{"id":677546,"date":"2026-06-01T08:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T08:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/677546\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T08:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T08:49:09","slug":"john-oliver-debuts-ghanaian-fyc-ad-for-last-week-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/677546\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver Debuts Ghanaian FYC Ad for ‘Last Week Tonight’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJohn Oliver<\/a> ended Sunday\u2019s Last Week Tonight<\/a> by doing a dive into the world of movie posters as reimagined by Ghanaian artists.<\/p>\n

\n\tThese posters, he noted, don\u2019t always represent what a movie is actually about. For example, a poster for Ghost features Demi Moore screaming as Whoopi Goldberg\u2019s head bursts through her abdomen.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEven if all you know about Ghost is \u2018pottery that fucks,\u2019 you are probably aware that Whoopi Goldberg does not \u2018Here\u2019s Johnny\u2019 her way out of Demi Moore\u2019s uterus,\u201d Oliver quipped.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe noted that Ghanaian artists have been making their own posters for Hollywood movies for decades \u2014 posters that have very little to do with the plot of the movies. Other examples include one for Jurassic Park featuring a golfer and another for The Spy Who Loved Me boasting a huge fish.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Oliver explained, foreign videocassettes were introduced in Ghana in the 1980s, which led to locals buying TV monitors and VCRs as part of an effort to set up makeshift screening locations. As Ghana was being ruled by a military dictator at the time, they were not able to properly advertise the screenings due to a lack of access to printing presses. Thus, local artists were commissioned to create posters, sometimes using repurposed flour sacks as their canvases.<\/p>\n

\n\tSome of these artists then decided to make the movies \u201cseem more interesting than they otherwise might be\u201d by incorporating elements that had nothing to do with the movie. For example, a Predator poster with the predator holding a naked woman, a poster for Hellraiser III with Pinhead eating a person whole, a Jaws poster that features Chuck Norris (who is not in the movie) and a Wizard of Oz poster where almost all of the characters are vampires. This has often led to confusion among audiences who demanded their money back upon realizing the truth.<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, if you haven\u2019t guessed, Oliver himself was giddy with excitement over these posters. So much so that he commissioned one for his show to use as part of its FYC Emmy campaign. He shared on Last Week Tonight that he commissioned Ghanaian movie poster artist C.A. Wisely to create a poster for his show based on three images he sent: a shot of Oliver \u201ctrying to force my way onto a soap opera\u201d; his \u201cwife, Wanda Jo, helping me open a med spa\u201d; and the Moon Mammoth mascot he introduced for a minor league baseball team rebrand. The artist was told to use their imagination and include at least one character who isn\u2019t a part of the show and as many trademarks of Ghanaian movie posters as possible.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEach year, during Emmy voting season, HBO launches a campaign on behalf of its shows with tasteful ads \u2026 . They even rent out billboards in L.A. for the ads. And while it\u2019s always done in a restrained, classy style, it never really felt like it spoke to the chaos we like to think we stand for here,\u201d he shared.<\/p>\n

\n\tOliver then debuted the poster on his show. It features him wielding two guns and drinking wine with a horse who has a very human-like hand; a chainsaw cutting through tentacles; snakes; and the Fonz (Henry Winkler), \u201cholding a pickax for no clear reason other than, I\u2019m guessing, to defend himself from everything happening around him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI love this painting so much,\u201d he added. \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

\n\tOliver said he\u2019s convinced HBO to display the poster on a digital ad on Los Angeles\u2019 Sunset Boulevard sometime in June between 2 and 6 a.m.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition, viewers can buy prints at hangjohnoliver.com<\/a> for $50 each, with 50 percent of profits going directly to the artists in Ghana and the other half going to the Ghana Community Impact Fund.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s beautiful,\u201d he said at the end of his show. \u201cIt\u2019s just beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSee the poster below.<\/p>\n

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