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Aug. 8, 2016
John Oliver Explains Exactly How You’re Ruining the News In one of Last Week Tonight’s most enlightening monologues, John Oliver explains the rapid decline of both print media and journalistic […]
Aug. 1, 2016
John Oliver Covered the Ups and Downs of the DNC Last week’s Democratic National Convention was packed with speeches, off-stage protests, and drama galore. Catnip for John Oliver, who took a […]
Mar. 21, 2016
John Oliver Explains Why Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Wall Is a Terrible […] Here’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight, where John Oliver breaks down Donald Trump’s proposed plan to build a wall at the US/Mexico […]
Mar. 18, 2016
Is Josh Gondelman Really So Nice?
If I had any doubts as to whether Josh Gondelman was actually the nice guy everyone says he is, they were quickly dissolved when he started […]
Mar. 14, 2016
John Oliver Broke Down the Messy, Complicated Fight Over Apple’s Encryption The fight between Apple and the US government over the encryption of iPhones is a tricky one. Making it a pretty perfect subject for a deep […]
Mar. 7, 2016
Watch John Oliver Expose the Ghost Governments of ‘Special Districts’ On last night’s This Week Tonight, John Oliver took aim at Special Districts, special local governments set up for single purposes with little […]
Feb. 22, 2016
John Oliver Explains Anti-Abortion Laws and Shares Some Cute Sloths on […] Here’s a great segment from last night’s Last Week Tonight, where John Oliver breaks down many states’ “TRAP” laws, which stands for “targeted […]
Jan. 28, 2016
John Oliver Looks Back on His Edward Snowden Interview on ‘The Tonight […] Here’s a clip from John Oliver’s appearance on last night’s Tonight Show, where he and Jimmy Fallon talk about some of the most popular Last […]
Jan. 15, 2016
Check Out the First Season 3 Promo for ‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’ John Oliver returns to HBO with a brand new season of Last Week Tonight next month, and today the network released the first promo. Now that […]
Nov. 23, 2015
John Oliver Explains Why We Should Dump the Penny on ‘Last Week Tonight’ Here’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight, where John Oliver explains why it’s time for the United States Mint to stop making pennies. […]
Nov. 2, 2015
John Oliver Explains Why You Should Care About Tomorrow’s Elections The presidential election might still be a year away, but during last night’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver explained why tomorrow’s local […]
Oct. 19, 2015
John Oliver, Mike Myers, a Beaver, and a Moose Offer Some Canadian […] Here’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight, where John Oliver breaks down the importance behind today’s election day in Canada for […]
Oct. 5, 2015
‘Last Week Tonight’ Explains Why the US Mental Healthcare System Needs a […] In light of last week’s mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, many politicians have yet again tried to shift the national […]
Sept. 28, 2015
John Oliver Explains the Current Migrant and Refugee Crisis on ‘Last Week […] Here’s a great clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight, in which John Oliver breaks down the current migrant and refugee crisis and some of […]
Sept. 8, 2015
Don’t Go Back to School Without These Handy Tips from ‘Last Week Tonight’ Last Week Tonight was on hiatus this weekend, but to help all the students out there heading back to school this week, the show uploaded a new […]
Aug. 31, 2015
John Oliver Shares Some of His Favorite History Lies on ‘Last Week Tonight’ Here’s a new web exclusive from Last Week Tonight, where John Oliver runs through just a few of his favorite completely untrue history facts. […]
Aug. 24, 2015
John Oliver Explains Why We Need a Federal LGBT Anti-Discrimination Law on […] Here’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight, where John Oliver covers discrimination against LGBT people in the United States and why […]
Aug. 17, 2015
John Oliver Creates His Very Own Tax-Exempt Religion on ‘Last Week Tonight’ Here’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight, where John Oliver takes a deep dive into the world of televangelists and how they legally […]
Aug. 10, 2015
‘Last Week Tonight’ Made a Star-Studded Sex Education Video That’s […] Here’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight where John Oliver examines the embarrassing state of sex education in the United States, […]
Aug. 3, 2015
‘Last Week Tonight’ Explains Why It’s Time for Washington DC to Become the […] Here’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight, where John Oliver breaks down the countless ways Washington DC has been shafted by Congress […]
July 27, 2015
‘Last Week Tonight’ Explains Why Mandatory Prison Sentencing Does Way More […] Here’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight, where John Oliver breaks down why mandatory minimum prison sentencing laws are an awful idea […]
July 20, 2015
John Oliver Explains Why American Food Waste Is ‘Dutch-Ovening the Entire […] Here’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight, where John Oliver took a close look at America’s growing problem with food waste. From […]
July 13, 2015
John Oliver Gives a Riveting Halftime Speech Against Taxpayer-Funded […] We can always count on John Oliver and Last Week Tonight to make the seemingly least funny subjects entertaining. In the case of last night’s […]
July 6, 2015
John Oliver Covers 15 Topics in One Minute on ‘Last Week Tonight’ Last Week Tonight was off the air last night, so John Oliver and crew did something a little different for their latest web exclusive. Instead […]
June 29, 2015
‘Last Week Tonight’ Created the Perfect Way to Spend Your 2015 Leap Second Tomorrow night we’ll be treated to an extra second of time right before midnight, so last night John Oliver unveiled a website made by the good […]
June 22, 2015
‘Last Week Tonight’ Made an Updated AOL Ad Starring Rob Huebel and Colin […] Here’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight, where John Oliver takes a closer look at the dark, depressing, and still not explicitly […]
June 15, 2015
‘Last Week Tonight’ Enlists Helen Mirren to Voice the US Senate Torture […] Not many people have bothered to read the released version of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA’s interrogation program, so […]
June 8, 2015
John Oliver Explains Why the US Bail System Is Only Good for Reality TV During last night’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver took a closer look at the US bail system, which forces tons of poor people to sit in jail […]
June 1, 2015
John Oliver Makes a Desperate Plea to FIFA’s Top Sponsors Last June, John Oliver and Last Week Tonight dove deep into the dark and crooked underbelly of FIFA, and in light of last week’s raid and […]
May 26, 2015
John Oliver Shares Some of the Weirdest Cut ‘Last Week Tonight’ Graphics Last Week Tonight was off the air this past weekend, so John Oliver and crew uploaded a new web exclusive featuring a bunch of graphics that, […]
May 18, 2015
John Oliver Highlights the Depressing Reality of Farming Chickens
On last night’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver took aim at the situation that modern chicken farms find themselves in which – surprise! – is […]
May 11, 2015
‘Last Week Tonight’ Explains Why Working Mothers Have It the Worst To celebrate Mother’s Day, last night’s Last Week Tonight took a closer look at the many American companies and lawmakers who claim to love and […]
Apr. 27, 2015
‘Last Week Tonight’ Breaks Down the Fashion Industry’s Dark Secrets Last night’s Last Week Tonight took a look at some of the most popular cheap clothing companies in the US, examining how companies like H&M, […]
Apr. 20, 2015
Martin Sheen and ‘Last Week Tonight’ Make the Perfect Doomsday Video Earlier this year, CNN’s top secret doomsday video leaked online, but Last Week Tonight decided it was a little too depressing and in need of a […]
Apr. 13, 2015
John Oliver and Michael Bolton Stick Up for the IRS Through the Power of […] In anticipation of Tax Day this Wednesday, last night’s Last Week Tonight took a closer look at the the one government agency everyone loves to […]
Apr. 9, 2015
Edward Snowden Teaches John Oliver About Password Security on ‘Last Week […] If you haven’t watched John Oliver’s in-depth dick pic-themed chat with Edward Snowden, do yourself a favor and go watch it immediately. If […]
Apr. 6, 2015
John Oliver Travels to Russia to Talk Dick Pics with Edward Snowden John Oliver took a closer look at the Patriot Act and government surveillance during last night’s Last Week Tonight, but to better understand […]
Mar. 30, 2015
Take ‘Last Week Tonight’s April Fools’ Day No-Prank Pledge Last Week Tonight was off last week, but John Oliver and crew uploaded a web exclusive last night to bring attention to a very important issue: […]
Mar. 25, 2015
Inside the Secret Technology that Makes ‘The Daily Show’ and ‘Last Week […] When you’re watching The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, or Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, you often see […]
Mar. 23, 2015
‘Last Week Tonight’ Explores the ‘Hamster Wheel of Hell’ of Municipal […] Here’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight, in which John Oliver breaks down the many problems surrounding municipal violation fines and […]
Mar. 9, 2015
‘Last Week Tonight’ Wonders Why Daylight Saving Time Is Still a Thing Feeling extra tired this morning? Here’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight about the pointlessness of Daylight Saving Time, which has […]
Mar. 2, 2015
‘Last Week Tonight’ Makes America’s Crumbling Infrastructure Sexy Again Last night’s Last Week Tonight took a closer look at the crumbling infrastructure in the United States, from the thousands of uninspected dams […]
Feb. 13, 2015
The Satire We Need Right Now Is All The Satire That’s On Right Now Last fall, I was watching a new episode of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver with a few friends, the one featuring an exposé on civil […]
Feb. 9, 2015
‘Last Week Tonight’ Takes on the Pharmaceutical Marketing Industry Last Week Tonight finally returned for its second season on HBO last night, and John Oliver got right to work by covering the many shady ways […]
Feb. 3, 2015
John Oliver on ‘Last Week Tonight’s Extended Segments: ‘There Has to Be […] Last Week Tonight with John Oliver returns to HBO for its second, 35-episode season this Sunday, and ahead of its debut THR spoke with Oliver […]
Jan. 26, 2015
John Oliver Auditions for the ‘50 Shades of Grey’ Sequel Ahead of the season 2 Last Week Tonight premiere on February 8th, here’s a brand new web exclusive featuring John Oliver giving a […]
Jan. 9, 2015
‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’ Returns February 8th The 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 […]
Nov. 24, 2014
‘Last Week Tonight’ Calls for an End to Turkey Pardoning HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is on hiatus until February, but that didn’t stop Oliver and crew from uploading the above […]
Nov. 17, 2014
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. […]
Nov. 10, 2014
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 […]
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