'The person you see on the screen in that John Oliver segment is me, minus a few years and more hair.'
In 1992, Greenwald was WITF's vice president of development and executive producer for their on-air auction. 'This is a blast from the past for me,' retired WITF senior vice president Mike Greenwald told Newsweek in a phone interview. 'That woman might see two rats jumping out of the water, while I see one rat absolutely dining out on that other rat.'
'Are they? Are they, though? Are they really jumping out of the water? I guess that's the beauty of Brian Swords' work, like all great art, it's open to interpretation,' Oliver says. These two rats are jumping up out the water.' 'His cartoon characters are delightful and I think he lets us each imagine whatever we'd like to with these things. 'Brian Sword's work sells absolutely marvelously here are on Gallery 33,' the commentator says, describing the painting. One of the rats is wrapped around the waist of the other, in a pose suggestive of oral sex.
Next, the clip cuts to the auction of Lot #71, a watercolor titled 'Surfacing,' by the local artist Brian Swords, which depicts two white rats leaping from the water.
