Billions of cicadas will emerge this summer after spending 17 years underground, and if that sounds like a horror movie to you, you’re not alone. However, as John Oliver explains in this web exclusive Last Week Tonight clip, these cicadas won’t be around for too long.
“They won’t have much time among us,” Oliver says in the video below. “They’ll live for two to six weeks, mate, and then die.”
Since these cicadas will only be around for a couple weeks and therefore won’t have a lot of free time to get caught up on what they’ve missed since 1999, Oliver gives them a quick recap of what’s happened over the course of the past 17 years, including a brief updates on Will Smith, Justin Timberlake, and Beyonce.
“The lead singer of the R&B group Destiny’s Child is essentially our queen now,” Oliver says. “On your knees, cicadas! On your knees before the queen!”
However, the Last Week Tonight host doesn’t only talk about music. He also touches upon sports, describing how Red Sox fans have become even more insufferable after the Boston baseball team won the World Series and how Michael Jordan is “now someone we mostly make fun of because he cried once.”
Plus, Oliver digs into politics a little bit as well, mentioning how we elected George W. Bush as president back in 2000 but “rejected a third President Bush by an enormous margin” (sorry, Jeb). However, hen it comes to Donald Trump, Oliver truly has no words for the cicadas.
“This planet might not be around in 17 years,” the Last Week Tonight hosts tells the cicadas, pointing at an image of Trump behind him. “And I do not have time to explain that to you.”
Watch John Oliver recap the last 17 years of history in the Last Week Tonight video below:
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