Former prime minister John Howard has starred in a US comedy segment about gun control. The Daily Show
The Daily Show had some colourful words for former prime minister John Howard. Source: news.com.au
You don't usually hear language like that in an interview with former prime minister John Howard, but the US Comedy Channel's Daily Show does not play by the rules.
Colourful language and absurd leaps of logic were centrepiece in a satirical segment on gun control, broadcast on Saturday, where Mr Howard and US gun rights activist Philip Van Cleave were interviewed.
After the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, the Howard government introduced sweeping gun laws which removed millions of guns from circulation and there has not been a mass shooting since.
But in the segment, Mr Cleave argues it's just a mathematical blip.
"(The laws) stopped one thing. That could also be a statistical anomaly," Mr Cleave said.
"Yeah, it was just their mass shootings disappeared," Mr Oliver deadpanned in reply.
"But there were so few of them," Mr Cleave says. "Whoop de do."
When Mr Howard points out there had been 13 mass shootings in the 18 years before Port Arthur, and rattles off statistics about how the suicide rate plummets, Mr Oliver says to him: "Whoopty f---ing do."
Mr Howard has been vocal in US media about his government's crackdown on firearms this year.
After the December 14 Sandy Hook massacre where 20 American children and six adults were murdered by a gunman, the former prime minister penned an opinion piece for The New York Times about the Australian gun control experience.
"After this wanton slaughter, I knew that I had to use the authority of my office to curb the possession and use of the types of weapons that killed 35 innocent people," Mr Howard wrote. "I also knew it wouldn't be easy."
Laws that would ban assault weapons and impose criminal background checks on most firearms sold in the United States were blocked by the US senate last week.
Mr Oliver sparked controversy when he referred to Australia as "most comfortably racist" last week.
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