DANBURY, Conn. Comedian John Oliver upped the stakes in a tongue-in-cheek spat with a Connecticut city, offering to donate $55,000 to charity if officials follow through on a joke to name its sewage treatment plant after him.
Mayor Mark Boughton said last week that Danbury was going to rename the facility the John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant, in response to Oliver's expletive-filled rant against the city on a recent episode of HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver."
Because its full of crap just like you, John," Boughton said in a video posted on his Facebook page.
But then he went off on another rant after playing a video of Boughton saying it was just a joke.
Aw (expletive) you, Danbury, Oliver said.