The HBO Max host noted his disgruntlement on today’s episode of Last Week Tonight while discussing school mask mandates.
Early in the episode, Oliver played a clip of an angry mob accosting a school board member over mask mandates with a man screaming, “We know who you are.” “It is genuinely hard to imagine a five word phrase less welcome than ‘we know who you are’ aside from obviously ‘new Jeopardy host Mike Richards,'” Oliver quipped.
The news of Mike Richards and actor Mayim Bialik succeeding the late Alex Trebek has been the focus of much internet scrutiny after fan favorite LeVar Burton was ultimately passed for the hosting gig. Let’s Make a DealBeauty and the Geek,Watch on Deadline But issues around Richards’ appointment have surfaced in the last few weeks when it was revealed that the newhost made several insensitive tweets in 2014 including a comment that there is “Nothing sadder than a hot person in a wheelchair.”, Richards was implicated in discrimination lawsuits by former models on the show, including a 2010 complaint by Brandi Cochran who was awarded $8.5 million in damages; after an appeal, the case was ultimately settled.
Who gives a 'flying you know what' what John Oliver says or thinks.
He’s not alone
You guys might want to edit or remove this Yahoo article and fast. The 'nothing sadder than a hot person in a wheelchair' tweet was made by KEN JENNINGS, not Mike Richards.
You wrote an entire article about a throwaway joke over his actual topics?