Television personalities are trying to get to the bottom of the coronavirus broadcasts — by not wearing any. A video montage compiled by John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight” contains dozens of clips of local news anchors across the country asking colleagues and guests on-air, “Are you wearing pants?” “I do have pants on.
You’re just going to have to take my word on that because I’m not standing up,” a bespectacled, shirt-and-tie-wearing TV guest quipped as part of the “Last Week Tonight” compilation, which aired Sunday on HBO.
The question of the day — or the week, or the month — rings true with viewers around the world working from home as fears over the coronavirus have closed offices, schools and other organizations.