John Oliver takes addiction seriously, but the industry offering to cure it is a joke, he said on “Last Week Tonight” Sunday.
The HBO host called the $35 billion rehab business “dangerously unregulated,” cracking that even O.J. Simpson could open a sober-living facility “which would obviously be called the Juice Cleanse.”
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One absurdity that stood out to Oliver is the high profits reportedly reaped from centers conducting urine tests ― which led The New York Times to deem urine “liquid gold.”
“Peeing liquid gold sounds like the symptom of an STD you can only contract from fucking C-3PO,” Oliver said.
Watch Oliver try to rehabilitate the rehab biz above.
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