I don't want to be too harsh, so I won't say that becoming the target of a random joke made out of nowhere by a largely political comedian/late night host is the defining moment of Dwight Howard's career. I will, however, say that if someone comes up to you 20 years from now and asks you what they need to know about an athlete who was so enigmatic as both a player and a personality that his issues overshadowed his HOF-quality resume then you'd be better off pointing them in the direction of this clip rather than any one of the many basketball highlights that he has to his name. Like John Oliver or not, you can't really argue that he's got a firm grasp on what's funny, as having his own shown on HBO is proof that he's pretty damn successful as a comedian. Therefore, the fact that he could derive material from the career of Dwight Howard, when Dwight Howard wasn't a particularly topical story, speaks to Dwight Howard aging far better as a punchline than as a prominent interior presence. Even finding a slightly original way to mock someone whose career path is a joke that has now long written itself is both impressive....and possibly proof that said career path might actually lead to a bottomless well of laughs to be had at its expense.
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