{"id":313338,"date":"2025-11-25T19:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/313338\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T19:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:33:08","slug":"john-oliver-auction-raises-1-5-million-thanks-to-bob-ross-gwar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/313338\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver Auction Raises $1.5 Million Thanks to Bob Ross, GWAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final results are in for an auction launched on the 2025 finale of <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/tag\/last-week-tonight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Last Week Tonight with John Oliver<\/a> to benefit public media. As reported by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/john-oliver-bob-ross-painting-auction-raises-million-pbs-1236591263\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Variety<\/a>, items including a record-setting Bob Ross painting and a bidet <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/11\/john-oliver-auctions-bidet-signed-gwar-blothar-public-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">signed by GWAR\u2019s Bl\u00f6thar the Berserker<\/a> raised a total of nearly $1.54 million dedicated to assisting local public broadcasters by the time bids closed on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Last Week Tonight launched the auction following a November 16th episode in which Oliver blasted\u00a0the Trump administration\u2019s decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/07\/senate-passes-legislation-to-defund-npr-and-pbs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">cut $1.1 billion in funding<\/a> to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The auction proceeds will go to\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/publicmedia.co\/public-media-bridge-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Public Media Bridge Fund<\/a>, which provides grant money to local public broadcasters in need.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the total money raised came from a winning $1.04 million bid on \u201cCabin at Sunset,\u201d a Bob Ross painting from Season 10 of his PBS show, The Joy of Painting. This set a new auction record for one of Ross\u2019 works, zooming past the $318,000 that \u201cWinter\u2019s Peace\u201d fetched earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/video\/blothar-the-berserker-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Heavy Consequence interview<\/a> with Bl\u00f6thar, where he extolled the virtues of public broadcasting, was featured in the episode. As a result, a bidet signed by Bl\u00f6thar was included among the available items auctioned on the website <a href=\"https:\/\/johnoliversjunk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">John Oliver\u2019s Junk<\/a>. The final price is currently unknown, but the winning bid was at $6,000 the last time we checked.<\/p>\n<p>Other notable items in the auction included a chance for the winner\u2019s photo to appear in a graphic over Oliver\u2019s shoulder during an episode ($100,025), a New York trip to meet the host ($51,600), a gold-plated recreation of President Lyndon B. Johnson\u2019s balls ($25,500), and\u00a0Russell Crowe\u2019s jock strap from\u00a0Cinderella Man ($21,000).<\/p>\n<p>Heads Up: GWAR\u2019s Bud of Gods products are <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.consequence.net\/collections\/the-ultimate-gift-guide\/gwar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">up to 65% off for Black Friday<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final results are in for an auction launched on the 2025 finale of Last Week Tonight with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-313338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313338","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=313338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}