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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - Sundays on HBO | Returning with Season 11 from 18 February 2024
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It is your civic duty to go there tomorrow and make sure they know about it.
I'll have to stop by and check it out. I haven't been in there for 10 or so years, we actually have good internet here despite what they said on the show. I have a gig down and unlimited bandwidth for instance, so it's even more of a mystery why they still stay open.
How the hell does John Oliver convinced HBO to let him spend $7,000 on a leather jockstrap (and other shot for undisclosed amounts of money) just to give it away to a Blockbuster in Alaska? This man is a genius.
You need to go there tomorrow and show the manager that segment. I'm not even kidding. Later we'll need a tour of the store once the memorabilia arrives!
How long is every episode, generally?
I have access to HBO NOW, but I typically just watch the journalistic youtube segments.
I have access to HBO NOW, but I typically just watch the journalistic youtube segments.
So do we have any updates regarding that Blockbuster store? Has any local news team gone there to make a follow-up?
He tends to do them as close to the vote as possible, when's the election?
So corporations just keep avoiding taxes by storing their profits on some island for a few years and every other administration passes a bill that lets them bring the money back to the US for a fraction of the tax rate they should have paid, and they sell it to the people as a policy that creates jobs even though it doesn't, but everyone has already forgotten how it didn't work last time.
Hilarious. These people must be laughing they asses off all the way to bank.
Thanks!
A bit puzzled at the fact that the manager says he hasn't heard back from HBO yet, I hope it all works out in the end.
it's likely billed as "marketing budget"
as the stunts do generate a lot of marketing for the show lol.
or they might just have a simple rule, "Make us laugh with the joke, and we will fund it" :P
good episode on the iran deal, hopefully it somewhat informs people on what it actually is, because i usually hear a lot of misinformation being thrown around.
also there was something very very important that they missed in the episode. i was genuinely surprised becuase i consider oliver kind of a fair person but i think it goes against the narrative they like to push. pompeo said this in the american senate recently:
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/12/6019...ate-nominee-mike-pompeo-will-you-be-a-yes-man
i think the narrative he was trying to push was that trump getting out of the deal equals nuclear bombs for iran, which i don't think is true. zarif recently said if america got out of the deal, iran has 3 options: getting out of the deal themselves, officially suing them in an international court, or getting out of NPT. they wouldn't do nothing if the sanctions are placed again. IAEA constantly saying iran has done their part of the deal and merkel and macron saying there's no alternative shows that getting out of it just would be a dumb decision made by trump based on nothing.
also there was something very very important that they missed in the episode. i was genuinely surprised becuase i consider oliver kind of a fair person but i think it goes against the narrative they like to push. pompeo said this in the american senate recently:
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/12/6019...ate-nominee-mike-pompeo-will-you-be-a-yes-man
i think the narrative he was trying to push was that trump getting out of the deal equals nuclear bombs for iran, which i don't think is true. zarif recently said if america got out of the deal, iran has 3 options: getting out of the deal themselves, officially suing them in an international court, or getting out of NPT. they wouldn't do nothing if the sanctions are placed again. IAEA constantly saying iran has done their part of the deal and merkel and macron saying there's no alternative shows that getting out of it just would be a dumb decision made by trump based on nothing.
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Ultimately the end skit probably has a budget. Buying ten grand of movie merchandise was probably considerably cheaper than some of the celeb appearances they've had on that section before.
The fact that you have Bolton there, it only looks that Iran is going to get invaded, and BTW, one strong point Oliver made was about the deal with North Korea, and Im almost sure that This administration is just planing to break the Iranian deal thus making NK break negotiation, this way Trump can easily say it was NK that backed down.
i doubt any american show will ever dare to cover that conflict fairly, even tho it would be so good to see a program with viewership like that inform people on what's going on
I bet they do not care where the money comes from as long as the money comes in.
They're probably going through the local cable provider to buy the time. I don't know if Fox has any sort of veto power, but when I bought local cable time, they never mentioned any potential override from the channel (although it was never as potentially controversial as Oliver's buys.)
These random breaks are getting really annoying, especially when they are only announced on Twitter.
I think it's the exact same schedule they've had every season:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Last_Week_Tonight_with_John_Oliver_episodes
6 weeks on, 1 week off, 4 weeks on, 1 week off, 7 weeks on, a few weeks off, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Last_Week_Tonight_with_John_Oliver_episodes
6 weeks on, 1 week off, 4 weeks on, 1 week off, 7 weeks on, a few weeks off, etc.
I'm pretty sure they took a break in the second or third week this season. This doesn't seem similar to that schedule at all.
TBH I think he is bored with the show... I don't think this season is as high quality as the previous ones, and he seems to fall back into many of the same jokes (or maybe I just have seen so much I have seen it all before).
I do think it has to be hard stuck between endlessly covering trump, and trying to focus on other subjects which just aren't as shocking or at the forefront of our minds.
I do think it has to be hard stuck between endlessly covering trump, and trying to focus on other subjects which just aren't as shocking or at the forefront of our minds.
He hasn't even done a Trump piece this year. Or even anything strictly political. He's had segments, but that's to be expected.
The show has had very same-y jokes/setups for a while now. The core of the writing is still solid, but they fall back on things like berating a stock photo too often
Here's the exact schedule of the beginning of every season
2014
- 4 weeks on, 1 week off
- 5 weeks on, 2 weeks off
- 6 weeks on, 3 weeks off
- 7 weeks on, 1 week off
- 7 weeks on, 1 week off
- 5 weeks on, 1 week off
- 6 weeks on, 1 week off
- 4 weeks on, 1 week off
- 3 weeks on, 1 week off
- 4 weeks on, 3-4 weeks off
- 6 weeks on, 1 week off
- 4 weeks on, 1 week off
- 3 weeks on, 1 week off
- 5 weeks on, 3 weeks off
- 5 weeks on, 1 week off
- 4 weeks on, 1 week off (so far)
Every season has 30 episodes in it., The breaks are just slightly different each year.
Okay, I just checked their youtube uploads and that seems to line up. I guess time is just going a bit too fast these days.
He did an update about it tonight.
Which included pictures from Alaska, and that Russel Crowe donated the money to a Stever Irwin Koala hospital, where they dedicated a ward to Oliver.
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