base talk John Oliver jokes: "Katy Perry's Whitney Cover Is To Blame For Kamala Harris' Loss"

[l3disko]

In an episode dedicated to unpacking the 2024 presidential election results, John Oliver's through-line toward making sense of Kamala Harris' loss was a running joke pinning the blame on Katy Perry's "ill-advised" cover of Whitney Houston's "Greatest Love of All" at a last-minute rally.

 

"Personally, I kind of would like to imagine that everything that happened on Tuesday is Katy Perry's fault because at Kamala's Election Eve rally, she did this ill-advised cover," he began, playing a clip of the pop singer's admittedly off-key rendition.

 

"I mean, you are right, they can't take away your dignity because you just surrendered it willingly," he joked, referencing the hit song's lyrics. "I know, I know that she's trying to do a nice thing there but why would you try and cover Whitney Houston — the voice? Say what you want about Lee Greenwood — which in my case is about 18 minutes of rigorously fact-checked insults — but at least when he played Trump rallies he wasn't trying to do Freddie Mercury's part in 'Somebody to Love.'"

 

He continued, "Now, did that drunk bachelorette karaoke night performance doom the whole Harris campaign? Probably not. But it feels good to think so because it's an easy answer to a difficult question."

Oliver also took the time to hit back at critics that have said Harris didn't move right enough on her policy stances, saying that campaigning alongside Liz Cheney was about as conservative as possible "unless you literally dig up Henry Kissinger's corpse and prop it up at a rally in Michigan as Katy Perry sings 'Rolling in the Deep.' It's OK not to have the range for a song, Katy."

 

https://deadline.com/2024/11/john-oliver-katy-perry-kamala-harris-election-loss-last-week-tonight-1236172275/

 

 

Edited November 12 by l3disko

[legendlavigne]

L after L 

[HausOfPunk]

Katy Perry, please stop 

[Tylerbv]

9 minutes ago, HausOfPunk said:

Katy Perry, please stop 

And then democracy died

[truthteller]

I knew the moment she decided to cover Whitney

[anastaciabby]

I love John Oliver, his jokes are always so on pointb

[anastaciabby]

"they can't take away you're dignity because you just surrendered it willingly "

[Donquizote]

No lies detected

[Tropez]

Katy will go down in history as ending the US. 

[Apolonio ₃₄]

Why couldn't they have been content with Beyoncé and Gaga like..!?! 

[LadyDiana]

These damn comedians are lucky and happy orange man is in power, again. Finally they get some content for thieir lil shows... wish they stop giving it, the whole administration, anymore media space

[Mordecai]

And they say she has no impact 

[$ebert]

7 minutes ago, Mordecai said:

And they say she has no impact 

Right? She's the biggest joke in music industry, her impact 

 

 

[Acuminatus]

Wbk his interns reside on stan twitter. 

 

Only Katy can flop so iconically! 

[Spooky Mulder]

2 hours ago, legendlavigne said:

L after L 

That dead nun sure knows how to hold a grudge, damn

Edited November 12 by Spooky Mulder

[Komet]

[keshasfillers]

Katy Perry this year: 

[RideOrDie]

that's what i said!

 

[shoganai]

He didn't lie tho

[Phaunzie]

The Power she has, maybe America actually deserves Trump. Katy, the ultimate soothsayer

Edited November 12 by Phaunzie

[Bimbo]

Does anyone have actual respect for her AT ALL?

[Infernal Paradise]

A literal JOKE

 

And yet her remaining handful of stans stay delusional about her place and have the nerve to come for other artists that are INFINITELY bigger, more talented and respected. 

 

 

 

Edited November 12 by Infernal Paradise