While Fox News and other right-wing outlets decried the NFL decision to have Bad Bunny perform at next year’s Super Bowl Halftime show, one media personality John Oliver is a big fan, praising the superstar Latin trap artist while addressing recent headlines on tonight’s installment of Last Week Tonight, Deadline reports.
“The NFL controversially gave the Super Bowl Halftime show to one of the hottest, most commercially successful people alive,” John Oliver quipped.
After the appointment of the Puerto Rico-hailing musician, the Department of Homeland Security announced it would send ICE agents to the venue, with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem doubling-down on the matter later.
Last night, the singer-songwriter addressed the furor during his monologue on the Season 51 opening episode of Saturday Night Live. “I’m very happy, and I think everyone is happy about it, even Fox News,” the three-time Grammy winner said, the show then cutting to spliced-together footage from the network, which said: “Bad Bunny is my favorite musician. He should be the next president.”
Elsewhere during Last Week Tonight, John Oliver discussed the prevalence of grassroots pushback toward ICE agents who show up to raid and disturb neighborhoods.
“If ICE can show up and bother some guys at their roofing job, then bystanders should be able to bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job. It is only fair,” Oliver said. “And look, this administration is clearly still hell-bent on trying to intimidate communities with shows of force, which is why it is so important for them to be met with strong pushback each and every time.”