The Last Week Tonight host devoted his Sunday show to America's workforce, with particular interest paid to essential workers
devoted his entire broadcast to the coronavirus pandemic—this time focusing on those who have been deemed essential workers during the health crisis.
“It’s a broad term that can include any job from health care professionals to custodians to grocery store clerks to, I would argue, TikTok stars teaching me how to dance,” Oliver joked on Sunday's episode ofAs Oliver stated, numerous companies have released statements that pay lip service to the notion that employees on the front lines of the pandemic response are valued, including Amazon.
“It’s hard to say what I like least about that,” Oliver said after playing a clip from the above commercial on Sunday. “Maybe it’s the schmaltzy piano music, maybe it’s Amazon patronizingly claiming they care about the well-being of their ‘heroes,’ or maybe it’s just the fact that, out of context, the Amazon smile logo is a quick sketch of an uncircumcised dick. It's probably a combination of all three.
Smalls was fired shortly after organizing a worker walkout at Amazon's Staten Island facility. In a statementlast month, Amazon representatives denied that he was let go in retaliation, but rather said that Smalls had been given “multiple warnings for violating social distancing guidelines and putting the safety of others at risk.
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