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John Oliver

The latest news and features on comedian John Oliver

August 2024

  • John Oliver on billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Ellison in Hawaii: ‘It’s the larger dynamic at work here, where wealthy outsiders can out-purchase and out-maneuver a local population, that can be so dispiriting.’

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    John Oliver: ‘Hawaii is being reshaped by wealthy outsiders’

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    John Oliver on RFK Jr: ‘A full-blown menace’

July 2024

  • A man in a blue suit-and-tie and glasses speaks to the camera next to a picture of JD Vance

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    John Oliver on JD Vance: ‘Great Lakes Ron DeSantis’

  • A man wearing a dark blue suit and glasses sits at a desk with a graphic reading 'Migrant Crime' on screen

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    John Oliver on Republican ‘migrant crime’ rhetoric: ‘relentless, bad-faith fearmongering’

June 2024

  • A man wearing glasses and a gray suit sits at a desk with a graphic reading 'UK elections' onscreen

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    John Oliver on Tories: their ‘unremitting cruelty has stained the last decade and a half of British life’

  • man wearing glasses, suit and purple tie sits at table and gestures with graphic on his right of US flag on the floor with man's back and 'Trump's second term' at top

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    John Oliver on a second Trump term: ‘Really does promise to be far, far worse’

  • A screencap of host John Oliver wearing a blue suit during the Last Week Tonight show with a graphic of the ocean reading 'Deep-Sea Mining'.

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    John Oliver on deep-sea mining: ‘Time that we stop treating the deep ocean as something to exploit’

  • John Oliver on India’s prime minister Narendra Modi: “As an international community, it seems past time to stop the uncritical, fawning praise of a man who is, to put it mildly, a deeply complicated figure.”

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    John Oliver on Narendra Modi: ‘India seems to be sliding toward authoritarianism’

May 2024

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    John Oliver tackles the US corn industry: ‘You might be thinking, so what?’

    The Last Week Tonight host looks into federal subsidies effects and ethanol standards upholding ‘America’s No 1 crop’
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    John Oliver on opioid settlements: ‘We can change the arc of this story’

    Last Week Tonight host looks into spending by state and local authorities of $50bn from settlements in the opioid crisis
  • John Oliver on attacks on libraries: ‘This is all madness, and it speaks to the need for libraries to be vigorously defended.’

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    John Oliver on public libraries: ‘Another front in the ongoing culture war’

    The Last Week Tonight host looks into attacks on public libraries, from slashed funding to harassment to banning certain book titles

April 2024

  • John Oliver: “It is both promising and long overdue to see people approaching this issue soberly, scientifically and perhaps most importantly, boringly.”

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    John Oliver on UFOs: ‘There needs to be room for honest inquiry’

    The Last Week Tonight host looks into speculation, study and cover-ups about unidentified flying objects in the US
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    John Oliver on Medicaid mess: ‘Could the government blindside people with something beneficial?’

    Last Week Tonight host digs into Medicaid ending insurance for millions in ‘unwinding’ emblematic of the system’s issues
  • John Oliver: “Our federal and state governments have continued to pursue questionably legal and definitely horrifying ways that, again, I would argue they shouldn’t be doing at all.”

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    John Oliver on lethal injections: ‘A protracted nightmare of suffering’

    The Last Week Tonight host looks into new “grim” developments on the death penalty in the US, and identifies a secret supplier of lethal injections.

March 2024

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    John Oliver on student loans: ‘It’s hard to feel like this system isn’t rigged’

    Last Week Tonight host digs into ballooning costs of higher education and potential solutions to a vicious cycle of debt
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    John Oliver to US state medical boards handling malpractice: ‘Fix this mess’

    The Last Week Tonight host looks into the issue of state medical boards mishandling complaints about negligent or harmful doctors
  • man in a suit at a desk on a stage with a picture of a plane labelled 'boeing' behind him

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    John Oliver calls for new leadership of Boeing: ‘Fix the culture that you have destroyed’

    Last Week Tonight host looks into recent safety and profit-driven culture issues plaguing major US airplane manufacturer

February 2024

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    John Oliver on Alabama’s IVF ruling: ‘It is chaos’

  • This image released by HBO shows John Oliver, host of "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver." Oliver said Sunday that he'd achieved all he'd wanted for the show by having an Australian animal hospital's special ward to treat a chlamydia outbreak among koalas named for him. He said, "goodbye, forever, everyone," as stagehands broke up his set around him. That inspired a wave of social media posts among fans wondering if he was serious. (Eric Liebowitz/HBO via AP)

    John Oliver offers to pay Clarence Thomas $1m a year if he resigns from supreme court

December 2023

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    John Oliver on Elon Musk’s messiah complex: ‘The least surprising thing on Earth’

    The Last Week Tonight host digs into the business history, public profile and immense power of billionaire Elon Musk
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