John Oliver Spanks Dem Rep, Steve Cohen Over KFC Stunt At Bill Barr Hearing

John Oliver Spanks Dem Rep, Steve Cohen Over KFC Stunt At Bill Barr Hearing

Dem. Rep Steve Cohen tried his hand at an “exhilarating bit of prop comedy” in Washington last Thurs..

Dem. Rep Steve Cohen tried his hand at an “exhilarating bit of prop comedy” in Washington last Thursday when Attorney General Bill Barr was a no-show at a Congressional hearing on Thursday, John Oliver noted on Last Week Tonight.

Cohen thought it would be hilarious if he brought a bucket of KFC chicken, and a ceramic chicken, to the hearing.

“The message is that Bill Barr is a chicken,” Cohen told reporters, in case they had not gotten his point.

“Yeah we get it. Youve made that painfully obvious,” Oliver snarked Sunday night.

“It actually gets more pathetic,” the HBO late-night host warned viewers.

The hearing was at around 9 AM. The nearest KFC doesnt open until 10:30 AM, The Daily Beast reported. Cohen admitted he had bought the chicken the previous night and stored it in his fridge.

“Which is just tragic for so many reasons,” Oliver said, then listed two:

– Hes biting into leftover KFC. “Or as its more commonly known, trash,” Oliver described.

-That means Cohen was in bed the night before the hearing thinking about how awesome his chicken gag would be “and he was totally wrong about that.”

But the theater did not end there. GOP Sen. Thom Tillis went on the attack, holding up a poster that was a photo of Cohen eating hisRead More – Source

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