{"id":204755,"date":"2025-10-06T09:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T09:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/204755\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T09:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T09:37:07","slug":"john-oliver-praises-bad-bunnys-appointment-as-halftime-show-performer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/204755\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver Praises Bad Bunny&#8217;s Appointment As Halftime Show Performer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhile Fox News and other right-wing outlets decried the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/nfl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nfl\" data-tag=\"nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL<\/a> decision to have <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/09\/super-bowl-halftime-show-performer-2026-1236563691\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Bunny perform at next year\u2019s Super Bowl Halftime show<\/a>, one media personality \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/john-oliver\/\" id=\"auto-tag_john-oliver\" data-tag=\"john-oliver\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Oliver<\/a> \u2014 is a big fan, praising the superstar Latin trap artist while addressing recent headlines on tonight\u2019s installment of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/last-week-tonight\/\" id=\"auto-tag_last-week-tonight\" data-tag=\"last-week-tonight\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Last Week Tonight<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThe NFL controversially gave the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/super-bowl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_super-bowl\" data-tag=\"super-bowl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Super Bowl<\/a> Halftime show to one of the hottest, most commercially successful people alive,\u201d he quipped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAfter the appointment of the Puerto Rico-hailing musician, the Department of Homeland Security announced it would <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/10\/bad-bunny-halftime-show-ice-agents-1236568070\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">send ICE agents to the venue<\/a>, with DHS Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/10\/kristi-noem-nfl-so-weak-bad-bunny-super-bowl-1236570363\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kristi Noem doubling-down on the matter later<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLast night, the singer-songwriter <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/10\/bad-bunny-snl-monologue-latino-community-super-bowl-1236570420\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">addressed the furor during his monologue<\/a> on the Season 51 opening episode of Saturday Night Live. \u201cI\u2019m very happy, and I think everyone is happy about it, even Fox News,\u201d the three-time Grammy winner said, the show then cutting to spliced-together footage from the network, which said: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bad-bunny\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bad-bunny\" data-tag=\"bad-bunny\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Bunny<\/a> is my favorite musician. He should be the next president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tElsewhere during Last Week Tonight, Oliver discussed the prevalence of grassroots pushback toward ICE agents who show up to raid and disturb neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cIf ICE can show up and bother some guys at their roofing job, then bystanders should be able to bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job. It is only fair,\u201d Oliver said. \u201cAnd look, this administration is clearly still hell-bent on trying to intimidate communities with shows of force, which is why it is so important for them to be met with strong pushback each and every time.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Fox News and other right-wing outlets decried the NFL decision to have Bad Bunny perform at next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5897,88,20991,22339,22340,349,1803,110497],"class_list":{"0":"post-204755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bad-bunny","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-john-oliver","11":"tag-last-week-tonight","12":"tag-last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-super-bowl","15":"tag-super-bowl-halftime-show"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}