1,000@Jack1 Absolutely not. I co-own a bar in Seattle. Love the show and and "is there any reason it would"?! How much irony does it take to make your meter react?
@MikeLewis Sorry, I’m not super familiar with Last Week Tonight, I really enjoy the clips I see on YouTube but I don’t know how the entire show goes or how it would be included
@Jack1 I think this is something a comedy program would keep in their back pocket to deploy when appropriate. The chances of it happening within 1 month seem slim to me, but over a period of ~5 years I think it could certainly come up.
It is very difficult to use a person's death in a comedy program, especially this soon after it happened.
@Eliza is right. It’s a tight time window and unlikely to end up on the show that quickly. It is likely to end up on the show, but probably not that quickly.
@Bandors Really? Whose brand? I’m not laughing at death; I’m laughing at irony. And the bet is about a news story being posted on a show. But feel free to take a look at the vast number of bets on this site. War, politics, economics. Then tell me, death is not the outcome on many of them.. I’m not celebrating a priest’s death. I’m poking fun at the irony. Which is exactly what John Oliver’s show does all the time. And the subtext to many Manifold wagers.
@MikeLewis I think, unrelated to the ethics of the matter and if John Oliver would be right or wrong to make this joke, that it would be highly unlikely for a comedy show to use this as an ironic point if the death happened so recently and the priest wasn't a morally reprehensible person. I'm not sure what the setup to using it would be. Also, if there is no pre-existing connection between John Oliver and this story, I doubt it would be picked up among the thousands of other weird stories happening everyday.