[67], For a segment in the October 18, 2015, broadcast, Oliver put on a comically grand demonstration with Canadian actor Mike Myers to urge Canadian voters to vote against Stephen Harper in the next day's Canadian federal election. While broadly within the categories of political satire and late-night talk shows, Last Week Tonight has taken a more specific approach to deeper dives into systemic issues which intend to illustrate both the wider socio-political context and the complex interconnections and embeddedness of public policies in social outcomes. Bean premium Double L traditional fit polo.” However, Thorngate agreed that Oliver's exposure and criticism of "manipulative sleazeballs" who "fleece the faithful" is "spot-on. [108], John Oliver extensively satirized Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a broadcast which went online on February 23, 2020 calling him a temporary symbol of hate. ", "John Oliver may have helped spur 150,000 comments to FCC on Net neutrality", "Tony Abbott lambasted on US TV show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver", "Tony Abbott Mocked in U.S. News Program, Aussies Cringe on Twitter", "Tony Abbott roasted by John Oliver on HBO show Last Week Tonight", "Thailand's Military Government Thinks John Oliver Is a Threat to Its Monarchy", "Thai junta unamused by comedian John Oliver's royal jibes", "Why John Oliver won't go to jail for flouting Canadian election law", "Why now? "[94] The show partnered with RIP Medical Debt, Inc. to abolish the debt. Unlike The Daily Show, which followed recent news, Oliver tends to explore one concept in depth. [73], The promotion for Season 3 highlighted derogatory quotes either the show or Oliver himself received, including "Comedian fool" (former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner, responding to a segment on the 2015 FIFA corruption case), "Makes people dumb" (an article The Wall Street Journal wrote about the show), "Very boring" (Donald Trump's assessment of the show), and "More unpleasant than a diuretic" (what President of Ecuador Rafael Correa said "gringo talk shows" were like, after being featured in a segment). [98] On June 22, Bob Murray presented a lawsuit against Oliver, HBO, and Time Warner for defamation. He also reveals that the Trump family name was changed at one point from the ancestral name 'Drumpf'. Poniewozik wrote that Oliver's debut was "a funny, confident start. [2] The eighth season of the show premiered on February 14, 2021. "Donald Trump" is a segment discussing American businessman Donald Trump. Salmon Canon: There is a cannon that shoots salmon over dams. Structural considerations are leading to changes in the content in the show that will inherently make it different from The Daily Show ... We realized early on, you don't necessarily want to hear anybody talk to you for a half an hour straight – even John, who is very charming – so we are constructing these little, produced comedy elements that will serve the function of commercial breaks throughout the show, which will let us get out of the studio, get us away from John's voice and break the show up a bit. The official website for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on HBO, featuring full episodes online, interviews, schedule information and episode guides. [42], By April 2015, the channel had attained over a million subscribers. 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And now, John Oliver burnt him on “Last Week Tonight.” On Sunday’s episode of the HBO late-night show, the host called him “a sentient L.L. John Oliver shared his thoughts about the Atlanta spa shootings on Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight. [24][25] A full-screen graphic will show and play a video clip (such as excerpts from news show or documentaries) when Oliver is citing it. Some of the famous personalities Oliver has interviewed include Edward Snowden, the 14th Dalai Lama, Professor Anita Hill, Stephen Hawking, and Monica Lewinsky. "[92] It cost him $50 to register the business in Mississippi, while it cost less than $60,000 to purchase almost $15 million in bad debt, medical debt from Texas. By the end of the episode, not much has changed, except for maybe April’s ego. [10], Tim Carvell, executive producer of Last Week Tonight, explained in an interview how the cast and crew deal with a half hour of Oliver speaking without any commercial breaks.[11]. [27], Last Week Tonight has a YouTube channel where videos are intermittently (depending on series) added after a show has aired. He did this partly as a way to demonstrate how "disturbingly easy" it is, in terms of paperwork, to set up a tax-exempt religious organization as viewed by the Internal Revenue Service. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is an American late-night talk and news satire television program. Since regulatory guidelines require an established location for a church, Oliver chose his studio location in New York City as its official location,[82] although he registered the nonprofit organization in the state of Texas. "[89], Oliver announced that the Church would be shutting down during his show on September 13, 2015. [81], In August 2015, after delivering his "Televangelists" segment, Oliver hired a professional tax lawyer to set up a church called Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption as a legal entity. Oliver stated that it was "pretty clear by now [that] debt buying is a grimy business, and badly needs more oversight" and went to point out that starting such a business was "disturbingly easy. All monetary donations have been forwarded to Doctors Without Borders.[90]. 6-1 : 17 Feb 19: Brexit: 151. [79][80], Philip Morris International issued a response to the segment, stating that it included "many mischaracterizations" of the company. [83] Oliver's "megachurch" had a toll-free phone number which allowed callers to donate to the church, and said that any money collected would be redistributed to the charitable relief organization Doctors Without Borders. John Oliver didn’t waste any time ribbing New York City mayor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday’s “Last Week Tonight” episode about nursing homes, calling the facilities “the absolute last thing you want Andrew Cuomo to be handling, tied comfortably with literally anything else.” That zinger came from the very first line of the HBO host’s 20-plus-minute segment. Franich concluded that Last Week Tonight "suggested the sharpest possible version of its inspiration" and that it "should feel like an experiment" but "felt almost fully formed. Season 6 : 150. With John Oliver, David Kaye, Ryan Barger, Noel MacNeal. "[110] In his attempt to explain the political climate in India under BJP which condones widespread violence against Muslims, Oliver mentions how Modi's party-appointed head of Uttar Pradesh, the largest BJP-ruled state of India, said at a recent rally: “If they kill one Hindu then we will also kill 100 of them (Muslims). The main story of the August 11, 2019 episode was Turkmenistan and its autocratic leader Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow. [11] When asked by an interviewer about "correspondents" such as those featured on The Daily Show, Oliver replied, "we're not going to be a parody news show, so no people pretending to be journalists. "[12], After the fifth episode of season 7,[when? [99], After Murray's appeal to the West Virginia Supreme Court was delayed due to the impeachment of its judges, Murray offered to drop the charges and HBO accepted. [41] A similar video called "Real Animals, Fake Paws" for use in reenacting U.S. Supreme Court cases was released after the October 19, 2014, episode where dogs were used instead of justices to make listening to oral court cases more amusing to the general public and to increase interest in the subject. Several media outlets, noticing this pattern, suggested that attention from the show had instigated these changes, going so far as to dub the phenomenon the "John Oliver Effect". Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014) > Season 8 > Episode 7 The national debt has long been portrayed as a burden we're placing on future generations. Oliver said he had received "thousands of envelopes with thousands of dollars" from donors. The segment garnered more than 85 million views on Facebook and YouTube combined which, an HBO spokesman has said, "is a record for any piece of HBO content. While the short segments almost always relate to recent news, the episode's main segment usually covers in length and detail a political issue, even if that issue did not have news media attention during the preceding week. Oliver criticized Murray for claiming the collapse was caused by an earthquake, despite all evidence demonstrating otherwise. He also introduces Jeff the Diseased Lung, a mascot he created for the American global cigarette and tobacco company Philip Morris International, the makers of Marlboro brand of cigarettes. "Tobacco" is a segment about the tobacco industry, which aired on February 15, 2015, as part of the second episode of the second season. Filming takes place on Sunday at 7pm. [33] It airs in South Africa on M-Net[34] and in Portugal on RTP3. Although the changing of names was once a common practice among many non-English immigrants to the United States, the segment popularized the term "Donald Drumpf" and started a campaign urging viewers to "Make Donald Drumpf Again," a play on Trump's own campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again." "[110] Oliver also lampooned Trump's choice of words to describe Modi as "the father of India", suggesting that there is a certain Gandhi that already holds that exact title. During the 22-minute segment, Oliver discusses Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and his long career in business. 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