No, John Oliver Didn’t “Freak Out"

No, John Oliver Didn’t “Freak Out"

Oliver was actually in on the joke (Getty Images).

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On one of John Oliver’s segments, he discusses his ongoing feud with Danbury, Connecticut. The town then jokingly threatened to name one of their sewage plants after him. Breitbart, an alt-right news website, posted an article in late August 2020 claiming Oliver “freak[ed] out” in response to the naming.

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The claim was immediately shared by social media users.

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George L. Duncan

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