John Oliver rained jokes and commentary on the Southwest’s record drought on “Last Week Tonight” Sunday. (Watch the video below.)
The host noted that the region was the most-parched in ages and that managing water was critical. So naturally, when the comedian showed a news segment about a proposed luxury housing development surrounding a 20-acre surfing lagoon in the California desert ― one of several wave-riding oases under consideration ― he was a tad peeved.
“That is just monumentally stupid,” he said.
OIiver snidely proposed ways the surfing lagoon could “go even further,” like “a wall of constantly flushing toilets, a hose that runs all day in the middle of a concrete parking lot, and of course” a man the show pays “to dump buckets of water on himself all day.”
Let Oliver quench your thirst for knowledge about the water shortage right here:
