Final Week Tonight honored its native New York Metropolis as John Oliver performed an audit of Eric Adams‘s scandal-ridden mayoralty — and welcomed lately minted mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, an introduction that led to resounding cheers from the stay viewers.
As Oliver mentioned Mamdani’s triumphant speech — which he characterised as an “totally earned victory lap” and “fairly satisfying” — he famous that some, comparable to CNN’s Van Jones, critiqued the phrases as “sharp” and a “character swap.”
“He simply weathered one of the Islamophobic campaigns in latest reminiscence,” the late-night host countered. “‘I want Andrew Cuomo solely the most effective in non-public stay’ is a frankly superhuman stage of grace to increase to a person who has but to pronounce your title accurately as soon as.”
After concluding his story for the night time — on how America’s singular felony homicide legal guidelines exacerbate mass incarceration — Oliver returned to the subject of his present’s residence metropolis, delivering a eulogy of kinds for the outgoing Adams administration, scheduled to depart Jan. 1.
Calling the leadup to the NYC mayoral election “actually insane from begin to end” — as finest exemplified by a viral debate query regarding parades — Oliver mulled over the truth that one native information phase couldn’t find a single resident to specific disappointment in Adams dropping out of the race.
“They couldn’t discover anybody! This metropolis has 8 million individuals. I’m a 1000% positive I may discover somebody who would vote for a pigeon fucking a bagel in Central Park, however no takers for Eric Adams — that has received to harm,” he quipped.
In providing “one final have a look at Eric Adams as a result of he’s a deeply bizarre man,” the political comedian paid homage to Adams’s amusing flag-raising ceremonies, through which he has repeatedly acknowledged that New York is the [insert given nation’s capital city] of America.
Although Adams started as a well-liked candidate with an over 60% approval ranking, his stats dropped over 40% within the span of two years. Oliver outlined “the true hallmark of the Adams administration was its fixed scandals,” going over a laundry checklist of corruption, bribery and conspiracy costs confronted by a lot of admin officers.
“It is a nice metropolis, however that’s not due to you [Adams] and typically it’s in energetic spite of you,” Oliver concluded. “You understand, if I may sum up Eric Adams’s mayoralty in a single phrase, it’d most likely be: New York, as a result of it is a place the place on daily basis you get up you’ll be able to expertise a plane crashing into our Commerce Heart, to a faux vegan, non-Alabaman leaving a ghost-filled Gracie Mansion to lecture all of us on household, enterprise, public security and, after all, clitoral stimulation.”
And although Oliver made positive to incorporate the “soundbite bonanza” that was Republican Curtis Sliwa’s marketing campaign — from his anecdotes about his historic clashes with organized crime to his pictures at Andrew Cuomo — the host did overlook one gem from the Adams administration: his much-memed, weird anti-drug PSA video.