History Trivia / LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver

** Additionally, much to John's chagrin, any footage lampooning the British Parliament gets blacked out in the United Kingdom due to a draconian law preventing the media poking fun of Parliament or its members (said footage is unedited in every other locale). John, in a characteristic act of petty vengeance, tapped Gilbert Gottfried to film himself reading out 3* Yelp reviews from restaurants in Boise, Idaho in the place of any segment that would be blacked out in the United Kingdom, and vowed to continue this trend until his home country changed the undemocratic laws to match the times.

* ActorAllusion: John references ''Series/{{Community}}'' during his segment on community colleges.

* DuelingWorks: In response to The Pence Family publishing a children's book [[BunniesForCuteness about their rabbit, Marlon Bundo,]] as a fluff promotional piece, they released their own around the same time (still a children's book, not even with that much [[SubvertedKidsShow adult cynicism]]) basically {{Troll}}ing Mike Pence who is a notorious HeteronormativeCrusader with ties to Focus on the Family, as the plot of the book focuses on Marlon falling in love with another male rabbit and him and the other animals having to campaign for their right to marry.

* DuelingWorks: In response to The Pence Family publishing a children's book [[BunniesForCuteness about their rabbit, Marlon Bundo,]] as a fluff promotional piece, they released their own around the same time (still a children's book, not even with that much [[SubvertedKidsShow adult cyncism]]) basically {{Troll}}ing Mike Pence who is a notorious HeteronormativeCrusader with ties to Focus on the Family, as the plot of the book focuses on Marlon falling in love with another male rabbit and him and the other animals having to campgain for their right to marry

* HeyItsThatGuy:
** Nick Offerman and H. Jon Benjamin appear in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boI4D1FlIVs the Home Depot advertisement]].
** ''Infrastructure: The Movie'' features an AllStarCast of A-list actors and character actors alike.
** The segment on Public Defenders ended with a sketch that included actors from just about every cop show imaginable.
** Creator/SarahSilverman did a fake PSA about an alternative to payday loans- "Anything Else."
** At the start of the segment on Sex Ed, John shows a bad sex ed video with a boy and a girl bowling, which implies that the girl bowls better because she just got her first period. As John notes, the boy is played by the guy who plays Mike in Series/BreakingBad. He shows up at the end of the segment along with a huge AllStarCast of A-list actors in a new sex ed video.
** [[{{Series/Review}} Andy Daly]] as the AffablyEvil Chipotle's manager.
** [[WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers Eugene]] [[{{Series/Delocated}} Mirman]] as Gary, the hacker who masturbates to your family.
* HeyItsThatVoice: Creator/DavidKaye is the narrator for all of the video segments.

-->That's right, we are talking tonight about special taxation districts. So, hello, people watching for the first time because of the [[Creator/DonaldTrump Trump]] piece. [[AudienceAlienatingPremise And also, I presume: "Goodbye, goodbye!"]]

** He caused a huge flood of interest in the juvenile political satire ''The Boy Who Ran for President'' by Dan Gutman, pointing out the eerie parallels to Donald Trump's campaign.

* HeyItsThatGuy:
** Nick Offerman and H. Jon Benjamin appear in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boI4D1FlIVs the Home Depot advertisement]].
** ''Infrastructure: The Movie'' features an AllStarCast of A-list actors and character actors alike.
** The segment on Public Defenders ended with a sketch that included actors from just about every cop show imaginable.
** Creator/SarahSilverman did a fake PSA about an alternative to payday loans- "Anything Else."
** At the start of the segment on Sex Ed, John shows a bad sex ed video with a boy and a girl bowling, which implies that the girl bowls better because she just got her first period. As John notes, the boy is played by the guy who plays Mike in Series/BreakingBad. He shows up at the end of the segment along with a huge AllStarCast of A-list actors in a new sex ed video.
** [[{{Series/Review}} Andy Daly]] as the AffablyEvil Chipotle's manager.
** [[WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers Eugene]] [[{{Series/Delocated}} Mirman]] as Gary, the hacker who masturbates to your family.
* HeyItsThatVoice: Creator/DavidKaye is the narrator for all of the video segments.

* DescendedCreator: John acknowledged the people in the background graphics are usually the crew or their acquaintances. The most proeminent case is writer Jill Twiss as [[https://twitter.com/jilltwiss/status/653412216109187072 Janice in Accounting]].

* HeyItsThatGuy: Nick Offerman and H. Jon Benjamin appear in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boI4D1FlIVs the Home Depot advertisement]].

* HeyItsThatVoice: Creator/DavidKaye is the narrator for all of the video segments.

** He aims to do this with the Supreme Court by giving people on the Internet the ability to combine their audio recordings with dressed up dogs.

** After pointing out how women's scholarship programs are pretty lackluster if the Miss America Pageant can truthfully state it gives out the most number of women's scholarships and name-dropping the Society of Women Engineers as an alternative, said organization received 25000$ in two days, which the society dubbed in recognition "The John Oliver Bounce".