Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton announced that comic John Oliver has agreed to visit the city for a ceremony that names a sewage treatment facility in his honor.
Speaking last night at a virtual meeting of the Greater Danbury Chamber of Commerce, Boughton affirmed the host of HBO”™s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” will make the trek from his Manhattan residence to the city that he trash-talked in Aug. 16 episode. Boughton responded to Oliver”™s insults by threatening to name a sewage treatment facility in Danbury after him, using a social media video to declare “it”™s full of crap just like you, John.”
The feud evolved into a comic exchange of putdowns, with Oliver promising to donate $55,000 to Danbury-area charities if the mayor lived up to his threat. Last week, the Danbury City Council voted to affix “John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant” to the facility, albeit as a ceremonial moniker.
Boughton stated the city was working on the details of a ribbon-cutting ceremony with Oliver as the guest of honor.
“We”™ll be putting something up on Facebook about that,” he said. “But it won”™t be available or open to the public, unfortunately, as they”™re very strict in terms of the Covid-19 regulations.”
