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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

  • TV Series
  • 2014– 2014–
  • TV-MATV-MA
  • 30m
IMDb RATING
8.9/10
90K
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POPULARITY
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89
John Oliver in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014)
Former Daily Show host and correspondent John Oliver brings his persona to this weekly news satire program.
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Former Daily Show host and correspondent John Oliver brings his persona to this weekly news satire program.Former Daily Show host and correspondent John Oliver brings his persona to this weekly news satire program.Former Daily Show host and correspondent John Oliver brings his persona to this weekly news satire program.
IMDb RATING
8.9/10
90K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
1,311
89
  • Stars
    • John Oliver
    • David Kaye
    • Ryan Barger
  • Stars
    • John Oliver
    • David Kaye
    • Ryan Barger
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 139User reviews
    • 12Critic reviews
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  • Top rated TV #48
    • Won 26 Primetime Emmys

    Episodes319

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    Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: Season 3
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    Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: Season 4
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    Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: Season 5
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    Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: Season 2
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    John Oliver Discusses the Trickiness of Emmy Competition
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    John Oliver Wants Jon Snow as Co-Host
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    • Trivia
      After hosting The Daily Show (1996) for eight weeks, John Oliver's reviews were so overwhelmingly positive that he was offered a job by HBO to do a weekly talk show, which they were not planning to do until they saw Oliver host.
    • Quotes

      [repeated line]

      John Oliver - Host: The point is.

    • Alternate versions
      It is illegal in Great Britain to use video footage of Parliament for comedic purposes. Initially when episodes featuring such footage aired there the screen cut to black without explanation. For later episodes producers would substitute bizarre footage including for example comedian Gilbert Gottfried reading three-star Yelp reviews for restaurants in Boise, Idaho.
    • Connections
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    User reviews139

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    9/10
    So much more than the Daily Show clone it started out as
    The first few weeks of Last Week Tonight, it was pretty much The Daily Show on HBO. Which was fine; it was funny and smart and you can never get too much of that.

    But then the show began to find itself, dropping the interviews and devoting itself primarily to long pieces that are funny and insightful and often represent the best commentary on a particular subject, like their take on Ferguson and the militarization of the police, which was brilliant both as comedy and as advocacy.

    I'm not sure how much good the advocacy does - the audience for this show probably goes in agreeing with Oliver - but it's nice to see something both so smart and so entertaining.
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      • April 27, 2014 (United States)
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      • HBO (United States)
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      • CBS Broadcast Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies
      • Sixteen String Jack Productions
      • Avalon Television
      • Home Box Office (HBO)
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