Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
"Tobacco" is a segment of the HBO news satire television series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver about the tobacco industry. It first aired on February 15, 2015, as part of the second episode of the series' second season. During the eighteen-minute segment, comedian John Oliver discusses tobacco industry trends and practices.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is an American late-night talk show created and hosted by John Oliver for HBO. The show takes a satirical look at the week in news, politics and current events. [1] As of November 17, 2024, 320 episodes of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver have aired. [2]
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (often abridged as Last Week Tonight) is an American late-night talk and satire television program hosted by comedian John Oliver. [4] [5] The half-hour-long show premiered in the end of April 2014 on HBO and currently premieres simultaneously on the network and Max. [6]
Comedian John Oliver returned to his HBO show “Last Week Tonight” on Sunday, becoming the latest late night host to air a new program following the end of the writers’ strike.
The show continued to release the main stories of each broadcast on its YouTube channel after each episode aired. Episodes fifteen and sixteen of season two, covering the 2015 FIFA corruption case and the Miss America beauty pageant, respectively, were credited with influencing US law and culture, a phenomenon dubbed the "John Oliver effect".
John Oliver changed the format of his show Last Week Tonight due to the Israel-Hamas conflict.. On Sunday (15 October), the comedian addressed the “horrific” news in a rare serious cold open ...
John Oliver is all that and more. The state of American politics for the last handful of years has left many feeling like we’re trapped in a bad TV show, in which twists and turns are so crazy ...
The fourth season garnered an approval rating of 100% based on 6 reviews on the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes. [9] Some critics described the show as necessary comic relief from the activities of the Trump administration, with Les Chappell writing in The A.V. Club, "Now that 2017 is proving to be just as bad ... we need Oliver’s confusion and outrage to guide us more than ever."