John Oliver On DC Statehood

With a lovely song at the end.

John Oliver On American Food Waste

John Oliver On SCOTUS, Gay Pride, And CNN's ISIS Flag Flub At London Pride

John Oliver On Online Harassment

John Oliver On Torture

John Oliver Keeps FIFA Pledge

Last week John Oliver vowed to sample the products of major FIFA sponsors if its president were to step down. Last night he kept that pledge, despite his opinion that Bud Light Lime tastes like “the Jolly Green Giant’s ejaculate.”

A Remake Of CNN's Doomsday Video

John Oliver Talks "Dick Pics" And The Patriot Act With Edward Snowden

Via NBC News:

Snowden spoke to the "Last Week Tonight" host in Moscow, where he has been for more than a year since being charged with espionage after leaking classified information regarding the NSA's extensive surveillance programs. Oliver asked Snowden to explain the implications of NSA surveillance on racy personal photos. "The good news is there's no program named 'the dick pic program'," Snowden said. "The bad news is they're still collecting everybody's information — including your dick pics." He added: "When you send your junk through Gmail, for example, that is stored on Google's servers. Google moves that data from data center to data center invisibly to you. Without your knowledge, your data could be moved outside the borders of the United States temporarily. When your junk was passed by Gmail … the NSA caught a copy of that." The North Carolina-born Snowden also explained his decision to reveal classified information, saying he wanted to make Americans aware that government agencies were snooping on U.S. citizens.

HBO has posted the full episode. The Patriot Act is due for renewal in a couple of months.

Daylight Saving: How Is This Still A Thing?

John Oliver On Elected Judges

Roy Moore is just the starting point.

John Oliver On The Lottery

"Last year Americans spent more on the lottery than they spent on movie tickets, music, porn, major league baseball, the NFL, and video games combined."

John Oliver Breaks Down Influence On Legislatures By Right Wing Outfit ALEC

John Oliver On SCOTUS

Last night John Oliver declared that the ban on cameras in the Supreme Court has made press coverage of oral arguments blindingly dull. Taking a cue from the popularity of the Keyboard Cat, Oliver then presented an all-dog version of SCOTUS, complete with a bulldog Scalia and a Chihuahua Ginsburg.

John Oliver On Columbus Day

On last night's Last Week Tonight With John Oliver they asked, "Columbus Day: How is this still a thing?"

John Oliver On The Miss America Pageant

Another hilarious rant. "Currently, the biggest scholarship program exclusively for women in America requires you to be unmarried, with a mint condition uterus, and also rewards working knowledge of butt adhesive technology."

John Oliver On Scotland

Raw Story recaps:

“So Scotland and England have been involved in something of a 300-year-old arranged marriage,” he explained, “And look, I will be the first one to acknowledge, England has been a little bit of a dick since the honeymoon. In 1746, we actually banned the kilt, just because we knew they liked it. And then, we chose ‘God Save the King’ as the U.K.’s national anthem, a song which, at one point, had a verse referencing ‘rebellious Scots to crush.’ Although, to be fair, we later realized that was wrong and replaced it with a line about pissing on the Welsh.” Oliver mocked the name of the campaign designed to keep Scotland a part of the UK, “Better Together,” saying “it sounds like what people say to convince themselves to stay in a dead marriage.”

John Oliver: Let's Take These "Fucking Toys" Away From Local Police

Scott Lively Is Furious With John Oliver

"Friends, On Sunday night I was attacked on HBO’s  'Last Week Tonight' a supposed comedy/news show in the mold of The Daily Show. The host is a Brit named John Oliver. I find it funny that lefties like John Oliver who pose as humanitarians are the masters at dehumanizing other people through ridicule and never give the subjects of their smears a fair chance to respond. I’m calling out John Oliver as a liar and a fraud who couldn’t go ten minutes with me in an unscripted, unedited debate. Without his teleprompter and his cheap-shot, out-of-context video clips he would be exposed as just another left-wing loony. Oliver is lying through selective editing re Rwanda and several other points. His show was one continuous stream of malicious LGBT propaganda in the guise of comedy. Yes, it will likely negatively affect the voters, as it was intended to do. It’s one more example of the 'politics of personal destruction' that Saul Alinsky taught the 'progressives,' including journalists, to practice." - Crimes against humanity defendant and Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Scott Lively, writing on his personal website.

VIDEO: Here's the fantastic John Oliver clip again.

John Oliver Reports On Scott Lively

Last night John Oliver devoted his show to Uganda's anti-gay pogrom and Scott Lively's role in the brutal crackdown. Getting a mention was the "rainbow belongs to God" song.

(Tipped by JMG reader Claudio)