John Oliver talks about Brandon Herrera's past controversies during a segment of Last Week Tonight.

Credit: Screenshot / YouTube Comedian John Oliver on Monday's episode of the political satire show Last Week Tonight ripped San Antonio-area U.S. House candidate Brandon Herrera over his history of posting provocative social media content.

Oliver primarily focused on a widely circulated video from Herrera's gun-focused YouTube channel, where the Republican candidate for Texas' 23rd District reviews a German World War II-era MP 40 submachine gun and calls it the "original ghetto blaster" and "Hitler's stress sweeper." Sign up "It does feel that the Republican Party has been getting way too comfortable with some, at best, Nazi-adjacent shit," Oliver said on his long-running HBO show.