John Oliver Archives

You'd think HBO's parent company, Warner Bros Discovery, would give Last Week Tonight host John Oliver more carte blanche about how his content is distributed considering the 30 Primetime Emmys (including two won in 2024), the variety talk series has won, second to the high-fantasy drama Game of Thrones with its possible near-unsurmountable 59 wins[...]

As great as it was for John Oliver and his team to walk home with the Emmy Award for Outstanding Scripted Variety Series for HBO's Last Week Tonight – getting the win over Saturday Night Live – it was Oliver's acceptance speech that a whole lot of folks in the "feels." As his acceptance speech[...]

Though it actually wasn't in the book, that didn't keep the "urban legend" of it from blowing up big-time – and HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver host John Oliver thinks he understands why. Images/Screencaps: Last Week Tonight YouTube, FOX News YouTube, FX Networks YouTube "It is not in his book, but I think the reason[...]

Just so there's no confusion? Every episode of HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is worth watching – which makes it twice as annoying having to wait until Thursday for it to hit online (especially when it seems like we have clips from Bill "Damn You Kids!" Maher seemingly everywhere within 24-48 hours) But[...]

Fans of the Emmy Award-winning, John Oliver-hosted HBO series can now check out the entire first season for free on YouTube – currently uploaded and ready for you to enjoy as you read this In addition, Seasons 2-8 will also be finding their way online for free, so make sure to stay tuned Now, about[...]

As much as HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver tackles the current events of serious social, domestic, and international importance, occasionally, it will focus on the ongoing timeless topics that humanity hasn't tackled properly yet – like Unidentified Flying Objects or UFOs, the subject of a recent episode Much of science fiction and pop[...]

If you had a chance to check out Sunday night's edition of HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, then you know that Emmy Award-winning host John Oliver continued his tradition of one-topic-tackling while still touching upon the hot topics of the moment Of course, we would love to share slips of the segment, but[...]

Want to know why HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver gets a lot of love? Because not many shows can connect the dots between Donald Trump & The Supreme Court to Pokerface star Natasha Lyonne and DC Studios Co-CEOs James Gunn & Peter Safran's New DCU as smoothly & effortlessly as John Oliver can[...]

John Oliver kicked off the 11th season of his award-winning weekly late-night news/comedy series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver in a big way last Sunday with a huge offer to Justice Clarence Thomas: $1 million per year (for as long as either Oliver & Thomas stay alive) – along with a $2.4 million motor home –[...]

HBO's award-winning weekly late-night news/comedy series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver returned for its 11th season this past Sunday night – and John Oliver didn't waste time setting a pretty high bar for the season How? By offering Justice Clarence Thomas $1 million per year (for as long as either Oliver & Thomas stay alive)[...]

Just to be clear? We know that the expression "putting your money where your mouth is" is one of those cliched expressions that's been beaten to death for decades – but that changed on Sunday night when HBO's Last Week Tonight host John Oliver a deal that might be too tough for Supreme Court Justice[...]

If you ask John Oliver if he ever feels his talk show Last Week Tonight would ever feel stale after 10 seasons on HBO, you wouldn't know it heading into his 11th season The host appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert with a very special guest, arguably the biggest member of the public[...]

As the bulk of the entertainment world is still taking in the news of the return of the prodigal son of The Daily Show host Jon Stewart, the consensus has been one of excitement, including perhaps its most successful former correspondent and occasional guest host, now HBO's Last Week Tonight host John Oliver While Stewart's[...]

Prodigal son John Oliver has returned home as a guest of The Daily Show guest host Ronny Chieng as the two reminisced about the time when they met for a mentoring session as Chieng was starting out on the Comedy Central variety series Oliver joined the show in season 12 during the Jon Stewart as[...]

But we would never pretend for a second to be at the level of John Oliver – so when HBO's Sunday late-night host decides to devote a 30-minute segment to the dumpster fire that was Musk's 2023 to wrap up the show's run before the holiday break, we're just going to sit back and share[...]

If there's anyone who's there to remind us how woefully inefficient our American institutions are in such a colorful way, it's Last Week Tonight host John Oliver Not far removed from the three-season renewal, the host took one of the country's most enduring pastimes in locomotives to shine a light on how much in disarray[...]

Seems like HBO is not done with John Oliver or his weekly variety series Last Week Tonight yet Not by a long shot renewing the multi-Emmy-winning series for three additional seasons through 2026, guaranteeing a 13th season, expanding the legacy of arguably The Daily Show's biggest successful alum and spiritual successor A satirical, insightful, and[...]

And when it comes to takedowns, very few match up with HBO's Last Week Tonight host John Oliver Because with Oliver, you never see it coming – even in the middle of a larger segment on the issues surrounding homeschooling Oliver showed a segment of a news interview with a fifteen-year-old who asked to be[...]

But HBO got a bit of a jump on that over the weekend, with Bill Maher returning to Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday night and John Oliver returning with Last Week Tonight on Sunday night With being off the air for five months, there were clearly a ton of topics to be covered[...]

It's been a very long five months for those in the entertainment industry, and among several talk shows celebrating and promising to deliver big is HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver The series' social media account was posted following the announcement of the Writers Guild of America ending their strike against the major studios[...]

Earlier this week, we learned that late-night hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver were teaming up with Spotify for the all-new limited series Strike Force Five Expected to run at least 12 episodes, the episodes were recorded back in May as the five shared their thoughts on a number of[...]

Well, it looks like the Strike Force Five podcast line-up of late-night hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver may very well be that team Hooking up with Spotify for the all-new limited series that's set to run at least 12 episodes, Strike Force Five offers us a chance to[...]

Of course John Oliver was going to go after FOX "News" during the opening to the 10th season of HBO's Emmy Award-winning Last Week Tonight Especially when excerpts from sealed court filings by Dominion Voting Systems showed that (shocker!) a number of familiar FOX faces didn't believe the stuff they were spreading across the airwaves,[...]

Comedian, actor, and writer John Oliver returns with new shenanigans as HBO released the new trailer for their long-time weekly late-night series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver The host and Daily Show alum have brought attention to a wide range of topics, foreign and domestic, offering biting "satirical, insightful, and meticulously researched look at[...]

When it comes to the second season of HBO and showrunner Ryan Condal's House of the Dragon, Last Week Tonight host John Oliver has a suggestion that it seems millions of viewers would support Pay your electric bill Even with an impressive first season and an early second season order, the "Game of Thrones" spinoff series[...]

Last week, we reported on how Comcast-owned pay television service Sky censored an episode of the Emmy Award-winning HBO late-night series Last Week Tonight in the UK over jokes/comments that host John Oliver made in reference to the passing of Queen Elizabeth II and how the country was basically shutting down over it Well, Oliver[...]

Viewers in the UK who were looking to treat themselves to a new episode of HBO's Last Week Tonight with host John Oliver almost got their wish We're saying "almost" because it didn't take long for them to realize that they weren't getting the whole episode And that's because Sky cut (though censored seems to[...]

Our line-up for this morning includes a wide range of topics… including HBO late-night host John Oliver calling out Dick Wolf's "Law & Order" franchise, Emilia Clarke feeling "star struckness" over Disney+'s Secret Invasion, Paper Girls' co-creator Cliff Chiang addressing the Amazon series ending after one season, NBC's Saturday Night Live returning in October with[...]

Counting in the upcoming seasons, that's 22 seasons for the original series, 24 seasons for "SVU," and 3 seasons for "Organized Crime." And now, with all three shows set for a huge crossover event later this month, HBO's Last Week Tonight host John Oliver really, really needs you to know something It's not real We'll[...]

We're getting a sense that John Oliver has a new recurring theme for his HBO late-night news/opinion show Last Week Tonight, and we're pretty sure that Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) boss David Zaslav & Co can expect some very uncomfortable Monday mornings in their near future Not exactly pulling his punches last week over how[...]