--- title: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: Nick Offerman in Home Depot Ad description: Also starring Sarah Baker and H. Jon Benjamin canonical: https://time.com/3554458/john-oliver-fake-home-depot-ad-nick-offerman/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-03T16:18:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:17.435Z og:title: Watch Nick Offerman Star in a Fake Home Depot Ad to Help John Oliver Prove a Point og:description: Also starring Sarah Baker and H. Jon Benjamin og:url: https://time.com/3554458/john-oliver-fake-home-depot-ad-nick-offerman/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c0c3c47131a4893/698763dba988ca60726aa27b/screen-shot-2014-11-03-at-9-52-13-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1558 og:image:height: 876 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-11-03 at 9.52.13 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Nick Offerman Star in a Fake Home Depot Ad to Help John Oliver Prove a Point twitter:description: Also starring Sarah Baker and H. Jon Benjamin twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c0c3c47131a4893/698763dba988ca60726aa27b/screen-shot-2014-11-03-at-9-52-13-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Nick Offerman Star in a Fake Home Depot Ad to Help John Oliver Prove a Point by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Nov 3, 2014 4:18 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Nov 3, 2014 4:18 PM UTC As we all know, John Oliver loves to [take](http://time.com/3541173/john-oliver-sugar-industry-takedown/) things [down](http://time.com/3502331/john-oliver-columbus-day/). On Sunday’s episode of _Last Week Tonight_, one of his targets was Lowe’s recent announcement that it will be testing robotic shopping assistants at its hardware stores. Naturally, Oliver thought that was a pretty dumb idea. “Robot assistants are a terrible idea,” he explains. “Sales associates at home-improvement stores are not there to help people buy things, they’re there to stop couples from tearing each other apart.” To really drive that point home, Oliver recruited Nick Offerman, Sarah Baker and H. Jon Benjamin to star in a fake Home Depot ad. Because really, no robot can help repair (or at least distract from) the deep cracks in a couple’s marriage quite like a mustachioed home improvement expert. _Read next:_ [_Watch John Oliver’s Brilliant Takedown of the Sugar Industry_](http://time.com/3541173/john-oliver-sugar-industry-takedown/?xid=time%5Freadnext) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3554458/john-oliver-fake-home-depot-ad-nick-offerman/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3554458/john-oliver-fake-home-depot-ad-nick-offerman/"},"headline":"Watch Nick Offerman Star in a Fake Home Depot Ad to Help John Oliver Prove a Point","datePublished":"2014-11-03T16:18:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:17.435Z","description":"Also starring Sarah Baker and H. Jon Benjamin","url":"https://time.com/3554458/john-oliver-fake-home-depot-ad-nick-offerman/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","viral","Home Depot","John Oliver","Last Week Tonight","nick offerman"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c0c3c47131a4893/698763dba988ca60726aa27b/screen-shot-2014-11-03-at-9-52-13-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c0c3c47131a4893/698763dba988ca60726aa27b/screen-shot-2014-11-03-at-9-52-13-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-11-03 at 9.52.13 AM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"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-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3554458/john-oliver-fake-home-depot-ad-nick-offerman/","name":"Watch Nick Offerman Star in a Fake Home Depot Ad to Help John Oliver Prove a Point"}}]}] ```