Last Week Tonights 2017 season finale ended with a faux political thriller starring Tom Hanks and John Olivers cadre of wax presidents.
In July, the show spent $13,700 to buy five wax presidents from a Gettysburg, PA museum. Sir, the world is in trouble. We need you. The fate of humanity itself is at stake. Will you help us, Mr. President, Hanks tells the unseen Commander-in-Chief, who is revealed to be Olivers beloved Warren G. Harding wax figurine.
However, as Hanks tells Harding, the dire situation requires the aid of all of the wax presidents Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, William Henry Harrison and Jimmy Carter who then somehow emerge out of the shadows.
Gentlemen lets go wax these bastards, Hanks says as Carters statue falls face first onto the marble floor.
Coming 2018, the trailer warns, which is when Last Week Tonight will return to HBO.
Oliver previously engaged in a war of words with Stephen Colbert when the two hosts made their respective wax presidents Olivers Harding and Colberts Zachary Taylor fight to the death on The Late Show.