Please update your flash player. Dr. Oz and Nutritional Supplements Sundays at 11 PM In a clip from this week's episode, John Oliver outlines what exactly is problematic about Dr. Oz and the nutrition supplement industry. Watch on You Tube Features The Team Not Yet Formerly Known as the Washington Redskins Episode 7 Show Clip - June 15, 2014 There are many questionable positions that can be defended, but not refusing to change the name of a certain football team. Watch a clip from the show. The Team Not Yet Formerly Known as the Washington Redskins About ' Last Week Tonight with John Oliver' presents a half-hour satirical look at the week in news, politics and current events. About Tom Wheeler Is Not a Dingo Episode 7 Show Clip - June 15, 2014 The FCC Chairman would like everyone to know that he is definitely not a dingo. That's just what a dingo would say. Watch a clip from the episode. Tom Wheeler Is Not a Dingo FIFA and the World Cup Episode 6 Show Clip - June 8, 2014 John Oliver's excitement for the World Cup is tempered by the allegations of staggering corruption in the organization that runs it. Watch a clip from the show. FIFA and the World Cup Mutually Assured Humiliation The only way to make sure nothing embarrassing about you is revealed on the internet is to reveal it yourself. John Oliver has already made the humiliating plunge, join him with the hashtag Mutually Assured Humiliation Mutually Assured Humiliation Last Week Tonight on Facebook Like the official Last Week Tonight Facebook page for daily John Oliver updates in your newsfeed. Last Week Tonight on Facebook Full Episodes All Episodes Clips the comedy only got in the way. Now, John Oliver and his crew at LWT have only further blurred the lines between comedy news and actual news, probably more than any other show in history. Embracing wide-ranging topics that other topical shows aren't touching with a ten-foot pole (tax-exempt municipal bonds for stadium construction, anyone? Oliver and his staff have managed to accomplish the oft-untenable task of mixing a well-timed dick joke with hard-hitting journalism. And as their work in 2015 proved time and again, they're pulling it off with flying colors, going places that other popular news programs won't even tread. From segments on standardized tests to chicken farming to pennies, here are the best Last Week Tonight segments from 2015, listed chronologically. It's easily the most enjoyable way to relive some of this year's most infuriating news. Marketing to Doctors ( February) Oliver opened his second season with a blistering attack on a worthy opponent: obnoxious cartoon bladders. As amusing as that would have been, his point was more about big pharma, which, as Oliver points out, spends more on marketing than it does on research. And doctors, some of whom advertise a free lunch to the pharmaceutical reps who are willing to pay, in exchange for prescriptions. Tobacco ( February) Just when we thought we were done fearing Big Tobacco, Oliver swoops in to remind us that overseas, these guys are just as evil.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is an American late-night talk show airing Sundays at 11:00 p.m. on HBO in the United States and HBO Canada, and on Tuesday 11:15 p.m. ( GMT) on Sky Atlantic in the United Kingdom.[2] The half-hour long[3] show premiered on Sunday, April 27, 2014, and is hosted by comedian John Oliver. Last Week Tonight shares some similarities with Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, where Oliver was previously featured as a correspondent and fill-in host, exploring a satirical look at news, politics and current events on a weekly basis.[2] Oliver's contract with HBO lasts two years with an option for more. Oliver says he has full creative freedom, including free rein to criticize corporations. That freedom may be facilitated in part by HBO's ad-free premium subscription model. Oliver and HBO programming president Michael Lombardo have discussed extending the show from half an hour to a full hour and airing more than once a week after Oliver gets his feet under him. [4] Contents 1 Production 2 Episodes 2.1 Season 1 (2014) 3 Reception 4 International reaction 5 International broadcast 6 References 7 External links Production[edit] Oliver described his preparations for the show to an interviewer for The Wire. I basically have to watch everything. The only thing I kind of watch for pleasure is Fareed Zakaria's show on Sundays. That and 60 Minutes I watch for pleasure, or maybe Frontline. I have a TV on in my office all the time and I'll generally flick around on that from CNN, Fox, MSNBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, Al Jazeera. I'm watching with a certain thing in mind and that is how to see a story told badly. [5] He admitted to another interviewer that he is concerned about dealing with old news: If something happens on a Monday, realistically all the meat is going to be picked off that bone by the time it gets to us - there's probably barely a.
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