John Oliver[1] takes addiction seriously, but the industry offering to cure it is a joke, he said on “Last Week Tonight”[2] Sunday.
The HBO host called the $35 billion rehab business “dangerously unregulated[3],” cracking that even O.J. Simpson[4] could open a sober-living facility “which would obviously be called the Juice Cleanse.”
One absurdity that stood out to Oliver is the high profits reportedly reaped from centers conducting urine tests ― which led The New York Times to deem urine “liquid gold.”[5]
“Peeing liquid gold sounds like the symptom of an STD you can only contract from fucking C-3PO,” Oliver said.
Watch Oliver try to rehabilitate the rehab biz above.
References
- ^ John Oliver (www.huffingtonpost.com)
- ^ “Last Week Tonight” (www.huffingtonpost.com)
- ^ “dangerously unregulated (www.youtube.com)
- ^ O.J. Simpson (www.huffingtonpost.com)
- ^ “liquid gold.” (www.nytimes.com)