Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Bail
Published on Jun 7, 2015
” John Oliver explains why America’s bail system is better for the reality tv industry than it is for the justice system.”
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Published on Jun 7, 2015
” John Oliver explains why America’s bail system is better for the reality tv industry than it is for the justice system.”
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Published on May 17, 2015
” John Oliver explains how chicken farming can be unfair, punishing, and inhumane. And not just for the chickens! “
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Published on Apr 26, 2015
” Trendy clothes are cheaper than ever. That sounds great for the people who buy them, but it’s horrible for the people who make them.”
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Published on Apr 12, 2015
” Nobody likes the IRS. But recent budget and staff cuts have made it increasingly difficult for the department to do its very important job. Don’t take our word for it. Ask Michael Bolton.”
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Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: Government Surveillance
Published on Apr 5, 2015
” There are very few government checks on what America’s sweeping surveillance programs are capable of doing. John Oliver sits down with Edward Snowden to discuss the NSA, the balance between privacy and security, and dick-pics.”
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Published on Mar 29, 2015
” April Fools’ Day is awful. Please stand with John Oliver and take the Last Week Tonight No-Prank Pledge.
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Published on Mar 22, 2015
” If you have money, committing a municipal violation may pose you a minor inconvenience. If you don’t, it can ruin your life.”
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Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: Daylight Saving Time – How Is This Still A Thing?
Published on Mar 8, 2015” Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Daylight Saving Time – How Is This Still A Thing? (HBO)
Daylight saving time doesn’t actually benefit anyone. Strangely, it’s still a thing! “
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Published on Feb 8, 2015” RadioShack has filed for bankruptcy. We’ve helped them create a farewell message.
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Published on Feb 8, 2015
” Pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars marketing drugs to doctors.
We have a few issues with that.”
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Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: Fifty Shades #NotMyChristian Apology
Published on Jan 25, 2015” John Oliver apologizes to Jamie Dornan for perpetuating the #NotMyChristian hashtag…sort of.
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Published on Jan 9, 2015
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Published on Dec 29, 2014
” New Year’s Eve is the worst. John Oliver has some great excuses for getting out of it.
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Published on Nov 2, 2014
” Lowe’s is employing robots this holiday season.
But can robots provide the most vital customer service of all?
Nick Offerman, H. Jon Benjamin, and Sarah Baker help us show that they cannot. “
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Published on Nov 23, 2014
” Turkey pardoning is a weird tradition.
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Published on Nov 9, 2014
” State lotteries claim to be good for education and the general wellbeing of citizens.
But are they? (Spoiler alert: No.) “
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We’ve run this video before but now that the FCC’s attempt to regulate the internet have been brought back to the public’s attention we thought that Mr Oliver’s take on the cronyism and statism that is represented by the Obama administration’s plans to make the internet a “public utility” deserve further prominence .
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Published on Oct 19, 2014
” Translators who have aided the U.S. Military in Afghanistan and Iraq are in great danger in their home countries, but red tape is making it impossible for many of them to leave. John Oliver interviews Mohammad, one translator who made it out.
For more info on efforts to assist U.S.-affiliated refugees in Iraq and Afghanistan see http://thelistproject.org , and http://refugeerights.org . “
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” It does seem to me that John Oliver is in the process of inventing some interesting new kind of political/social commentary – the 20-minute single-issue rant that is both hilariously funny, well put-together, and often quite devastatingly effective, as argument. I find that when he deals with something I happen to know something about — net neutrality, say, or the governance of FIFA, or the so-called “right to be forgotten” — he gets to the heart of the matter pretty quickly, and that’s not something I often find to be true, and it’s not an easy thing to do (though of course, like all good performers, he makes it look easy). He is quite good at isolating the outrageous and then looping us for a while around the slippery slopes that surround it, and then bringing the conversation back to another bit of outrageousness and doing it again. It’s like an amusement park ride, but it has an argumentative purpose. There’s a line between simplifying (which he does, brilliantly) and over-simplifying (which I find he generally does not do), and it’s a very hard one to walk, and he does it quite well. “
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Published on Sep 28, 2014
” The United States has launched a huge number of drone strikes under President Obama.
It’s widely accepted and extremely terrifying.”
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Published on Sep 14, 2014
” Scotland is about to vote on whether to secede from the UK.
There are solid arguments on both sides.
But none of that makes bagpipes good to listen to…or does it?”
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Published on Sep 7, 2014
” John Oliver discusses student debt, which is awful, as well as for-profit colleges, who are awfully good at inflicting debt upon us. “
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