
In this “Last Week Tonight” segment, which debuted on HBO Sunday night, John Oliver dives deep into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s Senate Judiciary Committee testimony from Thursday. While plenty of commentators have focused on various individual aspects of Kavanaugh’s performancethe anger and the tearfulness, for startersOliver, in his nearly half-hour monologue, focuses on trying to take the overall measure of a man he calls “Judge Animal House.”
As usual, Oliver is profanely funny (if you’re watching this at work, you might want to wear headphones), particularly when talking about Kavanaugh’s claim that his youthful mention in his high school yearbook of a “devil’s triangle” (widely known to be a threesome between two men and a woman) was actually a reference to a “drinking game.”
Speaking of alcohol, Oliver finds Kavanaugh’s belligerent, elusive responses to questions on the topic to be the most troublingand most telling: “When pressed on his drinking,” Oliver says, “Kavanaugh either became dismissive or outright hostile. And it was at those moments that you got a real sense of who this man actually is.” Cue a clip of Sen. Amy Klobuchar asking him if he ever drank so much he couldn’t remember what happened, to which Kavanaugh, ducking the question, asks, “Have you?”
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