Last Week Tonight & John Oliver in the Media

[Angeleyes]

For anyone who missed the Emmy’s last night. 
https://ew.com/awards/emmys/why-the-last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver-writing-team-dedicated-emmy-to-adam-driver/

[andromeda331]

2 hours ago, Angeleyes said:

For anyone who missed the Emmy’s last night. 
https://ew.com/awards/emmys/why-the-last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver-writing-team-dedicated-emmy-to-adam-driver/

John must be so excited! Adam Driver not so much.

[JustHereForFood]

On 9/20/2021 at 6:19 AM, marina to said:

The episodes on Ransonware and Afghanistan finally appeared but still can't see the LukaShenko one.

Could you perhaps have some block? Can you see it here?

 

 

[marina to]

On 9/21/2021 at 7:01 PM, JustHereForFood said:

Could you perhaps have some block? Can you see it here?

 

 

I get the message that the uploader has not made this video available in my country. :(

[JustHereForFood]

Just some of John's greatest stunts on the show:

I did not see the salmon cannon, that must have been from before I started watching, but it looks interesting.

[Lantern7]

On 10/3/2021 at 11:12 AM, JustHereForFood said:

 I did not see the salmon cannon, that must have been from before I started watching, but it looks interesting.

Here’s the segment:

 

[Victor the Crab]

Oh this is too rich! On SNL last night, they had a Celebrity School segment and Ollie was being portrayed in it in the upper right corner. As well as his former crush Adam Driver, two seats from him!

 

[Popples]

Someone did the car commercial!

 

[Lantern7]

4 hours ago, Victor the Crab said:

Oh this is too rich! On SNL last night, they had a Celebrity School segment and Ollie was being portrayed in it in the upper right corner. As well as his former crush Adam Driver, two seats from him!

Nice sketch . . . my only complaint is that "John" didn't take a few seconds to make weird overtures towards Adam.

10 minutes ago, Popples said:

Someone did the car commercial!

 

Those guys were great sports. And John threw them a bone with the pickle!

[Annber03]

Oh, my god, the Zumbrota people won this contest :D?!?! I live in northern Iowa and we get a couple stations out of southern Minnesota here, and we see the Zumbrota ads all the time on those channels. That makes this clip all the more awesome as a result now! I am definitely going to be on the lookout for this ad - good on them for having such fun with it and making it so entertaining. I especially loved the architect portion of their argument XD. 

What a great update to this story. 

[Irlandesa]

I squeaked a little bit when I heard the name. I feel like I've seen some of their ads too even though I'm technically not in their main TV area.

I think I would've ended it with one of them driving away in a mid-life crisis sports car, though.

[possibilities]

I bet Ford hates that they dissed the minivan.

But if buying a new car saved their marriage, and we saw them driving off together in the sports car, or maybe we see both of them driving away from the dealership in separate cars, that would have been funnier, and more in line with the usual tone of an ad.

Showing the one walking INTO the dealership, though, was still really enjoyable. The sad tone of that last visual was kind of what made it genius. You'll remember that dealership, and not just roll your eyes at it.

[peeayebee]

OMG! That was awesome! I just started grinning ear to ear when John said that the commercial was made. I loved it. I love when companies have a sense of humor. Maybe they really ARE people!

[Lantern7]

Web Exclusive: John goes through the concept of snack-based video games.

 

[Annber03]

"Brands like 7Up, the poor man's Sprite, and the rich man's Sierra Mist." LOL. I also loved Sunny D having an existential crisis on Twitter. 

That Chex video game story was wild (also, I happen to like Chex, but I'll admit John's not exactly wrong about it being pretty boring food :p). And I liked Pepsi Man's song :D. 

I'm not a gamer, but I would play that Chips Ahoy game John suggested. 

[purist]

"Horny Pepsi Man." Hee!

[Popples]

Surprise Video!

 

[Lantern7]

Thanks!

Where did John get the audience? I figured that any crowds for Youtube content would be filmed after episodes.

[andromeda331]

1 hour ago, Popples said:

Surprise Video!

 

That was so funny! It was also pretty much my reaction to the book and the answer to the clue.

[Annber03]

"if you are too young to remember what the world was like when Da Vinci Code came out, first of all...die." 

LMAO XD! I also loved his reaction to Langdon actually spelling out the word "apple" (my reaction wasn't quite THAT extreme, but I did wince at that part of the clip). Never read the book or seen any of the movies, and judging from this, I clearly haven't missed anything :p. I would honestly be fine with sitting in the audience and listening to John just rant about whatever books/movies/TV shows he hated :D. 

[peeayebee]

Yeah, this was fun. I haven't seen the movie or read the book either. That spelling thing was weird, but I wondered if the word "apple" had to be entered into that code thingy, so that's why he spelled it.

[Popples]

Season 9 trailer dropped, it starts February 20th.

 

Edited January 20, 2022 by Popples
Added date

[AnimeMania]

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver  Season 9, February 20 on HBO.

 

[scarynikki12]

I saw this on Twitter and it was brought over from TikTok so I think that counts as media.

 

[andromeda331]

I can't wait!

[JustHereForFood]

On 1/23/2022 at 6:56 AM, scarynikki12 said:

I saw this on Twitter and it was brought over from TikTok so I think that counts as media.

 

Well, that was a good impression!

[Popples]

I love this season's new poster!

[Popples]

John was on Stephen Colbert and I agree with Pajiba's headline: Give John Oliver And Stephen Colbert A Podcast Already

 

 

 

[Annber03]

Haha, I agree with that headline, too :D. They always have such entertaining interviews. 

[Lantern7]

Found this from the Late Show YouTube:

 

[Enigma X]

6 hours ago, Lantern7 said:

Found this from the Late Show YouTube:

 

I have never been to India. So take this as you may. I had the best Indian food in London, and I have had Indian food in Chicago, New York San Francisco, DC, and Toronto.

[xaxat]

John officially has a new boss at the top..

The blockbuster merger of Discovery and WarnerMedia closed on Friday, putting many of the biggest names in movies, TV and news under one roof.

I hope they are ready.

Edited April 9, 2022 by xaxat

[DoctorAtomic]

I forgot the exact episode, but PBS Newshour is reporting that the woman falsely accused of killing her baby was given a stay of execution today. 

[Victor the Crab]

6 hours ago, DoctorAtomic said:

I forgot the exact episode, but PBS Newshour is reporting that the woman falsely accused of killing her baby was given a stay of execution today. 

GOOD! Now let's see them overturn that monstrosity of a conviction!

[xaxat]

I don't think Warner Bros/Discovery will cancel Last Week. But after reading about how the new company is taking a chainsaw to content (Batgirl, HBO Max) I really wonder if the TPTB will put pressure on the show to change, both financially and legally. This doesn't seem like a regime that would give the greenlight to a project like Eat Shit Bob.

[wknt3]

On 8/18/2022 at 2:10 PM, xaxat said:

I don't think Warner Bros/Discovery will cancel Last Week. But after reading about how the new company is taking a chainsaw to content (Batgirl, HBO Max) I really wonder if the TPTB will put pressure on the show to change, both financially and legally. This doesn't seem like a regime that would give the greenlight to a project like Eat Shit Bob.

They definitely won't cancel it. It has great viewer engagement, huge YouTube viewership (meaning another revenue stream), and is almost certainly quite a bit less expensive to produce than most of the high profile scripted programming while making more episodes. Basically it is a money maker. I would not be surprised to see them cut budgets, but I don't see them trying to change content - it's most likely more trouble than it is worth. If there is one thing reality TV execs know it;s that a little controversy is good for business and that as long as the majority of the audience and the press is on your side the occasional lawsuit is simply the cost of doing business.

Edited August 24, 2022 by wknt3
fix typos

[JustHereForFood]

I am looking forward to John commenting on the whole situation.

[Popples]

[Popples]

[Annber03]

LMAO, that's fantastic :D. 

[paigow]

Does Malmo incinerate trash? Or will the dolls live in landfill forever?

Is HBO selling the voice messages - so that when I use my Windows Recycle Bin - it triggers my PC?? 

Edited December 19, 2022 by paigow

[AnimeMania]

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Season 10      February 19, 2023    HBO    11pm

[Lantern7]

Promo image for S10:

 

. . . damn.

[Popples]

It took me way too long to notice John on the left has two pairs of glasses.

[aghst]

John Oliver appeared a couple of weeks ago on Men in Blazers, a show with humorous takes on soccer, particularly English Premier League.

Obviously a lifelong fan of Liverpool, but he's familiar with all the clubs and players, make some humorous observations.

Honestly sounds like if LWT did a segment on the sport.  That is, the easy mocking that he does but while being honest and serious about the subject, the winning tone is evident.

Probably means he's either improvising on LWT or he writes a lot of the copy he speaks on LWT.

[wknt3]

21 hours ago, aghst said:

John Oliver appeared a couple of weeks ago on Men in Blazers, a show with humorous takes on soccer, particularly English Premier League.

Obviously a lifelong fan of Liverpool, but he's familiar with all the clubs and players, make some humorous observations.

Honestly sounds like if LWT did a segment on the sport.  That is, the easy mocking that he does but while being honest and serious about the subject, the winning tone is evident.

Probably means he's either improvising on LWT or he writes a lot of the copy he speaks on LWT.

I suspect that it's more about his being a writer who has an established comic voice and has very talented writers who understand that voice combined with him having creative control over what he says on the air - so even if he's not actually writing the copy it's still written in his style and he edits out anything he feels doesn't fit his style. I doubt there is a lot of improvisation as there is a lot of coordination with graphics, prepared bits, etc. so even his talented staff would probably have problems getting things together between film and air if it was heavily improvised.

[aghst]

But do they film on the same day it airs or a couple of days before, in which case they can edit it in post?

He's probably not going off script much, because as you say, they have to coordinate with graphics and videos they show.

But I was more referring to his appearance on the Men in Blazers show, obviously he's just speaking off the cuff, though maybe that show discussed what topics they wanted to cover, like different clubs, which he opined about during this appearance.

So he may have given some thought and prepped but he obviously wasn't working from a script.

[Lantern7]

Does the writers’ strike apply to LWT?

[ShadowKnight2]

26 minutes ago, Lantern7 said:

Does the writers’ strike apply to LWT?

I would imagine so.

[Annber03]

Yeah, I read something about that show going dark, too. 

Plus, just on a personal level, I would think John would give his full on support for the writers' strike, given his general stance on these kinds of issues as it is.