John Oliver opted for a longer show on Sunday night, but he needed the time. As this week’s main segment, the “Last Week Tonight” host went on an extensive tear over the British Museum — and museums in general — for stealing artifacts.
To kick off the segment, Oliver first called up sculptures that are housed at the Acropolis Museum in Greece. He noted that, in some sculptures, pieces of them are very white compared to the rest of the piece, because missing pieces have been filled in by plaster. But where exactly are those missing pieces? Well, Oliver didn’t want to implicate himself, but he had an answer: the British Museum.