John Oliver opened the Nov. 19 episode of Last Week Tonight with a few jokes at the expense of both George Santos and Fabio.
Oliver noted at the start of his HBO show the news regarding disgraced congressman Santos, who, on Friday, became the first U.S. House member to be expelled in more than 20 years. He is also only the sixth House member in history to be removed by his colleagues.
The move came after Santos became the subject of a scathing ethics committee report on his conduct after details about his life story were found to be embellished or false. Among the claims he later admitted to fabricating were that he hailed from Jewish ancestors and worked at top Wall Street firms, including Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, along with where he went to college.
Prior to the expulsion, Oliver made a joke about Santos.
“George Santos announced he wouldn’t be seeking re-election after an ethics committee report — that he disputes — found, among other things, he’d used campaign donations for personal purchases on Botox, Sephora and OnlyFans, and honestly, I like him now and I think he should stay,” Oliver quipped on his Nov. 19 show.
He then moved on to discuss the Israel–Hamas war and the fact that Fox Business had an unexpected celebrity on-air to share his thoughts about it.
“Israel’s air strikes and ground invasion continued in Gaza, and the discourse on it here reached its absolute nadir when Fox Business welcomed Fabio for a 10-minute interview on the subject, including this wild digression concerning Hamas,” Oliver said before a clip of the interview was shown.
In the clip, Fabio says: “These people, they find so much pleasure to kill. These are worse, 10 times, 10,000 times worse, than a Nazi, you know, and also they advertise, they publicize, they are so happy. ‘Hey, I killed them. I did that.’ You know, it’s like at least the Nazis, they kept it kind of quiet.”
Replied Oliver: “What? Hold on, Fabio. Far be it from me to contradict a noted geopolitical expert and former I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter spokesperson, but ‘at least the Nazis kept it kind of quiet’? The Nazis kept it many things. They kept it punctual. They kept it blonde. They kept it humorous, and yes, they kept it tight. They were well-tailored pieces of shit, but subtlety was famously very much not their calling card, Fabio,” he added, showing a photo of what appeared to be an ostentatious Nazi parade complete with huge banners and numerous bicycles.
