Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver and Seth Meyers launched the podcast, called Strike Force Five, which was named after their personal text chain, Wednesday on Spotify. (Image: AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
“Instead of depicting a flawed system riddled with structural racism, the show presents exceptionally competent cops working within a largely fair framework that mostly convicts White people,” the Last Week Tonight host said.
The Price Point | Paid Segments Erode Trust In Local News
John Oliver exposed an embarrassing practice of using local news personnel to shill products on air. Station groups that participate are playing a dangerous game with viewers’ trust in the process.
Using the famous words of former WNBC New York anchor Sue Simmons as a rallying cry, John Oliver, the host of Last Week Tonight on HBO, took aim at local stations featuring sponsored content as actual news. Simmons was famously caught on a hot mic asking “…the fuck are you doing?” while tossing to break in 2008. It was in that spirit that Oliver set out to show that the long history of local stations taking money for content is alive and well.
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It’s official. Every time residents of Danbury, Connecticut, flush, they will be sending their special deliveries to the John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant. The City Council voted 18-1 Thursday night […]
Comedian John Oliver upped the stakes in a tongue-in-cheek spat with a Connecticut city, offering to donate $55,000 to charity if officials follow through on a joke to name its sewage […]
DANBURY, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut town’s officials are showing comedian John Oliver what they think about his expletive-filled rant about their city — they’re naming the local sewage treatment […]
MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by coal company Murray Energy against HBO host John Oliver. A segment of Oliver’s Sunday show “Last Week Tonight” […]
WNEP Gets Train Set From HBO’s John Oliver
After the host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver poked some fun at the Scranton, Pa., ABC affiliate’s outdoor train set it features in weather reports, some viewers took offense. Later, Oliver revisited the subject and adamantly professed his love for train sets, then unveiled what he called “greatest backyard train the world has seen ever seen.” It features three levels of trains, tunnels, waterfalls, fireworks, a viaduct and Scranton buildings, including the Lackawanna Hotel. To wrap up the segment, Oliver asked: “When are you going to pick this up?” Just as soon as WNEP can clear out room for it.
Sinclair left it to commentator Boris Epshteyn to respond to John Oliver’s take down of its right-of-center national news coverage and commentary. Epshteyn focused on Oliver’s criticism that the “Terrorism Alert Desk,” a daily report that Sinclair distributes to all of its stations, is scare-mongering and anti-Muslim. “Terrorism is not nonsense,” Epshteyn said, citing recent terror attacks. “It is necessary to cover it on a regular basis.” See it here.
Sinclair is “injecting Fox-worthy content into the mouths of your local news anchor,” he warned in a 20-minute segment on Last Week Tonight. And with its acquisition of Tribune Media, he says, through local newscasts it will reach more than 2.2 million every day, more than Fox News Channel does in primetime.
NEW YORK (AP) — Coal company Murray Energy has sued HBO and its Sunday-night host, John Oliver, for what it says was a “false and malicious broadcast” last Sunday evening. […]
John Oliver brought down the FCC’s website Sunday while skewering Chairman Ajit Pai’s plan to scale back net neutrality rules. The Last Week Tonight host ripped the chairman’s proposals and then directed viewers to visit a website with the name gofccyourself.com. That site takes users directly to a page where they can file comments to the FCC on net neutrality.
John Oliver brought his brand of acerbic advocacy to newspaper journalism in Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight. In his monologue, he decries the profession’s endangerment and assails some of the more absurd turns its digital transition has taken, among them Tronc.
Oliver, on his Last Week Tonight program Sunday on HBO, took the action to illustrate a story about the practices of companies that purchase the records of debtors and attempt to collect on them. The show set up its own company to acquire $15 million worth of debt owed to hospitals in Texas, paying $60,000.
NEW YORK (AP) — HBO says it has picked up two more seasons of John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight,” which puts to rest any thought that Oliver would return to […]
NEW YORK (AP) — John Oliver says that he’s hired three new researchers to help with what has become his HBO show’s signature, a long-form take on a newsy subject […]
In a crowded field, the former Daily Show comedian has been perfecting the art of the YouTube rant to stand out. The clips have worked out so far, racking up millions of views and spreading the word about Oliver’s Sunday night HBO show.
John Oliver’s call to action on the subject of net neutrality, on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, appears to have crashed the FCC’s comments system. The tweets appeared Monday after Oliver called on viewers to lodge protest with the FCC.
NEW YORK (AP) — When the time comes for a young bird to leave the nest, he’s often more than ready to go and doesn’t care too much what Papa […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — HBO says that John Oliver is getting his own weekly show after his winning turn as substitute host for Jon Stewart. Next year, Oliver’s new Sunday-night […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Since 2006, John Oliver has proved his mettle as a phony journalist on “The Daily Show.” Serving in numerous “reporting” roles on the spoof newscast, but […]
