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John Oliver<\/a> has apparently never been especially comfortable with the tasteful side of Emmy campaigning. On Sunday\u2019s Last Week Tonight<\/a>, he found a workaround: guns, snakes, tentacles, blood, an explosion, a horse with a human hand, and The Fonz wielding a pickaxe.<\/p>\n The HBO host closed this week\u2019s episode with a ten-minute tribute to Ghanaian movie posters, the wildly imaginative hand-painted art form that grew out of Ghana\u2019s mobile-cinema boom in the 1980s. As Oliver explained, local entrepreneurs would travel from village to village with TVs, VCRs, and generators to screen foreign movies, but because large-scale printing was difficult under the country\u2019s military dictatorship, artists were commissioned to paint their own posters\u2014often on repurposed flour sacks.<\/p>\n That led to posters that were, let\u2019s say, spiritually adjacent to the movies they advertised. Oliver showed examples including a Ghost poster with Whoopi Goldberg\u2019s head bursting through Demi Moore\u2019s body, a Jurassic Park poster featuring a golfer, and a Star Wars poster that somehow included a car crash, exploding torsos, ants, a feral Yoda, and a werewolf.<\/p>\n Naturally, Last Week Tonight wanted in.<\/p>\n Oliver revealed that the show had commissioned a Ghanaian movie poster artist to create an Emmy \u201cFor Your Consideration\u201d poster for Last Week Tonight. The show sent over a few images from the past year\u2014including Oliver trying to force his way onto a soap opera<\/a>, his \u201cwife\u201d Wanda Jo (Rachel Dratch<\/a>) helping him open a med spa, and a photo of Fuzz E. Mammoth<\/a>\u2014but otherwise left the artist to improvise.<\/p>\n The result, painted by Ghanaian artist C.A. Wisely and unveiled on the show Sunday night, features Oliver holding not one but two guns, plus a chainsaw slicing through tentacles, snakes, blood, an explosion, the wooden cabbage man statue from the show\u2019s AI slop story, and Henry Winkler\u2019s Happy Days character standing by with a pickaxe.<\/p>\n \u201cI love this painting so much,\u201d Oliver said. \u201cI think we can all agree, it\u2019s an ad for a much more entertaining show than the one you just watched.\u201d<\/p>\n HBO is playing along. Oliver said the network has agreed to put the poster on its digital billboard over Sunset Boulevard this month\u2014but only from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m., which he called \u201cthe funniest possible time for it to be up there.\u201d<\/p>\n