00:00John Oliver is the latest to mock Nancy Pelosi for her widely ridiculed TikTok pun last week.
00:06On HBO's Last Week Tonight, the host brought up how the U.S. House of Representatives
00:10passed a bill that could lead to the ban on TikTok if its China-based owner didn't sell its stake.
00:16The bill passed on concerns that the app poses a national security threat
00:20under the ownership of Chinese technology firm ByteDance.
00:23Oliver then introduced a clip of former House Speaker Pelosi explaining the motivation behind the bill.
00:28This is not an attempt to ban TikTok. It's an attempt to make TikTok better.
00:34Tic-tac-toe. A winner.
00:37Oliver had his own thoughts about the cringeworthy pun.
00:40I'm curious, is it a rule that to be in Congress you have to be one of the weirdest motherfuckers to ever live?
00:45He also shared his theory as to how the line in Pelosi's speech got written.
00:50I would ask how that happened, but I think we all know she went to her speechwriter and said,
00:54I have the perfect line for the TikTok vote. And they said, hey, did you just say TikTok?
00:57Oliver concluded, Pelosi then marched to the floor and alienated every American under the age of 35.
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