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John Oliver will not be picking up his eighth straight Emmy for Outstanding Talk Series at this September's gala. The Last Week Tonight host will instead be battling it out with Saturday Night Live, and potentially A Black Lady Sketch Show, in the Outstanding Scripted Variety Series category after…

UPDATED, 8:16 AM; first posted at 9:06 p.m. May 1: Nightly talk shows including The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, are set to go dark starting on Tuesday after writers agreed to strike. Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Daily Show,…

John Oliver is having fun with Fox News and its lawsuit with Dominion Voting, again. The Last Week Tonight host once again started his HBO show with a segment on the Rupert Murdoch-owned network, while also exploring the horniness of Tennessee Lt. Gov. Randy McNally and a long segment on Temporary…

Late-night television is going through a moment. For the first time in eight years, there's a significant change behind the desks coming in 2023 as the industry wraps its head around the future of nightly, and weekly, talk shows. In 2022, James Corden, as revealed by Deadline, announced he was…

UK-based fans of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver were spared a 25-minute clip of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill going backwards down a waterslide, set to the theme of The Benny Hill Show. The HBO host had dared British broadcaster Sky to cut his segment on the British monarchy, saying…

John Oliver can't stop winning Emmys. HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver picked up the award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series, its seventh in a row at the Creative Arts Emmys. It beat out A Black Lady Sketch Show, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Saturday Night L…

John Oliver took another swipe at all the changes happening at Warner Bros. Discovery and this time he addressed the shows getting pulled from HBO Max. The Last Week Tonight host took on the possibility of Sarah Palin taking over congressman Don Young’s position after his death. Oliver teed up his jab at the streaming…

John Oliver took his first major swipe at his new "business daddy" Warner Bros. Discovery. The host of HBO's Last Week Tonight reveled in the cancellation of DC film Batgirl during a segment on Monkeypox. While discussing how the U.S. government allowed Monkeypox vaccines to expire rather than help other countries in…

Last Week Tonight host John Oliver had few jokes regarding the Supreme Court reversal last week of Roe v. Wade, a landmark decision which guaranteed women’s access to abortion for the last 49 years. At least twenty states are expected to legislate some restriction to abortion access. After wishing he could have a…

If you’re a candidate that believes the Democrats stole the election in 2020, John Oliver has it out for you. The Last Week Tonight host had a field day previewing some of the more interesting Republican secretary of state candidates across the country. Though the state elections for secretary of state usually fly…

John Oliver did not mince words for his show’s former owners. In a tirade attacking companies that have committed unsavory business practices, the Last Week Tonight host zeroed in on AT&T’s monopoly status before their 1982 anti-trust settlement and called them “our business daddy who left for cigarettes and never…

John Oliver delivered an impassioned plea on tonight’s Last Week Tonight in opposition of the inevitable rise of support for increased police presence on school campuses. In the wake of the Uvalde shooting several weeks ago, Oliver took conservative pundits to task over their solutions to the increase of school…