John Oliver devoted the bulk of last night's Last Week Tonight to a hilariously alarming segment on America's crumbling infrastructure, explaining to viewers that while infrastructure might not be a "sexy" topic, we ignore it at our peril. There are, for example, 70,000 bridges across America that have been deemed structurally deficient—as the former U.S. Transportation Secretary put it, "I don't want to say they're unsafe, but they're dangerous."
Our favorite part is probably where Pittsburgh builds a bridge under a bridge to catch debris falling off the first bridge. Or maybe it's the History Channel's CGI montage of what would happen if the Tappan Zee Bridge collapses? That poor coffee cup. "We're not just flirting with disaster," Oliver points out, "we're rounding third base and asking if disaster has any condoms."
Be sure to watch all the way to the end for cameos from Edward Norton, Dan Hedaya, and Steve Buscemi, the star of the upcoming summer blockbuster Infrastructure.
