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John Oliver Jokes Katy Perry’s “Ill-Advised” Whitney Houston Cover Is To Blame For Kamala Harris’ Election Loss: “It’s OK Not To Have The Range”
'Last Week Tonight' tackled Kamala Harris' election loss, jokingly blaming it on singer Katy Perry's bad cover of a Whitney Houston song at a rally.
In an episode dedicated to unpacking the 2024 presidential election results, John Oliver ‘s through-line toward making sense of Kamala Harris ‘ loss was a running joke pinning the blame on Katy Perry ‘s “ill-advised” cover of Whitney Houston’s “Greatest Love of All” at a last-minute rally. “Personally, I kind of would like to imagine that everything that happened on Tuesday is Katy Perry’s fault because at Kamala’s Election Eve rally, she did this ill-advised cover,” he began, playing a clip of the pop singer’s admittedly off-key rendition. On a more earnest note, Oliver advised viewers to “do what you gotta do” to grieve: “Throw your phone into the nearest body of water, scream into a well, punch a tree, curl up into a ball and watch The Princess Diaries all the way through and then, at the end, when ‘Miracles Happen’ starts playing, shriek, ‘No they f—ing don’t.
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