--- title: John Oliver on Putin on International Women's Day VIDEO description: Oliver doesn't think Vladimir Putin, Michel Temer, and more are quite grasping the meaning of International Women's Day canonical: https://time.com/4699510/john-oliver-on-international-womens-day/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-13T15:42:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:50.385Z og:title: John Oliver Bashes Putin's International Women's Day Comments og:description: You can almost hear Oliver rolling his eyes at the men in this clip og:url: https://time.com/4699510/john-oliver-on-international-womens-day/ 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: John Oliver Bashes Putin's International Women's Day Comments twitter:description: You can almost hear Oliver rolling his eyes at the men in this clip twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch John Oliver Put Putin on Blast for His Comments About Women by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 13, 2017 3:42 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 13, 2017 3:42 PM UTC Women around the world celebrated [International Women’s Day](http://time.com/4694755/international-womens-day-2017-world/?iid=sr-link1) on Wednesday, and as [John Oliver](http://time.com/4699225/john-oliver-fox-health-care-bill-trump/?iid=sr-link1) pointed out, unfortunately so did some men rather sloppily. On Sunday night’s episode of [_Last Week Tonight_](http://time.com/3674807/john-oliver-net-neutrality-civil-forfeiture-miss-america/?iid=sr-link2)_,_ Oliver looked back at some of the more egregious ways that powerful men around the world, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Brazil’s Michel Temer, put their feet in their mouths while trying to honor women. “Women give us life and perpetuate it in our children,” [President Putin](http://time.com/4642670/snl-vladimir-putin-donald-trump-inauguration/?iid=sr-link4) said via a translator according to [an official blog post](http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/54007). “We will do our utmost to surround our dear women with care and attention, so that they can smile more often.” “Perfect,” said Oliver, laughing. “If there are two things that women love, it’s being told to smile more and being surrounded.” Oliver was also quick to note that [Brazil’s president](http://time.com/4651414/brazil-corruption-probe-car-wash/?iid=sr-link4) seemed to send an odd translated message while addressing the economic power of women. “Today, women participate strongly in the economy, too,” Temer’s translator said. “Nobody is more capable of pointing out changes in supermarket prices better than women.” Oliver’s comeback: “He just reduced the economic contribution of half of Brazil’s population to, ‘Women be shopping, y’all!’” Luckily for international relations, neither leader came across as clumsy as Esteban Solis, the co-host of San Antonio, Texas daytime news show, _Daytime at Nine._ Solis managed to simultaneously give a shout-out to [International Women’s Day ](http://time.com/4694254/google-doodle-international-womens-day-2017/?iid=sr-link2)and beach bodies. “Today is International Women’s Day, so hey ladies, don’t worry, it’s your day — today you can do whatever you want,” he said in a clip from the show. “And speaking of doing whatever you want, it’s Workout Wednesday — time to get that bikini body just in time for summer.” After that clunker, Oliver suggested that “first thing tomorrow,” Solis’s co-host Kimberly Crawford should “go into the office and ask for a f—ing raise.” \[H/T [Entertainment Weekly](http://ew.com/tv/2017/03/13/john-oliver-international-womens-day/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4699510/john-oliver-on-international-womens-day/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4699510/john-oliver-on-international-womens-day/"},"headline":"Watch John Oliver Put Putin on Blast for His Comments About Women","datePublished":"2017-03-13T15:42:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:50.385Z","description":"Oliver doesn't think Vladimir Putin, Michel Temer, and more are quite grasping the meaning of International Women's Day","url":"https://time.com/4699510/john-oliver-on-international-womens-day/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Vladimir Putin","International Women's Day","Donald Trump","Late Night Television","John Oliver","Last Week Tonight"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"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-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4699510/john-oliver-on-international-womens-day/","name":"Watch John Oliver Put Putin on Blast for His Comments About Women"}}]}] ```