“Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver covers a wide range of topics on his Emmy-winning HBO show, including U.S. politics, bias in medicine, prison labor, and human rights abuses in China.
But Oliver also finds time to poke fun at local news, from tired concerns about teens to whether or not you should stare at the sun. On Sunday, he mocked television clichés by highlighting newscasters trying to have fun with what month it is, including a Syracuse TV anchor.
“It’s spooky season,” Frankie Jupiter said on CNYCentral’s NBC-3 (WSTM), in front of a graphic showing the Halloween attraction Fright Nights.
Jupiter, who anchors “Today in Central New York,” was among a dozen clips from television news anchors across the country talking about “spooky season” on Thursday, October 1, as part of Oliver’s “And Now This” segment.
“Well guys, now that it’s officially October, we have spooky season right around the corner,” a Wisconsin morning anchor said.
“I watched ‘Hocus Pocus’ last night. I am all in,” her co-anchor responded.
“It’s officially spooky season, so why not go to hell — Hell, Michigan,” another anchor said in a different clip, showing the real town of Hell, Mich.
The segment can be seen at the 6:46 mark here:
Jupiter, a New Orleans native, joined CNYCentral in 2019, succeeding Jeremy Miller as the morning anchor alongside Lisa Spitz and meteorologist Peter Hall. Jupiter previously worked at TV stations like WXIX in Cincinnati; WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia; and WCAV in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Oliver, a former correspondent for Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” has hosted “Last Week Tonight” on HBO since 2014. His main story Sunday night focused on the upcoming election, mail-in ballots and allegations of voter fraud.
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