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Forget all your righteous indignation over the Indian government's porn ban and turn on Last Week Tonight's John Oliver. The weekly show host, who has made a career of attacking draconian governments through humour, this week picked up India's absurd attempt at upholding decency in society behind the fig leaf of cracking down on child porn and skewered it by pointing out just what kind of websites were being blocked here.

Oliver might have had a leg up on Indian publications attempting to make as much fun of the government's actions because his network, HBO, allows him to actually read some of the hilarious URLs on the list of 857 websites that were banned, including "maturewitch.com" and "oldwomanface.com".

But Oliver also managed to quickly remind us of how ridiculous our nightly television routinely can be: By featuring one panel discussion on the porn ban which included Bharatiya Janata Leader Subramanian Swamy saying anyone who watches porn could become a "sex maniac."