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The chicken wings and guacamole turned up at London's Soho House just before The Crown won the Emmy for best drama series. 73rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards: Deadline's Full Coverage It was 4 a.m. Monday in the Greek Street members club when the telecast finished, but the cast and crew of Netflix's series were…

John Oliver – back on air after a two-week hiatus and in studio for the first time since Covid – started in by bashing AT&T for contributions to legislators who supported the harsh new Texas abortion law. A political action committee belonging to AT&T was a major donor to Texas pols who sponsored and co-sponsored the…

John Oliver isn't too pleased about the new host of Jeopardy! either. The HBO Max host noted his disgruntlement on today's episode of Last Week Tonight while discussing school mask mandates. Early in the episode, Oliver played a clip of an angry mob accosting a school board member over mask mandates with a man…

As the pandemic rages on and the opioid crisis shows no signs of slowing down, John Oliver dedicated Sunday night’s episode of Last Week Tonight to Purdue Pharma, the company that developed the prescription painkiller, OxyContin. Oliver has covered the epidemic in two prior segments and is revisiting the topic as the…

John Oliver is a passionate fan of Sex and the City but he doesn’t believe the HBO Max revival And Just Like That... can work without Kim Cattrall. The chat show host went on a tangent while discussing emergency healthcare access on last night’s episode of HBO’s Last Week Tonight as to why Sarah Jessica Parker…

John Oliver continued to take shots at Biden’s failed promises on this week’s episode of Last Week Tonight. Though the United States has moved most of their troops out of Afghanistan well ahead of the Aug. 31 deadline Biden set, thousands of Afghan translators who aided American troops during the war have yet to be…

John Oliver took racist housing policies to task during his segment on Last Week Tonight. The firebrand host dove into the history of housing discrimination in the United States by detailing the noxious history of racial covenants in the South that prevented home sales to Blacks and how some of those bylaws exist to…

John Oliver is back with another fake gimmick — this time, a church. After a lengthy segment in which Oliver detailed Health Care Sharing Ministries, non-profits with common religious beliefs that share medical bills, and how they regularly exploit morality clauses to deny coverage to queer people, the obese or even…

On this week’s episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver decided to have some “summer fun” with his main segment. “It's been getting hotter and hotter outside…so tonight, we're going to talk about popsicles. There are tons of them in America, and when they get too hot, it can be a real problem,” said the talk show…

Two major station groups said that they were reviewing their processes for airing sponsored content following a segment that aired on HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver in which the show paid to get an interview on the air featuring a spokesperson for a fake “sexual wellness blanket.” The crux of the segment was…

Last Week Tonight host John Oliver began his show by lamenting the current state of Republican politics in the country. Oliver pointed out several GOP candidates across the country (e.g. Andrew Giuliani, Mark McCloskey) with crude personalities and highlighted the latest efforts by the Republican party to dismantle Roe…

John Oliver kicked off Last Week Tonight by sounding off on the current state of affairs between Israel and Palestine. The host was noticeably irritated by the diction of the Israeli government and certain American outlets who described Israel’s human rights violations as “evictions” and “property disputes.” Oliver…