Long before “Tiger King” became a streaming obsession, Joe Exotic caught the attention of John Oliver. The year was 2016 and the “Last Week Tonight” host and his team were searching for third-party candidates to feature in the run-up to the U.S.
presidential election when they discovered Joseph Maldonado-Passage, aka Joe Exotic. “We were looking for kind of the craziest third-party candidate, found his ad, and it was like the lowest-hanging, juiciest fruit,” Oliver tells Seth Meyers during an at-home appearance on “Late Night”. “Almost you think, ‘Could this — could this be real?
Mmm, so sweet. So juicy.’” RELATED: Netflix Posts New ‘Tiger King’ Interview With Joe Exotic, ‘I’m Ashamed Of Myself’ Oliver showed Exotic’s now-viral campaign
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