. “Hi there, new business daddy,” he said. “Just checking in to say I absolutely love the corporate logo you dropped this week. It looks like the opening title ofHe continued, “‘The stuff that dreams are made of’ is a quote fromabout how the thing that seemed like a priceless treasure was actually worthless garbage that brought chaos and despair to everyone around it. Anyway, good luck with the merger. I’m sure everything’s gonna go great.
When asked if he would continue to criticize his parent company after its changing of the guard, Oliver didn’t hold back. “There is no tastier hand than the one that feeds you. There is nothing more satisfying to chomp down on,” he toldin February. “The beauty with AT&T is it’s a hand that has done many terrible things. It deserves to be bitten.”
Oliver also made it clear that he’s not looking for increased corporate oversight. “We had absolutely no contact with AT&T, and I could not encourage Discovery more to continue that,” he said. “Leave us the fuck alone.”
It’s (probably accidentally) very smart to have the most venemous barbs against you on your payroll