Sydney Crowd Enlightens John Oliver On Abbott's Onion Eating Habits, He Loses His Shit

Wrapping up the last date of his sold-out Melbourne and Sydney run at Sydney's regal State Theatre last night, comedian and star of Last Week Tonight John Oliver was not expecting this at all when he opened up the floor to questions in a five-minute encore at the end of a hilarious set.

After a couple of questions about Oliver's HBO career, that is, about his new religion Out Lady of Perpetual Exemption and his "historical facts" book Stranger Than Fiction, to which Oliver exclaimed with surprise, "You guys know more about me than I do! This is not curiosity but borderline stalking!", an ingenious punter yelled out over the crowd, "Did you see Tony Abbott eating an onion?"

Oliver stopped for a second, comprehending the ridiculous concept we presume, then said, "Wait, what? He ate an ONION?" His hand immediately flies to his face in a facepalm. 

The guffawing crowd then tells Oliver in near-unison that our dear Prime Minister not once, but twice, ate a whole, raw onion. At this point, Oliver is all but on the ground, clinging to his microphone stand for support and somehow managing to ask, "Why did he eat the second one?! Does he lack object permanence? 'Oh, that one also looks like an onion, I wonder if it is one?'"

At this point, someone near the front hands Oliver his phone, replaying a video of Abbott biting into that fated onion on a Tassie onion farm.

He stares at it for a dumbfounded few seconds, then goes on to exclaim, "It still has the skin on! This man needs constant supervision!"

Taking a few minutes to recover from his, and the crowd's hysterics, the cherry on the top of an amazing show was a fan in the stalls asking what we've always wondered of celebrities and those in showbiz, but never dared ask…

"Have you ever loved?"

Oliver is again lost in laughs and crowns the question the best he's ever been asked, likening it to something you'd ask Olivia Newton-John. Finally, with the confession, "I think I'm in love with Australia," Oliver wraps up an immensely successful set of shows.