John Oliver and Michael Bolton Stick Up for the IRS Through the Power of Song

In anticipation of Tax Day this Wednesday, last night’s Last Week Tonight took a closer look at the the one government agency everyone loves to hate: the IRS. It’s been an uphill battle for IRS employees (or as John Oliver calls them, “the physical equivalent of Ambien�) for the last several years between dramatic budget cuts and losing over 13,000 employees since 2010, and Oliver thinks it’s time to give them a break: “We don’t need to love the IRS or even like them, but after decades of us calling them Nazis and sending them mustard, I think they may deserve at least a few minutes of at least grudging acknowledgement of the unpleasant but necessary function they serve.� Oliver isn’t the best at sincere emotions, to he brought in Grammy winner Michael Bolton to sing a beautiful song of “reluctant support for their appropriate funding.�