John Oliver weighs in on Sen. J.D. Vance sofa meme: 'I've never seen someone with more couch f---er energy'

John Oliver weighed in on the bizarre couch-sex memes about Ohio Senator J.D. Vance and he didn't hold back.

During the latest episode of Last Week Tonight, Oliver spent much of his opening segment addressing the viral rumor that Donald Trump’s running mate once had sex with a couch.

“J.D. Vance sucks so much that it says something that for a few days this week, the internet ran wild with a joke tweet that he was the first VP pick to have admitted in a New York Times best-seller to f---ing an inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions,” Oliver said, referencing a now-deleted tweet that jokingly cited Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.

Oliver posited that while such an anecdote isn’t actually in the book, "I think the reason it spread so fast might be that A, nobody read that f---ing book, and B, it was incredibly easy to believe.”

Showing a photo of Vance, Oliver continued, “Because if you ask me to draw a man that f---- his couch, 10 times out of 10, I’m drawing this guy. If you ask me to play Two Truths and a Lie with this man, before he even open his mouth, I shout, ‘The truth is he f---- his couch!’”

The late night host then quipped, “I’ve never seen someone with more couch-f---er energy.” 

The jokes only continued from there with Oliver saying, "If you told me that his first celebrity crush was the plastic sofa from Everybody Loves Raymond, I’d believe you without question. If you told me the reason you find coins in between couch cushions is because J.D. Vance always leaves a tip, I’d be like, yeah, yeah, that sounds right.”

Oliver also giddily recounted the Associated Press retracting its fact-check of the rumor because the article, titled “No, J.D. Vance did not have sex with a couch,” failed to go through the AP’s standard editing process.

“No s---, it didn’t!” Oliver said. “There’s an obvious problem with that original headline… You can’t say J.D. Vance didn’t have sex with a couch definitively. You can say that he didn’t write about doing that in his book, because that is provable. But that’s not the same as asserting he never f---ed a couch. Especially because he hasn’t officially denied it.”

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Oliver then explained that his own staff reached out to Vance’s campaign for a denial and once on the phone with a spokesperson for the senator, asked point-blank if Vance "ever had sex with a couch.” 

“They — and this is true — hung up on us,” he said. “Which is, and this is critical, not a 'No,' is it?”

Oliver said that follow-up emails were left unanswered, ultimately concluding that "until he tells us otherwise, I’m gonna assume that J.D. Vance f---ed a couch.”

The Last Week Tonight host also addressed Vance’s remarks about Democratic leaders, including presidential nominee Kamala Harris, being “childless cat ladies.”

"Set aside that Harris has two stepchildren, neither of whom, as far as I can see, are cats,” Oliver began. “You don’t need kids to care about your fellow human beings. As for the claim that women who don’t have children are miserable with the choices they’ve made, the only person I’m sure who’s miserable with the choice they’ve made right now is Donald Trump after choosing Great Lakes Ron DeSantis here as a running mate."