During a 33-minute long segment unpacking the state of policing in America, “Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver went on a brief tangent about his favorite position in local government: the comptroller.

A little context: He arrived at this point after referring to a 2015 Wall Street Journal article on lawsuit settlements for police conduct cases. The 10 cities with the largest police departments paid out $1.02 billion over a five-year period, the Journal reported then. (Baltimore knows a little something about this.)

“Listen, I’m no comptroller,” Oliver started to say. And then he went off: “Believe me, I wish I were. A hard-to-explain, lethally boring elected accountant whose title inexplicably took a real word”–here, the word “controller” appeared on the screen–“and then stuck an ‘mp’ in the middle of it? Come on! That’s my dream ‘jompb.'”

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