John Oliver on his Last Week Tonight show Sunday night took on how the North Korea news distracted from International Womenâs Day, a day in which women all over the country protested for equal rightsâand against a president whoâs been accused of sexual harassment or assault by at least 19 women. âIt was a day…
John Oliver started his Last Week Tonight show by first acknowledging the horrific mass shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, where a heavily armed gunman massacred 26 people. âObviously our thoughts are with the people of Texas after todayâs horrific incident, details of which are still unfolding as I speak,â said…
On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight John Oliver explains how big businesses are getting even bigger thanks to a rise in corporate mergers. “It’s true, ‘small businesses are the backbone of our economy’ is that rare thing that every politician agrees on,” along with “support the troops,”
On his latest episode John Oliver addressed this weekend of hate display in Charlottesville, Virginia: âIt was truly a weekend of horrifying images. We saw Nazi flags and marchers carrying torchesâtiki torches, by the way, because nothing says âwhite nationalistâ like faux Polynesian kitschâ. âWe condemn, in the strongest possible terms, this egregious display of…
On his latest episode of Last Week Tonight John Oliver ripped apart White House advisor Stephen Miller for dismissing the Statue of Liberty poem. âYou might well think, âThatâs unfair. Anyone can find a photo of someone looking a bit like a minion.â But with Miller, itâs genuinely hard to find a photo of him…
Alex Jones is known for pushing conspiracy theories, but he also spends a lot of time promoting his own products. John Oliver and a âdoctorâ âfromâ M.I.T. test out his marketing strategy.
On the latest episode of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, John ripped apart Trump’s video of him bodyslamming a wrestler with the CNN logo superimposed over the manâs face. âPresident Trump: The Bachelor in Paradise of American presidents,â and the âdisgustingâ and âabsolutely indefensibleâ tweets Trump sent Thursday directed toward Morning Joe co-host Mika…
On Last week tonight with John Oliver he dedicated his main story to Trumpâs empty promises to coal miners, with the comedian citing the New York City real-estate mogulâs ability to connect with the coal-mining community as âa key reason that we have this cautionary Bible story in the White House.â âBut the point here…
John Oliver explained the recent Trump scandals and how exhausting it’s been. âBecause the last seven days have been absolutely insane.â âWe have to track the latest developments in âStupid Watergateâ, a scandal with all the potential ramifications of Watergate but where everyone involved is stupid and bad at everything.â âYou should not even share…
John Oliver started last night show with âSurprise, everyone!â adding, âDo you remember normal weeks? Because I donât!â Everything about Comeyâs firing was unusual, Oliver noted, from Comey having found out about it on TV, to the âgenuinely weirdâ termination letter in which Trump wrote: âwhile I greatly appreciate your informing me on three separate…
John Oliver fight for equal access to online information once again and informed us on how under serious threat it is under Trump Administration. Oliver encourages internet commenters to voice their displeasure to the FCC by crashing www.gofccyourself.com. âThe Internet is the repository of all human knowledge â and goats singing Taylor Swift songsâ
John Oliver ripped apart Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump for his latest show âlike Americaâs William and Kate, except in this case, both of them are attractiveâ â are two of the only figures in the White House that are âwidely admired,â Oliver said. Oliver mentioned the substantial roles that Jared and Ivanka have in…
Last night John Oliver sent a message to France: âDonât fuck up, too.â talking about the upcoming French presidential election. “It is way more important than you might realize,” he said. In next Sunday’s first-round election, multiple candidates are proposing a French exit from the European Union, which would destroy the EU and fracture modern…
John Oliver started tearing down the Trump-Russia saga on his Sunday night show by saying âWe begin this evening with President Trump: two words that still simply do not belong together, like âbaby pubesâ or âhaunted horse.ââ Oliver mentioned that “there is nothing inherently wrong” with meetings between American and Russian officials, but asked why…
Last night John Oliver called President Donald Trump a hypocrite for his executive order against transgender students. The order would allow students to use their bathroom of their choice in schools. Obamaâs order also allowed students to wear a tux to prom or a dress in yearbook photos if it is consistent with their gender…
John Oliver knock down GOPers who could soon vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, without an effective solution or enough justification to do so in the first place. âRepublicans have happily complained about the flaws in the law, taken no responsibility for fixing them, and, in fact, have often undermined…
In his latest episode of The Last Week Tonight, John Oliver addressed the presidentâs notorious press conference and his false claims about Swedenâs terrorist attack. âThere is no hard proof yet of direct links between Trump himself and Russia, but he does have a weird, noticeably soft spot to both the country and its leader,â…
John Oliver is back! and on Sunday night he didn’t waste any time tearing down President Donald Trump, his cabinet picks, his inability to shake hands, and his love of fiction, opinion, and belief, instead anything resembling fact. âTrumpâs relationship with the truth is going to be of profound importance going forward.â âHow did we…
Last night John Oliver broke down why we must âstay here and fightâ against President-elect Trump, who is ânot normal.â âItâs true! That happened!â he exclaimed. âIt turns out, instead of showing our daughters that they could someday be president, America proved that no grandpa is too racist to become leader of the free world.â…
In his final HBO show before Election Day, Oliver pleaded with his audience to vote Tuesday to not only prevent âthe human equivalent of a clear plastic bag filled with cheeseburgers and Confederate flag belt bucklesâ from assuming the highest office in the land, but also to have a say in important down-ballot initiatives, from…
Last Week Tonight show host John Oliver said on last night episode, âWe did not want to talk about the election at all this week. We so wanted to give everyone a break,â âIt seems Anthony Weiner is forcing the nation to relitigate the entire email controversy, and putting Hillary Clintonâs chances of winning the…
John Oliver offer Donald Trump his Emmy Award if he would accept the election results on November 8 in the form of a bet. First, Oliver noted the most revealing moment in last Wednesdayâs debate came when Hillary Clinton mentioned that time Trump, after failing to win an Emmy for his The Apprentice franchise three…
John Oliver mocked the two most popular third-party candidates on the ballot, Gary Johnson (Libertarian) and Jill Stein (Green Party), and hilariously vetted each of them for their respective fitness as President of the United States. âŠthe point here is the more you look at Gary Johnson and Jill Stein, the more you realize the…
The âLast Week Tonightâ host took on footage of Trump bragging about committing sexual assault and his half-assed apology. âThis is on you, too,â he said of the GOP leadership. …âYes. That is audio of Donald Trump in 2005 telling a giggling Billy Bush that one of the perks of fame is that he can…
Last Night John Oliver discussed the debate, as well as Donald Trump’s bizarre response, including his insistence that he won the debate based on unscientific polls. But it was John Oliver’s segment on Trump and Alicia Machado that furthermore demonstrated Trump’s long history of comments about women.
The host apologized for talking about the GOP candidate so much recently, but after a week that saw Trump continue to drop in the polls, lose his campaign chair Paul Manafort, and begin to take advice from âsexually rapacious hard-boiled eggâ Roger Ailes, he predicted this might represent a âfork in the roadâ for his…
âWow,â said Oliver in reference to Trumpâs ISIS remarks. âNow clearly what he just said is absolutely absurd, but even when people try to help him reframe it, he doubled down.â âYes, âsarcasmâ is a bullsât excuse,â Oliver responded. âItâs the douchebagâs apology.â Trump then âmade it so much weirder when, later that same day,…
John Oliver talked last night about the struggles of the newspaper industry, “A big part of the blame for this industryâs dire straits is on us and our unwillingness to pay for the work journalists produce,” Oliver said. “Weâve just grown accustomed to getting our news for free. And the longer that we get something…
John Oliver addressed Brexit disastrous passage and aftermath in an effort to school Americans about the consequences of a Trump presidency. âBasically, it seems like whoever the next U.K. prime minister is going to be, whether itâs [former London mayor] Boris Johnson or a racist tea kettle, they are going to be in for a…
John Oliver lambastes lawmakers for continuing to block gun research as the bodies pile up Describing the NRA as âlike PETA, but for guns, and effective,â Oliver explained how the gun organization keeps lawmakers in line, not only through contributions, but by effectively organizing their members to inundate their congressmen with phone calls demanding they…
