Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, apparently, is a fan of Right Said Fred as it was revealed what he bought on iTunes last week while his country is in turmoil.
In turn, John Oliver had Right Said Fred redo their song “I’m Too Sexy” to tell Assad off. Watch it all go down here.
John Oliver Crashes FCC Comments System After Net Neutrality Segment
Well, John Oliver seems to not only be doing one hell of a funny show, but affecting actual change. He did a segment on net neutrality this past Sunday, which was then online on Monday, that called for Internet commenters to go to the FCC comments section to leave their thoughts on legislation against net neutrality.
While it was Peter Capaldi who said it in Armando Ianucci’s genius In The Loop, John Oliver has shown he can “summon all the media forces of darkness to hound you into an assisted suicide.”
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver continues its roll of informative, interactive, and most importantly, damn funny pieces on important issues of our time.
This week, Oliver tackles Net Neutrality and does so quite well. Watch the whole segment here.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, like so many things, took the weekend off for Memorial Day. Still, he didn’t want to leave us completely hanging, so Oliver tried his hand at predicting what would happen over this last week a week ago.
He makes some great guesses as well as some one that we hope are true. Watch it here.
From last night’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, John Oliver showed how crazy Indian news coverage went when announcing the India’s recent election results. As it turns out, they give CNN, MSNBC, etc. a run for their money.
While the tensions between Ukraine and Russia should be bigger news to us, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver lets us all in on an even lesser known facet of this ordeal by Americans: The Eurovision Song Contest. It’s European musical competition where countries face off to vie for the best song and Russia faced off the Ukraine. The details of that are amazing.
Also, Oliver does a pretty great job making fun of Putin’s new commemorative coin for Crimea. Watch it all here.
HBO Put First Episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Online
Couldn’t help but watch whatever else you were watching last night at 11PM instead of the series premiere of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver?
Well, luckily, HBO was nice enough to put the first episode on YouTube for you to enjoy John Oliver’s return behind a news desk.
Jim Gaffigan’s brand new comedy special Obsessed is premiering tonight, 10PM on Comedy Central. Following that, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver will have its series premiere on HBO at 11PM.
If there was a reason to skip watching Mad Men live, besides the fact that you could record it on your DVR, is that you can catch one hell of a block of comedy tonight. You can even top that if you record Silicon Valley and Veep as well.
Tomorrow night at 11PM, HBO will premiere its latest and highly anticipated shows, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
Just as a friendly neighborhood reminder, here are some fun promos where Oliver’s voiceover guy has beef with everyone else in news.
With Last Week Tonight premiering this Sun. on HBO, John Oliver made a visit or, rather, he was summoned by Jon Stewart to The Daily Show, his former gig.
While there, Oliver gave Jon a taste of what working on pay cable is like and how it’s so much better. Watch it here.
Former NSA Director To Be First Guest of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
As far as first guest choices, John Oliver and company are making a bold statement by not interviewing any of Oliver’s old friends or a big name or some cross-section of the two. Instead, Oliver is setting the tone for Last Week Tonight premiering this Sun. at HBO by having a former NSA director General Keith Alexander (Ret.) sit down and chat with him.
A choice like this definitely feels like Oliver is truly at the helm of the show and we can’t wait to see what Oliver gets away with in a few days.
John Oliver stopped by The Tonight Show last night and talked about getting mentally ready for the premiere of his show this Sun. Last Week Tonight on HBO. Specifically, Oliver is disappointed there isn’t as much graffiti on Last Week Tonight posters and shares his one time getting heckled when playing for the troops.
John Oliver Talks ‘Last Week Tonight’ on ‘Today Show’
There’s been little that we’ve actually gotten to see out of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver that premieres this Sun. Apr. 27th at 11PM on HBO, but, as there’s only a few days before that happens, Oliver is going to appear on plenty of talk shows to promote it.
The first one up is The Today Show (watch it at the link) and, rest assured America, John Oliver does not care about boys asking supermodels out.
Piers Morgan Tonight’s Katie Nelson Thomson Joins ‘Last Week Tonight With John Oliver’
This should make for an interesting mesh as John Oliver is a big departure from Barbara Walters and Piers Morgan and most certainly would never be called a ‘terrible interviewer’.
1. Watch the very first teaser for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
2. Mark your calendar/make a reminder in your phone/get tattoo of Sun. Apr. 27th 11PM on HBO, the premiere of Last Week Tonight.
‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’ to Premiere Apr. 27th at HBO
John Oliver’s solo show at HBO will be in fact called ’Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’ and will premiere Sun. Apr. 27th at HBO. Let the anticipation get even higher with this official premiere date.
So, just take a moment, make an alarm/event reminder on your mobile device and title said alarm/event reminder Last Week with John Oliver, so you will not miss something that will probably be great two months from now (even though there’s going to be plenty of ads coming).
Adult Swim put the whole holiday episode of Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland’s Rick & Morty online on their YouTube channel and watching it will probably be the best way to spend 20 or so minutes of your Sunday.
If you’re not sold already for whatever reason on this nice holiday gift from Adult Swim, John Oliver guest stars in this episode as well.
Sold? Good. Watch it now.
Last night was John Oliver’s final episode of The Daily Show as a regular correspondent. He’s off to do his own show at HBO, but before he went, Jon Stewart gave him a present that brought him to tears in his own retrospective over the last 7 ½ years.
Watch a mix of sincere farewells and great John Oliver moments here.
John Oliver at HBO Moves Forward with ‘Daily Show’s’ Tim Carvell as Showrunner
2014 can’t come any quicker despite all of us wanting to see what John Oliver is exactly cooking up over at HBO. Oliver is already setting his pieces in place for his show by having another Daily Show cohort join his ranks in head writer Tim Carvell.
In other words, we’re probably going to get something close to Oliver hosting The Daily Show this past summer or something possibly even better.
We went to the sneak preview screening of Rick and Morty last night at Largo and not only was the one and only John Oliver (he makes a guest appearance on a great Christmas episode) making fun of Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland’s alien conspiracy (you can hear about it on an upcoming episode of Dan Harmon‘s Harmontown) great, but the two episodes were absolutely hysterical.
Rick and Morty could be the perfect remedy for the hole that you have in your soul for when Futurama and Dexter’s Laboratory went off the air, but now you’ve grown up and want to see a blend of the two in the middle of the chaos that’s encouraged at Adult Swim.
Please watch it Monday Dec. 2nd 10:30PM Adult Swim.
John Oliver Leaving The Daily Show to Star in HBO Show That Sounds a Lot Like The Daily Show
Just like that scene at the beginning of Inception where Cobb impresses Saito at the covert audition, HBO must have been really impressed with the Summer of John Oliver at The Daily Show and are giving him his own show that looks at politics, culture, and more (seemingly much like The Daily Show).
That only leaves us to wonder if there is a heir apparent in mind now for Jon Stewart?
John Oliver To Host International Emmy Awards Ceremony
Yes to John Oliver hosting more things across the board!
Let’s hope this televised in some way.
After a summer of hosting The Daily Show, John Oliver got his taste of power and loved it or so it would seem during an interruption during Jon Stewart going through a story on the new Pope.
Watch and find out what exactly is going on… dun dun dun.
‘Community’ Brings Back John Oliver for Season 5 for Multi-Episode Arc
While Donald Glover is doing only a few episodes on this latest season of Community, you can take a bit of comfort for John Oliver returning to the series because, as this summer showed as host of The Daily Show filling in for Jon Stewart, John Oliver added to anything definitely deserves you watching it.
Despite what John Oliver says, it’s been a fun summer watching him as an interim host of The Daily Show. Yet, last night, Jon Stewart resumed his position as host, but took a little re-acclimatizing to the job/the office/America after being in The Middle East so long.
Watch Jon Stewart’s return here.