The memes and mockery of J.D. Vance’s first week as the Republican nominee for vice president came to a crescendo on Last Week Tonight on Sunday, with John Oliver boasting that his staff reached out to Vance’s campaign asking for an official comment on the biggest joke of all: “Has Sen. Vance ever had sex with a couch?”
Oliver giddily explained that the Associated Press had to retract its own fact-check for failing to go through the AP’s standard editing process. “No shit, it didn’t!” Oliver said. “There’s an obvious problem with that original headline [“No, J.D. Vance did not have sex with a couch.”]. And the reason I know that is we care a lot about facts and precise phrasing on this show. So I can tell you, you can’t say J.D. Vance didn’t have sex with a couch definitively. You can say that he didn’t write about doing that in his book, because that is provable. But that’s not the same as asserting he never fucked a couch. Especially because he hasn’t officially denied it.”
So Oliver’s staff sought an official denial. And didn’t receive one.
