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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…

Bruce Springsteen, Jon Stewart and John Oliver will once again Stand Up for Heroes at the 13th annual event presented by the Bob Woodruff Foundation and the New York Comedy Festival. The evening of comedy and music is set for Monday, November 4 at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden. Raising funds and awareness…

John Oliver didn’t waste much time on Last Week Tonight before calling out Donald Trump for apparently using a Sharpie to add Alabama to the path of Hurricane Dorian even as the National Hurricane Center said otherwise. “Sharpiegate” has been a hot topic, but Oliver decided to just give a little jab and turn to…

Before addressing how Donald Trump has been handling the Hong Kong protests, Last Week Tonight‘s John Oliver made sure to point out that the president was looking into buying Greenland this week. Oliver said that it makes sense that Trump would want to buy Greenland because it “is icy, distant and semi-autonomous…

John Oliver came in hot on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight recapping Donald Trump’s “busy” week which included the largest single-state ICE raid, retweeting conspiracy theories about the death of Jeffrey Epstein and his visit to the sites of last week’s mass shootings where there was footage of him at an El Paso bragging…

Before John Oliver began his regularly scheduled “dumb show” about doghouse foreclosures and turnip subsidies on Last Week Tonight, he took some time to address the shootings that have occurred in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Tex. “When it comes to gun control, I know it can feel like it everything has been said before,&#8221…

After getting in some early jabs in about Donald Trump’s tariff threats on France for their wine (Trump said that he thinks American wines just look better), John Oliver dug into the text scandal and resignation of Ricardo Rossello, the Governor of Puerto Rico, on HBO’s Last Week Tonight. This week, Rossello said that…

Amazon is calling John Oliver’s depiction of conditions at the company’s shipping and warehouse facilities “insulting” to Amazon workers. Dave Clark, Amazon's SVP Worldwide Operations, responded to a harsh segment that aired Sunday on HBO’s Last Week Tonight With John Oliver. In the 20-minute segment, Amazon — as well…

John Oliver kicked off Sunday night’s episode of Last Week Tonight taking us on the ongoing saga that is the Donald Trump presidency before digging into Jared Kushner’s Middle East peace plan. Oliver talked about Trump’s “big week in diplomacy” as he visited with various authoritarians around the world. He joked about…