Three years before Joe Exotic rose to coronavirus-era stardom as one of the iconoclastic characters on Netflix's much-binged docuseriesTiger King, he was spotlighted on HBO's Last Week Tonight as a potential 2016 presidential election third-party candidate.
In a segment recently unearthed by the show, host John Oliver calls Exotic "truly the candidate you want to sit down and have a beer with." In 2020, Exotic is"not the hero America needs, but the hero it deserves right now," Oliver told Seth Meyers during an appearance on Late Night on Monday.