And now this: John Oliver returns to take on the Trump convention

And on the seventh day, John Oliver had his say.

The British comedian, star of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight,” was silent during last week’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland because he was on hiatus and because his is a weekly show.

But he was back in his regular time slot Sunday, for many of us a day of rest before the Democrats Monday start their already troubled convention in Philadelphia. Putting his own spin on what just happened in Cleveland, Oliver opened by calling it a “3D IMAX (Expletive) Dumpster Fire.”

And then the show did one of its trademark extended segments on the Republican convention, which was exactly the thing every “LWT” fan wanted to see. You’ll probably see headlines for it Monday like, “Watch John Oliver Eviscerate the RNC” and “You Won’t Believe John Oliver’s Vicious Takedown of Donald Trump.” Because in Web headline writing, hyperbole means never having to say you didn’t get enough clicks.

In truth, the segment was strong and pointed and had the kind of sweep you would expect from an intelligent show with several days to mull things over. But it did not result in any disembowelment or wrestling maneuvers.

Much of what Oliver said was also said, in bits and pieces, by the every-day late-night hosts during the week, although "Last Week Tonight" has a talent for finding more historical resonances, for putting things in a larger context.

Still, Oliver’s main, highly cogent point, that the RNC was “a four-day exercise in emphasizing feelings over facts,” was pretty much an extended supporting argument for Stephen Colbert’s “truthiness” coinage, which on Monday, the first night of the convention, Colbert elevated to “Trumpiness.”

But before getting to the RNC, Olvier had a few words to offer about more recent news, Hillary Clinton’s pick of Sen. Tim Kaine to be her Democratic vice-presidential running mate.

“He’s a white gym sock pulled all the way up,” Oliver said, amid a barrage of euphemisms for “boring.”

The veep pick was to be Clinton’s gift, he said: “Everyone was so excited. Was it a puppy? A PlayStation? Elizabeth Warren? Well, no, it turned out to be a rice cooker. A plain white machined that cooked plain white rice.”

But Oliver, as comedians tend to do when confronted with the Trump candidacy, turned it back on the GOP and Trump’s VP choice, also kind of bland.

“Mike Pence is a rice cooker covered in homophobic slogans which is being held by a chimpanzee who could bite your face off,” Oliver said, as the visuals suggested Trump in the chimpanzee role. “So relax, Democrats, it could be worse.”

“Last Week Tonight” also offered a “We Are the World”-style music video. Inspired by Trump entering his convention to a song by Queen, who promptly asked him to stop, it featured Usher, Josh Groban, Sheryl Crow and others pleading with politicians to stop using their songs on the campaign trail without permission.

“If I wanted to sing and not get paid, I’d be on Spotify,” Groban sang. Maybe that video will go viral, but I suspect Americans’ level of concern for famous musicians getting co-opted isn’t all that high.

As for the question of truthiness at the RNC, Oliver’s people made the case well. I don’t know who all came with him from “The Daily Show,” but whoever does his video research has that show’s knack for finding exactly the right clip to make a point or to undercut something that a newsmaker is trying to get away with saying.

“LWT” showed a montage of RNC speakers talking about what they felt to be true, and the central support piece, before Trump’s acceptance speech itself, was an interview Trump surrogate Newt Gingrich did with CNN.

The CNN questioner gamely tried to insist on statistics and realities on issues such as the violent crime rate, down from year to year over decades. Gingrich kept countering with a version of, I’m going to trust people’s feelings that crime is actually up.

“What I said is also a fact,” Gingrich said at one point, which set Oliver off.

“No, it isn’t,” the host said. “It’s only a fact that that’s a feeling people have. This is a graph of the violent crime rate. It’s not a (expletive) Rorschach test. You can’t infer anything you like from it.”

Oliver found new material by taking a step back to recall the report the GOP issued in the wake of their 2012 presidential loss that called for special attention to changing the party’s tune on minorities.

Having the Trump candidacy and then nomination follow that report, he said, "is like making a New Year’s resolution to eat healthy and then spending the next year only eating meals so large that they’re free if you finish them in one sitting.”

And then there were Olver’s versions of the now-standard jokes about Trump as a portent of the apocalypse.

“Trump may as well have been riding out on stage with the other three horsemen,” the host said, in one such reference.

Comedy writers know they should find something fresh to say. But apparently Trump as harbinger of end times just feels true to them.