Just to save time for the curious ones like me. The Giant peace Duck (I don't remember the exact name) sold for $8,988 The Duck hunting a hunter sold for $16,100 The Duck with a pearl earring sold for $ 16,185 Ducks Judging The Duck sold for $ 25,250 And finally The duck in Nintendo game duck hunt sold for $33,200 If I had the extra money, I would have bought that one too...
Seriously, LWT, PLEASE make these available as prints! I can bet many of us would buy them if they weren't $20K a piece!!! I totally want a few of them to put on my wall as the backdrop to my work Zoom calls. I think they would be an interesting conversation starter! :D
The auctioning of the original prints came as a genuine surprise, as I was completely expecting an announcement of where copies of the LWT submissions could be purchased (all proceeds going to wetland conservation, naturally). And could arguably bring in even more than the auctions. (How? Volume, baby!)
@@Spearca I personally think that form factor makes them more appealing. They would be easier to ship and have more places where they could be put for people without alot of room.
The "no numbers" rule actually makes sense. This art is meant to be put on stamps, which need to have meaningful numbers put on them, so numbers in the art could potentially be confusing.
What you’re really trying to say is they should submit that painting again but have the numbers on the duck judge paddles be the numbers for the year that stamp might be used? I like the way you think!
Afghanistan disaster, border crisis, mandatory jabs and government take over, ya great distraction...give him another Emmy while this traitor should dance from a rope
I agree 100% only John Oliver could do this with any topic in the world is truly a master at this kind of thing he can be insightful about the most mundane topic and then by the time the episode is over you kind of feel enlightened by the segment no longer mundane and insignificant.
Oh, quack! Are we late to the party? Guess we were busy rewinding our nifty 90s video tapes… 📹 Sorry those entries didn’t fit the bill! Better duck next year? 🦆 Thanks for supporting wildlife conservation and raising awareness about the Federal Duck Stamp Program! We’re jazzed seeing all this enthusiasm about the Federal Duck Stamp Program - didn’t ruffle our feathers one bit! 🦢 In fact, we’d love to have you visit @USFWSRefuges & experience Duck Stamp dollars at work. 💰 You game? If not, we’d like an egg-splanation, you wise quacker. No fowl language. 🐣 Interested in some of our more contemporary waterfowl filmmaking & outreach? Check out: www.fws.gov/hunting/wing-id.html And yes, all the ducks are anatomically accurate.
I never thought I'd see a federal agency with humour! Give the PR guy a raise, and make it quack! I wish that the swedish wildlife ministry would be as good as you lot!
Oh please, please make these available as prints! I so want the “Duck shooting man shooting duck” one for over the mantelpiece! I mean, you had me at “Duck shooting man shooting duck”. But “Duck shooting man shooting duck breaks the 4th wall” - genius.
"the Trump Administration required hunting equipment" I.....I don't know how to feel, like I should be mad but I am more stunned that the Trump government found such a niche aspect of government and NEEDED to just Trump it up
For those who also forgot this part, the Trump administration required that hunting imagery be displayed on the stamp. Roughly 5:30 if you want to skip
It’s so ridiculous. I think the only reason for that requirement was because some Trump official didn’t like that conservationists also collected the stamps and wanted a petty way to spite them.
yeah, good lord that creeped me tf out. gotta have hunting stuff in a duck habitat saving stamp? that's not the creepy part tho- how many other random obscure corners of our vast federal government structures, rules, and laws did he reach in and manipulate? his sick and twisted mark on our democracy might pop up for decades to come. maybe that was his legacy goal.
If you take a broader view of it, It's actually a surprisingly cunning plan. First off, you drive away conservationists by distorting the imagery, reducing funding for conservation efforts (something Trump is against) while still appealing to his rootin' tootin gunslinging voting base who wouldn't see this as a negative. As part of a broader plan to attack conservation efforts, it's surprisingly sophisticated and insidious, if this is the intent.
@@ValleysOfRain I'm a little upset that you are very likely correct. I guess while Trump would never have this level of intrigue, I should be more watchful for all the underlings who might actually be closer to the evil side of the meter. Hopefully that requirement has been or will be removed.
This video made my effin' month. I smiled through the whole thing. I know people who are members of duck enthusiast groups. 12 minutes of laughing - that ain't happened in a while, ya know?
What, you're saying you can't dish out a 5 digit sum of money to buy a joke painting of a duck? Did you see that one of them is still at $3000? That one surely isn't a problem, just give yourself a nudge and buy that ridiculous thing!
@@CaptainSweatpants90 Normally I would agree with you, but it kind of is for charity so I am glad that people are spending a lot of money on them. Still kind of sucks that some people have enough money lying around to spend on stuff like this with out a second thought and others have to choose between rent and food. That is capitalism for you. At least it is for a good cause..
@@gamerguy425 I'm not. In general they wouldn't go for anywhere near the prices they will go for. But if you get a famous person attached to it, AND it's for a joke, AND it's for donating to a good cause? Easily make that kind of money.
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The ducks judging the duck stamp contest is my favorite. The execution, the subtle jab at the duck stamp judges.. okay it wasn't subte at all... endeared it to me immediately. The fact that all the numbers are 555, which everyone knows is a fake number, it's just icing on the cake.
It's a shame they used numbers instead of stars or something so they could have qualified it. I think it was easily the most "acceptable" print they had. It made it's commentary, but wasn't aesthetically jarring in the process. I'd like to think it would have made it to the next round, but I'm probably wrong.
@@calladeem240, i think the judges knew they were being trolled and one thing I have learnt over the years, is that these sorts of judges have no sense of humour.
Could be... but I couldn't help but thinking how easy it would be for them to airbrush out any offending or confusing elements (numbers / letters / pearl earrings) if a painting were otherwise excellent.
So I checked the website and oh man- I'm so proud that this duck stamp art raised close to 100k. Duck with a Pearl went up to 16k. Glad that art made a positive impact on wildlife conservation.
I mean... Right click->Save image as->Print. Then just make a donation yourself. Ethically, it's a toss-up, but you can feel better if you made the donation.
70k isn't even enough for one salary of some clerk. Wetland conservation needs government policies worth many millions paid by the taxes on the wealthiest, not random microscopic donations to fill a tv show episode
@@Kosmanen 1.1 billion dollar "since 1944" -> resulting in about 14 million per year. Which still sounds like a big number, but after breaking it down to the amount of wetlands to protect, it's propably not much.
@@NJ-wb1cz that is absolutely true, but you can't deny the incremental change this brings. Aside from the actual money, the attention the stamps get through LWT is fairly substantial. Even if its unlikely, the discourse on conservation this brings is still beneficial.
As a waterfowler and someone that has purchased a duck stamp every year for 20 years, I sincerely hope you guys do this every year!!! You guys raised a ton of money!
"The Duck With The Pearl Earring" will be getting a fresh film adaptation unto itself, and Scarlet Johansson will be returning to play the lead role once again. Johansson feels confident she can adequately portray a duck.
It seems quite formulaic, like rehashed landscape art you see sold on sidewalks I guess those guys just found what works for judges and repeat it, stuffing their paintings with cool looking things
Someone may have already posted about a similar idea, but if not: The paintings John commissioned should be made into prints as others have requested and then sold for the same price as the official duck stamps. I think they would have the potential to kill two birds (or more specifically, ducks) with one stone: Raising a lot of money for conservation and showing the judges why they were wrong to dismiss them as quickly as they did.
Or, at least, postcards. I would pay $100 for all five postcards or $100 for individual posters. Surely, such sales would allow you to collect even more money for conservation.
@@leiajiang7877 But...people _do_ buy them. And honestly, if a joke stamp won the contest, people who think it's making fun of their hobby could refuse to buy it, especially with John being a politically divisive figure.
It really is a damn shame that none of those were accepted, especially the Duck Hunt one. THAT is a work of art. I think a rollout of copies of each would be great, too. Sell each for like $20. I'd happily buy all 5.
Seeing the winning painting, I'm expecting it not to sell well. Who'd want that? I stand by my previous statement. The NES stamp would have sold out in less than one minute. Guess the judges don't care about raising money.
"Ducks Judging The Duck Stamps" was honestly too good for the competition, they probably invented that stupid number rule just to keep that one from running away with the contest. EDIT: I feel like this shouldn't be necessary, but this comment here that you just read is what we call a "joke." I do not truly believe that this number rule was invented specifically for the magnificent art I was referring to, but rather suggested such because I found it a humorous way in which to express my appreciation of the submission.
nope, they were made to stamps, who have numbers on them and thereby numbers on the original stamps were banned from the pictures to prevent confusion, its an actual problems in old stamps in the past....while i will point out, that the US is one of the WORSE stamp-nation to collect. ...all these damn liberty-statue, bells and FLAG stamps are a sickness, unique to your nation. the British stamps have just one horrible large design of stamps and they keep it in the same system for decades, so i will call it acceptable and its just one system, even dictatorships, like Franco-Spain or NS-Germany was able to just pic one design for one group of a stamp with the narcissistic leader on the stamp. they printed a lot, but they kept it simple ONLY the fucking USA HAS to do fucking hundred non-similar, but same stamps motives on the market over just like 30 years of the same fucking flag. even for professional collectors, these stamps are TRASH and not worth the time to collect them. Even your interesting Christmas pictures with gold and christian symbols were made to shit by your horrible glue-design, that remain to be the worse to remove, if you want to collect actual used American stamps in your collection, they will stick to the book and destroy the actual 1000 times more valuable book OR you put actual acid on the stamps to get the glue off, just to destroy the stamps in the process for the next years. Im a collector of stamps from all over the world, even from not-UN accepted slum-nations in Southafrica, but the US-stamps are SHIT. FIX YOUR GLUE and remove the same images on your stamps OR stick to a motive with different color variations, like the res tof the damn world.....oh and on your way, fix your damn measurements.
@@jadeykg123 i felt better after writing it down :3 stamp collecting helps me normally to be more calm. not to organize these 6 pages of american flag-stamps.
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Thank you for having fun and supporting a great conservation cause. LWT is welcome in my duck blind anytime. Cheers on over $75k raised for the duck stamp program and publicity you couldn't buy. You. are. legends.
The world isn‘t shitty. You just are depressed and have a warped view of the world. Stop consuming news and you will be much, much happier. Trust me. I used to be depressed too. Then I stopped consuming news completely. Changed my life. I‘m not watching any Late Night Shows either anymore. Except Conan (because he rarely talks about current events) and John Oliver, but only innocent topics like this one.
Why? They were deliberately bad-faith attempts to mess with another group's fun. This didn't even feel like trolling to me, just bullying. What harm was this group causing, what problems were they creating, what issues are involved here? It's just a weird community with weird rules that's not hurting anyone...
@@Wraithfighter I don't see any bad faith here and as 3 of the 5 paintings were qualified, they seemingly didn't even break the formal rules, while still of course not being what the jury is looking for. Sure, the paintings are humours and maybe a bit mocking, but not only not in an attacking or insulting way, but for an obviously good reason: Because, as it stands, this is not only a weird little group with their own rules, this is indeed a crucial part of the US' wetland conservation effort and as far as I've understood an official part of federal hunting regulations. Adding those more humours approaches to the contest even without the intend of actually winning does serve the purpose of bringing it to a larger audience's attention (as many of Oliver's stunts), who wouldn't have cared otherwise/without something interesting and entertaining to the general masses going on. This of course aims at (and will probably succeed) increasing sales of duck stamps and therfore the money raised for its conservation purposes. So, there is not only no actual harm, attack or criticism coming from Oliver's act, but this good faith mocking actually even helps their very course while obviously never expecting to win/influence the actual contest . The only thing one might consider insulting without taking things way too serious is the portrait of the two rival artists, as it aims at actual people and not just.... you know, ducks , but as they mock and insult each other quite publicly, I would consider it fair game. Though I see how one could disagree there.
That's why this is one of my favorites. I can't be the only one that appreciates his entertaining hard work but is also annoyed that every week he focuses that hard work into trying to make people think the world is a terrible place and we're all screwed unless we vote or donate for whatever he tells us to. He's brilliant but incredibly biased and one-sided on the aisle.
@Anthony Riordan Wait until you realize this is doing the same thing, by giving a call to action of bidding/buying more duck stamps. You probably politically agree more with animal conservation than the other topics though.
The Redhead Hunting the Hunter has a look in its eyes that says: "I'm going to kill this man. I'm going to enjoy it. And whether or not you'll ever admit it yourself, you will, too."
Hmmm. I think that look suggests, "I'm going to kill this man. I'm going to enjoy it. But only after he kills Mallard, my ex BF, whom I caught corkscrewing that tramp the redhead."
Living in Minnesota, the Duck Stamps always get a lot of coverage. I've always wanted to see a Monet painting of a duck swimming among his Water Lilies.
Please John, I beg you, keep this thing going for as long as possible. I'm sure you could create an entire spin off series. You and your team have created something special 🙀
my grandpa won a few duck stamp competitions, my family has one of the paintings in our living room and it looks like it could be a photograph but the detail is just insane
I saw this in my recommended, and I thought, "Ugh. How are these "duck stamp" things some sort of huge problem in the United States somehow linked to racism, bad policies, and incompetent governance?" I was pleasantly surprised that this was not the case.
Well, at least until we eventually find out that Tim Taylor is a secret oil & gas lobbyist who advised the Trump administration to restrict Native Americans' access to national parks or something. FML, in this timeline that may actually be true.
@@greglloyd2377 Or their is still alot of racial targeting when your a minority and would know that if you actual faced it constantly instead of commenting on shit you don't know and telling people what you think they faced.
I was once a judge for Indiana's duck stamp contest. It was a fun expirence and there was quite a few amazing duck drawing thete as well. Though none had a pearl ear ring.
Although I'm convinced this segment *started* with the mu shu pancakes joke in a Chinese restaurant, the duck stamp is a really good thing to highlight. We buy the duck stamp every year, because it helps the wetlands AND it's way cooler looking than the weekly parking pass at the beach (but also gets you parking - worth the cost). Sales probably went down last year because less people went out to FWS sites due to COVID-19. We don't hunt, we just like old-timey Americana and we say buy the duck stamp! Support wildlife conservation!
There's also a Junior Duck Stamp contest. I was the state winner when I was a junior in high school. It was a great experience! It definitely helped spark my love for conservation.
There's a certain old-world comforting quality to classic sporting art. I don't actually have any on my walls, but I'm glad it's there. The painting that won the competition is very strong and deserved to win IMHO. Beautiful treatment of golden-hour light.
@@channingdeadnight The auction description specifically notes that the copyrights are retained by Last Week's production company, so hopefully it will happen.
Im a cultured duck art lover and I want them all except the last one. They are really very good paintings. Even the duck hunt one is pretty cool. Duck with the pearl earing is one of my new favorite paintings period.
In resume, in this segment we went through: - Duck stamps -> Permissions for hunting -> Wetland conservation finances -> artistry -> Painter's rivalry -> Barack Obama Birthers conspiracy theories -> Painting applications for the next year's Duck Stamp -> Call for help for conservatism - > John Oliver's monthly deranged (and wonderful) idea (the painting) -> Satirical Humor -> Second John Oliver's monthly deranged idea (the second painting) -> Third John Oliver's monthly deranged idea (the three paintings!....), with a side criticism of Dutch Golden Age art. -> Ominous rant! -> final John Oliver's monthly deranged idea (the last painting) -> Winner of the Duck stamp painting -> Last Week's Tonight Auction, in favor of the Federal Duck Stamp Program (with a background of a relaxing oboe concert) 😁😁😁 Isn't Last Week Tonight a hoot, or what?!
You too missed the part where the Trump administration found time in their scheduled murdering and torture of humans to add a requirement of duck-murdering implements or scenes included into paintings of ducks, commissioned as a part of a program for protecting the living habitat of ducks.
I absolutely love the fact that "Last Week Tonight's" you tube channel is consistently racking up new subscriber numbers each day!!!! More and More people need to learn from this gem of a Toucan.🙌👌
As someone who currently works for the US Fish & Wildlife Service, I am fucking crying of laughter from this episode 😂😂😂 Thank you John Oliver for the well needed laugh 😂😂😂
I just took pictures of Fish and Wildlife in Lake Ontario. I thought the boat was Coast Guard, but it was F&W. I don't think I've ever seen them in our area before. I was surprised.
You can't just print your own stamps, which is why you have to buy them and they can be used to send letters. They have value, printing your own is akin to printing counterfeit money.
@@Melesniannon I was thinking more along the lines of poster-sized prints. Attempting to affix that to an envelope would be an exercise in futility. For starters your tongue would dry out licking the back...
I'm so relieved with how this turned out. My first thought when I saw duck stamps on last week tonight was "oh, no, it's gonna be a story of embezzlement and how none of the funds actually go to preservation"
Me, an animal lover: That winning duck painting is beautiful. Me, an artist: Duck With a Pearl Earring is clearly the best. Me, a gamer: Give it to Duck Hunt 🤣
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Currently selling for 17,5 grand so it's kind of out of reach for most of us now. I don't think many people have the kind of money to just spend 15k+ on a joke.
Listen, we all knew from the moment he said there was a contest that he was going to have entered it. But the submissions still knocked my socks off. I legit want the Duck Hunt one, I grew up on the Super Nintendo
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This one, my friends, is straight one of my top 3 episodes of this year 😍😍😍 I haven’t had that much fun for a while those 5 paintings are absolutely GOLD ! (Yeah & it did speak much itself about the absolute killjoy of the judge panel 😂😂
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Just to save time for the curious ones like me.
The Giant peace Duck (I don't remember the exact name) sold for $8,988
The Duck hunting a hunter sold for $16,100
The Duck with a pearl earring sold for $ 16,185
Ducks Judging The Duck sold for $ 25,250
And finally The duck in Nintendo game duck hunt sold for $33,200
If I had the extra money, I would have bought that one too...
Thank you for that and I knew that the duck hunt one would go for the most but I did think the number would be higher tho…like 50 grand!
@@anthonybroady9483 yeah!
That might have been one of the most epic episodes yet. John Oliver’s outrage/enthusiasm/passion is legendary.
Hell of a pay day for the painter or painters.
Thank you!
The duck hunting the hunter who’s hunting the duck painting is fantastic.
But not anatomically correct as to the holding of the gun.
One of the greatest paintings known to man. Anybody that disagrees can go duck themselves.
My favorite, I’d love to have that one. 😁
The current bud on it is over 15k lol
@@williamshimmin2854 Almost enough to make me wish I had 16k just lying around. Wait, I do wish...
the ducks judging the duck stamp contest is honestly classy as fuck
If the association didn't ask for that one as a donation to spruce up the place, theres no hope for them.
classy as duck you mean
I'd buy this
It is my favorite as well.
yes, that's an absolute masterpiece.
The duck with the shotgun pointed at the person obviously should've been titled Duck Cheney.
How are you the first to pen this and bravo.
Hilarious!
Awesome comment 🤣
Jon seriously missed the mark on this
You are the winner sir!🤣💯🥇
I love how he's both insulting the judges AND helping their cause.
It's like a well-done pro-wrestling match: one side might take a little damage, but in the end no one looks weak, and everyone's entertained.
Approximately $100K raised from those 5 art pieces. Well done!
@@rico76 😳 100k??
@@factsoverfiction7826 in total, yes. About that.
Me too🥰
that duck hunting a hunter is a legit masterpiece
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That look in the duck's eye is fantastic
It's amazing. I don't usually care about art at all but I can see myself actually buying that in a store.
I think it's digital, but it is splendid
Duck Cheney?
Please make these paintings available as prints. I want the red head for my home and the ducks voting for my classroom.
Seriously, LWT, PLEASE make these available as prints! I can bet many of us would buy them if they weren't $20K a piece!!! I totally want a few of them to put on my wall as the backdrop to my work Zoom calls. I think they would be an interesting conversation starter! :D
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Good way to make more $$. Hope they consider it. And I hope John does Zoom interviews with the winning bidders.
The auctioning of the original prints came as a genuine surprise, as I was completely expecting an announcement of where copies of the LWT submissions could be purchased (all proceeds going to wetland conservation, naturally). And could arguably bring in even more than the auctions. (How? Volume, baby!)
@@Spearca I personally think that form factor makes them more appealing. They would be easier to ship and have more places where they could be put for people without alot of room.
The "no numbers" rule actually makes sense. This art is meant to be put on stamps, which need to have meaningful numbers put on them, so numbers in the art could potentially be confusing.
boooooo who asked you, narc? 😜
@@kaycook5031”who asked you”? It’s a RUclips comment section, no one asked for any comment, yours included.
What you’re really trying to say is they should submit that painting again but have the numbers on the duck judge paddles be the numbers for the year that stamp might be used? I like the way you think!
Ya... I'm beginning to think John Oliver isn't taking this thing too seriously
It can also be very difficult to ensure there are no coded messages in the numbers or letters.
The "Ducks judging Duck Stamp Art" one unironically seemed like a real contender, if not for the numbers rule.
It's already up to 17k.
If I had spare thousands this is the one I’d bid on.
Not anatomically accurate, sadly.
It's going for the most atm.
Definitely the one I would most enjoy on my wall at home.
It's crazy how a story about a stamp could be this interesting, engaging and dramatic.
Exactly. THIS is why his show wins the Emmy every year.
#kengriffinlied
Afghanistan disaster, border crisis, mandatory jabs and government take over, ya great distraction...give him another Emmy while this traitor should dance from a rope
actually it's not surprising at all
I agree 100% only John Oliver could do this with any topic in the world is truly a master at this kind of thing he can be insightful about the most mundane topic and then by the time the episode is over you kind of feel enlightened by the segment no longer mundane and insignificant.
Oh, quack! Are we late to the party? Guess we were busy rewinding our nifty 90s video tapes… 📹
Sorry those entries didn’t fit the bill! Better duck next year? 🦆 Thanks for supporting wildlife conservation and raising awareness about the Federal Duck Stamp Program!
We’re jazzed seeing all this enthusiasm about the Federal Duck Stamp Program - didn’t ruffle our feathers one bit! 🦢 In fact, we’d love to have you visit @USFWSRefuges & experience Duck Stamp dollars at work. 💰
You game? If not, we’d like an egg-splanation, you wise quacker. No fowl language. 🐣
Interested in some of our more contemporary waterfowl filmmaking & outreach? Check out: www.fws.gov/hunting/wing-id.html
And yes, all the ducks are anatomically accurate.
You guys are great sports. 😂 Thank you for this!
Only 40 likes, one comment,and not pinned?
I never thought I'd see a federal agency with humour! Give the PR guy a raise, and make it quack!
I wish that the swedish wildlife ministry would be as good as you lot!
My father would have loved all these shenanigans. He entered many times and came in 8th one year before he passed away. Keep up the good work!
Amazing
Oh please, please make these available as prints! I so want the “Duck shooting man shooting duck” one for over the mantelpiece! I mean, you had me at “Duck shooting man shooting duck”. But “Duck shooting man shooting duck breaks the 4th wall” - genius.
I agree, it is awesome.
I was hoping they'd be available as stamps like they did a while back. Id send our Christmas cards with these.
Make that prints of all of them. There's a few I'd like to have
But don't you think it would be better if it was specifically Daffy and Elmer instead of just duck and man?
I want the duck hunt one poster sized.
Jon’s obvious glee in stuff like this is so endearing.
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"Those judges don't know SHIT about ducks!" - Best line ever
@@jontong2804 stop spamming
@@piccolo_grande_amore don't be dumb, all Jigglypuffs spam pound. It's expected.
@@skapenguin what does that even mean?
We went from voting rights to duck stamps. Truly diverse content
Well, how can you send your mail-in ballot without a duck stamp? The pieces connect!
What da duck?
its as if theyre connected in human rights OMG YOURE FIGURING IT OUT
Now we just need a crossover with CGP Grey to make sure nobody has any idea what topic comes next
@@trashrabbit69 A surprising amount of politicians also have corkscrew penises.
"the Trump Administration required hunting equipment" I.....I don't know how to feel, like I should be mad but I am more stunned that the Trump government found such a niche aspect of government and NEEDED to just Trump it up
For those who also forgot this part, the Trump administration required that hunting imagery be displayed on the stamp. Roughly 5:30 if you want to skip
It’s so ridiculous. I think the only reason for that requirement was because some Trump official didn’t like that conservationists also collected the stamps and wanted a petty way to spite them.
yeah, good lord that creeped me tf out. gotta have hunting stuff in a duck habitat saving stamp? that's not the creepy part tho- how many other random obscure corners of our vast federal government structures, rules, and laws did he reach in and manipulate? his sick and twisted mark on our democracy might pop up for decades to come. maybe that was his legacy goal.
If you take a broader view of it, It's actually a surprisingly cunning plan. First off, you drive away conservationists by distorting the imagery, reducing funding for conservation efforts (something Trump is against) while still appealing to his rootin' tootin gunslinging voting base who wouldn't see this as a negative. As part of a broader plan to attack conservation efforts, it's surprisingly sophisticated and insidious, if this is the intent.
@@ValleysOfRain I'm a little upset that you are very likely correct. I guess while Trump would never have this level of intrigue, I should be more watchful for all the underlings who might actually be closer to the evil side of the meter. Hopefully that requirement has been or will be removed.
Definitely a surprise to have a new upload on a Wednesday, but a welcome one at that
GAGAGAGAGAGA!!! I want to cut my toenails... NEVER! I am the feet RUclipsr. Thanks for being a fan, dear al
This video made my effin' month. I smiled through the whole thing. I know people who are members of duck enthusiast groups. 12 minutes of laughing - that ain't happened in a while, ya know?
for a moment there i really questioned what day it was
I think you meant to say "a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one"
“A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.”
“I think I’ll check out the bidding”
*Sees the prices*
“Well I sure did check it out”
What, you're saying you can't dish out a 5 digit sum of money to buy a joke painting of a duck? Did you see that one of them is still at $3000? That one surely isn't a problem, just give yourself a nudge and buy that ridiculous thing!
I wanted to see the auctions myself but I am from the wrong country xD but thankfully (as I read the comments) I wasn't able to bankrupt myself
I literally went to art school and I'm somehow surprised they're going for that much XD
@@CaptainSweatpants90 Normally I would agree with you, but it kind of is for charity so I am glad that people are spending a lot of money on them.
Still kind of sucks that some people have enough money lying around to spend on stuff like this with out a second thought and others have to choose between rent and food. That is capitalism for you.
At least it is for a good cause..
@@gamerguy425 I'm not. In general they wouldn't go for anywhere near the prices they will go for. But if you get a famous person attached to it, AND it's for a joke, AND it's for donating to a good cause? Easily make that kind of money.
*Me seeing last week tonight post on a Wednesday*: what did John make HBO spend money on now?
Baaaahaaaa
They need to still prep for the Disney lawsuit from the Donald Duck corkscrew penis.
a money-printing machine, obviously
The answer is ducks. It's always, Ducks.
Declaration of Heavenly Citizenship
I am a citizen of heaven and God's Kingdom, I am born into a Nation that wont be shaken.
God's name is written everywhere throughout his creation, before we are conceived he knows us and called us his own.
I am bound by God laws, his love and perfect justice has always existed.
I have free will to choose to accept God as my king or reject him completely.
Either way he accepts my decision and acts accordingly.
I have chosen to serve him since I was an adolescent, although my actions didn't always convey that message.
Still God hasn't shut me down, given up on me, or condemned me for my mistakes.
That is true justice, and that is a just King.
When I was born a United States citizen it was a different story entirely.
My birth certificate tied me to this country and established me as their property.
I was led to believe that I had freedom here, that our whole Nation fought for our rights to religion, persecution, and discriminations.
This free will / freedom that I thought as a kid " I am so blessed to live in a country like this." Has deteriorated, been criminalized and deplatformed.
I have no problems with common sense laws (pretty much summed up by the 10 commandments)... or one Love your neighbor.
Although when the laws started to not make sense and conflict with God's law, that is when enough is enough.
I have done all I can do to follow the laws in this country and support the union that I pledged allegiance too.
For a long time you had us fooled and full of pride in America, when it was the time for humility.
You encouraged the evil within our hearts and propregated these sins to our youths.
Using fear and force trying to silence any opposition or truth on the case against you.
I see now that I am never a "freeman" in America, because my free will and right to believe in a God who is above everything is taken.
If anyone speaks on God power, Healing or believes in the miracles still occuring everday, is imprisoned.
Is it so hard to let people have freedom of choice and beliefs, or is it better for you to fine and imprison believers.
You can make an example out of us.
The real bad example here is you America and all who have darkened the idea of a free nation UNDER God.
No matter what the wicked may try, they cannot win a war that is already won.
Any litigation that says I'm USA property is invalid, and at this point I would prefer to renounce it all.
Thing is I died in spirit, truth, and was baptized by the holy spirit and in water.
My old body is gone, I am a new creation.
You see God has and will make all things new, there is nothing God hasn't thought of, it is all apart of his plan.
I stand today as for years now on earth a citizen of Heaven a new creation with a new heart/soul certified by God almighty into a heavenly kingdom.
The old me that was owned by the state and run by the federation, he died.. he doesn't exist.
I am marked and this passport in my DNA allows me to live eternally through the grace of God.
My Body is His Temple, and our names in the book of life.
God is ready to accept anyone who chooses him.
He doesn't force anyone to worship him or do anything...
...That is true freedom and true justice.
If a God who is jealous for our attention and worship can still give us our free will.
WHY CAN'T THE USA OR ANY MAJOR COUNTRY RN
Truth is they don't want you free, dont want you to succeed and they dont love you.
I am a part of the Body of Christ, all those with me know where we are going.
It is to a kingdom that is truly loving, beautiful, and just.
The New Heaven and Earth will never fall and we will stand ready on the day of judgement.
The numerous creative ways John and his team come up with to do good is amazing. The world needs more shows like this.
The ducks judging the duck stamp contest is my favorite. The execution, the subtle jab at the duck stamp judges.. okay it wasn't subte at all... endeared it to me immediately. The fact that all the numbers are 555, which everyone knows is a fake number, it's just icing on the cake.
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555 is Thai online speak for "hahaha", so it still works.
It's a shame they used numbers instead of stars or something so they could have qualified it. I think it was easily the most "acceptable" print they had. It made it's commentary, but wasn't aesthetically jarring in the process. I'd like to think it would have made it to the next round, but I'm probably wrong.
@@calladeem240, i think the judges knew they were being trolled and one thing I have learnt over the years, is that these sorts of judges have no sense of humour.
@@OneLeatherBoot No offense, but the correct word/English is...I have "learned", not learnt.
You've made trolling a form of high art, the duck with a pearl earring is sublime...
Literally
THIS
Agreed. All the way.
It works on so many levels. Especially on the level where it's funny as fuck.
I've always said, I appreciate high effort trolls. Even if I don't think they are funny, it's like "ah yes, a person of culture". Ie internet culture.
For what it's worth, I'm guessing the "no numbers" rule is to prevent confusion with the numbers printed on the stamp itself.
A fair hypothesis. Thank you.
@@geabeby5346 easy spam reports
Could be... but I couldn't help but thinking how easy it would be for them to airbrush out any offending or confusing elements (numbers / letters / pearl earrings) if a painting were otherwise excellent.
Why would there be numbers printed on the stamp? They aren't even for posting.
@@zinaak4194 They have dates and the cash value listed on them, plus some other text.
So I checked the website and oh man- I'm so proud that this duck stamp art raised close to 100k. Duck with a Pearl went up to 16k. Glad that art made a positive impact on wildlife conservation.
I can’t afford to bid on any of those paintings, but I’d love it if y’all sold prints of them for the cause!
I agree, I would really like the duck with the pearl earring.
@@sidneyboo9704 I want that one as a print too!!!
Toss my money in that hat too. No way I can afford the duck hunt original. Already at 20k+
I mean... Right click->Save image as->Print. Then just make a donation yourself. Ethically, it's a toss-up, but you can feel better if you made the donation.
Right! Sell the prints!
FYI there's more than a day left and the bidding has already raised more than $70k for wetland conservation
OH COOL
70k isn't even enough for one salary of some clerk. Wetland conservation needs government policies worth many millions paid by the taxes on the wealthiest, not random microscopic donations to fill a tv show episode
@@Kosmanen 1.1 billion dollar "since 1944" -> resulting in about 14 million per year.
Which still sounds like a big number, but after breaking it down to the amount of wetlands to protect, it's propably not much.
@@NJ-wb1cz that is absolutely true, but you can't deny the incremental change this brings. Aside from the actual money, the attention the stamps get through LWT is fairly substantial. Even if its unlikely, the discourse on conservation this brings is still beneficial.
@@Shuizid Every little bit helps and something is more than nothing :)
This is awesome. Ducks judging ducks is not only hilarious but impressive and beautiful
I like how it's like, what right do humans have to judge a duck? So unfair. Only ducks should be able to judge other ducks!
The contest itself should adopt that as their logo or something.
That was so funny 😂
As a waterfowler and someone that has purchased a duck stamp every year for 20 years, I sincerely hope you guys do this every year!!! You guys raised a ton of money!
Duck hunt painting all the way. That is art, beauty, nostalgia and hilarity all wrapped up in one.
I would TOTALLY have that on my wall. Old wooden frame, Nintendo zapper sitting on the mantle. XD
Yes.. xD 10/10
And will only cost you 10K+
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I was so disappointed when I checked the auction.
@@ianashmore9910 Me too, in a pinch I'd buy a print though.
"The Duck With The Pearl Earring" will be getting a fresh film adaptation unto itself, and Scarlet Johansson will be returning to play the lead role once again. Johansson feels confident she can adequately portray a duck.
Ade-quackly portray a duck*
Glorious comment
I mean, she already knocked it out of the park as a rocker girl hedgehog!
That winning painting was actually beautiful, gotta give them that.
literally just said the same thing 2 minutes ago! agree!
It seems quite formulaic, like rehashed landscape art you see sold on sidewalks
I guess those guys just found what works for judges and repeat it, stuffing their paintings with cool looking things
Yeah my first thought at seeing it was "Well, that IS a damn good painting, to be fair."
The lighting is super accurate.
It's gorgeous
Someone may have already posted about a similar idea, but if not: The paintings John commissioned should be made into prints as others have requested and then sold for the same price as the official duck stamps. I think they would have the potential to kill two birds (or more specifically, ducks) with one stone: Raising a lot of money for conservation and showing the judges why they were wrong to dismiss them as quickly as they did.
They could have printed their own stamps too
Wow if only you could have read other people's comments to see if it had already been mentioned 100 times.
It might make that point a little bit stronger if they are more expensive and still outsell the duck stamp
PLEASE put these up as posters for us commoners to own as well! :'(
Or, at least, postcards. I would pay $100 for all five postcards or $100 for individual posters. Surely, such sales would allow you to collect even more money for conservation.
THIS!!!!!
Or as art prints!
I want too.
There are higher-res versions on the ebay listing.
The winning painting was stunningly beautiful.
Shoutout MN too
No it was literally the same as last year and the year before and the year before. Thats why no one buys the ducking stamps
@@leiajiang7877 But...people _do_ buy them. And honestly, if a joke stamp won the contest, people who think it's making fun of their hobby could refuse to buy it, especially with John being a politically divisive figure.
@@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou how the hell is he divisive? he even acknowledges both sides, and even that is divisive? sigh
@@jamirimaj6880 He obviously leans left. Don't play stupid.
It really is a damn shame that none of those were accepted, especially the Duck Hunt one. THAT is a work of art.
I think a rollout of copies of each would be great, too. Sell each for like $20. I'd happily buy all 5.
I would definitely buy a print at that price.
I want a print as well! I want everyone who visits my apartment to know how cultured I am :D
Or, go to a sporting goods store and buy a real duck stamp. Still raising money for conservation.
Surely they can print more than five!!
+1 Duck Hunt!
Only problem is... How would Nintendo handle it?
Rob McBroom is officially my favorite real-world troll of all time.
He's doing the lord's work.
I wish they sold prints that duck hunt one, the duck judging, and duck with a Pearl earring are my favorites
I'm honestly surprised that they aren't. Hunt and Judging are honestly hilarious and could even make a fun little gift to the right person.
Yeah, this was only meant for the rich elites to participate in.
For shame they're not! I can't bid large numbers but I'd be happy to buy them all as prints!
yes, prints too!
Yeah, maybe make some merch because the bids on ebay are way too high for most people
"The duck hunting the duck hunting hunter" is by FAR the best painting! It absolutely should be on a stamp
I KNOW! The look on the ducks face was super perfect
I’m honestly devastated that the Duck With The Pearl Earring did not win, that piece is absolutely gorgeous!
Right? The other ones are very fun and witty sure, but the pearl earing, damn, this is unironically beautiful, I could legit hang that on my wall !!
It's Vermeerly the best choice.
it should have gotten at least some points.. but to get none?? 0.o
Life must be hard if you have no sense of humor. I wonder where they find those judges.
I would absolutely buy a print of the ducks judging the duck art contest. It's witty and really well done
You should offer them on t-shirts, mugs, magnets, and the like. I'd wear that Duck with a Pearl Earring as a T-Shirt!
Same with the t-shirt, wearing when out partying: "I'm all about protecting wetlands baby" :D
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I genuinely want the painting of a duck hunting a hunter hunting a duck on my wall.
15,100 $ as of yet
I hope they decide to sell prints after
I wish they would sell printed copies of those too, they could raise even more money.
They shouldn't have disqualified the Nintendo one. That one would have sold out in less than one minute.
Seeing the winning painting, I'm expecting it not to sell well. Who'd want that? I stand by my previous statement. The NES stamp would have sold out in less than one minute. Guess the judges don't care about raising money.
They could paint grasses over the letters and numbers and submit next year
Well, bidding for that one is currently at 10.9k so, yes it would have
@@tictacmothma Duh, they obviously care only about ducks.
They should sell merchandise of it, that's how you really make money
I'm honestly in love with "Duck with a pearl earring". I would absolutely hang that painting in my house!
I so hope this becomes an annual tradition. I need more of these.
Honestly, those paintings are super charming. Duck Hunt for the nostalgia, Duck with the pearl Earing for the snoots, and Duck judges is just so cute.
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Segment was so good they just had to add it.
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@Jon Thor be gone bot!
@@astrowolvez Don't respond to it, that's how they learn and take over.
Way to separate the dabblers from the divers.
@@jamespryor5967 I just report and blocked them, so I don’t even think they would see the comment.
"Ducks Judging The Duck Stamps" was honestly too good for the competition, they probably invented that stupid number rule just to keep that one from running away with the contest.
EDIT: I feel like this shouldn't be necessary, but this comment here that you just read is what we call a "joke." I do not truly believe that this number rule was invented specifically for the magnificent art I was referring to, but rather suggested such because I found it a humorous way in which to express my appreciation of the submission.
nope, they were made to stamps, who have numbers on them and thereby numbers on the original stamps were banned from the pictures to prevent confusion, its an actual problems in old stamps in the past....while i will point out, that the US is one of the WORSE stamp-nation to collect.
...all these damn liberty-statue, bells and FLAG stamps are a sickness, unique to your nation. the British stamps have just one horrible large design of stamps and they keep it in the same system for decades, so i will call it acceptable and its just one system, even dictatorships, like Franco-Spain or NS-Germany was able to just pic one design for one group of a stamp with the narcissistic leader on the stamp. they printed a lot, but they kept it simple
ONLY the fucking USA HAS to do fucking hundred non-similar, but same stamps motives on the market over just like 30 years of the same fucking flag. even for professional collectors, these stamps are TRASH and not worth the time to collect them.
Even your interesting Christmas pictures with gold and christian symbols were made to shit by your horrible glue-design, that remain to be the worse to remove, if you want to collect actual used American stamps in your collection, they will stick to the book and destroy the actual 1000 times more valuable book OR you put actual acid on the stamps to get the glue off, just to destroy the stamps in the process for the next years.
Im a collector of stamps from all over the world, even from not-UN accepted slum-nations in Southafrica, but the US-stamps are SHIT. FIX YOUR GLUE and remove the same images on your stamps OR stick to a motive with different color variations, like the res tof the damn world.....oh and on your way, fix your damn measurements.
@@apollomars1678 you good my guy? Seem a lil stressed about stamps
@@jadeykg123 i felt better after writing it down :3
stamp collecting helps me normally to be more calm. not to organize these 6 pages of american flag-stamps.
@@apollomars1678 that’s our only problem, stamps and measures? I’ll post you a foot long if you can truly fix our ails.
@@apollomars1678: Well, you know the old saying: philately will get you nowhere.
you can really feel johns happiness about a live audience
This is the funny ass tomfoolery I miss in this show and hope there’s more of it, had me laughing for a good bit
Agreed! Feel like John has become a little darker with the pandemic
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Rob McBroom is the fun type of petty. Doesn't take it too far but is COMPLETELY relentless. Love him.
Why are so many porn bots responding to my comment?????
Thank you for having fun and supporting a great conservation cause. LWT is welcome in my duck blind anytime. Cheers on over $75k raised for the duck stamp program and publicity you couldn't buy. You. are. legends.
One of the first Last Week tonight shows that didn't make me sad by exposing how shitty the world is.
Well done
Yeah but just realize they put in this palate cleanser before something hellacious for the next episode
Still shiitty because none of his entries got a single vote.
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The world isn‘t shitty. You just are depressed and have a warped view of the world. Stop consuming news and you will be much, much happier. Trust me. I used to be depressed too. Then I stopped consuming news completely. Changed my life. I‘m not watching any Late Night Shows either anymore. Except Conan (because he rarely talks about current events) and John Oliver, but only innocent topics like this one.
@@Chrisko1492 tell me that in 5 years when humanity is an endangered species
This sketch is amazing. At least one of those should have gotten past the first round IMO.
Why? They were deliberately bad-faith attempts to mess with another group's fun. This didn't even feel like trolling to me, just bullying. What harm was this group causing, what problems were they creating, what issues are involved here? It's just a weird community with weird rules that's not hurting anyone...
Yes, definitely the Snoop Duck one!
@@Wraithfighter you clearly are not fun at parties…
@@Wraithfighter I don't see any bad faith here and as 3 of the 5 paintings were qualified, they seemingly didn't even break the formal rules, while still of course not being what the jury is looking for. Sure, the paintings are humours and maybe a bit mocking, but not only not in an attacking or insulting way, but for an obviously good reason:
Because, as it stands, this is not only a weird little group with their own rules, this is indeed a crucial part of the US' wetland conservation effort and as far as I've understood an official part of federal hunting regulations.
Adding those more humours approaches to the contest even without the intend of actually winning does serve the purpose of bringing it to a larger audience's attention (as many of Oliver's stunts), who wouldn't have cared otherwise/without something interesting and entertaining to the general masses going on. This of course aims at (and will probably succeed) increasing sales of duck stamps and therfore the money raised for its conservation purposes.
So, there is not only no actual harm, attack or criticism coming from Oliver's act, but this good faith mocking actually even helps their very course while obviously never expecting to win/influence the actual contest .
The only thing one might consider insulting without taking things way too serious is the portrait of the two rival artists, as it aims at actual people and not just.... you know, ducks , but as they mock and insult each other quite publicly, I would consider it fair game. Though I see how one could disagree there.
@@Wraithfighter why? Because they’re gorgeous and would make wonderful stamps that could have lots of sales
Seriously John, you need to offer prints of those stamp entries on that website.
Yes please! I'll take 2 duck with earrings, 2 duck judging ducks and 1 nintendo dick hunt please!
I agree completely. I would definitely buy the one of ducks voting on the new stamp and hang in in my office next to my Terry Redlin print.
Oh my god, I can't believe how much I needed an episode with John talking about something more light-hearted than usual!
That's why this is one of my favorites. I can't be the only one that appreciates his entertaining hard work but is also annoyed that every week he focuses that hard work into trying to make people think the world is a terrible place and we're all screwed unless we vote or donate for whatever he tells us to. He's brilliant but incredibly biased and one-sided on the aisle.
@Anthony Riordan Wait until you realize this is doing the same thing, by giving a call to action of bidding/buying more duck stamps. You probably politically agree more with animal conservation than the other topics though.
The Redhead Hunting the Hunter has a look in its eyes that says: "I'm going to kill this man. I'm going to enjoy it. And whether or not you'll ever admit it yourself, you will, too."
Hmmm. I think that look suggests, "I'm going to kill this man. I'm going to enjoy it. But only after he kills Mallard, my ex BF, whom I caught corkscrewing that tramp the redhead."
The duck looks just like the horse in "you're the first girl i brought here" meme
Living in Minnesota, the Duck Stamps always get a lot of coverage.
I've always wanted to see a Monet painting of a duck swimming among his Water Lilies.
I do love ducks, I didn’t realize how much I loved duck art though. The duck hunting the hunter- that was ducking awesome.
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Please John, I beg you, keep this thing going for as long as possible. I'm sure you could create an entire spin off series. You and your team have created something special 🙀
I legitimately love the Duck with the Pearl Earring. I’d absolutely buy a print of that.
SAME HERE
Four hours later and the “Duck Hunt” painting is already up to $20,000
An hour after that and all but the Feuding Artists are above $10k! Clearly no one cares about the depths of artistic competition.
At this point I don't think I could afford any of those paintings even if I wanted to. The lowest one is already above $3k
the highest is half a million now.
@@cclemonb1222 Nope. Top bid is $20k (for the Nintendo one, oddly enough.) "Duck Judges", my fave, is at $17k.
@@jpdemer5 why oddly? Its the combination of a Game-Theme and being a LastWeekTonight-Original. Of course the bids are high.
“That girl doesn’t even have any feathers! Or a beak, for that matter. What a waste of paint!”
@Elsse Ninis Stop spamming.. especially on vids that has nothing to do with music. Also put the title under the link you f*ckin baiter!
my grandpa won a few duck stamp competitions, my family has one of the paintings in our living room and it looks like it could be a photograph but the detail is just insane
I saw this in my recommended, and I thought, "Ugh. How are these "duck stamp" things some sort of huge problem in the United States somehow linked to racism, bad policies, and incompetent governance?"
I was pleasantly surprised that this was not the case.
Well, at least until we eventually find out that Tim Taylor is a secret oil & gas lobbyist who advised the Trump administration to restrict Native Americans' access to national parks or something. FML, in this timeline that may actually be true.
Lol saaame
This was a nice divergence from the norm
Amazing how you were able to overcome all the racist propaganda programming you have suffered. Good job.
The duck stamp is truly the only decent thing America has left to offer.
@@greglloyd2377 Or their is still alot of racial targeting when your a minority and would know that if you actual faced it constantly instead of commenting on shit you don't know and telling people what you think they faced.
I was once a judge for Indiana's duck stamp contest. It was a fun expirence and there was quite a few amazing duck drawing thete as well. Though none had a pearl ear ring.
How did you become a judge, can we stack the judges for next year's contest?
At the level I judged for, It was a bit less formal as it was for an under 18 category.
What an amazing midweek surprise! The Duck Hunt is fucking incredible
It really is.
The Fuck Hunt is ducking incredible too...
I've been wiping tears of laughter and rewinding to repeat.
@@friesareyummy q
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duck with a pearl earing is a masterpiece and I would've bought several stamps just to have it
Congratulations to the whole staff of Last Week Tonight. This episode felt like what we fans grew used to. It felt like home.
In the movie “Fargo”, Frances McDormand’s husband is a duck stamp painter.
Oh, don't. I'm already hurting from The Duck With A Pearl Earring.
Surprised this didn't get mentioned. It was the first thing I thought of.
And submitted for a coin
And he loses to the Hauptmanns.
Bless you for this knowledge nugget. You're a true king!
Although I'm convinced this segment *started* with the mu shu pancakes joke in a Chinese restaurant, the duck stamp is a really good thing to highlight. We buy the duck stamp every year, because it helps the wetlands AND it's way cooler looking than the weekly parking pass at the beach (but also gets you parking - worth the cost). Sales probably went down last year because less people went out to FWS sites due to COVID-19. We don't hunt, we just like old-timey Americana and we say buy the duck stamp! Support wildlife conservation!
Yeah, this is the first I’ve heard of this program.
This is a very good comment
There's also a Junior Duck Stamp contest. I was the state winner when I was a junior in high school. It was a great experience! It definitely helped spark my love for conservation.
There's a certain old-world comforting quality to classic sporting art. I don't actually have any on my walls, but I'm glad it's there. The painting that won the competition is very strong and deserved to win IMHO. Beautiful treatment of golden-hour light.
John Oliver. A man after my heart.
The disobedient artist, too. You are not aware how great you are.
I love them both.
I’m partial to the NES “Duck Hunt” painting myself!
As a plastic pistol owner myself, I concur with this favoritism
As are the majority, it seems, considering it's the only one currently sitting at a cool 20k
You should also sell reasonably priced prints for donations also. These are to good for only the wealthy to enjoy.
@@channingdeadnight The auction description specifically notes that the copyrights are retained by Last Week's production company, so hopefully it will happen.
only 20K on ebay right now!
You and your team are media geniuses , it's so refreshing to see a group a great minds constantly pushing the envelope for good , thank you 🌟
The duck judge one was so good if it was just slightly edited it would have won
Im a cultured duck art lover and I want them all except the last one. They are really very good paintings. Even the duck hunt one is pretty cool. Duck with the pearl earing is one of my new favorite paintings period.
Damn, as of writing this message the current bids are valued at $60K for the entire set...
Well played, Mr. Oliver. Well played.
Now up to $70K
In resume, in this segment we went through:
- Duck stamps -> Permissions for hunting -> Wetland conservation finances -> artistry -> Painter's rivalry -> Barack Obama Birthers conspiracy theories -> Painting applications for the next year's Duck Stamp -> Call for help for conservatism - > John Oliver's monthly deranged (and wonderful) idea (the painting) -> Satirical Humor -> Second John Oliver's monthly deranged idea (the second painting) -> Third John Oliver's monthly deranged idea (the three paintings!....), with a side criticism of Dutch Golden Age art. -> Ominous rant! -> final John Oliver's monthly deranged idea (the last painting) -> Winner of the Duck stamp painting -> Last Week's Tonight Auction, in favor of the Federal Duck Stamp Program (with a background of a relaxing oboe concert)
😁😁😁
Isn't Last Week Tonight a hoot, or what?!
You too missed the part where the Trump administration found time in their scheduled murdering and torture of humans to add a requirement of duck-murdering implements or scenes included into paintings of ducks, commissioned as a part of a program for protecting the living habitat of ducks.
It's not a hoot, it's a *H O N K*
As of now, the duck painting auction is pulling in over 70 thousand dollars!!! You, John, you are a **LEGEND!!!**
The artistry behind each of the paintings is breathtaking!!!!
I absolutely love the fact that "Last Week Tonight's" you tube channel is consistently racking up new subscriber numbers each day!!!! More and More people need to learn from this gem of a Toucan.🙌👌
As someone who currently works for the US Fish & Wildlife Service, I am fucking crying of laughter from this episode 😂😂😂
Thank you John Oliver for the well needed laugh 😂😂😂
I just took pictures of Fish and Wildlife in Lake Ontario. I thought the boat was Coast Guard, but it was F&W. I don't think I've ever seen them in our area before. I was surprised.
Maaaan, I wish John credited the other artists for the paintings he featured. My art mentor Eric Joyner painted the duck hunt one.
It was an awesome painting!
He did in the ebay listing. I'm sure it's hard to balance those things in a short clip like this
The end credits mentioned the artists.
Also, the Duck Hunt one is magnificent. Send my regards!
I like the curved diagonal on the right side.
It is beautiful.
I didn’t even know what a duck stamp was 10 minutes ago and I’m literally laughing harder than I ever have at a John Oliver episode 🤣🤣🤣
Was really hoping he was going to announce they printed there own stamps anyways. Would have bought so many of them if he did.
That's what I was expecting, too. I'd quickly buy the duck hunting a hunter stamp. I hope they'll do it anyway.
yup, would 100% buy the duck hunter stamp. or if they made it a poster or something, I can't bid on the thing, it's up to 20k already
Agreed. I'd buy a print of the duck with a rifle and the girl duck.
You can't just print your own stamps, which is why you have to buy them and they can be used to send letters. They have value, printing your own is akin to printing counterfeit money.
@@Melesniannon I was thinking more along the lines of poster-sized prints. Attempting to affix that to an envelope would be an exercise in futility. For starters your tongue would dry out licking the back...
I'm so relieved with how this turned out. My first thought when I saw duck stamps on last week tonight was "oh, no, it's gonna be a story of embezzlement and how none of the funds actually go to preservation"
Me, an animal lover: That winning duck painting is beautiful.
Me, an artist: Duck With a Pearl Earring is clearly the best.
Me, a gamer: Give it to Duck Hunt 🤣
I love the Duck with a Pearl Earring.
that duck hunt, sooo nice!
Me, a silly person: That Duck Judging makes me giggle; what a way to start every day. Far better than dogs playing cards.
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A little disappointed by the lack of a "Ducks Playing Poker" entry.
It’s refreshing to see some positive episode, the last year and a half where brutal!
I'd buy a print of the duck with the pearl earring for my bathroom.
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not gonna lie, I would actually bid on the pearl earring one if I had any money
that looks amazing
Currently selling for 17,5 grand so it's kind of out of reach for most of us now. I don't think many people have the kind of money to just spend 15k+ on a joke.
this is a nice episode with no depression inducing reality. Simply nice reality.
I did not expect this clip but absolutely needed it. I'm looking forward to 1045 more entries next year
Laughing at these stamps on TikTok only to find out John Oliver was behind it
Listen, we all knew from the moment he said there was a contest that he was going to have entered it. But the submissions still knocked my socks off. I legit want the Duck Hunt one, I grew up on the Super Nintendo
While your logic comes out sound, we can tell you were a SNES kid cause Duck Hunt was on NES.
@@XBFNoodles first game I ever played. and Mario.
@@casjean8904 Same :)
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley then I met Zelda and I was lost. now truly enjoying BoTW.
@@casjean8904 I never played the original Zelda games. First one I played...which now that I think about it, is the only one if going by game completion, and that was Link to the Past on SNES. I did play Zelda and the Minish Cap a tiny bit but don't ask me about the plot and as I rarely see it mentioned, I'm guessing it played a very tiny role in the overall Zelda lore, lol.
But after the NES, we had a period of an extended borrowing of a friend's N64 so we didn't get a lot of games for it and after that, we became a PlayStation family (which I don't regret at all), so I've not had a chance to play another Zelda game. I've seen a good walkthrough of BotW though and the game was beautiful and looked really fun. Hoping to have a Switch soon so I can play the next game.
'The Duck with a Pearl Earring' was actually really good.
Rob is absolutely an energy vampire like Colin in What We Do In The Shadows
Every year, Rob stalks the gathering of duck painting enthusiasts, his mere presence eliciting anxiety and torment to rock throughout the room. What they don’t realize is that with each muttered, “This fucking guys...” and “Is he really..?”, his power grows, and his life is extended, securing Rob’s place to continue is reign of terror over all duck stamp enthusiasts for all time!
Love that show
I literally just finished catching up on that show and came and saw this on RUclips. But either way, good show. I agree.
The Duck with the Pearl earring really is stunning.
Anyone can Vermeerly see that
12k at the moment
I like this show. It brings me joy in a dark, dark world.
This one, my friends, is straight one of my top 3 episodes of this year 😍😍😍 I haven’t had that much fun for a while those 5 paintings are absolutely GOLD ! (Yeah & it did speak much itself about the absolute killjoy of the judge panel 😂😂