John Oliver
- News & Opinion
Showing 196 - 210 of 259 articles tagged "John Oliver"
-
Posted Monday 10/01/18 at 1:07PM EDT
John Oliver devoted his entire show to Brett Kavanaugh
Last Week Tonight broke its typical format to allow Oliver to delve deeply into the Kavanaugh hearings for nearly half...
-
Emmys became a bloated SNL episode
Lorne Michaels decided to turn the entire Emmys telecast "over to Saturday Night Live and Saturday Night Live-adjacent personalities in...
-
Posted Sunday 9/09/18 at 8:02PM EDT
Anthony Bourdain wins a posthumous Emmy for Parts Unknown
Bourdain's CNN series took home two Emmys at the Creative Arts Awards, including Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program and...
-
Posted Tuesday 8/07/18 at 10:55PM EDT
Investigation finds that John Oliver caused FCC's comment system to crash -- not a cyberattack, as was alleged
The FCC kept sticking to its story that a cyberattack caused its electronic commenting system to crash last year.
-
Posted Monday 8/06/18 at 3:26AM EDT
John Oliver slams HBO's new owner AT&T over its "dogsh*t" customer service hotline
The Last Week Tonight host used a segment on the "inadequate" criminal justice system to take a shot at AT&T, saying:...
-
Posted Monday 7/30/18 at 1:49PM EDT
John Oliver devoted nearly 30 minutes last night to workplace sexual harassment, including an extended interview with Anita Hill
Last Week Tonight spent 29 minutes of its expanded 39-minute runtime last night on the timely topic of workplace sexual...
-
Posted Wednesday 7/25/18 at 1:49PM EDT
John Oliver: “It still feels like we’re evolving and learning" in Season 5 of Last Week Tonight
Oliver told critics at the TCA press tour that he’s come to understand the importance of “realizing what our staff...
-
Posted Monday 7/16/18 at 3:05PM EDT
John Oliver releases a new compilation of Last Week Tonight's unused graphics
Watch makeup be applied to a fish in the third volume of the HBO show's "Lost Graphics.
-
Posted Friday 7/13/18 at 9:49AM EDT
John Oliver's gift of Russell Crowe's jockstrap couldn't stop an Alaska Blockbuster store from closing
Two of the last American Blockbuster video stores, both located in Alaska, will shut their doors soon, leaving the last...
-
Posted Tuesday 6/26/18 at 1:55PM EDT
HBO shows are still available in China, but HBO.com and Last Week Tonight are blocked
Following John Oliver's mockery of President Xi Jinping and his Chinese censorship, HBO's website and Oliver's show were banned, as...
-
Posted Monday 6/25/18 at 6:21AM EDT
HBO is now blocked in China following John Oliver's segment on Chinese censorship
All mentions of Oliver's name were removed in the wake of Last Week Tonight's segment that mocked Chinese President Xi...
-
John Oliver is now censored in China after mocking Chinese censorship
On Sunday's Last Week Tonight, Oliver spent 20 minutes delving into Chinese censorship, even bringing up the censorship of Winnie...
-
Posted Wednesday 6/06/18 at 6:44PM EDT
Emails show FCC "spread lies" about a fake cyberattack after John Oliver directed his fans to flood its commenting system
The FCC's commenting system crashed after Oliver's Last Week Tonight stunt in support of neutrality last May, but the FCC...
-
Jon Stewart defends Samantha Bee, warns that "we mistake cultural power for power"
"They don't give a sh*t about the word 'c*nt,'" the former Daily Show host said of the White House's reaction...
-
Posted Monday 6/04/18 at 7:42AM EDT
John Oliver enlists William Shatner, Rita Moreno, Lily Tomlin and other beloved senior citizens to warn about the guardianship scam
Cloris Leachman and Fred Willard also appeared in the Last Week Tonight public service announcement warning elderly people about scammers...