John Oliver mocked Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) on Sunday over how he responded to a Michigan reporter’s joyous question at a campaign event.
The “Last Week Tonight” host said Donald Trump’s running mate “continues to underwhelm” before tossing to a clip of what he described as the “worst possible answer” to a “pretty easy question.”
“You have been criticized as being a little too serious, a little angry sometimes. What makes you smile? What makes you happy?” asked Fox 2 Detroit’s Charlie Langton on Wednesday.
“Well, I smile at a lot of things including bogus questions from the media, man,” replied Vance as he proceeded to laugh.
He continued, “I mean, look, I think if you watch, if you watch a full speech that I give, I actually, I’m having a good time out here and I’m enjoying this. But, look, sometimes you got to take the good with the bad. And right now, I am angry about what Kamala Harris has done to this country and done to the American southern border.”
Oliver had a question of his own for Vance after seeing the clip.
“Is he alright?” Oliver asked.
“He just got asked what makes you smile, a question to which there is almost no wrong answer. You can say my kids, dogs that sleep weird, a warm bath, dogs that sleep weird, Cheez-It, which is incidentally also the name of this dog that sleeps weird.”
Oliver listed off “good answers” Vance could have provided the reporter before referring to his border security take as a response that’s “just plain wrong.”
The host later played a clip of Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, that showed him and his daughter Hope Walz on a slingshot ride at the state fair last year.
Oliver said you clearly don’t have to ask Walz what “makes him smile” as he pointed to snaps of the Minnesota governor holding a piglet and getting hugged by children after he signed a law that guaranteed free school meals for kids in his state.
″[And there’s] him here, seemingly remembering that he isn’t JD Fucking Vance,” said Oliver as he flashed a picture of Walz cracking a smile.
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