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  1. ‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’ Returns February 8thThe wait for more John Oliver is almost over, and HBO released a brand new Last Week Tonight promo today in which Oliver promises an all-new […]
    By Megh Wright
  2. promos
    Watch a Promo for Season Two of Last Week Tonight With John OliverHe’s back. 
    By Lindsey Weber
  3. candy
    John Oliver Will Help You Avoid New Year’s Eve“Do you really want to sit on your friend’s sofa and watch hummus turn brown all night?”
    By Nate Jones
  4. year in culture 2014
    The 10 Best TV Shows of 2014Hannibal! Cosmos! True Detective! Mad Men!
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  5. candy
    John Oliver Takes on Turkey Pardoning and TurkeysDelicious, delicious turkeys.
    By Jesse David Fox
  6. ‘Last Week Tonight’ Calls for an End to Turkey PardoningHBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is on hiatus until February, but that didn’t stop Oliver and crew from uploading the above […]
    By Megh Wright
  7. John Oliver on Confusing ‘Last Week Tonight’ with Journalism: ‘The Correct […]“We are making jokes about the news and sometimes we need to research things deeply to understand them, but it’s always in service of a joke. […]
    By Megh Wright
  8. John Oliver Is Outdoing The Daily Show and ColbertWhen I watch John Oliver, I feel as if some sort of progress is being made.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  9. war for late night
    John Oliver Hits His Late-Night Rivals in the Face With a FishTo celebrate his season finale.
    By Jesse David Fox
  10. Jon Stewart, Tom Hanks, Jimmy Fallon, and More Get a Salmon to the Face on […]Here’s a clip from last night’s season 1 Last Week Tonight finale, in which John Oliver and crew make their very own “salmon cannon” – only […]
    By Megh Wright
  11. sesame street
    John Oliver Breaks Cookie Monster’s Brain by Calling Him ‘Biscuit Monster’Britishisms!
    By E. Alex Jung
  12. candy
    John Oliver Casts Nick Offerman Perfectly As a Home Depot EmployeeHe’s essentially a couples counselor.
    By Jesse David Fox
  13. ‘Last Week Tonight’ Made a Realistic Home Depot Commercial Starring Nick […]Lowe’s recently announced that they’ll be testing out robot sales assistants in their stores this holiday season, so to help Home Depot deal […]
    By Megh Wright
  14. John Oliver Proposes a New Way to Measure Sugar in Food on ‘Last Week […]In honor of Halloween, last night on Last Week Tonight John Oliver devoted over 10 minutes to exploring the deceiving world of the sugar […]
    By Megh Wright
  15. ‘Last Week Tonight’ Created an All-Animal Supreme Court Reenactment Tool […]During last night’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver and crew created a solution for the longstanding rule against cameras in the Supreme Court […]
    By Megh Wright
  16. John Oliver Has a Word for Pumpkin Spice LoversBefore you head to your local Starbucks to buy a pumpkin spice latte, watch this clip from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, in which Oliver […]
    By Megh Wright
  17. ‘Last Week Tonight’ Explains Why Police Can Seize Your Stuff Through Civil […]If you’re considering taking a drive with a bunch of cash in your car soon, you might want to check out the above clip from Last Week Tonight […]
    By Megh Wright
  18. ‘Last Week Tonight’ Covers America’s Mysterious Drone ProgramHere’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight, in which John Oliver breaks down American drone strikes, the US’s definition of an “imminent […]
    By Megh Wright
  19. John Oliver Hosts a Beauty Pageant with Kathy Griffin on ‘Last Week […]Here’s a clip from last night’s episode of Last Week Tonight, in which John Oliver breaks down the Miss America Pageant – or as they prefer to […]
    By Megh Wright
  20. John Oliver Begs Scotland to Stay in the UK on ‘Last Week Tonight’This Thursday Scotland will be voting on a referendum to secede from the UK, and on Last Week Tonight, John Oliver broke down both sides of the […]
    By Megh Wright
  21. last week tonight with john oliver
    Watch Cookie Monster and John Oliver Do the (Fake) Local News(It might be a pardoy.)
    By Lindsey Weber
  22. John Oliver Breaks Down America’s Problem with Student Debt and For-Profit […]If you’re a college freshman this fall, John Oliver has a useful motivational message just for you at the end of the above Last Week Tonight […]
    By Megh Wright
  23. John Oliver Responds to Some ‘Last Week Tonight’ Fan MailLast Week Tonight with John Oliver returns to TV this Sunday, September 7th, but in the meantime, Oliver decided to respond to some “fan mail” […]
    By Megh Wright
  24. Watch John Oliver’s Epic Takedown and Evisceration of a PiñataLast Week Tonight with John Oliver has covered a ton of heated issues during its run on HBO so far, but in this video Oliver takes on the most […]
    By Megh Wright
  25. John Oliver Covers the Militarization of Ferguson Police and BeyondConsidering both The Daily Show and The Colbert Report were off the air last week, John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight segment on the tragic […]
    By Megh Wright
  26. ‘The Atlantic’ Says ‘Last Week Tonight’ Is ‘Making a Difference in the […]“This is the magic of John Oliver. It’s been only 14 episodes so far (the show is slated for 19 this season) but the Last Week Tonight team has […]
    By Megh Wright
  27. Learn About Payday Loans with John Oliver and Sarah Silverman Here’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight, in which John Oliver breaks down the corrupt payday loan industry – or as he describes it, […]
    By Megh Wright
  28. ‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’ Creates the Perfect Port Authority […]New York’s Port Authority recently got in a dispute with kitchenware store Fishs Eddy over selling plates depicting the New York City skyline […]
    By Megh Wright
  29. John Oliver Reveals How Embarrassingly Bad the US Is at Storing Nuclear […]While most Americans might worry about the possibility of getting annihilated by another country’s nuclear warheads, last night’s Last Week […]
    By Megh Wright
  30. Thailand’s Military Government Is Not a Fan of ‘Last Week Tonight with […]Thailand’s military government apparently caught wind of a segment Last Week Tonight with John Oliver did on their Crown Prince last month, and […]
    By Megh Wright
  31. John Oliver and Some Puppets Break Down America’s Prison ProblemHere’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight, in which John Oliver breaks down the many problems behind America’s broken prison system and […]
    By Megh Wright
  32. John Oliver Breaks Down America’s Income Inequality ProblemFrom Last Week Tonight, here’s a clip of John Oliver breaking down everything that’s wrong with income inequality in the US, from the stigma […]
    By Megh Wright
  33. John Oliver Recaps Every 4th of July Fireworks Display That Happened Last […]Last Week Tonight was off the air last night due to the holiday, but that didn’t stop John Oliver from releasing a comprehensive guide to every […]
    By Megh Wright
  34. John Oliver Talks Uganda’s Harsh Anti-Gay Laws with LGBT Activist Pepe […]Here’s a segment from last night’s Last Week Tonight, in which John Oliver explores the recent rise of persecution against homosexuals in […]
    By Megh Wright
  35. stop making cameos and finish the books already
    George R.R. Martin Helps John Oliver Destroy Dr. OzIt’s what George R.R. Martin does best.
    By Jesse David Fox
  36. John Oliver Breaks Down the Dark Side of Dietary Supplements with Steve […]Dr. Oz recently got in some trouble for hawking some very questionably safe dietary and nutritional supplements on his medical talk show, so […]
    By Megh Wright
  37. John Oliver and Stephen Hawking Talk Artificial Intelligence, Parallel […]Last Week Tonight premiered its new segment “People Who Think Good” last night featuring renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, and he explained […]
    By Megh Wright
  38. Stephen Hawking Will Be a Guest on Sunday’s ‘Last Week Tonight with John […]Physicist Stephen Hawking is set to be the guest on this Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Hawking will be interviewed by […]
    By Bradford Evans
  39. John Oliver and Seth Meyers Chat About Their New Jobs on ‘Late Night’Here’s a clip from John Oliver’s visit to the Late Night desk last night, where he and Meyers talked about swapping their daily/weekly-style […]
    By Megh Wright
  40. John Oliver Breaks Down the Evil Underbelly of FIFAIn a glowing example of The Sausage Principle, John Oliver skewered FIFA and their history of greedy and “cartoonishly evil” practices against […]
    By Megh Wright
  41. John Oliver Attempts to Predict the Memorial Day Weekend NewsHere’s a clip John Oliver and his Last Week Tonight crew put together last week in an attempt to predict the news that would break during their […]
    By Megh Wright
  42. tv review
    TV Review: Last Week Tonight With John OliverSunday’s premiere had an unmistakable Daily Show vibe, but only at the start.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  43. ratings
    Long Live Oliver: HBO’s Last Week Tonight Debuts to Solid RatingsAbout the same size audience as Bill Maher’s show.
    By Josef Adalian
  44. Inside John Oliver’s Other Weekly Satirical News Show, ‘The Bugle’John Oliver’s new late night show, Last Week Tonight, premiered yesterday on HBO. It’s obviously a big step for the British expat, formerly of […]
    By Robert Schoon
  45. streaming
    Watch the First Episode of Last Week Tonight With John OliverHBO put it online for you.
    By Jesse David Fox
  46. Watch the First Episode of ‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight premiered last night on HBO, and while the network hasn’t uploaded the episode in full like they have with the […]
    By Megh Wright
  47. resume
    The Best of John Oliver on The Daily ShowFrom the 2008 presidential debate to Carlos Danger.
    By Jesse David Fox
  48. Talking ‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’ with Showrunner Tim CarvellIn December it was announced that longtime Daily Show head writer Tim Carvell was leaving to serve as showrunner and executive producer of John […]
    By Megh Wright
  49. encounter
    Playing Monopoly and Talking Last Week Tonight With John Oliver“Everything is different in American Monopoly. Why do you have a wheelbarrow?”
    By Molly Young
  50. John Oliver and Matt Lauer Talk ‘Last Week Tonight’Here’s a Today Show clip where John Oliver – whose HBO show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver premieres this Sunday – talks with Matt Lauer […]
    By Megh Wright
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