John Oliver was left in hysterics after Stephen Colbert joked that Liz Truss was responsible for “killing the Queen” with her notoriously bad curtsy.
The Tory leader met Queen Elizabeth II on 6 September as one of her first acts as prime minister, during which she was pictured awkwardly curtsying for the monarch.
Two days later, the Queen died at Balmoral, with her funeral taking place on 19 September.
On Monday (7 November), British comedian Oliver was a guest on The Late Show, when Colbert asked him about the UK’s rapid recent run of prime ministers.
Colbert asked him for information about Rishi Sunak, who Oliver said was “wealthy beyond any real realistic expectation”.
“How’s his curtsy?” Colbert asked. “Because I don’t know if you saw Liz Truss’s curtsy, but it killed the queen. Her curtsy killed the queen.”
Oliver burst out in a fit of laughter and banged on the desk in hysterics.
“It did,” he said. “I don’t want to hear…
