This week has seen the current 1st season of HBO‘s late-night news comedy talk show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, though the wait for fans until February 2015 for the former The Daily Show presenter to start the second season will be, as the English saying goes, better than a slap in the face with a wet fish, at least. How little does the saying know.
Reacting to the news of the newly-developed ‘salmon cannon’ that helps salmon fish to be relocated upstream when in the vicinity of a dam, English comedian Oliver and his team on Last Week Tonight were inspired to construct one of their own.
Whilst obviously played for laughs, the power of (plastic) flying fish managed to literally touch many people and characters from across the TV and movie landscape, including Jon Stewart, Jimmy Fallon, Tom Hanks, Wanda Sykes, and R2-D2.
Though some may be left disappointed that some of the targets weren’t attacked with the real thing, the total 4-and-a-half-minutes worth of next-generation aquatic creature weaponry can be seen in all its glory below:
And elsewhere in the realm of ‘English comedians popular in America recently offering their own version of a pop culture item’, Russell Brand, recreating 90’s song “Parklife”:
