Dean Cain defends his filmography and claps again on the ‘Final Week Tonight’ host after John Oliver spent a while unloading on the actor, quipping at one level, “Did not you was Superman? I believed you died.”
Dean Cain might not be a comic, however he however jumped right into a feud with one as Final Week Tonight host John Oliver turned the newest celeb to lambast the actor after he introduced he had joined ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement).
The newest episode of HBO’s award-winning topical comedy sequence noticed Oliver check out the president’s deportation agenda within the wake of his One Massive Lovely Invoice making its approach by Congress. Alongside the way in which, he could not assist however weigh in on the Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman star’s massive information.
Taking part in a section from Cain’s Instagram video from final week, the place he says he joined ICE to “assist safe the protection of all Individuals,” Oliver took just a few moments to poke enjoyable at this explicit addition to the federal government’s forces.
“You realize, there’s an previous saying in Hollywood: ‘If all you may get is Dean Cain, you’re f–ked,” he joked.
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“Now, I am not saying that ICE is not discovering individuals,” he added. “I am simply saying, if you end up diminished to pinning a badge on the 59-year-old star of The Canine Who Saved Christmas, The Canine Who Saved Christmas Trip, The Canine Who Saved the Holidays, The Canine Who Saved Halloween, The Canine Who Saved Easter, and The Canine Who Saved Summer season, perhaps you’re in bother.”
He even shared the admittedly cute film posters for that ABC Household movie (and later direct-to-DVD) sequence, the place he starred as one among a pair of bumbling burglars alongside Joey Diaz. The movies additionally starred well-known faces like Mario Lopez, Joey Lawrence, Paris Hilton, Casper Van Dien, Mayim Bialik, Nicole Eggert, and William Zabka alongside the way in which, however all of the posters function simply the cute pups.
It additionally seems to be a sequence that Cain is clearly happy with, as a part of his response again to Oliver, which was posted to X inside hours of Final Week Tonight airing, noticed him defend the franchise, writing, “These motion pictures had been candy, by the way in which!”
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Elsewhere in his section, Oliver joked that there’s a constructive to Cain becoming a member of ICE as he quipped he’d haven’t any bother hiding his true identification. “No want for that man to put on a masks as a result of the probabilities of anybody recognizing him are f–king zero,” he stated.
“He stole that masks joke from the web,” Cain wrote in his retort. “And he additionally laughed hysterically when Trump stated he was going to run for President. Case closed.”
Oliver closed his section on deportation with some recommendation for anybody confronted with ICE brokers, no matter citizenship. “Attorneys informed us the one two issues it is best to say to them are: ‘Am I free to depart?’ And ‘I need to converse to a lawyer,'” he stated. “That’s it. You could have the correct to stay silent.”
He then added with a smirk, “And I acknowledge that in some instances you could be unable to assist your self from saying: ‘Didn’t you was Superman? I believed you died.’ … However that basically is it.”
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Oliver is simply the newest star to take potshots at Cain for signing up for ICE. John Leguizamo referred to as the actor a “moron” in a scathing video shared to his Instagram, joking, “Dean Cain, your pronounces are has/been.”
Glee alum Kevin McHale took to X with a blistering commentary, writing, “Look, I do know the leisure enterprise is in shambles, however think about being so out of labor and determined for consideration (I’d know) that you just be a part of ICE? F–king pathetic loser.”
In the meantime, comedian Margaret Cho each famous that Cain is definitely Japanese American. In actual fact, his dad and mom had been among the many Japanese-Americans who had been held in internment camps within the Forties.
“Why would you be a part of ICE and encourage individuals to affix ICE when your ancestors had been interred in World Warfare II?” Cho requested in an Instagram video of her personal, earlier than declaring Cain’s combined heritage. “You are by no means gonna be white, irrespective of how racist you’re, irrespective of how mistaken you act.”
As extra individuals on social media piled on this angle, Cain jumped in to answer one fan on X, writing, “Sure. I LOVE this nation, regardless of its previous errors.”
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The actor informed Fox Information’ Jesse Watters that he “shall be sworn in as an ICE agent A.S.A.P.” He additionally added that he was already a sworn deputy sheriff in addition to a police officer, per the New York Instances.
“For individuals who do not know, I’m a sworn regulation enforcement officer, in addition to being a filmmaker. I felt it was vital to affix with our first responders to assist safe the protection of all Individuals,” Cain stated in his Tuesday, August 5, Instagram video.
“Not simply speak about it — so I joined up. This is your alternative to affix ICE.”
He additionally encourages others to additionally join in his video, noting the $50,000 signing bonus, scholar mortgage compensation, retirement and different advantages. “So, if you wish to assist save America, ICE is arresting the worst of the worst and eradicating them from America’s streets,” he stated. “They want your assist. We want your assist, to guard our homeland and our households.”
Cain is greatest identified for his roles in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Supergirl, and as host of Masters of Phantasm — in addition to starring in The Canine Who Saved… movies, apparently — however these days has made headlines extra for his assist of President Donald Trump.
