Oh, the humanity fishity!

Well...don't keep us in suspense...! Did he get rid of it?

That "duplicate" is taken from the same footage, but the two are edited differently (along with the soundtrack change).

Is it bad that the main thing I was wondering about whilst watching this was the number of third-degree burns from all those hot pie dishes?

Or, indeed, anything that you'd like to see again...

It's not like it takes a rocket scientist to work out that you shouldn't leave buckets of valuable stuff unattended on the back of a van....

Did anyone else spot the mites @ 1:40?

Wonder how many "UFO sightings" there were whilst they were filming this?

#TheTruthIsOutThere

They do - Adam says "But that would give them virtual monopoly over the entire industry" @ 1:15

Takes me back to the first time I had to deal with a virus infection... not on my machine, thankfully, but much every Acorn machine (and every floppy disk) in my secondary school was infected with the "ICON" virus. Didn't do any harm (besides taking up space), but it was really annoying to get rid of as it would re-infect stuff almost as quickly as you were cleaning them.

The ironic thing was that it took me months to rid of that pest and then a week later I got a computer mag with a free anti-virus on the cover disk that would disinfect a computer in minutes instead of hours....

It's over here in the UK too...

It's definitely a sink, if you look behind the kittens you can see the silver overflow vent and the tap is that silver curve in the middle of the top of the frame.

I've seen this type of sink (that really does look like a bowl resting on a worktop) before - they seemed to get mildly popular a few years back (popular enough for a DIY superstore like B&Q to stock them...)

I will definitely concede that it is a bit weird the first time you see one...

That looked like a really nice place - like they'd spent some time and effort on it... watching it go up like that must have been heart-breaking...

I just hope their house insurance premiums were up to date and their insurance company doesn't try pulling any "act of God" shenanigans...

As someone has already sifted the sketch this was based on, I'll just leave this here... http://videosift.com/video/Life-of-Brian-What-have-the-Romans-done-for-us

This was part of the interview posted here: http://videosift.com/video/John-Oliver-on-making-fun-of-serious-news that PBS posted separately.

I've put the bit about John's view of Downton Abbey (mentioned at the end of the clip) here: http://videosift.com/video/John-Oliver-on-British-Culture-Downton-Abbey

Both of these segments are from July 2014.