John Oliver Skewers Tronc
At one point in the spoof trailer for Stoplight, the Boston Chronicle gets rebranded as Chorp.
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The spine of John Oliver’s latest piece is the company formally known as Tribune Publishing.
There’s a great clip of Sam Zell speaking to the staff of the Orlando Sentinel, a couple of suggestions from Oliver of what the word Tronc sounds like and a clever callback of the Zell remark about puppies and Iraq in Stoplight, the spoof trailer of Spotlight with Jason Sudeikis that caps it all off.
Oliver samples a portion of that infamous, recent Tronc introductory video and also mocks a Tronc graphic.
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