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Amazing: John Oliver shoots salmon into the 'Star Wars' set

Carly Mallenbaum   | Paste BN



On the Last Week Tonight season finale, John Oliver wanted to

, and he did. The host eloquently

, and also shot a "salmon cannon."

After seeing a news segment about how salmon can be shot into dams via cannon, Oliver thought it would be great to utilize similar technology to hilariously launch fish into TV sets and the Star Wars: The Force Awakens set. Watch:



Oliver's victims include:


  • Jon Stewart

  • Jimmy Fallon

  • Stephen Colbert

  • The Young and the Restless (in an intimate close-up)

  • Dwight Howard

  • Michelle Beadle

  • Seth Meyers

  • Anderson Cooper

  • Rachael Ray

  • Tom Hanks

  • Homer Simpson (who gets the most salmon)

  • Joel McHale

  • Wanda Sykes

  • David Letterman

  • Wayne Brady

  • Meredith Vieira

  • R2D2

  • J.J. Abrams (who says "I quit. I can't work with this.")

  • Modern Family

  • Kelly Ripa

  • Ellen Pompeo (mid-Grey's Anatomy surgery)

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