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John Oliver has a blunt response to Paramount buying Warner Bros.

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Netflix and Paramount have spent the passed few months in a bidding war for Warner Bros., but it looks as though Paramount has finally emerged victorious after Netflix walked away from the deal last week. As someone who has been vocal in the past about his business daddies, it was inevitable that John Oliver would weigh in — and on Sunday's episode of *Last Week Tonight* he made his feelings very clear. SEE ALSO: John Oliver gleefully reacts to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's arrest photo "It turns out we might be getting a new business daddy," Oliver said at the start of the episode, before playing a clip of the announcement. "Yeah, not great news. In fact, if I may quote anyone who's ever accidentally sat on their Roku remote: 'Oh shit, I'm in Paramount now, how the fuck do I get out of this?'" Oliver's feelings likely stem from the fact that he has long been a vocal critic of the Trump administration.…

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