On this week’sLast Week Tonight , John Oliver became the ego - proclaimed " queen of daytime public lecture . " The show claims to have staged the biggest giveaway in the history of television system , nearly reduplicate Oprah ’s illustrious $ 8 millionnew cargiveaway .
In a section focalise on how debt is purchased and collected with little to no regulation or protection for consumer , the show adjust out to turn up how comfortable it is to start a debt buying company by startle one itself . With that company , they purchase most $ 15 million in debt for $ 60,000 . Instead of collecting the money owe , they released 9,000 people from their past tense - due aesculapian debt .
Oliver is no stranger to stunt that prove a point , like whenhe became a televangelistto get un - nonexempt donations or when he purchased advertising for"Jeff the Diseased Lung in a Cowboy Hat"as a unexampled spokesperson for big baccy . But this week ’s stunt may have transcended stunt - dom entirely , modify the lives of around 9,000 multitude .
Before the big reveal , Oliver proclaimed , " Debt buying is a grimy clientele , and it badly needs more oversight . As it endure , any idiot can get into it . I can prove that to you because I ’m an idiot , and we part a debt - buying companionship . And it was disturbingly easy . "
His new caller , Central Asset Recovery Professionals , short for “ C.A.R.P. , after the bottom - feed fish , ” was offer this package of medical debt after starting a bare - off-white website follow the creation of their company " in Mississippi " ( they were able to do it online ) .
While the new party only spent $ 60,000 , the show lawfully hold away $ 14,922,261.76 with the assistance ofRIP Medical Debt . As far as anyone can recite at this point , this is 100 % literal , and his call of host the large giveaway in TV chronicle seems factual . Not bad for aBritish Milhouse .
