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Stewart exclaimed, before leaning into the bit by putting on his glasses and jesting, "Sorry, I didn't mean to say that. That was in my teleprompter. I apologize."

Oliver opened Sunday night's episode of "Last Week Tonight" by briefly jesting about a few of the many punchy U.S. news headlines in the past week.

“Some of you may know me as Kelly Bundy from ‘Married With Children,’” she continued, jesting that the audience didn’t need to applaud every time she does something.

After the audience chuckled, Nolan expressed his appreciation for professional film critics, jesting, “When Rex Reed takes a s— on your film, he doesn’t ask you to work out more with him!”

Just last month, Snoop appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” jesting about his weed connections all over the world.