John Oliver used part of the opening segment of Last Week Tonight on Sunday to take a swipe at Meghan McCain, the co-host of The View and daughter to the late Sen. John McCain. He also saved a shot for her husband, Ben Domenech. Both were in Oliver’s crosshairs following McCain’s appearance last week on Late Night With…

John Oliver began Sunday’s episode of HBO’s Last Week Tonight by taking on Georgia’s controversial “heartbeat bill” legislation signed into law last week by Gov. Brian Kemp. Scheduled to take effect in 2020, it represents one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation, and groups including the ACLU and…

Dem. Rep Steve Cohen tried his hand at an “exhilarating bit of prop comedy” in Washington last Thursday when Attorney General Bill Barr was a no-show at a Congressional hearing on Thursday, John Oliver noted on Last Week Tonight. Cohen thought it would be hilarious if he brought a bucket of KFC chicken, and a ceramic…

UPDATED with video: Last Week Tonight host John Oliver dove directly into the headline-grabbing details of the long-awaited Mueller report in which the special counsel detailed Russian election meddling, and alleged Trump campaign Russia contacts, and Trump efforts to thwart special counsel Robert Mueller as he…

John Oliver, the latest late-night TV show host to tackle Julian Assange's arrest by British police from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, is the first to call WikiLeaks' founder "the most controversial Australian export since Vegemite." After nearly seven years holed up at the embassy, Brit police literally carried…

President Donald Trump had a busy week, John Oliver noted on Last Week Tonight. He lied about where is dad was born, for no apparent reason. He repeatedly said “oranges” when he was trying to say “origins” at a White House event. He trolled Joe Biden for touching women inappropriately, which, Oliver noted accurately,…

On Sunday night, John Oliver did not hold back with his takedown of WWE boss Vince McMahon and the working conditions and treatment of the wrestlers in the organization on HBO’s Last Week Tonight. True to professional wrestling form, the WWE wasn’t about to take the hits without retaliating. Deadline received a…

John Oliver came back Sunday night with a brand-new Last Week Tonight and did not waste any time with unpacking the news of the week. From the woman in the swamp creature mask during the David Bernhardt confirmation hearing to the Mueller report fallout to how Vince McMahon failed the wrestlers of the WWE, Oliver came…

UPDATED with video: John Oliver savaged Jay Leno's call for more civility in late-night TV on Last Week Tonight. Last week, Leno stopped by NBC’s Today show and said he did not miss hosting a late-night show because “everything now is, if people don’t like your politics… everyone has to know your politics…But when…

UPDATED with video: John Oliver is robocalling all FCC commissioners, including his nemesis, FCC chairman Ajit Pai, to protest Pai’s decision not to attack the menace that keeps growing. Thanks to new tactics, which Oliver detailed on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, robocalling is only getting worse. Some pundits estimate…

John Oliver opened Last Week Tonight talking about President Donald Trump's terrible week. Among his series of setbacks, his summit with North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un flopped, and his former fixer Michael Cohen called Trump a racist, cheat conman, and himself a “fool” for his slavish devotion to the guy. "The fact…

John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight kicked of with an opening sequence nod to Sunday’s “Hostus Ghostus” Oscars, taking place as he broadcast. Quickly recapping the week, as Melissa McCarthy was stealing the Hollywood awards ceremony and Spike Lee tried to do same after Green Book was named Best Picture, Oliver noted…