Is Last Week Tonight with John Oliver new tonight? We’ve got an answer to that question, but it’s not a fun one. Alas, there is no new installment of the HBO series on either tonight of for most of the rest of the month. The host is on a hiatus for the next week weeks, which shouldn’t […]
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Creating a great Variety Talk Series is difficult — very difficult. You have to have the right balance of great comedy, good information, and memorability that makes coming back every night or every week necessary. There’s also so much competition out there that you have to find a way to do just that. Below, you […]
Last Week Tonight host John Oliver hyped that the final minutes of tonight’s episode would prove to be worth the wait. The moment that we learned that the main talking point for the installment was local news, we were absolutely interested in seeing what they would mean. The main segment tonight was themed around Sinclair Broadcast […]
Going into Last Week Tonight with John Oliver this week, it was all but assured that Donald Trump would be a subject of conversation. Specifically, we mean that through the lens of Mika Brzezinski, the MSNBC co-host who was attacked on Twitter for her appearance of all things. Oliver did not spend a whole lot of time discussing […]
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver this week started with the host admitting that there is a lawsuit underway over the coal segment. Moving beyond that, though, the main event of the show was a lengthy segment all about vaccines. Vaccines were a hot topic of conversation long before Oliver’s show and this segment aired. This […]
We wondered going into Last Week Tonight with John Oliver whether or not Oliver would reference the Bob Murray lawsuit. After all, Oliver made it clear that this would be coming last week, especially thanks to the way in which Murray Energy has filed lawsuits in the past. So did he talk about? Yes, but not for […]
In the middle of his segment on coal during this past episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the show’s host made one thing clear: He expected a lawsuit, given that he was threatened with legal action leading up to it. Bob Murray and Murray Energy (in addition to other companies) were not altogether thrilled with […]
After last week’s focus on Brexit and Lord Buckethead, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver came back stateside tonight with a feature all about coal. Arguably, the most remarkable thing about this segment was one simple fact he handed down: JCPenney, a company known for its own bankruptcy trouble, employees more people even still than are in […]
Of course, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver started things up on Sunday with a discussion of James Comey. After all, why would it not want to take on everything that happened there? Well, Oliver tore in to Donald Trump over his reactions to Comey’s testimony, but one of his most fantastic moments came a little bit later when […]
Tonight, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver aired its first new episode in the past two weeks, and of course, the Paris Agreement was a key subject. There was a lot to dive into here, especially when it came to the speech from Donald Trump on the subject. There were many things that Oliver had a problem […]
