J.D. Vance is probably sick of all the couch-cuddling comedy coming his way. But unfortunately for the Republican VP candidate, the masses can’t get enough of the (false) internet rumor that he wrote about having sex with his couch in his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. Last week Stephen Colbert took cracks at the (alleged) couch-loving king; on Sunday, John Oliver chimed in with a ton of couch-related jokes on his Emmy-winning late-night program, Last Week Tonight.

To recap: The Vance couch jokes began with a shitpost from the since-deleted X account @ricksrudescalves. “Can’t say for sure but he might be the first vp pick to have admitted in a ny times bestseller to fucking an inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions,” read the viral missive, which Oliver shared on his program. The original post even included a fake citation for the fictitious story: “(vance, 𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘺, pp. 179-181).” It’s all in the details.

Despite clearly being a joke—and featuring a claim easily debunked by thumbing a copy of Hillbilly Elegy—the post gained traction online. On Sunday, Oliver shared some theories as to why. “I think the reason it spread so fast might be that a) nobody read that fucking book, and b) it was incredibly easy to believe,” he said. Then the comedian let it rip, absolutely roasting Vance and his seemingly upholstery-loving face. “If you ask me to draw a man that fucks his couch, 10 times out of 10, I’m drawing this guy,” quipped Oliver. “If you ask me to play two truths and a lie with this man, before he’d even open his mouth, I’d shout, ‘The truth is he fucks his couch!’”

At this point some viewers might have been driven to shout a famous Simpsons refrain at Oliver: “Stop, he’s already dead!” But Oliver kept the jokes coming. Vance, he said, “looks like he watched the Tom Cruise–Oprah interview and was jealous of Tom’s shoes”—a reference to when Cruise famously jumped on a couch after declaring his love for new girlfriend Katie Holmes. Vance and his supporters would probably accuse Oliver of being glib, but a truly giddy Oliver continued to revel in couch-kink comedy.

His most devastating punch line? “If you told me the reason you find coins in between couch cushions is because J.D. Vance always leaves a tip, I’d be like, ‘Yeah, yeah, that sounds right.’”

Oliver also touched on the media fallout from the post, noting news that the rumor made it all the way to Sweden—homeland of mass couch manufacturer Ikea—and citing the AP fact-check article “No, J.D. Vance did not have sex with a couch,” an online story later removed for not having gone through the AP’s usual editing process. Despite the story’s removal, “you can’t say J.D. Vance didn’t have sex with a couch definitively,” Oliver noted. “You can say that he didn’t write about doing that in his book, because that is provable. But that’s not the same as asserting he never fucked a couch, especially because he hasn’t officially denied it.”

Here, Oliver went one step further than Colbert, actually calling Vance’s campaign to see whether the senator would answer that question on the record. Vance’s team’s response? “They—and this is true—hung up on us,” Oliver said—before making the shrewd observation that hanging up is not, in fact, a denial. Oliver and his team then followed up via email and text message, asking whether Vance had ever had sex with a couch or “any other furniture or household items.” As of Last Week Tonight’s taping, Oliver had not yet received a response.