Last Week Tonight
Column: TV Stars Mock the Tiny Threat of Trans Women in Sports
Last month, ABC anchor Martha Raddatz was mocked by J.D. Vance when she tried to minimize the threat of gangs in Colorado taking over apartment buildings by force. “The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes,” she said. It’s too bad for you if you lived in one of those buildings. Vance asked “Do you hear yourself?” That’s echoing now on biological males invading women’s…
Huh? Oliver Claims Harris Ran a 'Centrist Campaign'
In the alternative reality that is HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the eponymous host claimed on Sunday that Kamala Harris ran “a centrist campaign” and therefore it is unfair for people to blame the far-left for her loss.
Oliver Mourns Civil Vance-Walz Debate: 'Why Do Manners Matter?'
HBO’s John Oliver voiced his disapproval of those who praised the vice presidential debate between JD Vance and Tim Walz for its civility on Sunday’s installment of Last Week Tonight. Oliver wondered “why do manners matter” because the GOP ticket is proposing a list of things he does not like.
The Not-So-'Outstanding' Emmy Comedy Show Winners
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver came away with Emmy Awards on Sunday for most outstanding talk series and scripted variety show, respectively, for the year spanning June 1, 2023, through May 31, 2024. However, Hollywood’s definition of what makes “outstanding” comedy appears to be different than most people's, as evidenced by the…
Insisting Trump, Vance Are Weird, Oliver Muses About Their Sex Lives
On his Sunday HBO show, Last Week Tonight host John Oliver mused about the sex lives of Donald Trump and JD Vance, all while insisting that they are the “weird” ones.
Oliver Accuses GOP Of 'Outright Racism,' Claims Harris Isn't Radical
HBO’s John Oliver began Last Week Tonight on Sunday by recapping Vice President Kamala Harris’s entry into the presidential race by accusing Republicans of resorting to outright racism” and falsely accusing her of being a radical left-winger.
Oliver Trashes RNC as 'A Bunch Of D**** on Stage'
While the rest of the country was discussing President Biden’s decision to end his re-election campaign on Sunday, HBO was airing a Saturday-recorded edition of Last Week Tonight where host John Oliver ranted at Republicans for being “dicks,” supposedly not toning down their RNC rhetoric, and for being “racist.”
Oliver Rants At Conservative 'C****, F***pigs' In UK Election Preview
HBO’s John Oliver will occasionally use Last Week Tonight to try to educate American viewers on a subject they know little about, but the subject of Oliver’s Sunday wrath this time was not the dictatorship of Turkmenistan, but his native Britain’s Conservative Party which is down in the polls ahead of their July 4 election. Being the host of a nominal comedy show gave Oliver the…
Oliver: Civil Service Reform Will Lead Trump To Be Like George Wallace
The Rube Goldberg-like logic train that sits inside of John Oliver’s brain was on full display on Sunday's Last Week Tonight on HBO, where he warned that former President Donald Trump and the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025’s plans for civil service reform could lead to the former governing like segregationist Gov. George Wallace.
Bitter John Oliver Tries To Bribe Thomas To 'Get The F*** Off' SCOTUS
The new season of HBO’s Last Week Tonight debuted on Sunday with host John Oliver bitterly attacking Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for making people’s lives “demonstrable worse for decades” and therefore offering him $1 million per year and a new luxury RV if he resigns and gets “the fuck off the Supreme Court.” A day later on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, Jon…
Late Night 'Comedy' Bottom Ten Moments of 2023
It was a year of change for late night comedy. The Late Late show was cancelled by CBS after 5,300 episodes since 1995 after James Corden decided to return to England, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show used a series of temp hosts after Trevor Noah walked away at the end of 2022, CBS host of The Late Show Stephen Colbert finally stopped giving Donald Trump the He Who…
Oliver Baselessly Says U.S. 'Heavily Implicated' In Israeli War Crimes
For Sunday’s edition of Last Week Tonight, HBO’s John Oliver attempted to give what he would consider a nuanced take on the Israel-Hamas War and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict more generally. However, it was hard to take such nuance seriously when he accused the United States of being “heavily implicated” in non-existent Israeli war crimes.
Oliver Agrees With Satanic Temple, Hints Alito Should've Been Aborted
Nothing causes a late night talk show host to freak out around election time quite like the fate of abortion and HBO’s John Oliver on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight was no different as he spent most of the program hyping abortion and at one point going gaga over The Satanic Temple naming a facility after Justice Samuel Alito, his mother, and suggesting he should have been aborted.