Back after the Memorial Day weekend break, John Oliver has not lost time to go through an urgent attention: the crisis in air traffic control which has been looming and in progress for years due to the lack of investment.
Beginning Last week this eveningThe host made a joke of about a title in 2023 concerning a Fedex plane which almost crushed on a southwest airliner in Austin.
“Well, it’s terrifying!” The planes should certainly not land on top of each other and I say that knowing that there is no zero chance, Tom Cruise will hear me and immediately Greenlight again Mission: Impossible To do exactly that himself, “said Oliver.” I’m not saying that he tries to die in front of the camera, I just say that the only way Tom Cruise dies peacefully in his bed is that the bed fell into an active volcano to save the live experience in a way.
Throughout the episode, Oliver explained how American aviation history led to the problem, saying: “As for so many things in this program, at least part of the blame resides with Ronald Reagan”, pointing from 11,000 air traffic controllers that the president pulled in the middle of a massive union strike – a number that has never been completely recruited.
From the designation of the Federal Aviation Administration as discretionary expenses and not compulsory to a low success and at recruitment rates, Oliver noted that the difficult nature of the role itself – and the lack of funding receives the field – is “as Calmar game If the Squid Game price was to continue to play squid games as work. »»
Thus, the segment culminated in an advertising advertising a real FAA spot played earlier in the evening, featuring the actors H. Jon Benjamin (Bob’s Burgers), Lauren Adams (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Lil re Howery (To go out) and Keyla Monterroso Mejia (The studio) As a besieged workers. This starts as an apparently normal announcement quickly descends into chaos while staff treat bats, bees and broken elevators (all real problems reported by air traffic controllers).
“My father was an air traffic controller, and I feel a real link with him here in this work, especially because it is exactly the same computer he used,” notes the character of Benjamin while he points to a sticker that reads “Dukakis for President ’88”. “He had to retire because the doctor said he had more ulcer than stomach. What are you going to do? “
Meanwhile, in a moment parody the real delay in technology in the control towers, the young worker from Mejia is demonstrated confused in the face of a floppy disk, choosing to put him in the toaster.
“It’s a bit like a video game, except that we can never press a break, there is no additional life and instead of the NPCs, it’s you and your loved ones,” said his character.
While the shooting of the parody is interrupted by power outages (“Dave, a flush, we talked about that!” Benjamin shouts to the character of Howery), the advocacy of Mejia to his colleagues to return from a photo shoot – “I juggles like Seven F – Flights” – ends the Sketch.
