John Oliver opened Sunday's Last Week Tonight with a few choice words about the perpetrators of last week's Paris attacks — and he didn't hold back. (We counted at least four instances of the word "asshole" within the first minute or so.)

Oliver goes on to assert that, despite the assaults, France's enduring cultural power is here to stay.

"If you are in a war of culture and lifestyle with France, good fucking luck," he says. "Go ahead, bring your bankrupt ideology. They’ll bring Jean-Paul Sartre, Édith Piaf, fine wine, Gauloise cigarettes, Camus, camembert, madeleines, macarons... and the fucking croquembouche."

We've never been so grateful for HBO's relaxed profanity policy.