John Oliver Jokes Katy Perry’s “Ill-Advised” Whitney Houston Cover Is To Blame For Kamala Harris’ Election Loss: “It’s OK Not To Have The Range”

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In an episode dedicated to unpacking the 2024 presidential election results, John Oliver‘s through-line toward making sense of Kamala Harris‘ loss was a running joke pinning the blame on Katy Perry‘s “ill-advised” cover of Whitney Houston’s “Greatest Love of All” at a last-minute rally.

While the Last Week Tonight host said that everyone seemed to be spinning their “own personal wheel of blame” to “generally make sure it lands on whoever you were mad at in the first place” — from progressives to bad campaign tactics to key demographics — he has someone else in mind. “Personally, I kind of would like to imagine that everything that happened on Tuesday is Katy Perry’s fault because at Kamala’s Election Eve rally, she did this ill-advised cover,” he began, playing a clip of the pop singer’s admittedly off-key rendition. “I mean, you are right, they can’t take away your dignity because you just surrendered it willingly,” he joked, referencing the hit song’s lyrics. “I know, I know that she’s trying to do a nice thing there but why would you try and cover Whitney Houston — the voice?

Say what you want about Lee Greenwood — which in my case is about 18 minutes of rigorously fact-checked insults — but at least when he played Trump rallies he wasn’t trying to do Freddie Mercury’s part in ‘Somebody to Love.'” He continued, “Now, did that drunk bachelorette karaoke night performance doom the whole Harris campaign?

Probably not. But it feels good to think so because it’s an easy answer to a difficult question.” Oliver also took the time to hit back at critics that have said Harris didn’t move right enough on her policy stances, saying that campaigning alongside Liz Cheney was about as conservative as possible “unless you