Last Week Tonight Archives

After months of posturing and flinging insults at one another, Last Week Tonight host John Oliver and Danbury, Connecticut finally reached an agreement and made things official successfully renaming the city's local sewage plant to "The John Oliver Memorial Sewage Plant" on October 19 The feud goes back to 2017 when Oliver poked fun at[...]

HBO's Last Week Tonight continues its dominance winning Outstanding Talk Series at the 72nd Emmy Awards Hardly a loss for words, host John Oliver recorded his acceptance speech dressing comfortably and reflecting the work that went into continuing the show under difficult circumstances during the pandemic "Thank you so much to the Academy for sending[...]

America's arguably most favorite Brit actor-comedian-newsman John Oliver will continue to entertain audiences for the foreseeable future with HBO's decision to renew Last Week Tonight through 2023, according to Variety Since its premiere in 2014, the series hosted by The Daily Show alum focuses on a variety of topical issues domestic and international The year[...]

Last Week Tonight host John Oliver re-opened a scar many Americans are not comfortable by revisiting how history education at the state level continues to become mishandled Oliver began by opening the segment imploring those at the federal and state level that standards need to remain consistent across the board To illustrate the point, he[...]

On Sunday's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the host touched on China's deculturization efforts against the Uighur people from the northwest Xinjiang region if the country Oliver claims The Uighurs, along with other ethnic minorities, are forced to live in re-education camps while also undergoing forced labor Among the many items manufactured are disposable[...]

On the latest edition of HBO's Last Week Tonight, John Oliver discussed how normalized conspiracy theory culture gripped the world and how especially dangerous spreading misleading information during the global COVID-19 pandemic is The host began showing numerous news programs explaining how groups on social media downplay the seriousness of the outbreak from insinuating somehow[...]

Last Week Tonight host John Oliver is back at it again, shooting on WWE for continuing to film wrestling shows during the pandemic Oliver blasted the company for its decision to film shows under an "essential" designation in Florida, a designation obtained the same day that a super Pac controlled by Linda McMahon pledged to[...]

On HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the host forgave nearly $15 million for 9,000 Americans on a June 2016 episode Oliver highlighted the plight of his program before making his announcement. https://youtu.be/hxUAntt1z2cVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Debt Buyers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) (https://youtu.be/hxUAntt1z2c) Buffaloed comes to theatres on February[...]

WWE has issued a statement in response to John Oliver's takedown of the company's treatment of employees… sorry, independent contractors on HBO's Last Week Tonight And the response is: see you at WrestleMania?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8UQ4O7UiDsVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: WWE: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8UQ4O7UiDs) Well, the company hasn't exactly challenged Oliver[...]

Everybody | November 7, 2018 Act 2 | Full Frontal on TBS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPSWJYe4jVU) Number 3: Borat interferes in our elections Jagshemach! Sascha Baron Cohen was on Jimmy Kimmel's show earlier this week, and they brought back Borat to go out and be among the people – to connect with "The People." Let's just say it's the opposite[...]

This headline seems like the type of thing the self-deprecating John Oliver, host of HBO's Last Week Tonight, would make fun of But it's also true, as the host and show have come away from a defamation lawsuit without a scratch During a segment last season about the coal industry, Oliver criticized Murray Energy and[...]

John Oliver is expanding his creative influence at HBO, with the Emmy award-winning Last Week Tonight host teaming with fellow The Daily Show alum Wyatt Cenac for a new docuseries at the premium cable network. Cenac, Oliver and Ezra Edelman will serve as executive producers; as will Hallie Haglund (The Daily Show), who will also serve[...]

And the year after that too! HBO has renewed Last Week Tonight with John Oliver for an additional three seasons, according to a breaking news report from Variety The show, which effectively serves as the spiritual successor to the Daily Show despite only airing once a week, will air at least through 2020, according to the[...]

Putting the politics aside, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver can put together some pretty funny segments — like last night's focus on former President Warren G Harding. The piece starts with John Oliver explaining that when the Hall of Presidents and First Ladies Wax Museum in Gettysburgh had to shut down, they auctioned off the[...]

There are two versions of It's What Connects Us and then a Last Week Tonight specific one with John Oliver poking fun at the bit. Game of Thrones fans will like that they've gotten almost the full cast in costume participating… including Hodor… who doesn't say "aaaahhhhh". https://youtu.be/RO-zb6TqXZgVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: 'Ahhh' HBO[...]

This may already be the best promo for a returning show in 2017. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is coming back to HBO and the promo sneaks in nods to Game of Thrones, Silicon Valley and Curb Your Enthusiasm in a very clever and self-deprecating way.  Last Week Tonight returns on February 12th for it's fourth season https://youtu.be/ekoETowzmAoVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Season[...]

John Oliver from Last Week Tonight on HBO posted a web exclusive video talking about the 4th of July and all the things Americans are missing out on since we did our own Brexit back in 1776. [youtube]https://youtu.be/IQwMCQFgQgo[/youtube] With half our the staff here at Bleeding Cool being British while the other half is American (and[...]