Liz Truss Was Butt — Or Maybe, Vegetable head – Trevor Noah joked on Thursday night after several jokes, when he resigned from his role as Britain’s prime minister, less than two months after taking the job. As the “The Daily Show” host put it, she didn’t even last as long as the parties thrown by her predecessor.
Truss resigned on Thursday morning, just 44 days after taking office following the resignation of Boris Johnson. Johnson stepped down after intense pressure to do so, based on the country’s handling of COVID and going against his own guidelines about social distancing during the pandemic. And Trevor couldn’t help comparing Noah Johnson’s alleged parties to Truss’s reign.
“God damn Britain, another prime minister? Another prime minister?” Noah scoffed. “And it only lasted 44 days. Boris Johnson had COVID parties that were longer than him.”
Noah listed the reasons behind Truss’s resignation, noting that, for the most part, it was based on his actual politics, not his extra-curricular activities.
“Remember, the reason Liz Truss lost her job is because she came into the office to make worse decisions than the company’s social media manager during Black History Month,” Noah joked. “Horrible budget plans, sacking finance ministers, backtracking from their policies, sending the queen to visit Jesus – things were going so badly that the British press trolled her with vegetables.”
Actually, inspired by a comment from economist The magazine was British tabloid saying that Truss’s hold on power was “roughly the shelf life of a salad.” daily star Set up a video of a head of lettuce crafted to look like a truss with a question: “Will Liz’s truss overtake this lettuce?” The joke started a month after Truss took office and yes, Lettuce overtook the prime minister.
“Oh that’s humiliating. It’s humiliating. Imagine you’re so bad at your job that you lose a prank Competition,” joked Noah.
Looking ahead, Trevor Noah wondered who might take over after the truce, noting that some are suggesting the return of Boris Johnson. But the host of “The Daily Show” had someone else in mind: Paddington. According to Noah, the stuffed bear can have any policy—even terrifying ones—and people will still love him for his cuteness and his voice. But in the end, Noah had no real solution.
“Right now, Britain’s parliament seems more chaotic than a family reunion at Herschel Walker’s home,” he joked.
You can watch the full segment from “The Daily Show” in the video above.
