It was probably easy to figure out how Last Week with John Oliver was going to begin this week — with a discussion on Charlottesville. He is the first late-night host who really had an opportunity to tackle the terrible events of this weekend, and he chose to deliver a blistering attack on not only the White […]
The August 6 edition of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver wasted no time getting into Donald Trump, and no surprise given that this was a rather eventful week when it comes to the President. Take, for example, how Trump reacted to the Boy Scouts of America and some of what they supposedly told him about his […]
There were so many different topics that Last Week Tonight with John Oliver could have taken on, but Anthony Scaramucci? Well, we saw that one coming. He’s the new Communications Director for the Donald Trump Presidency, but there is apparently one thing that he lacks: Communications. Oliver of course had a field day with a guy who […]
Is Last Week Tonight with John Oliver new tonight? We understand the demand being there, but unfortunately, the answer is still no. At this point, the HBO series is currently still in its hiatus, which almost equates at this point to them uncovering and figuring out some new and exciting forms of torture. After all, there was […]
There were certainly some surprises on Game of Thrones when its first episode aired on Sunday night, but the bigger surprise may be due to Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. After all, who expected there to not be a new episode of that show coming on the same night as the fantasy epic? Ratings-wise, this would make the […]
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 […]
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 […]
