So your show is brilliant, and it seems like you just never
will run out of anything to talk about with what's
going on in the world--
Oh, sadly.
--and especially with this administration right now.
Well, that's right.
That's because there's literally too much to talk about.
Yeah.
It would be really nice on a human level and a comedic level
if there was less happening.
Yes.
Because, you know, we'd all sleep better.
Yes.
It would be nice if our job was harder, in a way.
Yeah, it really is.
I mean, you point out all the things that are going on
and remind a lot of people that aren't paying attention,
because you have to pay attention.
Is that hard to pay attention to all that?
The problem is that what's coming out of the White House
is such a soap opera all the time
that it can be distracting because he's
throwing verbal smoke bombs all the time so it's
very easy to get distracted from actually terrible things that
are happening because life is a roller coaster of pain
at the moment.
Yes, it is.
Yes.
So you're doing something that's really, really cool.
I don't know if you know about this.
But explain what's happening before we talk
about your children's book.
So what happened was, on our show
on Sunday, Mike Pence, who is a man who
I think has few qualities to his name,
however, one thing I love about him is his rabbits.
He has a fantastic rabbit.
I have no beef with his rabbit whatsoever.
And his rabbit is called Marlon Bundo,
which is an outstanding name for a bunny.
You don't have to like him to acknowledge
that's an excellent bunny name.
You see?
And it's a great bunny.
If you have a problem with that bunny, you're dead inside.
But he clearly, to put it in the nicest possible terms,
is not a friend of the LGBTQ community, Mike Pence.
So he's written a book about his bunny,
or his family have written a book about his bunny.
And so we, on top of that, have released our own book
about his bunny, where his bunny falls
in love with another male bunny and gets married.
Because that's the world we want to live in.
So it's a children's book.
It's a children's book.
All right, so you released it at the same time--
The same time, yeah.
--as his children's books.
Yes.
And this children's book is, right now
as we sit here and speak, yours is number one on Amazon.
It is?
Yes.
OK, so I did hear that unfortunately we
have sold out, because we were not anticipating people
really buying it.
But they're doing a reprint, so you can still buy it.
You can buy the second printing.
So it will take a few weeks, but get this.
I love it so much, the fact that you wrote a children's book
where his bunny falls in love with another male bunny.
Makes me happier than I can even tell you,
and that it's number one.
And all the money is going where?
It's going to the Trevor Project, which
is a fantastic organization for at-risk LGBT youth
and AIDS projects in America, AIDS America.
Fantastic.
Good for you.
They're great organizations.
All right, fantastic.
You're doing so much good.
So we were talking during the break,
and because of what you do all the time on your show,
you have to pay attention to all this stuff
that's going on in the world and how scary it is.
And you have a little boy.
He's two-years-old.
Yeah.
And what do you feel about?
Well, at the moment he doesn't really
understand what's happening in the world.
And long may that continue, because I
don't have to explain to him just how sad things are.
But part of the reason of writing this book
was so that I could read something to him which
paints the world in the light that you want it to be,
rather than the way that it's currently being painted.
Yeah, good for you.
[APPLAUSE]
All right, so here's what we're going to do.
So the challenge is, we are going
to send you into the audience.
And we're going to put 60 seconds on the clock,
and we're going to give you a stack of books.
HBO is so proud, and a supporter of the Trevor Project,
they're going to give away, to the Trevor
Project, $100 for every book that you give away.
OK.
Wait.
This is a physical challenge?
Yeah.
Yeah, physical--
My gifts are not necessarily physical.
Well, that's what you're doing.
A couple of rules.
You can not pass a whole stack of books
and ask them to pass them down the row.
You have to give one out at a time.
You can't throw them.
You have to hand them individually.
That's a good idea.
Andy and Joel are going to be in the aisles
with more copies in case you run out.
You have 60 seconds.
OK.
On your mark--
Starting when?
--get set, go!
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[BUZZER]
All right.
How do you feel?
I'm more out of breath than is ideal--
Yeah.
--for that level of exercise.
All right, well, thanks to HBO, we're
going to round up your total to $10,000.
Oh, yes!
And--
[APPLAUSE]
Also, everybody in the audience is going home with a copy.
And Last Week Tonight airs on Sundays at 11:00 on HBO.
And everybody at home, go buy this book to help support.
Thank you so much.
We'll be back.