John Oliver’s gay version of Mike Pence’s rabbit book doing better than the real thing
Mike Pence just can’t get out of second place.
The vice president’s family on Monday released a children’s book about their real-life pet rabbit Marlon Bundo — but it’s already being outsold by a gay rights parody version published by “Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver.
Oliver’s “A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo” — which casts the rabbit as a “very special boy bunny who falls in love with another boy bunny” and documents his fight against a Pence-esque stinkbug who opposes gay marriage — rocketed to the top of Amazon’s charts after the British funnyman announced it on his show Sunday night.
“Buy it for your children, buy it for any child you know, or just buy it because you know it would annoy Mike Pence,” Oliver said on his show, which focused on Pence’s history of opposing gay rights.
“Marlon Bundo’s Day in the Life of the Vice President,” written by Pence’s wife Karen and their daughter Charlotte, was ranked 11th on Amazon’s book charts Monday. The Marlin Bundo in this version does not fall in love with another boy bunny — rather, the story follows “Bundo along as he hops after ‘Grampa’ (Vice President Mike Pence),” according to the blurb.
Oliver said he’s donating all proceeds of his book to LGBT advocacy group the Trevor Project and health non-profit AIDS United.
The Pences are donating the proceeds of their book to Tracy’s Kids, an art-therapy program at the Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis and A21, an anti-sex-trafficking organization affiliated with the Hillsong megachurch, according to the Washington Post.