POLL: What Was the Worst Media Quote of the Week?
POLL: What Was the Worst Media Quote of the Week?
John Oliver Freaks Out Over The Idea a Fetus Is a Person
HBO’s John Oliver spent much of Sunday’s Last Week Tonight freaking out over the idea that a fetus is a person. Oliver never managed to debunk the idea, but he did launch several personal attacks against pro-lifers while also providing several supposed horror stories about the ramifications of fetal personhood, while omitting any useful context.
Oliver Warns of America Going 'Back to the Jim Crow Era'
HBO’s John Oliver lamented on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight that Republicans in southern states are getting in on the redistricting battle that is taking place across the whole country. According to him, Republican efforts are on track to bring the country “back to the Jim Crow era.”
Oliver Claims He Can't Trust Trump To Point To Civil War's Good Guys
HBO’s John Oliver declared on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight that he has as little faith in the Trump administration’s World Cup visa vetting as he does in Trump’s ability to point out which side were the good guys in the Civil War.
Oliver Suggests College's Conservative Rebrand Was Worse Than Nazism
HBO’s John Oliver returned to 2023 and 2024 on Sunday’s edition of Last Week Tonight as he sought to explain why Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and current university president Richard Corcoran, and conservative activist Chris Rufo’s rebrand of New College of Florida is worse than the Nazis.
Colbert: Show Was 'The Joy Machine' And My Job Was To 'Feel The News'
Stephen Colbert began the final episode of CBS’s The Late Show by unwittingly highlighting how it all went wrong. Colbert told the audience that he viewed his show as “the joy machine” and that he thought his job was to “feel the news with you,” even if it was not actually that joyful. Later, during a sci-fi skit about the show being sucked into a black hole, Colbert was joined once again by…
Oliver's Supreme Court 'Reform' Proposals Include Court Packing
The weekend of bad Supreme Court hot takes on late night comedy shows continued on HBO on Sunday as Last Week Tonight host John Oliver tackled the concept of the Supreme Court’s shadow docket, also known as its emergency docket or interim relief docket. At the end of his lengthy anti-SCOTUS monologue, Oliver declared that “we” need to start preparing voters for “court reform,” which might…
Kimmel Cites His Suspension When Asked Why Late Night Still Matters
CBS’s Stephen Colbert kicked off the penultimate week of The Late Show on Monday by reassembling his Strike Force Five colleagues and fellow late night hosts Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver. The quintet discussed several things, including the future of late night and their battles with President Trump, and the consensus was that fights with Trump prove that late night…
Oliver Dubs Alito 'Segregation Sammy' For 'Horse****' VRA Ruling
HBO’s John Oliver went on an especially nasty rant against Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight for his recent majority opinion in Louisiana v. Callais. Oliver declared that Alito’s claim that the South isn’t as racist as it was in the 60s is “obviously horseshit” and suggested Alito supports segregation multiple times.
Oliver Accuses Vance of 'Douchesplaining Theology To The Pope'
Of all the liberals with a strange, new respect for papal wisdom, HBO’s John Oliver might be the most brazen. On Sunday, the Last Week Tonight host, who spends a great amount of time lamenting pro-lifers and religious people who operate under the assumption that the First Amendment applies to their views of homosexuality, became the latest to pile on Vice President JD Vance for his comments…
Oliver: Trump Is 'Stretching The Truth To Breaking Point' On Iran
HBO’s John Oliver accused President Trump and the rest of the administration of “stretching the truth to breaking point” on Iran on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight. However, Oliver left out some basic facts that would have made their comments seem much more reasonable.
Oliver And Audience Applaud Iran's AI Propaganda Video
HBO’s John Oliver and his Last Week Tonight audience found a recent AI-generated propaganda video from Iran’s Revayat-e Fath Institute alleging President Trump started the Iran War to distract from Epstein files to be quite amusing. Oliver also continued the media trend of claiming that the administration has badly misjudged the war despite its clear one-sidedness.
Oliver Mourns How Musk Has Made X 'Much Darker'
For some reason, HBO’s John Oliver decided that Elon Musk and his transformation of Twitter/X would make for golden comedic material for his main topic on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight. As Oliver tells it, the site has gotten “much darker” since Musk took over, but any reference to the prior problems or his native Britain’s creepy solutions was left unmentioned.
Oliver Praises Dems' DHS Shutdown, Calls For ICE To Be Eliminated
HBO’s John Oliver waited until Sunday to kick off the 2026 season of Last Week Tonight and quickly fell in with the rest of the late night comedians in going after ICE. During his denunciation ritual, Oliver would praise Democrats for shutting down the Department of Homeland Security and call for ICE to be defunded and done away with.
