John Oliver knew that the fifth episode of this season of “Last Week Tonight” would air at the same time as the Oscars broadcast, but he might have thought he had a shot at drawing some eyeballs thanks to streaming and… well, the Oscars broadcast. Then Will Smith sauntered up …
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John Oliver examined President Donald Trump’s confounding decision to withdraw support from the World Health Organization on Last Week Tonight Sunday, October 18th. As Oliver explained, the WHO has a fairly limited purview and power, but still manages to do a lot, like alert the world to health threats, develop …
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President Trump and conservative talk show hosts like Sean Hannity have criticized Robert Mueller‘s investigation as a “witch hunt” over the past 13 months. And as John Oliver argued on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, they’re working like lawyers in a high-profile trial, peddling conspiracy theories to sway the jury of …
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John Oliver updated his viewers on the latest in the Harvey Weinstein sexual assault scandalon Last Week Tonight, where the host discussed how Hollywood’s blind eye toward the mega-producer’s behavior finally ended this week. In the week since the Weinstein exposés were published in the New York Times and New …
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