After seeing Sir Richard Branson’s Foray into Space (Kind of) on Sunday, Stephen Colbert greeted his billionaire buddy to the Tuesday Late Show for some earthbound glee. (Branson even put his bare feet on Colbert’s desk, which, according to the Law of Heaven, was supposed to put tape on an airplane seat.) Similarly, the space racing plutocrat reacted to Colbert’s oh-so-gentle reluctance to mention how all that top-notch luxury- Space tourist money could be better used here on little old earth by essentially telling these lowly non-rich that “they are not fully educated”.
Well, on Late Night With Seth Meyers, host Meyers brought his own expert to skewer this whole suspiciously rushed fad of the super-rich who can be the first to untie the sullen shackles of gravity, global warming, social unrest and the mutation of viruses. And if former weekend update partner Amy Poehler isn’t a billionaire herself, she’s doing it well enough to at least offer another perspective from the rare atmosphere of privilege in the form of the duo’s resurgence.Really!?! With Seth and Amy“-Segment.
Well, nobody says space exploration is not an essential step in humanity’s innate quest to understand the universe of which it’s just a lonely, seemingly insignificant blob, but really? When Meyers began, the Drag Race to Space between incredibly wealthy Mughals like Branson, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk wasn’t exactly a NASA fact-finding mission. “You didn’t fly into space”, Meyers rebuked Branson for his more than first-class chauffeur tour through the upper atmosphere, “you only went quite high for an airplane.” Poehler interfered that there were no women involved in this rocket-shaped tail measurement competition are because “we’re staying down here because we all have to fix things. We have shit to do down here. ”Things like how Poehler poked the famous loophole jumper Bezos and tried to get the extra income that these? wealthy tax evaders Instead, hand out figure-hugging space overalls and après-flight champagne jams.
Poehler stuck to tails and recognized the obsession of male billionaires with seeing who can build the most powerful and thickest tail-shaped things (rockets, skyscrapers)? “Meyers also noted that it is in no way suspect that the world’s richest men are the Investigate the possibility of exiting the earth when “Death Valley was 130 degrees and the ocean was on fire last week.” Plus, as Poehler said wearily, you just know these glorified ballast boys are coming back to us complaining about the “space lag” they just invented and dropping the word “space” into the conversation like a college kid accented from a semester in France. “I’m going to take the dog on a space walk go for a walk – I mean a walk, “Meyers expected the resulting unbearability. And don’t start Poehler with the possibility – no, probability – that one of those so-called astronauts simply “accidentally poking a hole in space” and the rest of us have to pay to connect with these billionaires. total lack of taxes. It could happen. Really.