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election updates (sorry) Nov. 4, 2024

John Oliver Makes a Plea to the Nonvoting Left“I know that this isn’t inspiring to hear, but politics isn’t always inspiring.”

By Jason P. Frank
last night on late night Oct. 17, 2023

How Late Night Addressed the Israel-Hamas ConflictOn The Daily Show’s return, guest host Michael Kosta discusses the conflict in his opening monologue.

By Bethy Squires

2023 writers’ strike May 17, 2023

How Will the WGA Strike Affect Late-Night TV?Who’s paying their staff? What’s airing instead? How dark has it gotten?

By Hershal Pandya
last night on late night Apr. 10, 2023

Calling All Youngs: John Oliver Made an Alt Episode Just for YouWhy watch a segment about property when our student loans still haven’t been canceled?

By Jason P. Frank
last night on late night Aug. 8, 2022

John Oliver Kinda Feels Like HBO Is Being Burned Down ‘for the Insurance Money’“Hi there, new business daddy.”

By Rebecca Alter
last night on late night Dec. 6, 2021

John Oliver Says ‘Remember Chex Quest?’“For six weeks in 1996, Chex cereal f- - -ed.”

By Bethy Squires
emmys 2021 Sept. 20, 2021

Conan O’Brien Was the Troll the 2021 Emmys NeededWhat are they gonna do, take his show away?

By Bethy Squires
last night on late night Sept. 13, 2021

It’s Monday Morning, So Here’s John Oliver Talking Belarusian PoliticsIn which Last Week Tonight deploys the teddy-bear school of diplomacy.

By Rebecca Alter
last night on late night Aug. 9, 2021

John Oliver Doesn’t Need a PowerPoint to Taunt Andrew CuomoOr even an “irrelevant montage of photos.”

By Devon Ivie
infotainment June 21, 2021

John Oliver’s Segment on PACE Is Basically The Big Short 2: Even Bigger ShortsFeaturing a George Clooney cameo.

By Rebecca Alter
last night on late night June 14, 2021

John Oliver Raises Prison-Heat Awareness on Last Week Tonight For many with health conditions, a hot-cell summer can be deadly.

By Zoe Haylock
last night on late night May 24, 2021

John Oliver Can Summon George Clooney With the Snap of His Fingers“I gave you that power in a limited capacity.”

By Devon Ivie

last night on late night Apr. 12, 2021

John Oliver Has the Last Laugh About Prince Philip“It’s a tragedy if you don’t know a single thing about him.”

By Devon Ivie
last night on late night Mar. 15, 2021

John Oliver Calls Tucker Carlson a White Supremacist and a Wedge Salad“You relentlessly indignant picket fence.”

By Rebecca Alter
last night on late night Mar. 8, 2021

John Oliver Wants Elmo’s Mom to Drop the Hair-Care Routine“She’s taking care of herself, and protecting those edges.”

By Rebecca Alter
last night on late night Mar. 1, 2021

Last Week Tonight Covers the Police-Raid Culture That Killed Breonna TaylorAnd calls out Governor Andrew Cuomo.

By Zoe Haylock
last night on late night Feb. 22, 2021

John Oliver Dissects the ‘Amazing’ Ted Cruz Cancún Saga“Because the first rule of fatherhood is throw your daughters under the bus at the first opportunity.”

By Devon Ivie
last night on late night Feb. 15, 2021

John Oliver Looks Forward to the Next Pandemic on Last Week TonightWait, he’s not looking forward in a fun way. You know what we mean.

By Halle Kiefer
chat room Feb. 4, 2021

John Oliver Is Taking Last Week Tonight’s Mascot Budget ‘to My Grave’“If HBO ever finds out how much we spent on this stuff, we’re toast.”

By Devon Ivie
trailer mix Jan. 16, 2021

John Oliver Makes 2020 Go Boom in Last Week Tonight Season 8 TrailerIt’s premiering on Valentine’s Day, so expect more Adam Driver lust.

By Rebecca Alter
last night on late night Dec. 9, 2020

John Oliver Cuts Hiatus Short to Fetishize and Bribe the Pringles CorporationAnd the company loves it.

By Devon Ivie
last night on late night Nov. 16, 2020

Adam Driver Does Not Consent to John Oliver’s ‘Sexual or Violent’ Kinks“Do you realize, over this past year, what you’ve asked me to do to you?”

By Devon Ivie

last night on late night Nov. 9, 2020

John Oliver Calls Donald Trump’s Election Loss a ‘Reverse 9/11’“It was a really good day! Never forget.”

By Megh Wright
last night on late night Nov. 2, 2020

John Oliver Recaps 8 Months of Trump’s ‘Staggering’ COVID-19 ‘Incompetence’One last blitz before Election Day.

By Devon Ivie
last night on late night Oct. 26, 2020

John Oliver Calls Trump’s Debate Performance ‘Still Absolutely Appalling’“Unless you set the bar at ‘nobody caught fire,’ Trump will always find a way to disappoint.”

By Devon Ivie
not shitty news Oct. 19, 2020

John Oliver Christens the John Oliver Memorial Sewer PlantWell played, Danbury.

By Devon Ivie
last night on late night Oct. 19, 2020

John Oliver Wants You to Spare No Thoughts for ‘Totally Complicit’ Melania TrumpAnd her tacky Christmas decorations.

By Devon Ivie
last night on late night Oct. 5, 2020

John Oliver Has No Sympathy for Trump’s ‘Utterly Inevitable’ COVID Diagnosis“So many of the decisions that Trump and those around him made this week look absolutely appalling in hindsight.”

By Devon Ivie
last night on late night Sept. 28, 2020

John Oliver Confirms That Things Are ‘Basically’ Hopeless“We’re at the end of a generational battle, and the heartbreaking this is, we lost.”

By Devon Ivie
renewals Sept. 14, 2020

John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight Renewed Through 2023The network has ordered three more seasons of the late-night show.

By Megh Wright
last night on late night Aug. 31, 2020

John Oliver Fires Missive at Jared Kushner, ‘America’s Most Laminated Prince’“You might want to strap in, Jared.”

By Devon Ivie
last night on late night June 1, 2020

John Oliver Recaps the Year of America’s ‘Brutality Bingo’“That misconduct is in and of itself built on a legacy of white supremacy.”

By Devon Ivie

last night on late night May 18, 2020

John Oliver Looked Everywhere and Found Your New Sports Obsession: Marble Racing“It’s a beautiful, competitive event, and the world needs those more than ever right now.”

By Devon Ivie
last night on late night May 11, 2020

Let Your Next Quarantine Impulse Purchase Be John Oliver’s StampsSave the USPS.

By Devon Ivie
last night on late night May 4, 2020

John Oliver Rebukes America for Giving the Coronavirus a ‘Great Success Story’“In May, we are still playing catch-up in the middle of a pandemic.”

By Devon Ivie
last night on late night Apr. 20, 2020

John Oliver Spits His Wet, Liberal Germs on ‘Irresponsible’ Coronavirus Media“They only pretend to believe these things on television for money.”

By Devon Ivie
last night on late night Apr. 13, 2020

John Oliver Won’t Tolerate Amazon Calling Their Employees ‘Heroes’ Any Longer“Risking your life to get someone a sex toy probably doesn’t feel fair.”

By Devon Ivie
last night on late night Apr. 6, 2020

John Oliver Tries to Understand Trump’s Favorite ‘Pathetically Thirsty’ MediaOAN is “Fox News with even less shame and even fewer scruples.”

By Devon Ivie
last night on late night Mar. 30, 2020

John Oliver Says Trump Has ‘F*cking Stage Envy’ Over Coronavirus“This was always going to be hard, but it actually didn’t need to be this hard.”

By Megh Wright
last night on late night Nov. 11, 2019

John Oliver Is Ready for Another Battle With Coal Company CEO Bob MurrayHBO lost over $200,000 from Murray’s first lawsuit, but it’s ready to do it all again.

By Megh Wright
last night on late night June 17, 2019

John Oliver Breaks Down Why It’s Time to Impeach President Trump“Every asshole succeeds until finally they don’t.”

By Megh Wright
last night on late night Apr. 1, 2019

John Oliver Has a Simple Request for This Year’s WrestleMania FansStart cheering for extremely basic employee benefits!

By Megh Wright

last night on late night Mar. 18, 2019

John Oliver Explores the Dark Side of Public Shaming With Monica LewinskyOliver also called out Jay Leno for his years of Lewinsky roasting.

By Megh Wright
last night on late night Mar. 11, 2019

John Oliver Is Fighting Robocalls by Robocalling the FCC Every 90 Minutes“Unleash hell!”

By Megh Wright
last night on late night Mar. 4, 2019

John Oliver Prepares Kids for the Inevitable Robot TakeoverA robot will take over your job one day. Allow Oliver to prepare you for that.

By Megh Wright
last night on late night Feb. 25, 2019

Get a Free Psychic Reading Thanks to Rachel Dratch and Last Week Tonight“We promise it will be exactly as accurate as any psychic reading that you would pay money for.”

By Megh Wright
this week in late night Feb. 22, 2019

Why Can You Still Not F***ing Swear on Late Night?Censorship on late night seems pretty f***ing arbitrary these days.

By Bethy Squires
chat room Feb. 7, 2019

John Oliver Really Just Wants Last Week Tonight to Be The Muppet ShowThe HBO host chats about the new season of the show and the one story he wishes they could’ve covered while they were away.

By Elise Czajkowski
on comedy Nov. 10, 2018

How John Oliver and Last Week Tonight Choose What Stories to CoverAs revealed during Oliver’s appearance on Scott Rogowsky’s live comedy talk show.

By Elise Czajkowski
last night on late night Oct. 1, 2018

John Oliver Calls Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court Nomination ‘a F*ck You to Women’“Why this particular asshole?”

By Megh Wright