John Oliver spares nothing and no one when he gets going on a topic.
The comedian and host of HBO's Last Week Tonight has taken on such hard-hitting topics as America's prison system, civil forfeiture laws, police militarization, and the lottery. And now on last night's show he's sunk his teeth into the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit magazine.
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In a hilarious segment entitled "How Is This Still A Thing?," the show obliterated the swimsuit magazine on all fronts -- everything from being sexist or culturally insensitive to just irrelevant (the segment's biggest laugh comes from a joke that SI subscribers haven't yet realized that naked or scantily clad women are available for free on the internet).
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Still, sex sells. The Swimsuit edition has been around for 51 years and launched the careers of more models than one can count. And it out-sells regular Sports Illustrated copies by a 10-to-1 margin. So even though Last Week Tonight is asking "how is it still a thing," you can probably bet it's going to remain a thing for a long time to come.
Watch John Oliver's hilarious takedown of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition below:
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