--- title: Watch John Oliver Skewer the Gender Pay Gap description: The monkey part is priceless canonical: https://time.com/3145451/watch-john-olivers-hilarious-take-on-the-gender-pay-gap/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-19T20:41:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:51.245Z og:title: Watch John Oliver Skewer the Gender Pay Gap og:description: The monkey part is priceless og:url: https://time.com/3145451/watch-john-olivers-hilarious-take-on-the-gender-pay-gap/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch John Oliver Skewer the Gender Pay Gap twitter:description: The monkey part is priceless twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch John Oliver's Hilarious Take on the Gender Pay Gap  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Aug 19, 2014 8:41 PM UTC  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Aug 19, 2014 8:41 PM UTC John Oliver’s on a roll these days. After his spot-on [critique](http://time.com/3136259/john-oliver-segment-ferguson/) of the situation in Ferguson in Sunday’s episode, he eviscerated all the excuses given for gender pay gap, and the insanity about nitpicking over whether the gap was 77 cents or 88 cents or 96 cents or whatever. His point is that any pay gap is a problem, even if it’s only four cents. Watch all the way to the end to see a hilarious fake ad for “Ladybucks,” or money for women that’s worth less than money for men. And click [here](http://time.com/3066424/if-women-had-their-own-currency-heres-what-it-would-be-worth/) to see our take on how much each bill would be worth if it had a woman on it instead of a man. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3145451/watch-john-olivers-hilarious-take-on-the-gender-pay-gap/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3145451/watch-john-olivers-hilarious-take-on-the-gender-pay-gap/"},"headline":"Watch John Oliver's Hilarious Take on the Gender Pay Gap","datePublished":"2014-08-19T20:41:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:55:51.245Z","description":"The monkey part is priceless","url":"https://time.com/3145451/watch-john-olivers-hilarious-take-on-the-gender-pay-gap/","keywords":["Living","feminism","Barack Obama","wage gap","John Oliver","career"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3145451/watch-john-olivers-hilarious-take-on-the-gender-pay-gap/","name":"Watch John Oliver's Hilarious Take on the Gender Pay Gap"}}]}] ```