There was no Last Week Tonight last night, but Oliver & Co. shared an Easter-appropriate web video instead. Oliver begins by discussing one of the greatest genres of YouTube video there is—conspiracy videos, which are second perhaps only to trampoline accident videos—before concocting a conspiracy theory of his own, about Cadbury Creme Eggs, which taste “like mermaid placenta covered in candle wax.”
Alex Shephard is senior editor of The New Republic, where he has covered politics and culture since 2015. His work has also appeared in New York, GQ, The Atlantic, The Nation, and other publications.
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