---
url: 'https://edequalsaweso.me/2019/11/last-week-tonight-slapp-suits/'
title: 'Last Week Tonight: SLAPP Suits'
author:
  name: 'eD! Thomas'
  url: 'https://edequalsaweso.me/author/edequalsawesome/'
date: '2019-11-11T19:26:20-05:00'
modified: '2025-01-31T20:24:17-05:00'
type: post
categories:
  - Entertainment
  - News
tags:
  - Bob Muarry
  - Last Week Tonight
  - Lawsuits
  - 'Terrible Behavior at the M&M Store'
  - Today's Video Awesome
image: 'https://edequalsaweso.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/John-Oliver-SLAPP-Suit.jpg'
published: true
---

# Last Week Tonight: SLAPP Suits

[After spending two years engaged in a legal battle with a coal executive who was less-than-enthused with a giant squirrel telling him to “eat shit”](https://slate.com/culture/2017/06/coal-baron-robert-murray-is-suing-john-oliver-over-his-segment-featuring-a-talking-squirrel.html), John Oliver finally shares the details of what happened, explains SLAPP lawsuits, and ends the segment in a way that ensured that I’d have to post it.

*I had no choice, people.*