Final Week Tonight honored its native New York Metropolis as John Oliver performed an audit of Eric Adams‘s scandal-ridden mayoralty — and welcomed just 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 “completely earned victory lap” and “fairly satisfying” — he famous that some, corresponding to CNN’s Van Jones, critiqued the phrases as “sharp” and a “character change.”
“He simply weathered one of the crucial Islamophobic campaigns in latest reminiscence,” the late-night host countered. “‘I want Andrew Cuomo solely the perfect in non-public stay’ is a frankly superhuman degree of grace to increase to a person who has but to pronounce your identify appropriately as soon as.”
After concluding his story for the evening — on how America’s singular felony homicide legal guidelines exacerbate mass incarceration — Oliver returned to the subject of his present’s dwelling metropolis, delivering a eulogy of types for the outgoing Adams administration, scheduled to depart Jan. 1.
Calling the leadup to the NYC mayoral election “really insane from begin to end” — as greatest 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 acquired 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, by which he has repeatedly acknowledged that New York is the [insert given nation’s capital city] of America.
Although Adams started as a preferred 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 record of corruption, bribery and conspiracy expenses confronted by various admin officers.
“It is a nice metropolis, however that isn’t due to you [Adams] and generally it’s in energetic spite of you,” Oliver concluded. “, if I may sum up Eric Adams’s mayoralty in a single phrase, it’d most likely be: New York, as a result of this can be a place the place day-after-day you get up you’ll be able to expertise a airplane crashing into our Commerce Heart, to a pretend vegan, non-Alabaman leaving a ghost-filled Gracie Mansion to lecture all of us on household, enterprise, public security and, in fact, 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 neglect one gem from the Adams administration: his much-memed, weird anti-drug PSA video.
