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John Oliver Explains Defunding The Police On ‘Tonight Show’

John Oliver Explains Defunding The Police On ‘Tonight Show’

During a remote appearance on the Monday edition of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, television host John Oliver explained one of the most popular themes emerging from recent protests: defunding the police, per E! Online. In the two weeks of protests following George Floyd’s death, defunding the police has become one of the most […]

4y ago

Wendy Williams Thanks John Oliver For Praising The Authenticity Of Her At-Home Show

Wendy Williams Thanks John Oliver For Praising The Authenticity Of Her At-Home Show

During the April 21 episode of Wendy Williams’s virtual show, the talkshow host thanked John Oliver for his recent praise regarding her authenticity. During his show on Sunday night, Oliver gave Williams a shoutout for how she has been handling filming her show from her apartment. He pointed out that it’s clear Williams isn’t afraid […]

4y ago

Amazon Executive Fires Back at John Oliver In Defense Of Company’s Working Conditions

Amazon Executive Fires Back at John Oliver In Defense Of Company’s Working Conditions

An executive at Amazon, the company known for its two-day shipping, fired back at late night host John Oliver on Monday after he slammed Amazon’s “brutal” working conditions, Business Insider reported. During an episode of Oliver’s weekly HBO show, Last Week Tonight, Oliver aired a 20-minute segment in which he said the convenience of using […]

5y ago

John Oliver Roasts Jared Kushner For Hoping Middle East Stops ‘Doing Terrorism’

John Oliver Roasts Jared Kushner For Hoping Middle East Stops ‘Doing Terrorism’

During Sunday’s Last Week Tonight episode, host John Oliver roasted President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner for his plan for peace in the Middle East. Vanity Fair reports Oliver does not think it’s a practical plan but an “economic wish list” at best and “rich boy wet dream” at worst. Oliver blasted […]

5y ago

John Oliver Covers Mueller Report And Trump Campaign’s ‘Cartoonish Levels Of Disorganization And Incompetence’

John Oliver Covers Mueller Report And Trump Campaign’s ‘Cartoonish Levels Of Disorganization And Incompetence’

John Oliver used Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight, to dive into the most interesting details of the Mueller report and its investigation into what the host previously called “Stupid Watergate.” In particular, Oliver focused on what he calls the “two main factors that may have saved” President Donald Trump: “incompetence when it comes to […]

5y ago

Colby Covington Blasts UFC, Says Its Fighters Earn ‘Dog S**t’ Compared To WWE Wrestlers

Colby Covington Blasts UFC, Says Its Fighters Earn ‘Dog S**t’ Compared To WWE Wrestlers

Last Week Tonight host John Oliver recently got the wrestling world talking, as Sunday night’s episode of his show saw him criticize a number of WWE’s alleged practices, including, but not limited to, how the promotion classifies its wrestlers as “independent contractors” in order to avoid paying them certain benefits, including health insurance. While The […]

5y ago

WWE News: Several Former WWE Superstars React To John Oliver’s Comments About Company’s Alleged Practices

WWE News: Several Former WWE Superstars React To John Oliver’s Comments About Company’s Alleged Practices

Television host and comedian John Oliver created quite a stir in the wrestling community on Sunday, as that night’s episode of Last Week Tonight on HBO featured a lengthy commentary on how he feels WWE, through its owner and chairman, Vince McMahon, doesn’t pay much attention to the safety and welfare of its wrestlers. As […]

5y ago

John Oliver Bashes WWE As ‘Morally Subterranean,’ Calls Out Vince McMahon

John Oliver Bashes WWE As ‘Morally Subterranean,’ Calls Out Vince McMahon

John Oliver used part of his show on Sunday to slam WWE and its impresario, Vince McMahon, as being unconcerned about the health and well-being of his wrestlers. According to an article from The Hollywood Reporter, Oliver took to the airwaves of HBO’s Last Week Tonight With John Oliver to berate McMahon and the organization […]

5y ago

Monica Lewinsky Opens Up About Being ‘Slut-Shamed’ After Bill Clinton Scandal

Monica Lewinsky Opens Up About Being ‘Slut-Shamed’ After Bill Clinton Scandal

Monica Lewinsky was suddenly thrown under the spotlight after her affair in the late ’90s with then-United States President Bill Clinton, and she has only recently decided to speak out about what it was like to go through such severe “public shaming” at a young age. During a segment for John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight, […]

5y ago

Trump Called ‘Dangerously Idiotic’ By John Oliver For Signing Bibles

Trump Called ‘Dangerously Idiotic’ By John Oliver For Signing Bibles

Comedian John Oliver opened his HBO show, Last Week Tonight, with a segment on Donald Trump’s trip to Alabama. There, the president met with those digging out from the tragic tornadoes which devastated the region last week. According to The Daily Beast, Oliver didn’t have an issue with Trump visiting the tornado damaged region, but […]

5y ago

John Oliver Slams HBO Parent Company AT&T Amid Robocall Rant Aimed At FCC

John Oliver Slams HBO Parent Company AT&T Amid Robocall Rant Aimed At FCC

Last Week Tonight host John Oliver took aim at AT&T, the parent company of his employer HBO during a segment criticizing robocalls and the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) failure to do anything about them, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The late-night host took to HBO’s airwaves Sunday night to let rip a high-energy rant against […]

5y ago

John Oliver Says He Wouldn’t Interview Donald Trump If Offered The Chance

John Oliver Says He Wouldn’t Interview Donald Trump If Offered The Chance

After a long hiatus, John Oliver is back on HBO tonight with new episodes of his popular series, Last Week Tonight, and it’s a safe bet that he’ll be talking about the Trump administration. Oliver’s specialty is finding the humor in current events and politics, but Donald Trump and his policies have been on the […]

5y ago

When Is John Oliver And ‘Last Week Tonight’ Coming Back To HBO? Comedian To End Three-Month Hiatus Soon

When Is John Oliver And ‘Last Week Tonight’ Coming Back To HBO? Comedian To End Three-Month Hiatus Soon

February 3 marked the 11th Sunday in a row without a new episode of the hit HBO political satire show Last Week Tonight starring comedian John Oliver. But the wait for fans of the show will not last much longer. The 41-year-old, British-born comic returns to HBO with the first installment of a new, 30-episode […]

5y ago

John Oliver’s Gay Kids’ Book Sent To Karen Pence’s Anti-LGBT School

John Oliver’s Gay Kids’ Book Sent To Karen Pence’s Anti-LGBT School

Last week, it was announced that Vice President Mike Pence’s wife, Karen Pence, had taken a job teaching art at a Christian school that discriminates against LGBT students, staff, and even parents. While most people are angry that she would condone such discrimination, others have taken swift — and hilarious — action. Vice is reporting […]

5y ago

John Oliver Mocks Rudy Giuliani, Says Trump Is Going To ‘Wind Up Behind Bars’ On ‘Last Week Tonight’

John Oliver Mocks Rudy Giuliani, Says Trump Is Going To ‘Wind Up Behind Bars’ On ‘Last Week Tonight’

During Sunday’s latest episode of Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver expressed his disbelief toward the recent comments President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani made on NBC’s Meet the Press over the weekend. According to The Daily Beast, Oliver mocked Giuliani’s wordplay and claimed that President Trump is going to “wind up behind bars.” Referring to […]

6y ago

John Oliver Criticizes Fox News Host Laura Ingraham For Racist Comments On ‘Last Week Tonight’

John Oliver Criticizes Fox News Host Laura Ingraham For Racist Comments On ‘Last Week Tonight’

British comedian John Oliver went after Fox News Host Laura Ingraham for her recent racist and anti-immigrant comments on Sunday’s latest episode of the hit HBO show “Last Week Tonight.” According to The Daily Beast, Oliver began his monologue by addressing Sunday afternoon’s Unite the Right 2 rally in Washington, D.C., the sequel to last […]

6y ago

John Oliver Discusses Trump’s Defense Strategy On ‘Last Week Tonight’

John Oliver Discusses Trump’s Defense Strategy On ‘Last Week Tonight’

On Sunday’s latest episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver scrutinized President Trump’s tactics to defend himself in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, according to The Guardian. Referring to the almost two-year-long scandal as “Stupid Watergate,” Oliver discussed the president’s recent defense of his son Donald Jr. and the ongoing Paul Manafort trial. “We […]

6y ago

On ‘Last Week Tonight,’ John Oliver Talks #MeToo With Anita Hill

On ‘Last Week Tonight,’ John Oliver Talks #MeToo With Anita Hill

John Oliver, the host of Last Week Tonight on HBO, usually covers politics and current events with a humorous angle, but this week he sat down with Professor Anita Hill to talk about her own experience with the #MeToo movement, and a view of her testimony about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas looking at it […]

6y ago

John Oliver Is Censored In China For Joking About Chinese Censorship

John Oliver Is Censored In China For Joking About Chinese Censorship

Sometimes art imitates life imitates art, and that happened this week after comedian John Oliver did an episode on censorship in China on his HBO show Last Week Tonight. Now China has blocked him for doing a show on Chinese censorship. The New York Times reported that Oliver did a 20-plus minute segment on China […]

6y ago

John Oliver Is Coming Out Ahead Of Mike Pence With His Gay Bunny Book About Marlon Bundo

John Oliver Is Coming Out Ahead Of Mike Pence With His Gay Bunny Book About Marlon Bundo

What started as a lark is now becoming the prize bunny for Last Week Tonight host John Oliver. Oliver and his staff wrote the picture book, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo in order to troll a book by the family of Vice President Mike Pence […]

6y ago

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