Elon Musk: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

So does this mean we're finally acknowledging that putting billionaires and corporations above the law is a problem or too early?

I would like to personally thank the robot dancer for the penguin waddle they did on their way off-stage.

The bomber jacket with the black T-Shirt, beer belly, thinning, unbrushed hair and cowboy boots is spot on. I swear he walked right out of a south Missouri trailer park. The drugs are really starting to show.

“I’m probably now more impressed by what he’s doing, but more worried by the fact that he’s the one who’s been doing it.” This is the perfect description of Elon Musk.

Oliver: “I’ve never actually revolutionized an industry myself” Um excuse me? Professional marble racing would disagree.

“One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn’t understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid. He was renowned for being amazingly clever and quite clearly was so—but not all the time, which obviously worried him, hence, the act. He preferred people to be puzzled rather than contemptuous.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

While wearing a jacket from Ralph Lauren’s ‘Midlife Crisis Collection’ 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

You know if one person can be the CEO of 5 companies maybe the job isn’t as hard as they claim.

"The rest of us still call it twitter" is highly accurate

This is arguably the nicest breakdown of Elon Musk that John Oliver could’ve done. John completely skipped over how Elon proposed the hyper loop, which was suppose to “replace highways”. Originally conveyed as the future of public transport, the project ultimately produce a small underground tunnel that people would take a Tesla Uber through. It was a thinly veiled distraction from a proposed high speed train in California that would have provided both a cheap and environmentally friendly option. I think that example ultimately encompasses what Musk has always been. A guy who is constantly spoke about as an innovator trying to save humanity, but always doing it by the most costly means to society that only benefit a few people and distract from the wider more effective sweeping changes.

To be fair, Elon Musk changed my life. Thanks to him I left Twitter. I've never been happier.

It is, as always, absolutely stunning how John nails it to the point where we choke on our laughter and realise just how serious things are getting...

The fact that billionaires can apparently just deny access to safety inspections for their businesses kinda makes it seem like the billionaire has more power than the safety inspectors. And that should definitely be the other way around. They shouldn't need permission. They should be able to get police to accompany them and force their way in if necessary. But that would require police to be protecting the people in the business instead of the business property so I can see why we don't do that in America.

I like that John Oliver is saying he's never revolutionized despite the fact that the media has a term for the changes he has caused and named it "The John Oliver Effect"

my NDA is up, lol, I worked at a factory that built air conditioning units....there was no safety concern... and people walking in front of you as you are trying to move crates of packaged materials around. "unless you were the forklift driver" so basically drive at your own risk

This video is half an hour long yet it feels like it barely scratches the surface of who Elon Musk is and what he has done.

" wearing a jacket from Ralph Lauren's mid life crisis collection" ... writers on the show are doing a good job😂😂

Knowing Elon watched this and got upset really makes the replayability of this video sky rocket.

Elon didn't start Tesla, he bought it

Roman generals coming home from a victorious campaign used to have someone to constantly remind them that in the grand scheme, they are no different than the commoners cheering for them. We need that for billionaires.