John Oliver did not disappoint his business suzerains on Sunday evening by addressing the recent inversion of the name HBO Max – the last of a series of changes for the streaming service.
During its main segment on Last week this evening, who was Regarding the often antagonist relationship of President Trump with the press, Oliver referred the current administration’s decision to ban the Oval Office Associated Press to refer to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America”, a decision that Trump made a short time after taking office.
Justifying the decision of the AP, Oliver noted: “He has customers around the world, and many of them always use the term Gulf of Mexico, so it’s not as simple as you do, especially because he can take time to people to adapt to a stupid name change.”
He then turned to the recent decision by Warner Bros. Discovery, who has HBO and HBO Max, where Last week this evening Air. Display of different logos / names on the screen, Oliver noted: “Sometimes, hypothetically, even before we can get used to a stupid name [HBO Go]Some geniuses arrive and make it only more stupid [HBO Now]So in one way or another, it becomes even more stupid [HBO Max]Then against all the chances, it becomes even worse [Max]Before returning inexplicably to the stupid thing that it was before [HBO Max]. “”
Meanwhile, Warner Bros.’s marketing chief. Discovery Streaming, Shauna Spenley, said that she was looking forward to Oliver’s vision on the name of the Streamer’s name. Oliver notoriously is not afraid to continue the company which has its domestic network (from Time Warner to At & T to Warner Bros. Discovery) in his program.
“We just can’t wait for his hot vision of all this brand change,” Spenley told advertisers during the company’s initial presentation to advertisers last week. “We think it’s going to be quite hot.”
Oliver noted her comments, saying: “By the way, only this week, my parent company apparently said that she could not wait for my hot vision of all this brand change – believing that everything I say about this change was going to be hot enough, so please look at me when I say this: you fuck, don’t tell me that I did not do. Hand, how can a business be so intelligent when they are the same people who have found so many fucking stupid names? “”
The show also presented a brief graphic at the end of the opening credits with the different logos that the streamer used with the legend “mutatis mutandis”.
During the Sunday show, its “and now this” segment featured a humorous montage of various local media “fairly warm from the last HBO rebranding”.
