[imagesource: YouTube / Last Week Tonight with John Oliver]

Unlike that friend of yours on Facebook who keeps tagging brands and having a moan, people seem to actually enjoy John Oliver’s rants.

Last Week Tonight is still on hiatus so there’s no full episode to digest.

Instead, the Brit vented his frustration with the success of The Da Vinci Code during an almost-nine minute web exclusive earlier in the week.

That’s both the novel by Dan Brown and the subsequent movie starring Tom Hanks.

A snapshot via Mashable:

“No-one should need Robert Langdon, a Harvard-educated puzzle solver who fucks, to get to the bottom of this,” Oliver said of the titular code. “A child could solve that puzzle!”

To be fair, he isn’t wrong. Quickly recounting The Da Vinci Code’s plot, Oliver indulged in almost nine minutes of aggravated ranting about the insultingly simple riddle at the centre of the bestselling book, griping at its overwhelming success. It’s been almost two decades since The Da Vinci Code became an international phenomenon, but apparently Oliver’s irritation burns eternal.

There’s not much of a point to his rant – the book will still sell and DStv will screen the movie until its dying day.

Sometimes it’s just nice to watch people get things off their chest.

This is a safe space, John. Tell us how you really feel:

[source:mashable]