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Seth Meyers is the ultimate buzzkill in 'Mad Max' spoof, 'Reasonable Max'


“Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!”

Those were the sage words of Immortan Joe, the lord of The Citadel in the six-time Oscar-winning film, Mad Max: Fury Road.

That was the shrewd legacy that Late Night host Seth Meyers attacked with his Monday night spoof, Reasonable Max, which stars a smug War Boy (Meyers) as he bombards Immortan Joe with memos and waxes poetic about environmental consciousness with no regard to the warriors’ time-honored way of life (i.e. whipping muscle cars with shooting flames and dumping water on civilians).

“You know what’s scary?” Meyers' character shouts in one impassioned moment. “Everybody want to hear what’s scary? Climate change!”

“Last year, you were calling it global warming!” another War Boy chimes in.

“Haven’t you died yet?” he shoots back.

No. But if he did, at least he could rest assured that his misogyny, violence and blatant disregard for increasingly disappearing resources would apparently send him to Valhalla.