John Oliver delivers a two-word verdict on Elizabeth Holmes and Billy Evans in You Can See Everything

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John Oliver shares his views on Elizabeth Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans, following A24’s animated documentary on the disgraced founder of Theranos.

You can see everything has been a huge topic of conversation since its release last month, and the staff at Last week tonight apparently does not escape this trend.

“I spent three hours panting out loud at two complete lunatics who have never blinked once in their lives,” the 49-year-old former late-night host said on Sunday’s episode..

“If you want to talk about this film, please contact anyone who works here,” Oliver said on the show, adding, “It has derailed our workflow to an unacceptable degree.”

Oliver broaching the subject of the documentary came as a punchline when mocking a Republican Senate candidate’s evasive response, saying he hadn’t “seen someone dodge a question so shamelessly” since Evans and Holmes in the film.

Documentary by comic Nathan Fielder and director Lance Oppenheim You can see everything follows Holmes and her family in the month before her prison sentence begins in 2023. Holmes, 42, was convicted of fraud in 2022 after claiming that her startup, Theranos, had developed a revolutionary medical device capable of diagnosing a range of conditions with a few drops of blood.

After misleading investors with technology that never worked, Holmes was sentenced to 11 years in prison and began serving her sentence in a Texas facility in May 2023.

Shot in secret for three years, You can see everything debuted as a surprise at the Telluride Film Festival in September.

The documentary broke box office records when it was released on October 19, earning a staggering $15 million opening weekend at the box office in North America, more than double its $7 million projection. The feat made it the second highest-grossing debut for a non-music documentary in over 20 years.

Critics have hailed the film as a “masterpiece”, with the film even earning a rare perfect score from Rotten Tomatoes after its initial reviews.

The hit documentary was also praised by Fielder’s fellow comedians, with Borat Creator Sacha Baron Cohen recently said the project reshaped the genre of satirical mockumentary invented by Baron Cohen.

“He really reinvented the genre, and he had a rule not to do what I did,” Baron Cohen said. Vanity Fair by Fielder. “He said ‘we’re going to do things that Sacha would never do.'”