John Oliver urged Americans to come up with a concrete voting plan after breaking down the ways President Donald Trump and other Republicans are trying to suppress votes or undermine confidence in the results. The Last Week Tonight episode aired Sunday, October 4th. Much of the segment focused on the …
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On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver offered a disturbing portrait of the sad realities of prison labor, examining the low wages, institutional corruption, inhumane practices and exorbitant fees that stand between inmates and their attempts to rebuild behind bars. Sixty-one percent of people in prison have jobs, including common …
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One week after one of the show’s grittiest deep-dives, an exhaustive segment on the Muller report, Last Week Tonight released the YouTube clip of some “high-end nonsense”: a hilarious and weirdly poignant report on the saga of Japanese otter mascot Chiitan. Host John Oliver served up the ridiculously tangled backstory …
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A West Virginia judge dismissed a coal magnate’s defamation lawsuit against Last Week Tonight that followed a June 2017 segment where host John Oliver called Murray Energy CEO Robert Murray a “geriatric Dr. Evil.” Judge Jeffrey Cramer of West Virginia’s second judicial circuit granted HBO’s motion to dismiss Murray’s lawsuit, …
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