Tony Danbury, Connecticut, is throwing dust back at the celebrated host of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver.”
After Oliver entered the city on his August 16 show, the city’s mayor posted a now viral Facebook video that promised to call the city’s sewer plant in honor of the HBO host.
“We’re going to rename the John Oliver Memorial sewer plant,” Mayor Mark Boughton said in the video message on his Facebook page Saturday, taken with the floor. I said, “Why? Because she’s complete to (swear) like you, John.”
Boughton told USA TODAY via email that the “ironic” video was a “joke to go back” to Oliver by his sworn critics in the city.
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In the “Last Week Tonight” segment of racial disparity in jurors, Oliver savagely deviated from the subject to Danbury, pointing to his “lovely railway museum” and “historic Hearthstone Castle.”
“I know exactly 3 things about Danbury, ” said Oliver on the show. “USA TODAY ranked it as the most productive city to live in 2015, once it was at the center of the American hat industry and if you come from there, you have a permanent invitation to come and be beaten by John Oliver, including the children, (swear) you.”
While the city’s effluent plant will remain the Danbury wastewater treatment plant, Boughton told USA TODAY that it could take additional action if Oliver continues his attacks. “I will protect Danbury’s honor, no matter what,” he wrote.
Oliver also mocked Boughton and other U.S. mayors in 2017 on videos they made to draw at Amazon’s second-largest global headquarters. In his video, Boughton asks Alexa where the position would be for the installation, and Alexa tells Danbury.
In Boughton’s new video, the mayor proudly mentions that Amazon has to open a distribution center in Danbury.
“And, oh, by the way, thanks for appearing this video from Amazon,” Boughton tells Oliver at the end of the video. “They gave us Amazon here in Danbury.”
Contributor: Associated Press.