With the 11th season of Last week tonight conclusion, host Jean Olivier took the opportunity to express his hopes for a better year after a “really bad” 2024.

In Sunday’s episode of his HBO show, Oliver recapped some of the more light-hearted storylines and stunts he’s pulled this season, including succeed in convincing a bakery to prepare a bear cake in his image. But, he also noted, he was “forced to devote eight different lead stories to issues surrounding the election, forgoing much more interesting topics that we wanted to cover.”

This included, as Oliver showed in a post from someone on Sauce everywhere. Oliver joked: “We had 23 minutes planned on this, but I had to abandon it for an episode about all the ways Trump would fight the election results if he lost, which of course he didn’t. not done.”

To that end, he said he wanted to look toward 2025 and shared his hopes for a better year.

“In 2025, I would like Elon Musk to jump so high that he never comes down,” Oliver said. “I would like to go just one day without hearing about Wicked movie. And in 2025, I would like the final Mission: Impossible The film would end with Tom Cruise removing his mask to reveal Shelly Miscavige,” the wife of Scientology leader David Miscavige, who has not been seen in public since 2007. “That would be an incredible twist. »

Oliver asked his world to “please keep being weird in fun ways.” Keep making terrible statues, holding weird contests, and auctioning weird items. Be yourselves and we’ll find something we can work with.

Still, he expects to have to cover some “terrible shit” next year, which he hopes will be “exhausting.”

“All we can really hope for is a little time between further horrors and calamities,” he added. “And maybe the goal should be to savor these quiet minutes as much as possible. Basically, I guess what I’m saying is that when chaos becomes the norm, we need to appreciate every second we’ve managed to get through without another affront to humanity. Every uneventful day should probably be appreciated.

The camera then panned to an oversized electronic “Days Without Incident” display, with Oliver approaching a big red “reset” button, which he expects will be used a lot in the new year. He jokingly gave examples of some news alerts that might require the use of said button: “Rudy Giuliani nominated to Supreme Court.” “The Secretary of State turns out to be Putin with a fake mustache.” “America is running out of helium.” “All aquariums are closed to the public for an indefinite period.”

The latter, he said, is “so confusing that it’s OK to ignore it until you get the alert, ‘Please stay inside; The sky is full of sharks now. Ohhhh, I understand. The helium from before. I’m not sure of the exact chain of events, but the sky is now full of sharks. It’s very bad. That makes sense. And, boom, we have ourselves a big old reset.

Ultimately, Oliver ended his final show of 2024 on an optimistic note for his return with its 12th season in February.

“The point is, we’ll be here for you next year to talk about the bad times and hopefully the happy times in between,” he said.