Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
TV-MA | 27 April 2014 (USA)

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    ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.
    Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
    Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
    Married Baby Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?
    VladTheLimpWhaler This show suffers from the same syndrome that affects our increasingly narcissistic society overall, and that is the tendency to believe that your very blatant, extreme political bias is not bias at all, but based in "objective scientific fact". As if it's been proved by science that we should all be liberals. Liberals always do this - they believe that all of their super biased political opinions aren't actually political opinions - but fact-based conclusions informed by science. As a result of this, they constantly stick science where it doesn't belong, and start claiming that science can answer questions like "how should I live my life" "should I respect my elders?" "should I tell the truth"? etc. More and more, young people are starting to think that spiritual questions like this are the domain of science, and as a result of this, they come to believe that their personal take on such questions isn't a personal value judgment, but a scientific conclusions that only religious conservatives and science-deniers could possibly disagree with. The fake news and spin in this show are so blatant that it's honestly worse than Soviet-Style propaganda - it's Soviet-style propaganda with an arrogant, narcissistic smirk. You know, that smirk that says "everything I say is based in objective fact, and the only people who could possibly disagree with it are the type who believe dinosaurs used to wear saddles". Almost every single thing Oliver says is either a lie, or spin, or an attempt to re-frame the entire issue with sleight-of-hand rhetoric.
    CANpatbuck3664 I was never really into John Stewart of Stephen Colbert (nothing against those guys, I just never got around to watching the Daily Show or the Colbert Report) but my best friend recommended this show to me. Getting a different take on the news is pretty interesting and despite my initial reservations, I found myself binge watching episode after episode. The only place I was really familiar with John Oliver was his relatively short stint on Community. But I think he does a great job pulling double duty in Last Week Tonight. He gives insightful exposition on serious topics yet has to keep the audience engaged by trying to make them laugh. Sure, he borders on mugging at the camera during certain skits but this is a job that requires he walk a very fine line and I think he pulls it off. He's really the only cast member but a wide variety of celebrities cameo in his skits to keep things fresh (e.g. Nick Offerman, Keegan Michael-Key, Jeff Goldblum and Seth Rogen).This is a property where it would be hard to sway someone's opinion on it by just typing up a review. This show has definitive bias and if you don't fall within the target demographic, you'll quickly switch this off. But that shouldn't diminish the fact that this show does a great job helping people grasp important subjects that they probably should be paying more attention to. I laugh at almost every episode I watch and they pick from a wide range of topics to cover. They do the obvious subjects (President Elect Donald Trump is skewered on a regular basis) but they open people's eyes to problems that you don't encounter everyday (two of my favourite episodes covered food waste and mandatory minimum laws for drug offenders).At minimum this show is consistently entertaining and during certain episodes it can actually be pretty affecting. It means something that I still really like this show when Oliver is actually pretty critical of Canada on a constant basis. If you lean the way politically that Oliver and his crew do, this could end up being you're new favourite show. If you don't fit in that category, its best to skip this and go whine about it on your preferred social media website.
    tankace John Oliver is one of the best comedian and political commentator in recent years and since 2014 he is the host of this show in order to comment (obviously) the events that take place in our crazy, weird and sadly miserable existence.In his tonight show he has given analyses to everyone from politician to companies to films and every time the out come is hilarious and insightful. In all honesty his show has been proved for many, myself included, as the best tonight show of our generation.However his work is not only jokes, thesis and a crash-course to politics ,which is not boring. He has taken interview by some of the people,who or whose actions has analyzed. Some of them are the Steven Hawkins, Edward Snow-den and more recently Dalai Lama.Also he and his team have managed to influence political decisions through their work and even going out of their way to inform groups in issues in which have little or no knowledge, and often their well-been is in jeopardy (see for the Tobacco industry).All in all Mr. Oliver is perhaps the best think that happen in HBO since Band of Brothers and Game of Thrones and if you haven seen him yet ,what were you doing in the past years, you missing something awesome .
    happyjew John Oliver is the unfunny current year guy who does 20 second rants. Then repeats his act for 20 minutes, he attempts to display a form cultural Marxist political view that is common place on the left today. There are the oppressors and victims, if you are a woman or not white you somehow being oppressed by a system that is full of institutional racism. It gets boring quickly, it might be entertaining for SJWs who have been lobotomised.John Oliver has decided that it is his mission to attack the next President of the United States Donald Trump. Sad really, John Oliver has become a meme on the internet, Current Year Guy. A lot of conservatives tuned in after the presidential election to receive their free intake of salt.They found a sad discredited man, continuing with a discredited progressive movement. Comedy Central have moved pretty far left, they may have cancelled shows such as Larry Wilmore's show which was trash. I bet this is the next one.