- John Oliver returned to "The Daily Show" to mock America's shift to its "monarchy era."
- Oliver crashed host Jon Stewart's monologue and said he was there to gloat.
- Oliver told Stewart to embrace being a monarchy because "kings get shit done."
John Oliver surprised audiences by returning to "The Daily Show" to interrupt Jon Stewart's monologue and gloat about ushering America into a new era.
Stewart's Monday night monologue briefly addressed the Super Bowl, but primarily focused on jokes about President Donald Trump's recent executive orders, like renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and the politician saying that America was at its greatest between 1870 and 1913.
"Well, it's been a good run, America," Stewart said about 16 minutes into the monologue. "It's looking like we're becoming less like the constitutional republic we've been for 250 years, and more like the monarchy that we all fought to escape from."
Stewart was then interrupted by Oliver appearing onscreen as the audience burst into applause.
"The prodigal son appears to have returned," Oliver said.
Oliver was a senior correspondent on the show from 2006 to 2013. He then landed his own series, "Last Week Tonight With John Oliver," which airs on HBO.
When Stewart asked Oliver if he was here to offer his "wisdom and counsel," Oliver clarified: "Oh, no, no, Jon. I'm here to gloat."
"America had its little fun, didn't you?" he continued. "Experimenting with democracy. You fought so hard to get away from us, acting up, throwing all that tea into the harbor — you still owe us for that, by the way."
Oliver teased America for diverging from the British and vowing to not be like the country.
"We let you spend your wild teen years experimenting with your ridiculous ideas of checks and balances because deep down, we knew that once you got that nonsense out of your system, you'd be back," Oliver said.
"Let me be the first to welcome America to its monarchy era," the former "Daily Show" correspondent said.
In response, Stewart said that America is "having a bit of trouble with democratic governance," but not to the point of wanting to "go full empire."
"Don't fight being a monarchy, Jon, embrace it! Kings get shit done," Oliver said.
Stewart retorted that England hasn't turned out much better than America.
"For a country that doesn't want to be an empire, you're doing a pretty fucking good impression right now," Oliver said, citing "invasions" and "economic exploitations."
"We really have become our father," Stewart finally conceded.
