John Oliver's Last Week Tonight

Honestly I'm kinda worried that this might be his last season given that he and AT&T's stooges at WarnerMedia may not be seeing eye to eye anymore (plus with Trump gone he might not have any more exciting/interesting topics to delve into). At least Casey Boys is still around.

Anybody know when Oliver's contract is up?

Edited by Mario1995 on Jan 17th 2021 at 10:57:55 AM

Why do people keep repeating the whole "What will late night do when Trump's gone?" thing. Is that just coming from people 20 or younger or something? Some of us can remember the late night shows of time before Trump and they did fine. In fact, I personally think that Trump has been such a massive black hole forcibly drawing their attention that most of these shows have gotten worse in the time he's been around.

I for one am looking forward to the time when there'll be other things to talk about.

The only way John Oliver won't cover January 6th is if something even more severe happens until the show premieres....

let's hope we will cover January 6th.

Gonna have to +1 that. LWT used to be about shining a flashlight on some underappreciated but highly important topics, like infrastructure, small farmers getting shafted by large corporations, some guy that's being kept out of the news but causes immense damage by being a total a-hole. Every week something new that you never knew about but are now incredibly angry at.

So yeah, very much looking forward to going back to that.

Edited by Kayeka on Jan 17th 2021 at 5:43:24 PM

Yeah, I don't get that either. There is plenty for late night shows to cover, and John doesn't even limit himself to the US. That's some serious viewer provincialism there.

Yeah Oliver actually resisted talking about Trump for a while, he wanted to keep focusing on under-reported issues but events sucked him in.

FYI, the show's been renewed until at least 2023, so no need to worry about HBO canning him without Trump.

With the sort of hilarious nonsense that HBO lets him get away with, I'd have been extremely surprised if they were genuinely considering canning him after this season.

Yeah, I think people need to seriously deprogram themselves from Trump being the only thing we ever talk about for four years. The world does not revolve around Trump.

And even during the Trump presidency, a lot of the time, John's main topics weren't even about him. He has a lot to cover even without Trump.

Oliver is like...the one late night comedian I know who dedicated significant time to non-Trump topics during the presidency, including issues in other countries. Not to mention that his show started before Trump's presidency. He'll be fine. (I hope to god they don't screw him over though. I think they need him to win the left-wingers who won't watch Maher.)

Stephen Colbert also created a segment called "Meanwhile" mostly to shoot stuff aside from Trump and to display his material wasn't "Donald Trump and nothing else". Even Trevor Noah, one of the most trump-reliant one, could easily do stuff outside of that wheelhouse. People overestimate how crucial Trump was to late night hosts.

Colbert has also stopped to use Trump's name at all a while ago.

Sorry, but does anyone remember the episode where Oliver mocks Trump for saying no president has been treated worse than him?

I’m pretty sure Trump has said that many times and been mocked for it each time.

Yeah, just pick a video on a major Trump scandal, and chances are you'll find an example.

It's important to note that a lot of these hosts are sick of Donald Trump much like many people with a working moral compass.

They're probably more eager to talk about other things than anyone.

I just found this:

Cookie dissing John's jokes is great.

Edited by windleopard on Feb 15th 2021 at 12:40:41 PM

So, HBO's money is now going to make animated talking viruses. I wonder if they knew that when they signed John up.

HBO should have known what they got themselves into from the start.

In other news, remember when John promoted Jelle's Marble Runs? Well, the channel has been hugely successful, and SBS 6' John de Mol has tried to pick the show up for TV. But apparently it didn't work out, so John de Mol outright stole the idea, and created some soulless clone with celebrities racing marbles through obstacle courses designed to obstruct winning marbles. It's outright theft, even if his lawyers can talk around it.

I hope John Oliver does a follow-up on this one. It's incredibly unfair.

...Does someone on the writing staff have an animal fetish? It really makes you wonder, considering the latest episode had yet another "this animal is sexually attractive" joke.

See, this is why you don't hire Furries to write your script.

Honestly? I generally assume John's just looking for whatever kind of jokes makes his audience cringe.

Remember that the whole Adam Driver bit became a Running Gag purely because it annoyed his live audience originally, so he just decided to keep hammering that nail.

I think John just enjoys portraying himself as some sexual deviant, if he isn't one outright.