Elon Musk: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) 

So does this mean we're finally acknowledging that putting billionaires and corporations above the law is a problem or too early?

I would like to personally thank the robot dancer for the penguin waddle they did on their way off-stage.

The bomber jacket with the black T-Shirt, beer belly, thinning, unbrushed hair and cowboy boots is spot on. I swear he walked right out of a south Missouri trailer park. The drugs are really starting to show.

While wearing a jacket from Ralph Lauren’s ‘Midlife Crisis Collection’ 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Oliver: “I’ve never actually revolutionized an industry myself” Um excuse me? Professional marble racing would disagree.

"The rest of us still call it twitter" is highly accurate

To be fair, Elon Musk changed my life. Thanks to him I left Twitter. I've never been happier.

You know if one person can be the CEO of 5 companies maybe the job isn’t as hard as they claim.

“One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn’t understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid. He was renowned for being amazingly clever and quite clearly was so-but not all the time, which obviously worried him, hence, the act. He preferred people to be puzzled rather than contemptuous.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I like that John Oliver is saying he's never revolutionized despite the fact that the media has a term for the changes he has caused and named it "The John Oliver Effect"

“I’m probably now more impressed by what he’s doing, but more worried by the fact that he’s the one who’s been doing it.” This is the perfect description of Elon Musk.

"Tell it to Earth"?? Is Earth one of his progeny? 😂😂

Can we talk about how John's robot dancer was more talented, had more control, and the costume design was better?

It's kind of hilarious that Elon is doing this "you killed Twitter, not me" thing like the whole world is going to be so mad if Twitter is gone.

It is, as always, absolutely stunning how John nails it to the point where we choke on our laughter and realise just how serious things are getting...

Technically, alcohol is not a solution. It is a solvent. It would only be a solution if there was an otherwise solid chemical dissolved in it.

The fact that billionaires can apparently just deny access to safety inspections for their businesses kinda makes it seem like the billionaire has more power than the safety inspectors. And that should definitely be the other way around. They shouldn't need permission. They should be able to get police to accompany them and force their way in if necessary. But that would require police to be protecting the people in the business instead of the business property so I can see why we don't do that in America.

" wearing a jacket from Ralph Lauren's mid life crisis collection" ... writers on the show are doing a good job😂😂

Elon didn't start Tesla, he bought it

“And even then, it could have been a text 🏡 🔥 “ 😂

Anyone else see an IUD every time you see the Tesla logo? Just me?

Roman generals coming home from a victorious campaign used to have someone to constantly remind them that in the grand scheme, they are no different than the commoners cheering for them. We need that for billionaires.

At 9:00 funny how he explains that they can't sell cars for less than the cost to produce, but had no problem taking orders and money for the future sale before he had any idea what it would actually cost.

Knowing Elon watched this and got upset really makes the replayability of this video sky rocket.

Love that John posed that the fight between Zuck and Elon be in a volcano, and Zuck is currently building a supervillain base in one. Perfect.

As an autistic, I think Elon Musk provides valuable representation for the community: he proves we can be stupid, egotistical, petty, amoral assholes just like everyone else!

Uh, wtf. Is it legal to have these Teslas test drive on city streets?!

Dunking on Elon by having a better dancing "robot" was just the cherry on the top! 😄

This is arguably the nicest breakdown of Elon Musk that John Oliver could’ve done. John completely skipped over how Elon proposed the hyper loop, which was suppose to “replace highways”. Originally conveyed as the future of public transport, the project ultimately produce a small underground tunnel that people would take a Tesla Uber through. It was a thinly veiled distraction from a proposed high speed train in California that would have provided both a cheap and environmentally friendly option. I think that example ultimately encompasses what Musk has always been. A guy who is constantly spoke about as an innovator trying to save humanity, but always doing it by the most costly means to society that only benefit a few people and distract from the wider more effective sweeping changes.

He did say self-driving needs only be better than a human. Which is what I would say if my software was shit.

Musky needed to be called out. Who else but John Oliver?😂😂

How is it possible that a company can deny access to state inspectors? That's insane.

That robot dancer really nailed it

I saw that cyber truck on the 210 this week and wondered wth it was. Question answered 😂

Phoning me at three in the morning, someone better be bleeding. I was a trauma tech.

"Messiah complex" nails it on the head. Musk claimed there would be no one alive who knew more about manufacturing than he himself.

Winning a marathon, then very intentionally running in the wrong direction in the next race, while claiming you're winning.

All I can say is that I'm hearing guillotine sounds in the far distance.

The fact that a company can just tell inspectors to "come back later" is mind-boggling. It contradicts the point of inspections...

Wow, that dancer was really good. I look forward to our new John Oliver Robot Overlords.

Elon went up in my estimation when he awarded starlink to ukraine ....and it did a nose dive when he withdrew it and became a twitter overlord holding hands with pootin

seeing more and more tesla bumper stickers saying 'I bought this before I knew how horrible he was'

I saw a meme calling him "Space Karen" and now that is all I can see when I look at him

I'm fairly sure I've heard more people call it _"The Platform Formerly Known as Twitter"_ than I've heard them call it _X_ and that makes me very happy

Space X achievements: "Making space easier and more affordable to access" 🤣🤣🤣

I'm loving this so much, that robot segment was gold, pure, refined, unadulterated gold.

The Cyber Truck stainless steel is rusting if it gets wet, you can’t make this shit up! 🤣

Reminds me of how Elon Musk blamed former Twitter Employees of "Not having Loyalty" after he already fired them. 👨🏿‍💻

Statistics joke: Just because something is a "net positive," doesn't mean that you can all of a sudden ignore the "gross."

Loved the test for “can protect against a bear attack” 😂😂😂😂

It´s actually amazing how funny the humor in this show is.

While going on a cave trek in Asia a few years ago, my guide happened to be one of the British divers that was coordinating efforts in the Thailand soccer team rescue when the cave they were visiting was flooded. I asked him about Elon's solution at the time (that pod submarine thing), and his response was that it risked all the lives of that soccer team, because the experts told him it wouldn't work right away, but he refused to listen and brought a giant media frenzy to an extremely delicate operation anyway and ended up delaying rescue operations by crucial days.

Saving humanity begins with saving the human first. "You can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs." It's always someone else's eggs.

Ah, the US, where the spoiled princes of late stage capitalism are granted the powers to play gods at the expense of society.

5:15 This is literally the motivation of Lex Luthor

The issue with billionaires is exactly the same as the issue with kings, too much power on a single person that can snap at any point

That acrobat was great.

Looks like John Oliver’s robot is far more advanced. Putting in my pre order now.

"Elon likes drama" is by far the easiest explanation for why he owns Twitter

As my daughter once said to someone else when she was 11, "you think you're edgy and cool, but you're not."

The bear suit tho 😂😂💀

Elon Musk is becoming the Bill Mumy character in "It's A Good Life".

Can we appreciate how fly that robot's dancing was

"He wants to save the world, but only if he's the one saving it." Literally the primary motivation of Lex Luthor. Ol' Musky really is an IRL comic book supervillain.

"Like Hebry ford he......" Ohhh I see where this is going to go.

This video is half an hour long yet it feels like it barely scratches the surface of who Elon Musk is and what he has done.

I have to disagree with one thing you said, John. The turning point moment, at least for me, wasn't the pandemic lockdowns. It was in 2018 when he called that rescue diver "pedo" on Twitter. THAT was the moment I knew what musk really was.

"There are people who utterly hate Elon Musk" Why you gotta bring his dad into this?🤣

Electric cars are not the answer because cars are not the answer. The answer is technology from centuries ago: Trains. They are safer, cheaper, and more effective.

Chip and Dales Rescue Rangers most underrated show from my childhood that and Talespin

That robot went from any nerdy kid at a dance to Magic Mike, that was quite the software update.

Congratulations to Elon Musk for singlehandedly disproving the myth that Elon Musk is some kind of business genius

two of the things that can get you fired at tesla: not wearing your safety glasses on the floor and pointing out to him that he doesn't have his safety glasses on.

Props to Tesla for making the broken Glas an Easter egg in the Cybertruck infotainment 😂

“Narcissists will destroy your life, erode your self-esteem, and do it with such stealth as to make you feel that you are the one that's letting them down.”

Here’s another fun Musk-related story from this year. Here in Sweden, Tesla’s management got into a feud with their workers who want the company to enter a collective bargaining agreement, as is fairly standard here; they’ve been requesting it since 2018. Tesla refused, claiming they offer better terms than such an agreement. The workers disagree, and have gone on strike, with support from the union they belong to. Since then, more unions and workers in other Nordic countries have joined the strike too. It’s still ongoing as of this writing, and Musk has not been happy about it

Hahaha, i just got the "Tesla Logo" 😂 very funny.

11:17 it’s also the car from the movie Upgrade, The one that killed the driver. The Cybertruck was announced in November 2019 while Upgrade was 2018, So Elon just saw the murder car In a movie and went “Yes I want that, Make me that.”

He wanted to be real life Iron Man, now he's real life Dr. Eggman

I live for John beefing with the richest megalomaniac in existence. The results would be hilarious.

"Send Me Location" boss move.

Hush and hush and hush !!! I’m giggling too much 👩🏽🤣🤣🤣 I love it !

He didn't even mention the funniest part of the Zuckerberg callout which was that Elon had his mom make a press release stating that she couldn't let her baby boy be clobbered.

someone who lives in my area has a cybertruck, literally did not understand what it was till now

Anyone else ponder that Musk is starting to look like those evil face stretching aliens from the Star Trek movie? 🤔😬

"If I could only be a fly on that wall, I'd have flown straight into a hot light bulb."

I just loved the bit where John pulled the maps of Afghanistan and Iraq...the ooorgh from the audience was priceless. Great hit, John! So look guys ice them and the swelling will go down in a day or two!.🤣🤣🤣🤣

Interior: volcano 😂😂😂😂😂

Oh shit, we just ran a red light 😂🤣

The fact that it is even allowed to test new cars or components in actual traffic before they are fully approved is wild and so dangerous.

I guess it's kind of hard to explain stuff when you're higher than a kite😅

"Elon is what you get when the ghosts of a 19th century oil baron and a 14 teenager who died in 2011 both possess the same body." - truer words have never been X'ed.

That is really scary, how much of government stuff got outsourced to Musk. I honestly had no idea how bad it was.

That combo of antisemitism and Google's "I feel lucky" at 7:07 - oh my 😂

Help i cannot get out of “this is news but its actually entertainment“

Elon Musk is the definition of the neighbor's kid in adult form

I love how all of us as a society was like "nope we're still calling it Twitter" 😂 i have never heard someone say "have you seen that post on X? "

He looks more and more like Rigel from Farscape by the day

Okay, after seeing the robot dancer bit this is now my favorite talk show ever.

Let's not forget him popping into Flint during the lead water crisis to "fix" it with a miniscule amount of money and a water treatment system that didn't work.