**k off into the sun, you c***s, f**kpigs and weirdos. You t**sers, w*****s, d**k-splashes and c**kwombles’, he said.
One Tory MP defending his seat told MailOnline that Oliver had not been funny for a long time. ‘He’s the t**ser,’ they said.
Oliver’s production team soaked him with a fake rain showers, mocking Mr Sunak’s rainy speech when he called the election last month.
Cheered on by his audience in New York, Oliver, who last lived in Britain when Blair’s Labour ran the country and is famous for calling Trump a ‘f***ing Idiot’, was drenched as he ranted: ‘On July 4, Britain has a chance to wash itself clean of 14 miserable years of Conservative rule, and it’s a chance it simply must take.
‘If I may quote Bill Pullman yelling about aliens, if we do this the 4th of July will no longer be known as just an American holiday, but also as the day when Britain looked at the Conservatives – who’ve driven the entire country into a ditch – and said in one voice, loud and clear: If Britain stands together this July the 4th, it will finally celebrate its Independence Day’.

John Oliver calling on UK to vote Labour and throw out the Tories in a segment that may have baffled US viewers

The Brit, who is now a US citizen, said in a shower of water in the studio, urged the UK to ‘wash itself clean of 14 miserable years of Conservative rule’
Last night’s Last Week Tonight will not be broadcast in Britain until after polling day – but it has now been viewed more than 100,000 times on Twitter in just a few hours.
It his delighted his left-wing followers but upset many, who pointed out that he will soon have lived longer in the US than he did in the UK.
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One said on Twitter: ‘The insufferably smug berk should keep his nose out of British politics’.
Oliver, who was opposed to Brexit, was born in Birmingham and educated at Cambridge. He moved to the US full time in 2006 and is married to an American, living together in New York.
He became and American citizen in 2019 but kept his British citizenship.
Last night he turned on the Tories as Britain is just over a week until from going to the poll.
Sparking whoops and cheers from the American audience, he accused the Conservatives of causing ‘unremitting cruelty’ that has ‘stained the last decade and a half of British life’.
First he slammed David Cameron, who he said made ‘brutal cuts to government services’ and blamed them ‘not to the 2008 financial crisis, but to years of frivolous spending under Labour’.
He then called his successors Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak ‘weirdos’.
He said: ‘It’s objectively fun to look back on what a collection of weirdos ran for Britain for years. But it gets considerably less fun when you look at what they did to the country’, citing Brexit.
Slamming the NHS he said: ‘It’s got to the point where significant numbers of British people are now going to Europe and paying out of pocket to get treatment’.

British talk show host John Oliver prompted outrage after making a sick joke about the Princess of Wales , saying she ‘could have died 18 months ago’
He than claimed that they ‘starved’ Britain.
‘It is pretty hard for conservatives to say they are working toward the future growth of Britain when its future generations are quite literally shrinking’, he said.
Oliver caused outrage earlier this year after making a sick joke about the Princess of Wales, saying she ‘could have died 18 months ago’.
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The Last Week Tonight host made the comments in an appearance on US network Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live – despite the Princess being seen in public days earlier.
‘There is a non-zero chance that she died 18 months ago,’ the British comedian said sarcastically on his show.
‘They might be ‘Weekend at Bernie’s-ing’ this situation,’ Oliver added, referencing the 1989 film.
It is not the first time Oliver has made barbed comments about the royals. In 2018 he called them ‘fundamentally flawed’ ‘and ’emotionally stunted’ as he urged Meghan Markle not to marry into the family.
Oliver continued his latest skit alongside Watch What Happens Live host Andy Cohen, who noted the Royal Family’s moto of ‘Never Complain, Never Explain.’
‘I’m not saying it happened, but I’m saying it’s non-zero until proven otherwise. Until we see her sitting there with a copy of the day’s paper,’ Oliver said.
Oliver added that he had ignored the speculation about Kate until ‘the photoshop thing’, a reference to the furore over the release of an edited Mother’s Day family photo.
‘That feels, like, you’re almost handling it badly in an impressive way at this point,’ the HBO star claimed.
Oliver made his comments in 2018 on Stephen Colbert’s Late show.
When asked by Colbert if he was excited to watch Prince Harry and Meghan’s wedding, he said: ‘I would not blame her if she pulled out of this at the last minute.
‘I don’t think you need to have just seen the pilot episode of The Crown to get a basic sense of… she might be marrying into a family that could cause her some emotional complications.’
When Colbert said the current royals ‘seem like nice people’, Oliver added: ‘Yeah… I mean, they’re an emotionally stunted group of fundamentally flawed people doing a very silly pseudo-job. That’s what she’s marrying into.’
Oliver began his career as a stand-up comedian in the UK before moving to the US and becoming the ‘senior British correspondent’ on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in 2006.
He continued the role until 2013. The following year he began hosting Last Week Tonight.