John Oliver says he'll donate $55,000 if Connecticut city names sewage plant after himJohn Oliver has upped the stakes in his spat with the Connecticut town of Danbury, offering to donate $55,000 to charity if officials there make good on a promise to name their sewage treatment plant after him. Danbury, Connecticut will name sewage plant after John Oliver Read moreThe Republican mayor, Mark Boughton, said last week Danbury would rename the facility the John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant, in response to an expletive-filled rant against the city on a recent episode of HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Because it’s full of crap just like you, John,” Boughton said, though he later said he’d been joking. “If you’re going to forget a town in Connecticut,” Oliver said: “Why not forget Danbury? He said the council would have to approve any renaming of the sewage plant.

Source: The Guardian August 31, 2020 17:59 UTC