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  • So your show is brilliant, and it seems like you just never

  • will run out of anything to talk about with what's

  • going on in the world--

  • Oh, sadly.

  • --and especially with this administration right now.

  • Well, that's right.

  • That's because there's literally too much to talk about.

  • Yeah.

  • It would be really nice on a human level and a comedic level

  • if there was less happening.

  • Yes.

  • Because, you know, we'd all sleep better.

  • Yes.

  • It would be nice if our job was harder, in a way.

  • Yeah, it really is.

  • I mean, you point out all the things that are going on

  • and remind a lot of people that aren't paying attention,

  • because you have to pay attention.

  • Is that hard to pay attention to all that?

  • The problem is that what's coming out of the White House

  • is such a soap opera all the time

  • that it can be distracting because he's

  • throwing verbal smoke bombs all the time so it's

  • very easy to get distracted from actually terrible things that

  • are happening because life is a roller coaster of pain

  • at the moment.

  • Yes, it is.

  • Yes.

  • So you're doing something that's really, really cool.

  • I don't know if you know about this.

  • But explain what's happening before we talk

  • about your children's book.

  • So what happened was, on our show

  • on Sunday, Mike Pence, who is a man who

  • I think has few qualities to his name,

  • however, one thing I love about him is his rabbits.

  • He has a fantastic rabbit.

  • I have no beef with his rabbit whatsoever.

  • And his rabbit is called Marlon Bundo,

  • which is an outstanding name for a bunny.

  • You don't have to like him to acknowledge

  • that's an excellent bunny name.

  • You see?

  • And it's a great bunny.

  • If you have a problem with that bunny, you're dead inside.

  • But he clearly, to put it in the nicest possible terms,

  • is not a friend of the LGBTQ community, Mike Pence.

  • So he's written a book about his bunny,

  • or his family have written a book about his bunny.

  • And so we, on top of that, have released our own book

  • about his bunny, where his bunny falls

  • in love with another male bunny and gets married.

  • Because that's the world we want to live in.

  • So it's a children's book.

  • It's a children's book.

  • All right, so you released it at the same time--

  • The same time, yeah.

  • --as his children's books.

  • Yes.

  • And this children's book is, right now

  • as we sit here and speak, yours is number one on Amazon.

  • It is?

  • Yes.

  • Yes.

  • OK, so I did hear that unfortunately we

  • have sold out, because we were not anticipating people

  • really buying it.

  • But they're doing a reprint, so you can still buy it.

  • You can buy the second printing.

  • So it will take a few weeks, but get this.

  • I love it so much, the fact that you wrote a children's book

  • where his bunny falls in love with another male bunny.

  • Makes me happier than I can even tell you,

  • and that it's number one.

  • And all the money is going where?

  • It's going to the Trevor Project, which

  • is a fantastic organization for at-risk LGBT youth

  • and AIDS projects in America, AIDS America.

  • Fantastic.

  • Good for you.

  • Good for you.

  • They're great organizations.

  • All right, fantastic.

  • You're doing so much good.

  • So we were talking during the break,

  • and because of what you do all the time on your show,

  • you have to pay attention to all this stuff

  • that's going on in the world and how scary it is.

  • And you have a little boy.

  • He's two-years-old.

  • Yeah.

  • And what do you feel about?

  • Well, at the moment he doesn't really

  • understand what's happening in the world.

  • And long may that continue, because I

  • don't have to explain to him just how sad things are.

  • But part of the reason of writing this book

  • was so that I could read something to him which

  • paints the world in the light that you want it to be,

  • rather than the way that it's currently being painted.

  • Yeah, good for you.

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • All right, so here's what we're going to do.

  • So the challenge is, we are going

  • to send you into the audience.

  • And we're going to put 60 seconds on the clock,

  • and we're going to give you a stack of books.

  • HBO is so proud, and a supporter of the Trevor Project,

  • they're going to give away, to the Trevor

  • Project, $100 for every book that you give away.

  • OK.

  • Wait.

  • This is a physical challenge?

  • Yeah.

  • Yeah, physical--

  • My gifts are not necessarily physical.

  • Well, that's what you're doing.

  • A couple of rules.

  • You can not pass a whole stack of books

  • and ask them to pass them down the row.

  • You have to give one out at a time.

  • You can't throw them.

  • You have to hand them individually.

  • That's a good idea.

  • Andy and Joel are going to be in the aisles

  • with more copies in case you run out.

  • You have 60 seconds.

  • OK.

  • On your mark--

  • Starting when?

  • --get set, go!

  • [BREATHING HEAVILY]

  • [BUZZER]

  • All right.

  • How do you feel?

  • I'm more out of breath than is ideal--

  • Yeah.

  • --for that level of exercise.

  • All right, well, thanks to HBO, we're

  • going to round up your total to $10,000.

  • Oh, yes!

  • And--

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • Also, everybody in the audience is going home with a copy.

  • And Last Week Tonight airs on Sundays at 11:00 on HBO.

  • And everybody at home, go buy this book to help support.

  • Thank you so much.

  • We'll be back.

So your show is brilliant, and it seems like you just never

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