History Funny / LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver

'''Reporter:''' yes, how has it been with the war?\\

** John shows a news segment where Donald Trump once joked about how Pence wants to hang all homosexuals, John responds that jokes like that only work when the premise behind it is true, like [[StockJokes bad airline food, bad breakups,]] [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and people from Toronto being terrified of hard-boiled eggs]].

** John notes that among WWE's endeavors is its own film studio, WWE Studios, which produced ''Film/TheScorpionKing'', ''Film/{{Walking Tall|2004}}'', ''Film/TheMarine'' film series, "[[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and of course]], ''Film/{{Lincoln}}''."

** John notes that interrogations are popular for television shows, using examples from Series/{{NCIS}}, Series/MajorCrimes, Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit...[[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne My Little Pony]].

[[folder:Season Eleven (2024)

--->''Narrator:'' But I think he deserved his punishment. Don't you? (roll end credits)
--->''John:''' Look here are children's shows, and there are British children's shows. And that is why I am, and this is true, like this.

-->'''Reporter:''' How have the past few days been, Abdul Aziz?\\
'''Abdul (translated):''' Like shit.\\
'''Reporter:''' It's OK, we can cut it out. Tell me, how have the last few days been, Abdul Aziz? Explain to us.\\
'''Abdul:''' You mean about the war?\\

'''Abdul:''' ''Like shit.''\\

*** One scene has Henry stopping in the middle of town, blockading all of the people and a fire engine trying to get through (A common issue with freight trains is sudden stops and blockades). Henry explains that he's physically unable to move due to exhaustion and not having enough room:

** The segment ends with LWT's own Thomas and Friends parody of the episode, where Henry is a freight train. In the style of the original show.
*** Henry gets cursed out by all the people he's inconvenienced with his sudden stop in the middle of town, including by an old lady and a little girl.

---> '''Narrator:''' He carried all sorts of things people needed, like [[BreadEggsMilkSquick medical bandages. Corn. Vinyl chloride.]] [[OverlyLongGag Fireworks. A mysterious red substance. Question mark. Question mark? Hand grenades. Question mark? Plugged in space heaters.]] [[OddLastItem And all sorts of zoo animals.]]

---> '''Narrator:''' He carried all sorts of things people needed, like [[BreadEggsSquick medical bandages. Corn. Vinyl chloride.]] [[OverlyLongGag Fireworks. A mysterious red substance. Question mark. Question mark? Hand grenades. Question mark? Plugged in space heaters.]] And all sorts of zoo animals.

** Last Week Tonight sums up all of the problems in the freight train industry in a parody of Thomas the Tank Engine.

*** After a commentator describes one of the frontrunners, Emmanuel Macron, as "generally inoffensive" and "''not'' super attractive to anyone," John says that makes him sound like "[[Creator/JoshRadnor the guy]] who played the main character in ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''." (John doesn't even mention the actor's name, saying that he doesn't have one). However, John notes that there's something interesting in Macron: He married his schoolteacher, who's 20 years older than him, and as a result he has seven step-grandchildren at the age of 39. John then says that a man in his thirties ending up with seven step-grandchildren sounds like the plot of a [[DirectToVideo Direct-to-DVD]] Creator/AshtonKutcher movie called "Even on a Nine-Hour Flight This Movie Is Unwatchable."

** John reveals how easy it is for anyone to set up a CPC, [[CallBack much like his founding of "Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption"]], he decides to make his own and bring back his "wife", Wanda Jo, going around in a van called [[JustForPun Vanned Parenthood]], where they are legally able to say anything they want about abortions, like abortions will make a ghost baby to haunt them forever, will turn their breast milk to kombucha, and after an abortion, the vagina will seal up like an Egyptian tomb. Wanda Jo then reveals that she's not legally required to have any training to use an ultrasound machine, and to demonstrate, she uses it to show that John's pregnant.

'''Buscemi:''' I'm the best damn inspector in the business - and I'm here to [[JustForPun inspect this dam]].

** Oliver sums up Johnson by comparing seeing Creator/HughGrant in ''Film/FourWeddingsAndAFuneral'' vs [[WTHCastingAgency having him in]] ''Film/United93''. Oliver's re-enactment on what that would look like being priceless.

* In School Segregation, John shows an old clip of a white female student going to a school mostly attended by African-Americans, with the boys lewdly calling her "vanilla ice cream". As terrible as it was, John manages to make it funny with this:

* The spot-on recreation of a '90s Internet ad, replacing its characters with two men marveling at how they can use the Internet to destroy women's lives, all with the same cheerful delivery as the original.

** Later during the recap, John tries to brush over how Lauren Boebert got kicked out of a performance of ''Theatre/{{Beetlejuice}}'' for inappropriate behavior and move onto a more serious story about Italy's financial problems, only to be unable to resist going back to Boebert's story for more details. This happens multiple times.

* October 1, 2023: How do they start the first show since the end of [[UsefulNotes/TVStrikes the 2023 WGA Strike]]? Showing the clip of Louisiana senator John Kennedy reading the transcript from a sext.

* At the start of a story about the British monarchy's history with the slave trade, John admits that it's unlikely to be aired in the UK, so he's prepared an alternative -- a 25 minute clip of Winston Churchill going backwards down a waterslide, set to the ''Benny Hill'' theme music.

** All the outlandish claims made about Bob Murray by John and all the other back up singers and dancers in the musical, including that he started UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, masturbates to ''Film/SchindlersList'', breaks into people's homes to ejaculate in their Wheaties, is the Zodiac killer, and, as elaborated on in step-by-step detail by the above-mentioned lawyer, shoved candy up his asshole in the M&M store and tried to make people eat it. Mr. Nutter Butter also returns, this time singing in a barbershop quartet about how Bob Murray fucks squirrels. John then brags about how Bob cannot sue them because [[RefugeInAudacity the claims are too weird to be considered slander]] and are all jokes.

** John shows a snippet of video where the YouTuber Grandayy wrote the prompt "Write an Music/{{Eminem}} rap song about cats" into [=ChatGPT=]. The [[https://youtu.be/jnQ0zEQPu_A results]] are glorious.

* After lambasting Trump for his reliance on Creator/FoxNewsChannel and questionable news websites for his news, John declares that he had filmed infomercials that would air the following day on Washington D.C.'s affiliates of Fox News, Creator/{{MSNBC}}, and Creator/{{CNN}} to inform Trump about subjects like the nuclear triad, the Geneva Conventions and that ''[[ItsAllAboutMe there are actually other people than Trump]]''.

--->'''John:''' The point is Marlon Bundo is the most likable thing of an otherwise unlikable man, like how UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush is a perfectly fine painter, or Creator/BillCosby raised American's awareness of pudding, or how [[Creator/FoxNewsChannel Roger Ailes]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice is dead]].

** Responding to "Sportly Turkmenistan" ([[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext a song about the importance of sports Berdimuhamedov recorded with his grandson]]) with a deadpan "Fire."

*** The Asia wing was meant to have 10th century Cambodia statues, but they were stolen and now all that's left is their feet. So in return, they've got a "bunch of shit" from France, including the ''Art/MonaLisa'', Versailles art, and ''Art/LibertyLeadingThePeople'', which has just been rumpled up in a corner.