History YMMV / LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver

** The segment on Family Separation ends with a clip of a mother and her six-year-old son, who had just been reunited after spending more than a month apart in separate immigrant detention facilities, telling her that he doesn't want to be her son anymore and that he wants to go back to the detention facility because he felt safer there than with her. Jon is visibly angry at how the Trump administration [[MakeAnExampleOfThem willingly traumatizes children to serve as a deterrent to anyone who wants to come to the U.S.]]

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic

** [[https://youtu.be/32n4h0kn-88?t=206 "Don't Use Our Song"]], a ProtestSong against [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin politicians using pop songs on the campaign trail without a license]], [[IsntItIronic often with the song's message being completely at odds with their political views.]] Not only is it catchy as hell, but it has a very impressive AllStarCast, including Music/MichaelBolton, Music/SherylCrow, Music/JoshGroban, Music/CyndiLauper, [[Music/JohnMellencamp John Cougar Mellencamp]], [[Music/ImagineDragons Dan Reynolds]], Music/{{Usher}}, [[Music/{{Heart|Band}} Nancy and Ann Wilson]], and [[MemeticMutation a cat walking on a keyboard]], [[RealitySubtext almost all of whom have had their music stolen by politicians in the past.]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-lnPk5SFrk North Korean Polka]] (aka "Please Don't Nuke Us, North Korea"), by Music/WeirdAlYankovic.
** [[https://youtu.be/UN8bJb8biZU?t=1258 "Eat Shit, Bob"]], an extravagant musical number about outlandish, blatantly false claims about Bob Murray in response to all the frivolous lawsuits he slaps on his critics, and his general unpleasant character.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In "Trump and Syria", John mentions that over 100 [=ISIS=] prisoners had escaped captivity and no-one knows where they went... before introducing them as that day's guests. The curtain opens, there are a few bits of junk and holes in the ground, followed by a ClusterFBomb and John regretting giving them shovels. The segment then carries onwards and it's never brought up again.

** While his voting video (in which he argues that laws that require people to have [=IDs=] before voting are discriminatory, especially because of how hard [=IDs=] are to get) is just as highly rated as his usual videos, the top comments of the video have very different reactions. Some agree with his argument that it's indirect discrimination and with his position that it does nothing to stop voter fraud. Some say 'Wait, seriously? Americans don't all have [=IDs=]? REALLY!?', or somebody saying that the ''real'' problem isn't that [=IDs=] are being required to vote, which is the case in nearly every other developed nation, but that they're so nightmarishly difficult to get. Still others believe that not all people without [=IDs=] were victims of said difficulty.
** The video about Brexit (whether or not UK should leave the European Union), especially the sarcastic song "Fuck You European Union", about how even though the EU may annoy the UK, the UK still ''needed'' the EU. Many refused to accept that it was a joke, both on the EU side, who viciously insulted the show and the UK itself back, and [[MisaimedFandom people living in the UK who took the "fuck you"s at face value and crudely insulted the EU]].
** His segment on third-party candidates, where he discusses and criticizes the two leading third-party presidential candidates for the 2016 American election, Jill Stein and Gary Johnson. Some felt John gave them both a fair shake and [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity extra publicity.]] They applauded him for taking the time not only to bring attention to often-ignored candidates, but to explore their ideas for America and expose their potential major drawbacks. Others thought he exaggerated and even misrepresentd various statements by the two, especially Jill Stein. Not helped by Stein's response in a town hall with ''The Young Turks'', where she accused John of being a shill for [[UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton Hillary Clinton]] [[NotHelpingYourCase instead of defending the policies John criticized.]] And still others believe, particularly in the aftermath of Trump's eventual victory, that he didn't go far ''enough'' in explaining Johnson and Stein's drawbacks, and that he should have explicitly endorsed Clinton, as more people than usual ended up voting third party,[[labelnote:*]]Johnson in particular ended up receiving nearly 4.5 million votes, becoming the third-party candidate that most votes received since Ross Perot's third-party runs in 1992 and 1996.[[/labelnote]] probably playing a role in costing Clinton the presidency. (Although the notion this buys into, the idea of a "spoiler canidiate," is also a bit of a broken base among political experts. Some arguing this is a real concern, with others believing those who vote third party in elections would likely not vote if their choice wasn't on the ballot.)
** His video on school segregation had some people accusing him of falling victim to political correctness. The white boy who wore {{Blackface}} to portray Dr. UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr is also a major point of contention between those who think [[ChildrenAreInnocent his innocence makes it no big deal]] and those who consider his intentions irrelevant.
** His video on the 2017 [[UsefulNotes/{{France}} French]] elections. As with the American ones, accusations of exaggerating and/or misrepresenting some candidates flew around, while others think he was quite accurate. Opinion varies, mostly depending on one's political leanings, which can make the ensuing argument fairly heated.

** John's support for single payer health care. While some praised his support for single payer system owing to its success in countries like the UK and Canada, others feel that he ignores how he omitted other countries like Germany and the Netherlands that achieved universal coverage without using single payer system.
** John's critiques of 2020 Democratic nominee Joe Biden, such as his response to Biden's comments about police brutality on Black people in the episode about police and criticising the Democratic National Convention for being unappealing for progressives. Some appreciate that he focused on coronavirus-related news and avoided a clearly biased pro-Democrat narrative like the one he had during the 2016 election while still indirectly helping Biden by criticizing Trump. Others however are frustrated that John continued to take shots at Biden well into the general election, possibly undermining faith in Biden. John did eventually endorse Biden in the second-to-last episode before the 2020 election (about asylum, and more specifically about asylum under the Trump administration), and in the end, it didn't seem to affect Biden, since he soundly won against Trump.

* CatharsisFactor: Can be applied anytime John Oliver blows something up, especially a year everyone mostly agrees is disappointing or downright terrible. 2020 had probably the biggest explosion to date.
* CrackPairing: In one episode, after declaring that America's only "national treasures" are Music/DollyParton, Creator/PedroPascal and Film/CocaineBear, John added "and I'll say what we're all thinking -- threesome, ''when?''"

** John offending the royal families of UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands, UsefulNotes/{{Kuwait}}, and UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}}, which have laws against insulting royalty. In Oliver's home country, ''lèse majesté'' is the national sport.

** The Doomsday video. The video itself is mostly tame, [[https://youtu.be/UC_gXD5OE88?t=3m44s until you get to humanity's blooper reel...]]
** John's take on the segment regarding the aftermath of the Charleston, South Carolina, church shooting, where one of the news reporters points out the procedure of moving the Confederate flag flown in front of the state's capitol.

** The entire "Eat Shit Bob" musical number at the end of the episode on SLAPP lawsuits is full of outrageous, false, vulgar claims about Bob Murray. Claims that, as John and rest of the singers put, are way too weird to be considered slander and are all jokes which any reasonable person would not take as factual and any reasonable judge would dimiss a lawsuit against.

** The September 12, 2021 show was the first with a live audience since the pandemic began 18 months earlier. How did John open the show? By assuring the viewers that there was a fully-vaccinated audience, and adding "one of whom, and I'm not saying who, has a breakthrough case. Not of Covid, though. Relax. Of smallpox. So it's completely fine.".

*** One man was denied an apartment because he shared a name with ''three'' sex offenders. John points out that no man could plausibly pull off being three sex offenders at once... except Creator/NeilPatrickHarris. Not because he thinks he ''would'', John insists, but because the man just has ''that much range'', he could be a literal "triple threat."

** Some of the lines in LTW's Thomas and Friends parody that highlights all of the problems with freight trains:

* EnsembleDarkhorse

** Another "How Is This Still A Thing?" suggests various other Italian people that could be used to replace Columbus Day, including chef Creator/MarioBatali. Then he was hit with several sexual harassment accusations.
** In his segment on former Alabama governor Robert Bentley's sex scandal, Oliver pointed out that Bentley's trial would be presided over by Roy Moore, but only cited his infamy from refusing to give up a statue of the Ten Commandments (to show how everyone involved in prosecuting Bentley were themselves prosecuted). Moore himself would later turn out to be accused of being a sex criminal, being accused of five counts of sexual assault including that of a minor.

** In the episode on Workplace Sexual Harassment, John discussed Anita Hill and her infamously poor treatment by the Senate Judiciary Committee after she accused Supreme Court Justice (then nominee) Clarence Thomas of harassment. John even interviewed Hill herself, who said that, although there is still a long way to go, she felt things had improved somewhat since that incident. Not two months later Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had attempted to rape her while the two were in high school and received treatment which was widely considered even worse than what Professor Hill had faced. John lampshaded this when discussing the Kavanaugh hearings themselves, noting that the piece became relevant in the worst HistoryRepeats way possible.

** In the last episode of 2016, as John discussed Donald Trump's shocking win in the 2016 president election, he says "It turns out hindsight, much like the year we're all now desperately looking forward to, is 2020." As a final touch, John begins to list all the terrible things that happened in 2016 and was legitimately angry for giving humanity such an awful year from start to finish. As it turns out, [[FromBadToWorse 2020 would be an even more painful year]]. He even lampshades it saying that while 2016 was horrible in it's own rights, 2020 was enough for him to say "holy shit," and give him enough reasons to blow the year up like 2016 in his final episode for season 7.
---> '''John:''' Just four years ago, I blew up the year 2016. As if that was a very bad year. And it was. It was terrible. But this year, '''Holy shit!'''
** After all the show's montages portraying Steve Scully as "the most patient man on television," Scully apparently did eventually lost his patience in 2020; he was suspended indefinitely from C-SPAN after admitting to misleading about his Twitter accout being hacked when confronted about an exchange he had with Anthony Scaramucci, in which he asked him if he should talk back to Trump at the (ultimately canceled) debate Scully was set to host.
** After Trump withdrew U.S. troops from the Turkey-Syria border in October 2019, leaving the U.S.-allied Kurds in the zone exposed to attacks from the Turkish military, John denounced Trump's impetuous decision, saying "Imagine what he might do in a crisis not of his own making. That is one of the terrifying things about the prospect of a second term or, indeed, the remaining year of this first one.". In 2020, the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic took hold of the US, and Trump's administration handled it so poorly that over 400,000 Americans died by the time his tenure ended before he lost the 2020 presidential election.

** John's episode about "Third Parties" in 2016 featured a then-little-known third party candidate for that year's U.S. presidential election: Joe Exotic. Yes, the same Joe Exotic that was the subject of ''Series/TigerKing''.

** Deliberately invoked again, with John's description of Russia as "a country that will continue to be funny until it '''[[MakeTheBearAngryAgain suddenly isn't]]'''." Whether, and when, the other shoe has dropped on this joke may depend on who you ask. Though most would point to their invasion of {{UsefulNotes/Ukraine}} in 2022.

** In the 2017 season finale, after showing a clip of ''Fox and Friends'' in which its hosts declare that they've got the best audience, John retorted that the show that actually has the best audience is ''The Ellen [=DeGeneres=] Show'', showing a clip of Ellen's audience getting incredibly excited as Ellen entered. This got awkward when, in 2020, it was revealed that Creator/EllenDeGeneres was mistreating workers on her show, a revelation that might've factored in [=DeGeneres's=] decision to end the show in 2022.
** Towards the end of 2022, John covered Brazil's presidential elections with a focus on the controversies surrounding then-President Jair Bolsonaro. He pointed out the man's similarities to Donald Trump and the possibility of an uprising in the style of the January 6 riots should Bolsonaro lose (which eventually came to pass). On January 8, 2023, Bolsonaro supporters attacked the Brazilian capital in an attempted coup.

* HePannedItNowHeSucks: While most segments about other countries' elections often aren't very well-received in said country (for obvious reasons), the one about the 2018 UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}}ian presidential election, which focused on controversial candidate (and later president) UsefulNotes/JairBolsonaro, whom John (among others) called the Brazilian Trump, really takes the cake. Like Trump, Bolsonaro has many vocal supporters who are notorious on the Internet for being out for blood should you criticize him. As such, the Website/YouTube video is a rare episode (if not the ''only'' one) that has more dislikes than likes, and has inflammatory comments in both Portuguese and English lambasting John for criticizing Bolsonaro (although further into Bolsonaro's term more comments critical of Bolsonaro appeared).
* HilariousInHindsight

** While it is also HarsherInHindsight, the segment on 2016 third-party candidates highlighted "Joe Exotic", who John then showed mocking support. As ''Series/TigerKing'' showed, a quote in Exotic's campaign video ("I am broke as shit, I have a judgement against me from some bitch down here in Florida") is basically {{Foreshadowing}} what would get him imprisoned - he tried to hire a hitman to kill Carole Baskin, the owner of a big cat shelter who Exotic would have to pay $1 million in damages following a lawsuit - and John's assessment itself is featured, implied to have helped make Joe's delusional mind even worse.
---> '''''Last Week Tonight'':''' ''CORRECTION: In our show on October 16, 2016, we raised the possibility that Joe Exotic might be "the perfect candidate" for the presidency. In light of subsequent events, we must regretfully concede that he was, in fact, the second-least-perfect presidential candidate that year.''

** In the episode about Vladimir Putin, John notes how Donald Trump (the episode being released roughly a month after Trump was sworn in as U.S. President) was nicer to Putin than to Creator/MerylStreep (referencing Trump feuding with Streep on social media), "who I'm pretty sure is not an infamous autocrat, although you know what, now that I say it, if she tried it, she'd nail it, the woman is a tour de force!" Roughly five years later, John's guess was put to test when Streep played a boorish, narcissistic U.S. President in ''Film/DontLookUp''.
** John threw BitingTheHandHumor at the expense of HBO Max shortly after its launch, including complaining about why it's so purple. A few years later, the service would rebrand as just Creator/{{Max}}, with its color scheme overhauled to be blue instead of purple, as if they took his criticism to heart.
** For his video on Water in 2022 John Oliver mocked the Governor of Utah for asking people to pray for rain, even dedicating his closing segment for the episode to it. [[https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2023/04/05/utah-breaks-winter-snowpack-record Cue the following winter breaking snowpack records for the state]]. The state of [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/04/03/california-snow-pack-near-record/ California also broke records that winter]].
* LesYay: In the segment on mobile homes, John plays a real commercial in which a woman buys a mobile home and shows it off to another woman. He later plays a parody of that commercial. The cheesy {{Sexophone}} soundtrack in both commercials doesn't help matters. It gets more explicit in the blooper reel for the parody commercial shown during the credits of the episode, in which one of the women reacts to the other baking a peccan pie by swatting it to the floor, only to get her hand covered in the pie's filling. The other woman in turn responds by ''licking the filling from her hand.''
* MemeticMutation
** Janice from Accounting doesn't give a fuck. In reference to a character that first showed up early on in the show during a segment on for-profit colleges, and then returned later and was depicted stealing office food, several small islands in the East China Sea, and winning a pot for fantasy sports.

** In June 2023, in protest of [[Website/{{Reddit}} Reddit's]] new policies against third party API's, top subreddits such as r/pics, r/gifs, and r/awww began spamming posts of John and the show. This would soon trickle down to other subreddits as well. [[https://twitter.com/iamjohnoliver/status/1670179738348933120?cxt=HHwWgMC-9e_n1a0uAAAA John himself has voiced his approval of this.]]

** The whole Marlon Bundo affair. After hearing that Mike Pence's family was writing a kids' book about their pet rabbit, Marlon Bundo, John's team [[BlatantLies coincidentally]] also wrote a book about him, but with a surprise twist: their Marlon falls in love with another male rabbit. While the book is truly meant to be for children, John openly admits that it exists mostly to annoy the notoriously anti-LGBT Pence, released it ''a day'' before Pence's book was released, and all money they get from it goes directly to LGBT support groups. LWT's book crushed Pence's book in sales and reviews, and thus Pence now has the reputation of owning America's most famous gay rabbit. If reports are to be believed, Mike's daughter Charlotte, who wrote the original book, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Pence#Marlon_Bundo doesn't mind it at all.]]

** After 25 episodes of him openly mocking Russia and Vladimir Putin, John actually flies out to Moscow to interview Edward Snowden. He doesn't realize that they're booked in a hotel across the way from the former KGB headquarters (which currently houses the offices of the FSB) until he gets there. ''And they certainly know he's there''. This is coupled with the fact that Snowden is more than an hour late to the interview, which makes John begin to quietly panic, though he tries to keep it funny. He is clearly genuinely scared.
** In the episode about immigration, it featured a WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail trailer in which the mouse protagonist had his tail cut off, was forced to work in a ''mouse trap'' factory, and in the end, got "trapped in the prison of his own mind". It's pretty depressing.
** Coronavirus II: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_066dEkycr4 just John alone in a blank white void.]] No studio audience, no laughs, no city background because the normal studio apparently had cases present. Since most other late night hosts simply shifted to filming from their homes (or [[Series/FullFrontalWithSamanthaBee backyards]]), the blank background and stilted line readings makes the episode feel truly unnatural and unsettling - which was likely an IntendedAudienceReaction, as John finds the pandemic so frightening and wants to convey that effect. It was eventually lampshaded in the final episode of season 7, which was indeed an empty void devoid of life and audience.
** Solitary Confinement: The whole segment, really, but in particular, a twenty second clip of the sounds heard in some of these facilities, which consists of ''constant'' loud banging and random screaming. As one [=YouTube=] commenter put it, it's the longest twenty seconds in the show's history.

** In the episode about Washington D.C. statehood, one of the kids in the children's choir who sings a "new" song about the 50 states is Caleb [=McLaughlin=], who would go on to play Lucas on ''Series/StrangerThings''. This was lampshaded by the show itself when [[https://twitter.com/LastWeekTonight/status/1276525459413635072 they shared the story again on Twitter]] on 2020 after the issue was treated again in Congress.
** In the episode about Amazon warehouses, one of the employees in a parody of an Amazon ad shown at the end of the episode is played by Tarik Davis, who would later become best known for playing the "sidekick" role to Creator/AmberRuffin on ''Series/TheAmberRuffinShow''.
* {{Squick}}

** The "Vaccines" segment features a news clip about anti-vaccine parents exchanging "used lollipops, saliva and pus-soaked clothing" in order to try to "inoculate their children the natural way".
** The February 19, 2017 episode revolved around Vladimir Putin, mentioning two critics who were mercilessly harassed. One of them filmed a man climbing onto the hood of his car, pulled down his pants, defecated on the hood of the car, got off, pulled his pants back on, and left. This squicked John so much that, at the end of the episode, when they released a parody of a Russian pop song praising Putin which mentioned that incident, John interrupted it briefly to implore Putin and/or his supporters not to defecate on his car.

** In the segment about China's One Child Policy, Donald Duck is redrawn to add the corkscrew-shaped penis real ducks have.
** Brian d'Arcy James cameoing as a HBO lawyer in the SLAPP Suit segment, where he vividly describes Bob Murray...antics in an M&M shop.
** In order to demonstrate Lukashenko's cruelty, a balding old English reporter[[note]]John Sweeney[[/note]] decided to strip himself naked in a cold warehouse. The real squick part is that the camera then pans to him spread-eagle with his ass shown for everyone to see. Obviously, John wasn't having it.
* UnconventionalLearningExperience: The show takes a deep dive into many niche topics with which its target audience is unfamiliar, such as the political processes of non-American countries or the complicated legal histories of products like timeshares, chocolate, or dollar stores. Like his predecessors on ''Series/TheDailyShow'', he's often a gateway for those seeking more knowledge on left-wing politics. John is aware of this responsibility and often pokes fun at the fact his viewers treat him like school, while pointing out that the information he's sharing really ''should'' be widespread public knowledge.
* ValuesDissonance
** The reason why the voting video (in which he argues that ID laws are discriminatory because poor and nonwhite voters have such a hard time getting them) is so controversial.[[note]]Passports are significantly less common in the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates than in other countries due to the large amount of interstate tourism compared to international. To get a valid ID, you basically have to take an entire day off work to go to the DMV, which is designed from the top down as a miserable inconvenient experience. And that's your best-case scenario.[[/note]] In most other developed countries, [=IDs=] are required to vote and quite easily obtained. In fact, most of the top comments on this video are from people in other countries saying 'Wait, seriously? Americans don't all have [=IDs=]? REALLY!?' In [[UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} the United Kingdom]] (where John is from), [=IDs=] were not required for voting at all until 2023. Most people don't even make a big deal of this. The other point is that, up until some lawmakers decided to push that into practice, most American states didn't care for that either.

* MisaimedFandom: After John's video on pig butchering (a text message scam in which a fake wrong number text spurns a long-term communication to trick the victim into a crypto scheme), some fans developed a newfound interest in sending [[https://www.reddit.com/r/lastweektonight/comments/1bevcmo/my_standard_response_now/ silly replies]] to these numbers. However, John specifically says doing this does ''not'' help, because the person on the other end is most likely being forced to create these false accounts after being scammed themselves, possibly after being ''trafficked''.

** Some of the lines in LTW's Thomas and Friends parody summing up the problems with freight trains:
--->'''Narrator:''' (after Henry the freight train explains he's unable to move to let a fire engine through) So they both just sat there, and watched the children's hospital burn.

* TheWoobie
** The two men in charge of Litchfield, New Hampshire's Mosquito Control District are "almost heartbreakingly conscientious" in their duties, made evident by their going through the full motions of a public meeting for ''over forty-three minutes'' [[WhatYouAreInTheDark despite being the only ones there.]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kcuT_Xm16U The video]] didn't even have any views on Website/YouTube prior to the show broadcasting it ([[ColbertBump whereupon it racked up over 70,000 in just a few days]]), meaning that even the video's uploaders didn't watch it.
--->'''John:''' Come on! You have ''got'' to admire their dedication to the rules!
** Most U.S. public services featured on the show are shown to be underfunded, understaffed, overworked, and [[DudeWheresMyRespect get no respect]] [[DesignatedVillain or worse.]] Examples include but are not limited to public defenders, the IRS, and 911 responders.
** After reading a report on a car that was bought and then repossessed again eight times over the course of three years, John says that after a while you start to feel sorry for the car. And then they did their own research of what happened next, discovering that it was stolen after its next purchase and hopefully driven off a cliff (where a used car-selling lobster might have [[HereWeGoAgain taken it up]]).
** The aforementioned Steve Scully, who has to deal with many, many stupid calls on C-SPAN with a straight face. He truly is the most patient man on television.
** Monica Lewinsky in the "Public Shaming" episode, having to deal with the humiliation of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal even 20 years after the fact.
** Mount Everest sherpas who risk their lives on a daily basis just so the tourists they're responsible for (half of which are inexperienced wannabes) are able to climb up the summit and back down safely, and are treated as pack mules, carrying around commodities and luxuries (such as dining tables) for the tourists. Special mention goes to the ice doctors who make their way across the Khumbu Icefall on a wobbly ladder with the risk of falling to their deaths.
** Professional wrestlers. It's explained that many of them have died early and others have ended up broke when they can't wrestle anymore. Some had to turn to crowdfunding sites to pay for medical bills.

*** John decides to give the three big credit companies -- Equifax, Experian, and [=TransUnion=] -- an idea of what it's like to have your identity confused with someone horrible who shares a similar name. He made three websites for fictional companies with similar names who specialize in doing over-the-top horrific acts -- [[https://www.equifacks.com/ Equifacks]] (who offer shelter animals to customers to lick peanut butter off their genitals, then immediately return them to the shelter), [[https://experianne.com/ Experianne]] (who whisper passages of ''Literature/MeinKampf'' into the ears of babies), and [[https://www.tramsonion.com/ TransOnion]] (who sell steaks made from dead orcas from Ride/SeaWorld). To make matters worse, the websites make it clear these hypothetical business practices are strictly ForTheEvulz (Equifacks also blinds animals with cosmetics, despite not selling cosmetics), and each page [[HypocriticalHumor decries their equivalent credit scoring company as evil]].

** His segment on third-party candidates, where he discusses and criticizes the two leading third-party presidential candidates for the 2016 American election, Jill Stein and Gary Johnson. Some felt John gave them both a fair shake and [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity extra publicity.]] They applauded him for taking the time not only to bring attention to often-ignored candidates, but to explore their ideas for America and expose their potential major drawbacks. Others thought he exaggerated and even misrepresentd various statements by the two, especially Jill Stein. Not helped by Stein's response in a town hall with ''The Young Turks'', where she accused John of being a shill for [[UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton Hillary Clinton]] [[NotHelpingYourCase instead of defending the policies John criticized.]] And still others believe, particularly in the aftermath of Trump's eventual victory, that he didn't go far ''enough'' in explaining Johnson and Stein's drawbacks, and that he should have explicitly endorsed Clinton, as more people than usual ended up voting third party,[[labelnote:*]]Johnson in particular ended up receiving nearly 4.5 million votes, becoming the third-party candidate that most votes received since Ross Perot's third-party runs in 1992 and 1996.[[/labelnote]] probably playing a role in costing Clinton the presidency.

** The reason why the voting video (in which he argues that ID laws are discriminatory because poor and nonwhite voters have such a hard time getting them) is so controversial.[[note]]Passports are significantly less common in the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates than in other countries due to the large amount of interstate tourism compared to international. To get a valid ID, you basically have to take an entire day off work to go to the DMV, which is designed from the top down as a miserable inconvenient experience. And that's your best-case scenario.[[/note]] In most other developed countries, [=IDs=] are required to vote and quite easily obtained. In fact, most of the top comments on this video are from people in other countries saying 'Wait, seriously? Americans don’t all have [=IDs=]? REALLY!?' In [[UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} the United Kingdom]] (where John is from), [=IDs=] are not required for voting at all. Most people don't even make a big deal of this. The other point is that, up until some lawmakers decided to push that into practice, most American states didn't care for that either.

** [[https://youtu.be/32n4h0kn-88?t=206 "Don't Use Our Song"]], a ProtestSong against [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin politicians using pop songs on the campaign trail without a license]], [[IsntItIronic often with the song's message being completely at odds with their political views.]] Not only is it catchy as hell, but it has a very impressive AllStarCast, including Music/MichaelBolton, Music/SherylCrow, Music/JoshGroban, Music/CyndiLauper, John Cougar Mellencamp, [[Music/ImagineDragons Dan Reynolds]], Music/{{Usher}}, [[Music/{{Heart|Band}} Nancy and Ann Wilson]], and [[MemeticMutation a cat walking on a keyboard]], [[RealitySubtext almost all of whom have had their music stolen by politicians in the past.]]

** The Catheter Cowboy, who John uses to teach Donald Trump policy issues, has become quite popular.

** Santa Claus' cameo, where he reveals just [[ADateWithRosiePalms what Santa does whenever it's not Christmas]]. TheReveal is followed by various {{Unusual Euphemism}}s and ''way'' TooMuchInformation, and the climax of the joke reveals that thanks to the elves teaching him yoga, he's learned to give himself blowjobs.

** The "Vaccines" segment has a news clip towards the beginning talking about anti-vaccine parents exchanging "used lollipops, saliva and pus-soaked clothing" in order to try to "inoculate their children the natural way".