John Oliver’s televangelism stunt—in which he and Last Week Tonight created their own bullshit “church,” Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption, and filed for tax-free status on asinine and apparently perfectly permissible grounds—has already racked up quite a few donations.
The Daily Beast points out an update on this most recent episode. “To be honest, slightly more of you responded than we were expecting,” said Oliver. People sent literal seeds and also some beef jerky, but cold, hard cash, too: “We have received thousands of envelopes with thousands of dollars.”