John Oliver dedicated his latest episode of Last Week Tonight to UFOs and started talking about the topic, making a crazy joke about Hugh Jackman. “Our main story tonight concerns UFOs,” Oliver said on the HBO late-night show. “They brought us great album art, classic movie moments, and, of course, Hugh Jackman. I can’t prove
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John Oliver took a left turn on Last Week Tonight and imagined a scenario where Stanley Tucci would be the host of the HBO late-night show. While discussing Medicaid and everything wrong with the system, Oliver said the purpose of the show was not to make viewers feel good, otherwise it would be hosted by
John Oliver spotlighted Simu Liu and John Boyega on Last Week Tonight for their beginnings as stock photo models. In the last segment of the HBO show, Oliver talked about stock photos, noting that that’s how the Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Star Wars: The Force Awakens stars got their start.
John Oliver dinged Kate Middleton for her Photoshop fail and got a cameo from Jersey Shore’s Snooki on Last Week Tonight. At the top of the show, Oliver took a swipe at the drama in England over Kensington Palace’s release of a statement in which the Princess of Wales admitted to editing a photo of
John Oliver started a new season of Last Week Tonight on HBO with a million-dollar offer to Clarence Thomas. On the Season 11 premiere of the late-night talk show, Oliver discussed the U.S. Supreme Court, saying that it’s reached “a breaking point,” citing several ways it could be fixed like “enforceable ethics codes, to term
John Oliver took a jab at Apple TV+ during the latest episode of his HBO show Last Week Tonight. During a segment about the way Dollar Tree and Dollar General stores are run, Oliver brought up TikTok videos of retail employees complaining about the work conditions, including a staffer who was asked to reopen her
John Oliver is usually laser-focused on Last Week Tonight dissecting the political issues that affect the world. However, things got a little out of hand when Conan O’Brien made an appearance on the late-night talk show. While discussing the controversial political figure from Argentina, Javier Milei, Oliver showcased an interview where the Member of the
John Oliver is not done taking swipes at the decisions being made by “business daddy” Warner Bros. Discovery. On the latest episode of Last Week Tonight, Oliver came up with a possible slogan for the streaming service Max. During an episode where Oliver talked about cryptocurrency, he showcased a clip of entrepreneur Do Kwon talking
John Oliver’s main topic on Sunday night’s episode of Last Week Tonight focused on home ownership. However, he joked that people under the age of 35 would never own a home and created a whole alternate episode for that group segment talking about Chuck E. Cheese. “Our main story tonight concerns home ownership, so if
UK-based fans of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver were spared a 25-minute clip of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill going backwards down a waterslide, set to the theme of The Benny Hill Show. The HBO host had dared British broadcaster Sky to cut his segment on the British monarchy, saying that he would replace
John Oliver was back with Last Week Tonight and make a recap of some of the hottest topics affecting Americans across the country. The late-night host opened up the show by taking a swipe at Tom Brady after it was confirmed he was splitting from his wife. “It has been a busy week from massive
John Oliver called out the National Football League (NFL) during Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight on HBO and HBO Max. The theme of the night was crime reporting and the comedian took a swipe at following multiple concussions from Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa. “There is already primetime programming where people kill themselves for
John Oliver mocked Liz Truss, currently in the running to replace Boris Johnson as the UK’s prime minister, on Sunday night’s episode of HBO Max’s Last Week Tonight due to a tweet mourning sex offender Jimmy Savile. “Truss has a real knack for making bad decisions and then very much sticking to them,” Oliver said.
John Oliver delivered an impassioned plea on tonight’s Last Week Tonight in opposition of the inevitable rise of support for increased police presence on school campuses. In the wake of the Uvalde shooting several weeks ago, Oliver took conservative pundits to task over their solutions to the increase of school shootings. Despite the presence of
On the latest episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver turned the heat up on the campaign of Pennsylvania Senate candidate and television personality Dr. Mehmet Oz. It’s no secret Oliver has a bone to pick with Dr. Oz. In 2014, the British American host spent 16 minutes on a segment outlining the scientific controversy
Coming off a three-month break, Last Week Tonight host John Oliver wasted no breath in his ninth season opener and devoted almost a half-hour to one of the most controversial topics swirling around schools today: the education of critical race theory. For the uninitiated, critical race theory (CRT) refers to a body of legal scholarship
In the season finale of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver opened the show by mocking a certain Jan. 6 rioter. After briefly ridiculing an FBI-wanted suspect seeking political asylum in Belarus, the Emmy Award-winning host zeroed in on a Capital riot attendee, Jenna Ryan, who expressed a humorous lack of self-awareness. Ryan, a Texas real
John Oliver isn’t too pleased about the new host of Jeopardy! either. The HBO Max host noted his disgruntlement on today’s episode of Last Week Tonight while discussing school mask mandates. Early in the episode, Oliver played a clip of an angry mob accosting a school board member over mask mandates with a man screaming,
As the pandemic rages on and the opioid crisis shows no signs of slowing down, John Oliver dedicated Sunday night’s episode of Last Week Tonight to Purdue Pharma, the company that developed the prescription painkiller, OxyContin. Oliver has covered the epidemic in two prior segments and is revisiting the topic as the CDC estimates there
John Oliver continued to take shots at Biden’s failed promises on this week’s episode of Last Week Tonight. Though the United States has moved most of their troops out of Afghanistan well ahead of the Aug. 31 deadline Biden set, thousands of Afghan translators who aided American troops during the war have yet to be
After lightly roasting Russian President Vladimir Putin on his Geneva Summit press conference, Last Week Tonight host John Oliver focused his attention on Japan’s efforts to keep the 2020 Olympics on schedule next month despite criticism from many of its citizens. The country has reached a national vaccination rate of just 6%, a number, Oliver
Last Week Tonight host John Oliver began his show by lamenting the current state of Republican politics in the country. Oliver pointed out several GOP candidates across the country (e.g. Andrew Giuliani, Larry Krasner) with crude personalities and highlighted the latest efforts by the Republican party to dismantle Roe v. Wade. The British-American host railed
John Oliver kicked off Last Week Tonight by sounding off on the current state of affairs between Israel and Palestine. The host was noticeably irritated by the diction of the Israeli government and certain American outlets who described Israel’s human rights violations as “evictions” and “property disputes.” Oliver considered them especially misleading. “It’s like running