John Oliver Would Like To Tell You Just How Awful The Miss America Pageant Is

Last Week Tonight is rapidly becoming an exercise in how much fantastic stuff you can cram into fifteen minutes of television. In-depth investigative reporting? Check. Demolishing sacred cows? Also check. Discovering there’s something out there called butt glue, designed to glue stuff to your butt? Boy howdy. Oliver’s take on the bizarre, archaic and highly corporatised world of the Miss America pageant might have some real-world knock-on effects, not least for their highly dubious claim that they “provide” $45 million in scholarships for women.