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Before John Oliver dove into his thoughts about Mike Bloomberg’s presidential run and everything wrong with it on Last Week Tonight, he had to talk about Donald Trump and how he criticized Parasite’s win at the Academy Awards at one of his rallies. At one point in his rant, Trump said that he wants the days of Gone Wit…

UPDATED with video: John Oliver opened his seventh season of HBO’s Last Week Tonight by taking aim at the media hyping a potential rift between William Barr and Donald Trump, after the U.S. Attorney General complained last week about the president’s tweeting about Justice Department matters. Oliver even gave credit…

It’s an annual tradition, but late-night comedian John Oliver thinks it’s time to put SantaCon to rest. The HBO Last Week Tonight host’s show is on hiatus. But Oliver took time out this holiday season to dress down “manufactured” SantaCon events across the country that attract thousands of people dressed as Santa…

On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver wasted no time Sunday night diving into this past week’s House impeachment hearings. Referring to the Trump-Ukraine scandal as “Stupid Watergate II,” the HBO host ripped Republicans — both on Capitol Hill and on Fox News, for trying to discredit the House investigation into President D…

With the House calling witnesses for Donald Trump’s public impeachment hearings this week, John Oliver continued to dive deep into the events during Last Week Tonight in the ongoing “Stupid Watergate” saga. On Sunday night, he focused on a trio of players in the story: Lindsey Graham, Roger Stone and Randy Credico…

Little more than a year ago, satirist Armando Iannucci tweeted a joke about Donald Trump that sent the social networking site into meltdown. The Veep creator proposed a film idea, in which Trump is drugged and moved to a replica White House, where he carries on playing at being president while surrounded by Truman Show…

As usual, John Oliver wasted no time on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight to talk about this week’s events surrounding Donald Trump’s impeachment inquiry. This week, he gave it a new subtitle “Stupid Watergate II: Revenge of the Ding Dong Dingus” and talked about new players introduced into the fray this week: Lt. Col…

On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver dove right into the “damning revelations” Donald Trump is facing in the continuing saga of “Stupid Watergate II”, Rudy Giuliani’s butt-dialing habits as well as Boris Johnson and the looming Brexit deadline. This week, former United States ambassador to Ukraine and career diplomat Bill…

The events surrounding Donald Trump, Ukraine and a whistleblower gave John Oliver plenty to discuss and skewer on HBO’s Last Week Tonight Sunday. Oliver started at the very beginning of the scandal, talking about the phone call where Trump asked Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden’s son…

John Oliver half-seriously thanked Game of Thrones in a briskly funny acceptance of his fellow HBO show Last Week Tonight‘s fourth consecutive Emmy for Outstanding Variety Talk Series. “Thank you to Game of Thrones for the lead-in over the years,” Oliver said. “It’s been really great. It’s been so fun trying to figure…

More than 400 film and TV writers including John Oliver, Samantha Bee and Amy Schumer have signed a petition urging New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign the Television Diversity Tax Credit Bill, which would allocate a small portion of the Empire State Film Production Tax Credit to incentivize the hiring of women and…

John Oliver got a flashback hit out of last Thursday night’s debate when he needled Joe Biden about the Democrat’s latest head-scratching (and vinyl scratching?) verbal misadventure. The host of Last Week Tonight was clearly amused by the quirky “record player” comment made by Biden in Houston when the candidate was…