John Oliver explored the overzealous and overused tactic of police raids on Last Week Tonight Sunday, February 28th. In the segment — which began with a very worthwhile, if unrelated, digression into the short-lived TV musical Cop Rock — Oliver traced the rise of police raids back to the War …
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On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver recruited an eclectic group of celebrities, including Method Man and Michael Bolton, to highlight the dangers of compounding pharmacies. Jimmy Kimmel, David Schwimmer, RuPaul, Kiefer Sutherland and Kristen Bell also appeared in the episode’s main segment, which detailed how lax oversight has turned …
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We have broken Bill Nye the Science Guy. The science educator/TV presenter dropped by Last Week Tonight to underscore the grim reality of global warming during a segment on the Green New Deal, the economic stimulus plan proposed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Edward J. Markey. “By the end …
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On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver examined the fallout of Robert Mueller‘s long-awaited report — or, at least, the four-page summary that Attorney General William Barr submitted to Congress the previous Sunday. While Mueller did not establish a criminal conspiracy between Russia and the Trump campaign — a finding Oliver …
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John Oliver slammed President Trump’s national emergency declaration that Trump made to secure funding in order to build a wall along America’s southern border during Last Week Tonight on Sunday. “According to Trump, the border suddenly constitutes a national emergency. Or, as he might spell it in a tweet, ‘the …
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