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Last Week Tonight

  • HBO Brings ‘Last Week Tonight’ Videos Back to YouTube Day After Premiere

    Host John Oliver previously said the shift to Thursdays was “massively frustrating”

    By

    Loree Seitz
    February 17, 2025 @ 3:07 PM
    TV
    3:07 PM
    HBO Brings ‘Last Week Tonight’ Videos Back to YouTube Day After Premiere
  • John Oliver Tells Viewers to Keep Fighting Back Against Trump: ‘Defeat Is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy’ | Video

     “Now is not the time to be looking away and saying ‘This is what you f–kers voted for’ and turning your backs,” the “Last Week Tonight” host says 

    By

    Daren DeFrank
    February 17, 2025 @ 12:30 PM
    TV
    12:30 PM
    John Oliver Tells Viewers to Keep Fighting Back Against Trump: ‘Defeat Is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy’ | Video
  • John Oliver Calls Waffle House ‘A Light in the Storm’ After Hurricanes

    The “Last Week Tonight” host says the restaurant chain is “11 Scrabble tiles of backlit hope” amid natural disasters

    By

    Kayla Cobb
    October 14, 2024 @ 9:34 AM
    TV
    9:34 AM
    John Oliver Calls Waffle House ‘A Light in the Storm’ After Hurricanes
  • John Oliver Is Still ‘Massively’ Frustrated HBO Moved His ‘Last Week Tonight’ YouTube Clips to Thursdays

    “It remains to be proven to me this was necessary,” the late night host says of the decision to stop dropping videos on Mondays

    By

    Kayla Cobb
    September 30, 2024 @ 10:47 AM
    TV
    10:47 AM
    John Oliver Is Still ‘Massively’ Frustrated HBO Moved His ‘Last Week Tonight’ YouTube Clips to Thursdays
  • John Oliver Calls JD Vance Out for Intentionally Depressing Harris Supporters: ‘Get the F-k Off My Corner’

    The “Last Week Tonight” host makes it clear it’s his job to ruin other people’s joy, not Trump’s VP pick’s

    By

    Kayla Cobb
    August 19, 2024 @ 9:41 AM
    TV
    9:41 AM
    John Oliver Calls JD Vance Out for Intentionally Depressing Harris Supporters: ‘Get the F-k Off My Corner’
  • John Oliver Has NSFW Comparison to Explain Trump’s Truth Social

    “A lot of sad men on the internet spend their time lying about how big it is, and what it can do for you,” the HBO host jokes

    By

    Andi Ortiz
    April 1, 2024 @ 7:20 AM
    TV
    7:20 AM
    John Oliver Has NSFW Comparison to Explain Trump’s Truth Social
  • John Oliver Dings HBO for Delaying New ‘Last Week Tonight’ Videos on YouTube: ‘I Hope They Change Their Mind’

    The network will now post clips on Thursdays instead of Mondays to encourage fans to tune in live on Max instead

    By

    Kayla Cobb
    February 19, 2024 @ 2:00 PM
    TV
    2:00 PM
    John Oliver Dings HBO for Delaying New ‘Last Week Tonight’ Videos on YouTube: ‘I Hope They Change Their Mind’
  • John Oliver Dares Disney to Sue as He Brings Steamboat Willie on Colbert: ‘I’m Legally Indestructible’ | Video

    “I feel like I’ve been ignored, so they’ve left me with no choice but to take this up a f—ing notch,” the HBO host says

    By

    Adam Chitwood
    February 13, 2024 @ 7:45 AM
    TV
    7:45 AM
    John Oliver Dares Disney to Sue as He Brings Steamboat Willie on Colbert: ‘I’m Legally Indestructible’ | Video
  • Is There a New ‘Last Week Tonight With John Oliver’ Airing This Week?

    The HBO host returned to his studio last week after more than a year spent in his “Blank Void”

    By

    Andi Ortiz
    January 28, 2024 @ 10:51 AM
    TV
    10:51 AM
    Is There a New ‘Last Week Tonight With John Oliver’ Airing This Week?
  • John Oliver’s ‘Last Week Tonight’ Renewed Through 2026

    HBO is staying in business with the Sunday night host

    By

    Adam Chitwood
    December 5, 2023 @ 10:08 AM
    TV
    10:08 AM
    John Oliver’s ‘Last Week Tonight’ Renewed Through 2026
  • John Oliver Explains Why ‘Last Week Tonight’ Didn’t Go In-Depth on Israel-Hamas Violence in Somber Show Opening

    “I don’t really want to tell jokes about carnage right now, and I’m pretty sure that you don’t want to hear them,” the HBO host says

    By

    Andi Ortiz
    October 16, 2023 @ 6:47 AM
    TV
    6:47 AM
    John Oliver Explains Why ‘Last Week Tonight’ Didn’t Go In-Depth on Israel-Hamas Violence in Somber Show Opening
  • John Oliver Goes Off on Abortion Becoming a ‘Schrodinger’s Right’ in US: ‘Frankly Both Absurd and Infuriating’

    “It is not ideal that the dream team who overturned Roe v. Wade may soon decide whether to greenlight the sequel,” the HBO host joked

    By

    Andi Ortiz
    April 17, 2023 @ 7:25 AM
    TV
    7:25 AM
    John Oliver Goes Off on Abortion Becoming a ‘Schrodinger’s Right’ in US: ‘Frankly Both Absurd and Infuriating’
  • John Oliver Says DeSantis Isn’t ‘Trump With a Brain’: Like Saying Restaurant Is Better Than ‘Chicken Pot Pie That Fell on the Sidewalk’ (Video)

    The “Last Week Tonight” host also dubbed the Florida governor “Business Fred Flintstone”

    By

    Andi Ortiz
    March 6, 2023 @ 7:33 AM
    TV
    7:33 AM
    John Oliver Says DeSantis Isn’t ‘Trump With a Brain’: Like Saying Restaurant Is Better Than ‘Chicken Pot Pie That Fell on the Sidewalk’ (Video)
  • John Oliver Shreds ‘Cartel-Like’ FIFA for Giving World Cup to Qatar: Stadiums Were Built ‘Through Modern-Day Slavery’ (Video)

    “I won’t say that Qatar definitely got the World Cup through bribery, but I won’t say that they didn’t, and I will say that they did,” Oliver said

    By

    Andi Ortiz
    November 21, 2022 @ 7:33 AM
    TV
    7:33 AM
    John Oliver Shreds ‘Cartel-Like’ FIFA for Giving World Cup to Qatar: Stadiums Were Built ‘Through Modern-Day Slavery’ (Video)
  • John Oliver Mocks Fox Hosts for ‘Telling on Themselves’ After Midterm Results: It’s a ‘What the F– Have We Done Sundae’

    “From being appalled that young people were voting to admitting that they have zero actionable policies,” Oliver mocked

    By

    Andi Ortiz
    November 14, 2022 @ 7:12 AM
    TV
    7:12 AM
    John Oliver Mocks Fox Hosts for ‘Telling on Themselves’ After Midterm Results: It’s a ‘What the F– Have We Done Sundae’
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