As you may have heard, the batch of 17-year cicadas that were born in 1999 are finally going to climb out of the earth this summer to rattle our senses and John Oliver posted a special web-only segment to catch the short-lived insects up on what they've missed while underground.
“If they're anything like the humans conceived in 1999 I'm guessing all the girls are named Madison and the boy cicadas are named Tyler,” says Oliver, before launching into a set of updates on the millennium, Will Smith, the Bush family presidential dynasty, advances in modems, YouTube, carbohydrates, the Cosby Show, the Red Sox, Michael Jordan, Dr. Dre, Macklemore, Justin Timberlake, music, porn, and Beyonce, “who is essentially our queen now.”
“On your knees, cicadas! On your knees before the queen!”
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