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During a remote appearance on the Monday edition of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, television host John Oliver explained one of the most popular themes emerging from recent protests: defunding the police, per E! Online. In the two weeks of protests following George Floyd’s death, defunding the police has become one of the most […]

During the April 21 episode of Wendy Williams’s virtual show, the talkshow host thanked John Oliver for his recent praise regarding her authenticity. During his show on Sunday night, Oliver gave Williams a shoutout for how she has been handling filming her show from her apartment. He pointed out that it’s clear Williams isn’t afraid […]

An executive at Amazon, the company known for its two-day shipping, fired back at late night host John Oliver on Monday after he slammed Amazon’s “brutal” working conditions, Business Insider reported. During an episode of Oliver’s weekly HBO show, Last Week Tonight, Oliver aired a 20-minute segment in which he said the convenience of using […]

During Sunday’s Last Week Tonight episode, host John Oliver roasted President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner for his plan for peace in the Middle East. Vanity Fair reports Oliver does not think it’s a practical plan but an “economic wish list” at best and “rich boy wet dream” at worst. Oliver blasted […]

John Oliver used Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight, to dive into the most interesting details of the Mueller report and its investigation into what the host previously called “Stupid Watergate.” In particular, Oliver focused on what he calls the “two main factors that may have saved” President Donald Trump: “incompetence when it comes to […]

Last Week Tonight host John Oliver recently got the wrestling world talking, as Sunday night’s episode of his show saw him criticize a number of WWE’s alleged practices, including, but not limited to, how the promotion classifies its wrestlers as “independent contractors” in order to avoid paying them certain benefits, including health insurance. While The […]

Television host and comedian John Oliver created quite a stir in the wrestling community on Sunday, as that night’s episode of Last Week Tonight on HBO featured a lengthy commentary on how he feels WWE, through its owner and chairman, Vince McMahon, doesn’t pay much attention to the safety and welfare of its wrestlers. As […]

John Oliver used part of his show on Sunday to slam WWE and its impresario, Vince McMahon, as being unconcerned about the health and well-being of his wrestlers. According to an article from The Hollywood Reporter, Oliver took to the airwaves of HBO’s Last Week Tonight With John Oliver to berate McMahon and the organization […]

Monica Lewinsky was suddenly thrown under the spotlight after her affair in the late ’90s with then-United States President Bill Clinton, and she has only recently decided to speak out about what it was like to go through such severe “public shaming” at a young age. During a segment for John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight, […]

Comedian John Oliver opened his HBO show, Last Week Tonight, with a segment on Donald Trump’s trip to Alabama. There, the president met with those digging out from the tragic tornadoes which devastated the region last week. According to The Daily Beast, Oliver didn’t have an issue with Trump visiting the tornado damaged region, but […]

Last Week Tonight host John Oliver took aim at AT&T, the parent company of his employer HBO during a segment criticizing robocalls and the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) failure to do anything about them, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The late-night host took to HBO’s airwaves Sunday night to let rip a high-energy rant against […]

After a long hiatus, John Oliver is back on HBO tonight with new episodes of his popular series, Last Week Tonight, and it’s a safe bet that he’ll be talking about the Trump administration. Oliver’s specialty is finding the humor in current events and politics, but Donald Trump and his policies have been on the […]

February 3 marked the 11th Sunday in a row without a new episode of the hit HBO political satire show Last Week Tonight starring comedian John Oliver. But the wait for fans of the show will not last much longer. The 41-year-old, British-born comic returns to HBO with the first installment of a new, 30-episode […]

Last week, it was announced that Vice President Mike Pence’s wife, Karen Pence, had taken a job teaching art at a Christian school that discriminates against LGBT students, staff, and even parents. While most people are angry that she would condone such discrimination, others have taken swift — and hilarious — action. Vice is reporting […]

During Sunday’s latest episode of Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver expressed his disbelief toward the recent comments President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani made on NBC’s Meet the Press over the weekend. According to The Daily Beast, Oliver mocked Giuliani’s wordplay and claimed that President Trump is going to “wind up behind bars.” Referring to […]

British comedian John Oliver went after Fox News Host Laura Ingraham for her recent racist and anti-immigrant comments on Sunday’s latest episode of the hit HBO show “Last Week Tonight.” According to The Daily Beast, Oliver began his monologue by addressing Sunday afternoon’s Unite the Right 2 rally in Washington, D.C., the sequel to last […]

On Sunday’s latest episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver scrutinized President Trump’s tactics to defend himself in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, according to The Guardian. Referring to the almost two-year-long scandal as “Stupid Watergate,” Oliver discussed the president’s recent defense of his son Donald Jr. and the ongoing Paul Manafort trial. “We […]

John Oliver, the host of Last Week Tonight on HBO, usually covers politics and current events with a humorous angle, but this week he sat down with Professor Anita Hill to talk about her own experience with the #MeToo movement, and a view of her testimony about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas looking at it […]

Sometimes art imitates life imitates art, and that happened this week after comedian John Oliver did an episode on censorship in China on his HBO show Last Week Tonight. Now China has blocked him for doing a show on Chinese censorship. The New York Times reported that Oliver did a 20-plus minute segment on China […]

What started as a lark is now becoming the prize bunny for Last Week Tonight host John Oliver. Oliver and his staff wrote the picture book, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo in order to troll a book by the family of Vice President Mike Pence […]

There is a lot of excitement over the upcoming wedding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, and while many Americans are looking forward to the impending nuptials, it seems that at least one late night host is not quite as enamored with the royal wedding. John Oliver, who hosts Last Week Tonight on HBO, visited […]

John Oliver, host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight, grilled Dustin Hoffman about allegations of sexual harassment against him during a panel discussion at the 92nd Street Y on Monday night. Oliver was acting as a panel moderator on behalf of the Tribeca Film Institute during a discussion following a 20th-anniversary screening of Wag The Dog. […]

Last Week Tonight host John Oliver has uncovered the root cause for what he sees as all of President Donald Trump’s many problems. “This guy is clearly out of his fu**ing mind,” Oliver said of the president during the Sunday night return to his smash-hit HBO show. As Exhibit A, Oliver offered up the ongoing […]

Last Week Tonight host John Oliver didn’t find President Trump’s initial response to the deadly actions of a white supremacist at an “alt right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., to be a laughing matter. The president has since come out with a far more forceful statement condemning the race-hatred fueled death of Heather Heyer, 32, but […]

The defamation lawsuit filed by Murray Energy CEO, Robert (Bob) Murray, and several of his companies, against Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver, Partially Important Productions (the show’s production company), Charles Wilson (the show’s senior news producer), HBO and Time Warner, may not hold much weight in court, says First Amendment attorney, Floyd Abrams. Why? Because, […]

John Oliver has Donald Trump to thank for reportedly lowering his tax bill on a $9.5 million penthouse apartment in New York City’s Upper West Side upscale enclave. The progressive host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight is a strident critic of President Trump and his policies and also is a foe of income inequality and […]

John Oliver, as a result of his most recent show broadcast on May 7, Last Week Tonight, has caught some of the flak regarding a DDoS attack which crashed the Federal Communications Commission website the following day. This has seemingly brought more questions than answers to the forefront of a growing concern over Federal Communications […]

John Oliver has created a sexual harassment advertisement for beleaguered Fox News host Bill O’Reilly he is encouraging him to watch with President Donald Trump. During a segment of the latest episode of his Last Week Tonight show on HBO, Oliver hinted he was not surprised to learn that the president has come out in […]

John Oliver would like you to add footage of a dancing zebra – or at least, a social media hashtag mentioning zebras – to any news footage you share about Donald Trump, in the latest silly and, let’s face it, John Oliver-y call to action from the Last Week Tonight host. On Sunday’s episode of […]

John Oliver has dubbed the new Donald Trump proposed healthcare plan that some fear could leave millions more uninsured “a reverse Bernie Sanders.” In the latest episode of his “Last Week Tonight” show aired on HBO, Oliver went on to brand the American Health Care Act the “legislative equivalent of Pirates of the Caribbean 5: […]

Oprah Winfrey was apparently joking about running for President in 2020 – or at least that’s how her close pal, Gayle King, interpreted Oprah’s recent interview, according to Deadline. Oprah for 2020? https://t.co/ekm8QbqFS1 pic.twitter.com/Sjwpnk3Kwv — NewsOne (@newsone) March 6, 2017 Oprah sparked speculation earlier this month when she suggested that she’s rethinking her chances of […]

John Oliver has branded the brewing Russian scandal involving the administration of new Republican president Donald Trump “stupid Watergate.” In the latest episode of his award-winning Last Week Tonight show, Oliver argued things have grown to be so absurd the burning question is no longer “what the president knew and when he knew it,” but […]

We are 46-days into Donald Trump’s presidency. The first 100-days of a presidency are often referred to as a honeymoon period, but President Trump’s honeymoon is turning into the holiday from hell. Just weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump has had Executive Orders overturned by the courts. He has been condemned for conducting affairs of […]

Last Week Tonight host John Oliver thinks the Republican answer to Obamacare has become about as obscene as the sight of your dad sporting thong underwear. The picture Oliver painted stemming from the Trump administration’s ongoing push to totally repel the Affordable Care Act during the latest episode of his HBO-aired show wasn’t a pretty […]

John Oliver is now trying to educate U.S. President Donald Trump on how to run the country properly, according to the New York Times. The green card holder of British origin launched a series of ads on cable TV to educate the President and basically rub some facts in his face. John Oliver has found […]

The latest episode of John Oliver’s late-night talk show Last Week Tonight aired on February 19. Season 4’s second episode saw host John Oliver once again take aim at President Donald Trump. Despite previously saying that the weekly show wouldn’t be dominated by the new president, Oliver admitted there was no way of avoiding the […]

John Oliver is convinced he’s come to solve the riddle of President Trump’s fascination with Vladimir Putin. In short, the Last Week Tonight host has deduced the newly elected Republican president dreams of becoming the exact, same man the longtime Russian president has transformed himself into. More specifically, Oliver concluded during the latest airing of […]

On yesterday’s NSFW Last Week Tonight, hosted by John Oliver, the comedian addressed the nonstop flow of news surrounding President Donald Trump over the past week, which is occurring at such a rate that other newsworthy stories appear to be falling by the wayside. Oliver began by addressing the “pointless” rally hosted by Trump in […]

John Oliver was in rare form for the Season 4 premiere of his HBO show Last Week Tonight, ripping newly elected president Donald Trump as “a pathological liar.” “Since taking office around 412 years ago, Trump has made it clear that reality is not important to him,” the British comic lampooned. Oliver added fuel to […]

John Oliver says he’s “slightly concerned” about his chances of being deported to England, according to the Washington Post. It’s been a rough three months for the Last Week Tonight host, who has watched how Donald Trump’s presidency unfolded on a couch at home. HBO’s John Oliver Doesn’t Think He’ll Get Deported, But Asks ‘Who […]

“Social justice warriors” is a term many have adopted to describe the annoying faction of the political left that feels the need to police everything one says. The entire mainstream media is often grouped into this terminology because of the lopsided coverage that it heaps on one candidate while extolling the perceived virtues and ignoring […]

John Oliver, the host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight, spoke about President-elect Donald J. Trump’s election win and the ramifications for Americans on yesterday’s show. The John Oliver Trump win analysis, which contains coarse language, began with Last Week Tonight showing a clip of CNN’s Wolf Blitzer calling the presidential race early Wednesday morning, with […]

John Oliver feels responsible for Donald Trump’s disastrous Presidential campaign, according to CNN. It was only three years ago that the Last Week Tonight host actually encouraged the real estate mogul to run for President because he thought that a “Trump candidacy would be funny.” “Do it. I will personally write you a campaign check […]

John Oliver of HBO’s Last Week Tonight weighed in with his final thoughts before election day, tomorrow, Tuesday, November 8, on Republican nominee for president of the United States, Donald J. Trump. A clip from the Oliver-election segment, which contains NSFW language, highlighted the fact that November 8 is the latest possible day a U.S. […]

Last night, on Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver presented an in-depth report on the business practices of a long list of multi-level marketing (MLM) companies, including Rodan + Fields, Amway, Vemma, Herbalife, Advocare, Max International, Market America, Youngevity, Jusuru, Usana, Kyani, Mary Kay, and Nu Skin. The entire multi-level marketing industry was reported to […]

“Methinks the lady doth protest too much.” This phrase has become very useful in our current political environment. It’s a line from one of those Shakespeare plays where everyone dies in the end, and its use has become a way of pointing out when someone’s frantic resistance to something reveals a lot more about their […]

Another Jill Stein boycott has been sought by the supporters of her presidential campaign. John Oliver made third party candidates Jill Stein and Gary Johnson part of a segment during the October 16 episode of his HBO show. The intent of this episode of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver was to shine some light […]

https://youtu.be/pzkECkuOMTw On last night’s “Last Week Tonight,” John Oliver was clear: Donald Trump should drop out of the 2016 presidential race. For those of you who don’t know, John Oliver is no fan of Donald Trump. That said, his show has not spent much time on the Republican nominee for president. He simply did not […]

Jerry Seinfeld, the American comedian, has taken comedy to a new level through Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, his Emmy-nominated web series in which a guest comedian is driven in a vintage car to a preselected café for coffee. Every week, the former Seinfeld actor chooses a classic car for his special guest, who takes […]

John Oliver hasn’t endorsed either Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton or Republican nominee Donald Trump, according to Entertainment Weekly. The Last Week Tonight host doesn’t want to be like everyone else, so he has just endorsed something entirely different. In his recent web exclusive clip, John Oliver announced that he was about to make “a […]