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“Let tomorrow be about solutions. Today is about vengeance.” So ends the trailer for the new season of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver. There certainly will be a lot of material with which to work. HBO’s satirical current events show has been off the air since mid-November, which in Trump Administration Years is…

John Oliver finally received the answer to a question that has been wracking his brain for the past month. Before Oliver’s Last Week Tonight went on hiatus, he asked what the body of the iconic Pringles mascot looks like. “Do I need to know this? No. I don’t. Do I want to? Yes, very badly so much so that I’m willing…

Throughout the seventh season of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver introduced a running bit about actor Adam Driver. In nearly every episode he would admit his obsession with Driver and talked about the wildly inappropriate — and creepy — things he would want the Star Wars actor to do to him. It all came to a head when Dr…

The Season 7 finale of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver wasted no time in jumping into the main story: the 2020 Election. Yes, even though the election happened over two weeks ago, it’s still in play. Oliver said he would have much rather spent his time talking about the rare yellow turtle the internet has been…

Last Week Tonight host John Oliver told Stephen Colbert that he felt emotional upon casting his vote during the 2020 election. Oliver, who is originally from the United Kingdom, said that this year’s race was his first as an American citizen. “Giving them my name and getting the ballots, I didn't feel it. Scanning it…

John Oliver took a different approach during Sunday night’s Last Week Tonight with two main stories instead of one. The first one serving as the show’s intro and it spotlighted Donald Trump failed the country with is disastrous handling of the coronavirus. “For many, Trump’s handling of the coronavirus is going to be…

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver scooped its fifth consecutive Emmy Award in the Variety category Sunday, with the Brit comedian saying the hard work of staff on all late night shows made them possible during the pandemic. Clad in a Liverpool FC hoodie, Oliver beat The Daily Show With Trevor Noah, Full Frontal With S…

In what could be the greatest — and most hilariously friendly — feud of 2020, John Oliver has been putting the city of Danbury, Connecticut on blast for the past couple of weeks on Last Week Tonight.  During one episode while unpacking the racial disparities when it came to jury selection process in Connecticut, the…

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver wasted no time in diving right into two major stories that happened last week: the RNC and the events of Kenosha, WI. First off, John Oliver pointed out the main theme of the RNC was “telling lies in front of flags” as it was four days of “full-throated denial of objective reality.&#8221…

It’s become normal that John Oliver starts every episode of Last Week Tonight by saying “A lot happened this week” because it is wildly accurate. It seemed that this week he was speaking a mile-a-minute in order to try to fit in pertinent news at the top of the show. First on the list was the Democratic National…

During the most recent episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver unpacked the racial disparities that come with the jury selection process in Connecticut and at one point, dragged the city of Danbury saying “If you're going to forget a town in Connecticut, why not forget Danbury? Because, and this is true, f***…

As we enter another month of the global pandemic in the United States, John Oliver is not mincing any words when it comes to the many people in this country and their blatant disregard of COVID-19.  As opposed to other countries, it seems like there is an unnecessary amount of people in the U.S. who are acting like…