America has had some time to reflect on the insane comments made by presidential hopeful Donald Trump during the recent debate where he claimed that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, OH, are abducting and eating cats and dogs.But John Oliver still has some thoughts on the matter. On a new episode …
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Last night’s Emmy Awards were… well, fine. Let’s just call them fine. Nothing too crazy happened, except for one or two memorable moments, like when John Oliver’s acceptance speech garnered the wrap-it-up music just as he started talking about his dead dog. In a new interview with Variety, the producers …
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The Alabama Supreme Court’s recent ruling that embryos created using in-vitro-fertilization (IVF) are legally equivalent to people has caused absolute chaos as healthcare providers try to figure out the implications of this new legal status quo. It’s potentially massive and unsettling, as John Oliver pointed out the core absurdity on …
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Comedian John Oliver is offering Clarence Thomas $1 million a year and a luxury motor coach to resign his post on the Supreme Court. The wild — and Oliver claims, “somehow legal” — offer was made at the end of the 11th-season premiere of Last Week Tonight, the long-running HBO …
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After disgraced New York congressman George Santos hadfinally been kicked outof the House of Representatives on Dec. 1,Last Week Tonighthost John Oliver celebrated the occasion by suggesting Santos might find success on one of the reality franchises on Bravo. On Sunday night’s episode ofLast Week Tonight, Oliver could not hide …
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John Oliver joined Stephen Colbert on The Late Show to discuss his stand-up career, which he resumed during the WGA strike to “keep paying the staff” of Last Week Tonight. The comedian and TV host shared several stories, including one about a gig he did at the University of East …
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Last Week Tonight, the late-night program hosted by John Oliver, usually sticks to adding context to complicated news stories — breaking down bills, the implications of different political decisions, the fallout from structural failures. But this week, Oliver had to strip the show down to an elementary level to explain …
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John Oliver began the final Last Week Tonight episode of the season by summarizing the nonstop clown show Twitter has become ever since Elon Musk paid $44 billion for the site a few weeks ago. But because members of the media are some of Twitter’s most enthusiastic users, the story …
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It’s been mere days since the midterm elections and the country doesn’t even yet know which party will control the House of Representatives, so understandably John Oliver and his Last Week Tonight team didn’t tackle the elections in their main story — but Oliver did start the show by acknowledging …
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John Oliver wasted no time in getting to his main story on Last Week Tonight, which makes sense considering how frightening that story is: Tuesday’s midterms, election subversion, and how absolutely off the rails America is likely about to go. For starters, most Republican candidates for federal and statewide offices …
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