John Oliver
Why John Oliver Barely Addressed Donald Trump’s Indictment on ‘Last Week Tonight’
You knew John Oliver would bring up Donald Trump’s indictment by a grand jury, and he expected you to expect him to. The problem is, he doesn’t feel like we know enough about the actual charges to even talk about it. Joking it had been a “quiet” week, Oliver started out Sunday’s episode of HBO’s […]
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Men in Blazers, Hollywood’s Favorite Soccer Podcast, Aims for a Global Empire
Roger Bennett, the indefatigable co-founder of the soccer podcasting franchise Men in Blazers, has never played a second of competitive soccer. Since 2011, when he launched a lo-fi weekly(-ish) gab session with fellow bald British-expat soccer obsessive Michael Davies, a successful television executive and producer, Bennett has focused on the human stories behind the game […]
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John Oliver Mocks Trump’s “If You Don’t Love Your Children” Campaign Video Aimed at Farmers
John Oliver got a kick out of a video Donald Trump posted this week, which was aimed at farmers. On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, the HBO late night host showed part of a campaign video that Trump shared Friday, in which he touted the work he did on behalf of farmers while he was president. […]
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John Oliver Responds After Ron DeSantis Calls Him “Irrelevant”: “First Thing He’s Said That I’ve Agreed With”
John Oliver finally agrees with Ron DeSantis. A little over a week ago, Oliver spent almost an entire episode of his HBO show, Last Week Tonight, criticizing the Florida governor — calling him “Business Fred Flintstone” and finding humor in Donald Trump’s nickname for DeSantis, “Meatball Ron.” After the show aired, the governor’s spokesman Bryan […]
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John Oliver Blasts Rupert Murdoch Amid Lawsuit Over Fox News Anchors’ Misleading Election Fraud Claims: “You Made These Monsters”
“If I may quote God on Judgment Day, I’d like to start with Fox News Channel, the network that answers the question, ‘What was on TV when Grandpa died?'” Indeed, John Oliver took one of his least favorite networks to task — again — Sunday night during the latest episode of HBO’s Last Week Tonight. Specifically, […]
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John Oliver Takes on Ron DeSantis, Embracing Donald Trump’s Nickname “Meatball Ron”
John Oliver spent most of Sunday’s Last Week Tonight talking about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whom he called “Business Fred Flintstone.” He started off by mentioning DeSantis’ new book, The Courage to Be Free, joking: “By the way, I have a gift for our studio audience. Look under your seats! The gift is … it […]
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John Oliver Explains That Julia Roberts Isn’t Really Erin Brockovich in Response to Fox News Host’s Comment
Actors aren’t really the characters they play in film and TV. John Oliver relayed that message on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight in response to a comment from a Fox News pundit. He began the latest episode of his HBO late night show by noting that both former President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Transportation […]
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John Oliver Blasts Fox News Channel After Court Filing Shows Hosts Didn’t Believe 2020 Election Fraud Claims
John Oliver took Fox News Channel to the mat on Sunday night during the 10th-season premiere of Last Week Tonight. At the top of his HBO talk show, which has been on hiatus since November, Oliver brought up the court filings that were made public last week in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit […]
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John Oliver Slams Elon Musk: “He’s Decimated His Staff and Degraded His Product”
John Oliver took jabs at Elon Musk for his early chaotic reign as Twitter CEO on Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight. “It has now been three weeks since it was taken over by Elon Musk, a man who answers the question, ‘What if Willy Wonka benefited from apartheid?'” Oliver said at the beginning of […]
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John Oliver Takes Aim at U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Tom Brady, Kristen Stewart and Elon Musk
John Oliver kicked off Sunday’s Last Week Tonight by noting it had been a busy week, “from massive protests still ongoing in Iran to the fact that Tom Brady suddenly has one less ring.” The HBO host’s jab at Tom Brady was a reference to both his divorce from Gisele Bundchen and his seven Super […]
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John Oliver Takes Jabs at ‘House of the Dragon,’ HBO Max on ‘Last Week Tonight’
John Oliver continued to bite the hand that feeds him, making two jokes at HBO’s expense on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, which airs on, of course, HBO. During his main segment, which focused on transgender rights, Oliver showed video of an interview with a young transgender girl expressing her irritation that she could not use […]
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John Oliver Refers to NFL’s ‘Monday Night Football’ as “Primetime Programming Where People Kill Themselves for Entertainment”
John Oliver took a jab at the NFL on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, going as far as saying the sport shouldn’t exist. The HBO show’s host focused his main segment on crime reporting, noting how local TV news spends a disproportionate amount of time on crime stories, and took the opportunity to criticize the NFL […]
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