Just kidding, John – you aren’t that obscure.

Last Week Tonight, the weekly (well, nearly) satirical news program starring John Oliver and airing on HBO (and streaming on HBO Max) is famous for beef.

Oliver famously gets into verbal tiffs on the show, be it with thin-skinned politicians and celebrities, marshmallow Peeps, his own parent company AT&T, and occasionally for no obvious reason, an entire town. This time it was Danbury, Connecticut, which became the target of Oliver’s sarcastic ire for several weeks running.

When Danbury officials decided they had had enough, they threatened to name the city’s new wastewater treatment plant after the Brit. Rather than take offense, Oliver was pleased by the retaliatory gesture, and when Danbury tried to claim they were only joking, he offered them a substantial charitable donation to follow through with their threat.

Commenting back via video, Mayor Mark Boughton accepted the $50,000 donation to the area’s United Way food pantry offered by Last Week Tonight, saying “a deal is a deal.” All the attention the feud brought helped local organizations raise an additional $100,000, the mayor’s office said.

Boughton invited Oliver to the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant, but there’s no word yet on whether Oliver will attend. Maybe it’s the word ‘Memorial’ in the title…is that a threat?

Last Week Tonight airs Sundays on HBO, when it’s not on hiatus, if you want to know who is next in John’s crosshairs. We sure do.