John Oliver
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John Oliver Ends His Season By Kicking the Shit Out of This Year's World Cup
Corruption, bribery, slavery, death, environmental destruction, and $300 billion — that's all it took to stage the 2022 World Cup in Qatar
- CLOWN SHOWS
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John Oliver Gives a Savage History Lesson on the British Royal Family
The monarchy has a long history of tacitly supporting — or enthusiastically engaging in — the inhuman treatment of indigenous people all over the world
- ROYALLY FUCKED
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John Oliver Explains Why We're All Screwed After Tuesday
Donald Trump and his Republican followers have been preparing for two years to hijack American democracy. Their time is finally here
- BLOCK THE VOTE
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John Oliver Bashes Bail Systems That Keep Innocent People in Jail
Crucial cash bail reforms around the country are being threatened by law enforcement officials and Republican politicians lying about what causes crime
- TOXIC BAIL
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John Oliver Explains (Again) Why Opposing Trans Rights Is Wrong
Republican politicians happily scare voters by inventing phony horror stories about trans kids, which in turn creates very real problems for the kids themselves
- TRANS HUMANIZING
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John Oliver Explains Why Local TV News is Criminally Bad
The news media love to report on crime because it hooks viewers, but in so doing they act less like journalists and more like propagandists for the police
- NEWS YOU CAN LOSE
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John Oliver Goes Hard at Indiana Jones
Western museums are full of antiquities stolen from other countries by colonialists, and those museums really don't want to give any of it back
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John Oliver Warns Us About a Trump Clone With the Army on His Side
Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro may very well lose the upcoming election. If he does, he's indicated he won't accept the results — and the country's military could back him up
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John Oliver Insists His Censored Joke About Queen Elizabeth Wasn't a Joke — Just a 'Fact' With 'Dickish Inflection'
Last Week Tonight host gamely responded to a U.K. TV provider's decision to cut a quip about the "shocking death of a 96-year-old woman from natural causes"
- Good Humour
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Queen Elizabeth II Jokes Cut From ‘Last Week Tonight With John Oliver’ by U.K. Television ServiceÂ
"The nicest thing the Queen of England ever did for anyone was die the week that woman became Prime Minister," Oliver said while joking about new British Prime Minister Liz Truss
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