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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver	comment	Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is a weekly satirical news program on HBO, featuring former The Daily Show with Jon Stewart correspondent John Oliver.Each week, Oliver tackles some of the most important news stories of the previous week, and then segues into a longer segment where he takes an in-depth look at some important overall issue, sometimes ending the show with it, other times ending with another shorter story that has a lighter tone to it. Segments are split up by short, narrated sequences that either attack an outdated cultural item, or use a montage of clips of media personalities and politicians doing silly things. Interviews appear sparingly and from a variety of personalities.Because the show airs on HBO, it has more creative freedom than a late-night basic cable talk show; and, in an interview on The Daily Show, Oliver made fun of the fact he can curse as much as he likes without being censored. And with no commercials, Oliver has the full 30 minutes (and sometimes longer) to explore issues in greater depth.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_1139de32	comment	Scam Religion: After dealing with some in the Televangelists episode, John went on to create his own version for laughs, Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption, which makes it clear that their sole purpose was to get money. (which was donated to Doctors without Borders once it was closed the following month)
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_120d0e3f	comment	Adam Westing: Deconstructed in his segment of the Green New Deal and global warming, where John brings in Bill Nye and asks the latter to explain global warming using whimsical special effects in a manner similar to Nye's old show. Nye then goes into a foul-mouthed tirade against the adults who grew up watching his show (including John) and fail to take his warnings on global warming seriously, much to John's displeasure.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_12b1f5f3	comment	No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: Invoked, solely for Rule of Funny, in the ads promoting Season 3, by using negative quotes from internationally hated or criticized figures◊ the show has made enemies of in the past (and, uh, Cher, for whatever reason — taken from a complimentary tweet, no less!).
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_13646b1b	comment	My Friends... and Zoidberg: In "McKinsey," a McKinsey employee in a parody of a recruiting video walks down a hallway lined with portraits. He says "We're proud to say McKinsey alums include many of the most powerful people on Earth. And also, Pete Buttigieg."
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_13a6b7ef	comment	Gaia's Lament: In his segment on food waste, John is aghast at how excess food production is not only wasting precious water supplies, but all that thrown out food is producing methane, which is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. The North Dakotan oil industry has damaged farmland throughout the state.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_148e222c	comment	John's reaction when he learns that the Thai military government is angry with him, thanks to a previous segment where he made fun of Thailand's then Crown Prince, including calling him an idiot and showing a video with him and his topless wife feeding their dog cake, something so ridiculous he considers it entrapment, because Thailand has a law against lÃ¨se-majestÃ©. Of course, his reaction is to then mock the royal families of the Netherlands, Kuwait, and Denmark, which have similar laws.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Season 7 started taking this turn since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Public safety concerns forced the show to move into a White Void Room in John's home. This meant that the energy from the studio audience and the elaborate stunts/parodies (that often help take the edge of off serious topics) fell away. On top of that, many episodes dealt with particularly raw current issues.note Such as several high profile cases of Police Brutality, which heightened existing social/political tensions and led to widespread protests, as well as the massive impact of the pandemic on society, politics and the economy. Instances of John dropping the jokes and becoming visibly angry and/or upset over the issues he discusses became a lot more common. Unfortunately, the same could be said for much of Season 8, despite having a Breather Episode in the beginning, as due to the pandemic still continuing for the time being, John was forced to remain in the "void.". At least until September 12, 2021, when he returned to the regular studio for the first time since March 2020.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_14e31793	comment	Unions Suck: Subverted in the Union Busting episode, which ultimately presents unions as necessary to workers' rights despite their flaws. In addition, during the Writers' Guild of America strike of 2023, the show itself went on hiatus in solidarity.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_151e2f2d	comment	The Tyson Zone: John discusses it in reference to a rumor about Iraqi terrorist group ISIS.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: When Justice Antonin Scalia notes that the media could easily distort the Supreme Court's sound bites if there were televised broadcasts, John uses the blue backdrop behind him to insert the orgy circle from Eyes Wide Shut. Noting that former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg bought up multiple .nyc domain names related to himself, some with unflattering comments about his height, John reveals that some potential ones that Bloomberg didn't acquire which were purchased by Last Week Tonight to mock him, like Tiny, Tiny Mike Bloomberg, which contains nothing but a single Photoshop of him sleeping in a matchbox with a cotton swab for a pillow. A Look Back at Al Roker Delivering the Thanksgiving Kiss of Death
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_16fef97b	comment	Binomium ridiculus: The opening titles contain grids of news-relevant items, each with a fictional binomial name. The most obvious one is John Oliver himself, with the label "Hostus Mostus."
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_1722aaf	comment	Hitler Ate Sugar: Invoked in his segment on misleading labels, where one of the printable banners reads "Contains 2% or less of wheat starch. You know what else contains less than 2% of wheat starch? Adolf Hitler." A bizarre inversion is discussed during the episode on lethal injection. One senator argues that the death penalty is a good thing because Jesus died that way.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_172a0bfb	comment	Trailer Spoof: As said on Self-Deprecation, season 4 was promoted with a trailer that said Last Week Tonight wasn't HBO's "biggest show on Sundays" (Game of Thrones), "smash hit comedy that is debuting its fourth season" (Silicon Valley) or "long-awaited return" (the Un-Cancelled Curb Your Enthusiasm).
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_1759af2f	comment	Feghoot: The segment on the lethal injection is interrupted thrice to compare it to "planning to have sex with your mother". The ending shows that was a build-up to "That was a long way to say that if we choose to continue killing people that way, we're some real motherfuckers!".
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_17b5862b	comment	Chariot Pulled by Cats: The idea that someone might try to pull off driving a sleigh pulled by 400 hamsters in real life is used as a gag in the episode on climate change.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_1825867d	comment	Tastes Like Chicken: Discussed when talking about chicken farmers. Various descriptions of a bunch of animals whose taste is likened to chicken leads John to state that there's no equivalent in other senses ("How weird would it seem if I said 'everything looks like tables'?").
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_183d79a0	comment	During the episode on lethal injections, John shows a clip of an interviewer asking a supposed expert whether he has ever done research into a very long list of drugs that can potentially be used in lethal injections, which he says no to every time.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_1902e67d	comment	I Am Very British: Played for Laughs. Even though John is, of course, British, he will sometimes adopt an comically exaggerated upper-class British accent when addressing issues related to British culture and/or history.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: During the inaugural episode's profile of India's election, the country's cable news networks are shown to not only have mimicked the American formula (pointless cross-talk, quickly moving graphics), but taken everything up to eleven in the process. Also the adoption of homophobic rhetoric by Ugandan politicians to push for an anti-homosexual agenda, which only came to fruition after a lengthy visit by American pastor Scott Lively. This led to a lot of misinformation about LGBTI practices commonly used by American anti-gay movements spread through Ugandan society, death threats made against LGBTI activists there, and the use of arguments such as "It's Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve", when 'Adam', 'Eve' and 'Steve' are, as you might have guessed, not typical Ugandan names. In undertaking the "Race Together" campaign, Starbucks was hoping to spark a meaningful national debate about racial discrimination in America, and indeed it did — by hundreds of people pointing out the systematic White male privilege of the company and its executives, to the point where the company's senior vice president of communications Corey duBrowa — also a White man — had to delete his Twitter account.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_19add21f	comment	Why We Can't Have Nice Things: John and "Wanda Jo" use this phrase to explain why the mock ministry Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption is being shut down. Ultimately, people took the requests for "seeds" literally, in a bad way:
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_1ab65185	comment	That Reminds Me of a Song: Once the mayor of Paris states that any Americans sad that their president jumped off the Paris Agreements are welcome to France, John's reaction is:
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_1af2b763	comment	The Celebrity Resemblance between John and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, usually combined with John gushing over how handsome Mnuchin is.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_1b36b313	comment	Mandatory Motherhood: The episode focusing on Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs') mentions that they market themselves as alternatives to places like Planned Parenthood to make sure women don't get abortions. John also mentions that these places offer parenting classes and even free diapers. He then explains that CPCs' not only oppose abortion, but also don't provide contraceptives, which are provided by places like Planned Parenthood, since the operators of CPCs' believe that once pregnant everything must be done to make sure a woman must give birth, but once the baby is born, they are on their own since they risk becoming parasites to the CPC.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: To demonstrate pandering in the segment on Dr. Oz and his shilling of nutritional supplements, George R. R. Martin and a tap-dancing Steve Buscemi drop by. Law and Order: Civil Asset Forfeiture Unit features more than a few cameos from the cast of Criminal Intent, along with a great appearance by Jeff Goldblum. Oh, so many in the season one finale from 2014, including Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Homer Simpson, J. J. Abrams and R2-D2 on the set of The Force Awakens, Tom Hanks, Seth Meyers, Anderson Cooper, Rachael Ray, Michelle Beadle, Dwight Howardâ€¦ Edward Norton in the fake movie trailer for Infrastructure, along with host of other actors including Vincent D'Onofrio, Hope Davis, and again, Steve Buscemi. Nick Offerman appears as a Home Depot sales associate trying to defuse a marital argument before it starts. H. Jon Benjamin is the husband in the couple. H. Jon Benjamin later appears in the "Tot Bench" sketch of the Immigration Courts segment. And he also provides the voice of "The Void" during the pandemic-era episodes. A segment featuring mascots created by Japanese government departments is followed by John bringing out mascots for several US Federal departments. The mascot for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives is Bob Balaban â€¦ that is, the real Bob Balaban, standing there in a jacket and tie, looking awfully confused. Rachel Dratch thrice appeared as "Wanda Jo", wife/co-owner of the Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption. In the season 2 finale, the opening theme was performed by its band, Valley Lodge. Celebrating how New Zealand economic development minister Steven Joyce had a dildo thrown in his face, John sent a version of the NZ flag featuring that image to famed Kiwi Peter Jackson, who was then shown waving said flag. After the Panama Papers revealed a cellist that was close to Vladimir Putin controlled an enormous amount of wealth in some of those shell corporations, John pondered what a cellist was doing running an investment program â€¦ and followed that with a purported message from an investment phone line run by Yo-Yo Ma â€¦ who urges the caller to invest in a cello, "because with many years of practice, you'll be able to do this". In the segment discussing Puerto Rico's economic crisis, John mentions a number of important Puerto Ricans, pausing briefly to gush about Lin-Manuel Miranda and Hamilton. Sure enough, at the end of the episode he states that he isn't really the right person to advocate on Puerto Rico's behalf, and introduces Lin-Manuel to do an original rap on the subject. In the episode that discussed how companies that engage in multilevel marketing are basically Ponzi schemes in all but name, he centers his criticism on Herbalife, which frequently targets the Latino community with its Spanish advertising. To demonstrate it, he shows a clip from the Mexican telenovela, La fea mÃ¡s bella (a Remake of Colombia's Yo soy Betty, la fea, the same telenovela that was the basis for Ugly Betty) where some characters talk about the benefits of Herbalife. At the end of the episode, he creates his own recruitment video to warn people about multilevel marketing, with Jaime Camil, star of Jane the Virgin and the male romantic lead of La fea mÃ¡s bella, recording a similar video in Spanish. While discussing the topic of statues honoring the Confederacy, John shows some suggestions of what various locations could honor instead, including famous people and even mascots from those locations. When he gets to Charleston, South Carolina, he removes the tarp from the last monument, to reveal the real-life Stephen Colbert. During his piece on North Korea, John decides the best way to try and convince them not to nuke the US is by exploiting their love of the accordion. However, while he doesnâ€™t play accordion, "Weird Al" Yankovic does. John made one in the last episode of The Who Was Show, when Julius Caesar took over his show. Whenever John shows footage that can't be shown in England (typically due to censorship laws around Parliament) they are treated instead to Gilbert Gottfried reading Brexit clauses or Bigfoot erotica. When discussing Richard Sackler, John noted that there is hardly any video or audio of him available, so he brought in several actors to do dramatic readings of his testimonies: Michael Keaton, Bryan Cranston, Michael K. Williams and finally (when realizing the other three are too cool to really stand in for Sackler) Richard Kind.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_1b8c7503	comment	The Exile: John jokingly says that crying in public is punishable by banishment in Britain, and states that the only reason he is in the U.S. is because he cried when watching an in-theater preview for The Notebook.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Steve Scully, "the most patient man on television."
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_1c5599e4	comment	Reformed, but Rejected: The segment on prisoner re-entry examines the numerous barriers which make it harder for parolees to start anew; most notably, being asked whether they'd ever been convicted, to the point that one state actually gives tips on how to answer such questions without directly referencing their prison time.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_1d53cca0	comment	Clickbait Gag: The segment on journalism ends with a spoof of Spotlight where the cunning investigator finds opposition in his click-bait-minded management, which wants him to focus on click-attractive topics like cats who look like raccoons.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_1ddc03c1	comment	Breaking Bad News Gently: President Barack Obama's admission of the practices that U.S. intelligence agents used to interrogate terror suspects in the CIA torture report is criticized by John for being an unsuccessful attempt at this: There's also Commander Lloyd Austin's admission of the overall failure of the U.S. military to train rebels to fight ISIS, by reluctantly admitting the actual number of rebels left to fight after a very expensive program:
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_1e2af48	comment	Trapped in Villainy: In his segment on the return of prisoners to society, John notes how half of all prisoners eventually return to the prison system. In one instance, he notes because one parolee was charged a fee for a parole officer or be sent back to jail, that parolee could end up dealing drugs to pay back the parole officer.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: The segment about Lethal Injections is full of these. For starters, the worst case scenario with the titular injections will result in you being paralyzed but still conscious, while your veins are filled with a chemical cocktail â€¦ and if the painkiller doesn't kick in, your final moments will consist of feeling incredible pain, still completely paralyzed. When John describes other ways people have tried to execute prisoners, he mentions overdosing them with opioids, an idea which was abandoned because when tried, it took 2 hours during which the prisoner kept violently reacting to the drug. The trophy however goes to cyanide gas, which was so bad that the man tasked with the execution threatened to resign if the usage of gas wasn't abandoned.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: John's view of the SVI program, which should give up to 1,500 translators in Afghanistan — people who have had to risk their lives aiding the U.S. military — visas to America, only gave out three.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_1f83dc62	comment	Named Like My Name: During the segment on charter schools, John mentions the school Harambee Institute, which was named long before. He also immediately lampshaded this and pointed out the difference, before he then said "Rest in Peace" to Harambe.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_1f862cf	comment	Dare to Be Badass: He hijacks Phillip Morris' own slogan to encourage people to get the show's anti-cigarette mascot Jeff the Diseased Lung in a Cowboy Hat trending worldwide: "Don't be a maybe about this!"
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_21586e8c	comment	Invoked by John in the segment on pennies and their obsolescence, admitting that it's not what you'd call an urgent matter, but since it's the last show of the second season, it's an easy, agreeable, low-effort note to go out on; he even goes on to point out that two different news teams from New York and L.A. have both run filler segments which just consisted of dumping a bag of pennies on the sidewalk and filming the indifference of passersby.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_22cfbf14	comment	Answers to the Name of God: Played for laughs in the "How Is This Still a Thing?" segment on Ayn Rand; after pointing out that conservatives love to quote her work, it's noted that she doesn't share their views on God. And not just that God, the other (conservative) god.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_22f5d1b9	comment	Some of My Best Friends Are X: In his segment on the 2016 riots in Charlotte, John comments that Representative Robert Pittenger should defy this trope when commenting on race relations. When Pittenger did claim that he did have several Black friends, John commented that he (Pittenger) did not: he had, at best, one Token Black Friend, and he was likely angry at those comments.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_231e8193	comment	Mistaken Identity: In a segment on torture, John recounts how an innocent man, due to being mistaken for a terrorist, was chained to a wall and left to die of hypothermia. In a segment about credit report, is shown that two different women named Judy Thomas were denied credit after wrong reports that mistook each for other Judys with another surname. And it somehow goes From Bad to Worse, as another one was mistaken for a terrorist and another mistaken for not just a sex offender, but three at the same time, and all of them operated at a time when he was barely a toddler.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_233d181	comment	Misaimed Fandom: Thailand's unhealthy to the point of hilarity obsession with Hitler. John even suggests entertainer Rip Taylor (a mustached and overtly theatrical guy) as a substitute. invoked On a more terrifying note, one of the people that believes the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique works in real life is Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. In an episode discussing the aftermath of Parkland, FL school shooting, John showed a clip of an anti-gun control advocate attempting to shift the blame by going on a tangent of complaining that modern pop culture wasn't as wholesome as The Andy Griffith Show. John countered this by showing a clip from said show where the title character explains why he Does Not Like Guns, since by carrying a gun his authority as a sheriff would come from fear rather than respect.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: The episode on "Stupid Watergate" ends with what would be the main segment, on the TSA, shortened to just three minutes but still featuring most of the research, weird background graphics, and Muppet penguins.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_24a045cd	comment	Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: Discussed. When talking about Jared Kushner, John was both confused and frustrated that the only thing people had to praise about Kushner was that he was calmer and more rational than Donald Trump. John even showed an interview where one of Kushner's friends stated that although Kushner was a nice man, even they believed he was underqualified for the job he was given and pointed out that simply comparing him to Donald Trump wasn't the best justification for his role in the Oval Office.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_25c60be7	comment	Among Florida's many common misdemeanors: feeding meth to an alligator, feeding an alligator to a meth dealer, or being an alligator/meth dealer.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_2676e225	comment	Revisited when the Secret Service leaked Jason Chaffetz's failed application. Which is worse: that they acted like a table of high school mean girls, or that they didn't bother to learn he regularly embarrasses himself without outside help?
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_26852e3d	comment	Persona Non Grata: After discovering he's been put on the Thai government's shit list for mocking the crown prince, John realizes his Thailand vacation is going to be suspended indefinitely. Edward Snowden. John himself fears not being able to return to America after speaking to Snowden.note As in literally: John at the time was not a US Citizen, but instead had a green card. He could have been be denied entry for any number of reasons, and speaking with Snowden is actually a really, really good reason to deny him entry. It thankfully didn't happen.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: In the episode on coal, John shows a kid presenting during a coal fair about a piece of coal named Lumpy and what it will do when it "grows up" (with the air-quotes being added by said kid himself). John remarks that the quotes around "grow up" are well-placed, since Lumpy will inevitably not grow up but be burned to death along with his family in a ritual to produce energy.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_275ca6e1	comment	Ass Pull: Invoked intentionally when John shows a fake, non-canon episode of Days of Our Lives that they did in which it's "revealed" that EJ came back to life by his corpse being taken by his father and brought back to life by witch doctors.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_28114487	comment	Bald of Evil: While discussing Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts and his attempts to keep the death penalty from being abolished, John refers to him as a "dollar store Lex Luthor." In the beginning of the segment on Amazon's unions, John compares Jeff Bezos to Lex Luthor.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_28ceeb9d	comment	Muppet Cameo: It became a Running Gag during the COVID-19 Pandemic that John could summon George Clooney with a snap of his fingers, and at one point, Clooney gets annoyed with him and reveals that he has a similar power to summon Kermit the Frog, but he doesn't abuse it because he respects Kermit. John convinces him to do it anyway and Kermit is summoned in the middle of tuning his banjo.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_2978c012	comment	Stage Mom: Argues that the reason that Sandy Hook was not a false flag attack (keep in mind that one supporter of this theory is a trusted source according to Donald Trump) is that if they had hired child actors, their stage moms still would not stop bragging about it.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_2a7b0247	comment	Could Say It, But...: John could get angry and call tobacco companies "assholes", "monsters", or "open sores on Satan's dick", but he won't do that. John merely mentions that the slang term for political sabotage or dirty tricks, particularly pertaining to election interference is "ratfucking" while showing furry art of the more literal meaning and displaying the email where the GOP wants evidence of alleged election fraud sent. What the viewers choose to do with that information is up to them.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe: While John wearing a suit isn't much this (as it's common for late night talk show hosts), it has been noted that for many years, the shirt that's part of his suit is a checkered shirt. The Los Angeles Times even asked if the costume designer is so overwhelmed in the creation of silly costumes that as consequence, John only has a wide array of checkered shirts.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_2b68b7fa	comment	Sickeningly Sweethearts: Whenever "Wanda Jo" appears, she and John act like this, addressing each other solely as "my John" and "my Wanda" and excessively praising each other (and God).
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: Last Week Tonight was clearly intended to be a weekly version of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart when it was created and named. The parallel name suggests Oliver's weekly show was, like its daily predecessor, to feature humorous discussions of current news first and foremost. However, Oliver's episodes are now mostly dedicated to deep-dives on topics of interest that usually (but not always) fall outside the week's news, with current events relegated to quick recaps at the start of the show. John lampshades this from time to time, such as in the episode about both the 2020 Republican National Convention and unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin:
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_2bdb6280	comment	The Big Rotten Apple: During his bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics, John claims the show is filmed in a "small studio in New York's historic carjacking district".
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_2cac8d77	comment	Rooting for the Empire: Invoked and discussed during the segment on municipal violations, where John plays a clip of a deputy in Orange County tossing out suspended traffic licenses (most of which were due to insolvent owners given small fines) while dressed in a Grinch costume, then remarks that it's not a good idea to try and garner sympathy for your cause when you're play-acting as a misanthropic villain who steals from people.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_2dd7a113	comment	French Jerk: When discussing FIFA's request that Brazil change the law in order to allow alcohol in sports stadiums, they played a clip of a French FIFA official, JÃ©rÃ´me Valcke, asking them to do so in a thick French accent, while cautioning that he may sound "a bit arrogant" in doing so. It's not surprising how John continued by mocking him in a thick French accent:note Valcke later expressed concern afterwards at the unruly nature of many drunken fans, which inspired a follow-up segment bluntly titled "Fuck That Guy".
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_2e285a8b	comment	Person as Verb: In response to random people on the street confusing Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who leaked many of their secrets, for Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_2e5e04c0	comment	Must Make Amends: When looking for a retirement plan for the show's employees, one of the production companies behind the show, Avalon Television, started with John Hancock. But the researchers looked further into the plan and realized how much of their money would be gobbled up in fees. After ditching them and setting up a new retirement plan, the show agreed to cover most of the fees because of how embarrassed they were by the crap they put their employees through.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_2efcf2ac	comment	Guinness Episode: The episode on Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov is a deconstruction - he discusses how a lot of world records are not made by random people who just want crazy records, but by large corporations or human rights-abusing dictators like Berdimuhamedov, all who are aided by Guinness themselves in picking just the right record to boost publicity. When Guinness refused to help John Oliver get his own, rather hypocritically citing their need to be family-friendly, John responds by beating the record for the largest marble cake, without Guinness's help, and puts a picture on it of the time when Berdimuhamedov infamously fell off a horse
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_2f329e3c	comment	Tomato in the Mirror: In the episode that delved into how modern-day schools are still segregated, a picture on the corner of the screen shows a smug-looking couple when John mentions how people in "liberal" New York City think the segment will talk about schools in the Southern U.S. John then shows a news-clip about how, because of income inequality and gentrification, schools in New York City are actually the most segregated in the country. The expressions of the couple in the corner picture then switches to alarmed confusion after being told that fact.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_30afb908	comment	Is the Answer to This Question "Yes"?: When interviewing General Keith Alexander of the National Security Agency, John asked if he believes the NSA is suffering from a perception problem with the American people, telling him to keep in mind that the answer is "yes."
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_3149c4b0	comment	The montage of all the times conservatives said Obamacare would soon be repealed ended with one Republican asked whether he'd still try to repeal it, all but saying that he would.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_315a2d0f	comment	AstroTurf: Oliver dedicated the August 12, 2018 episode to this. Oliver states that large corporations fund groups that look like grassroots organizations to counter actual grassroots movements that seek to bring attention to issues that affect society (global climate change, environmental protection, gun violence, etc.).
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_317629db	comment	Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, a San Francisco Triad leader and arms trafficker who actually took Scarface-esque glamour shots of himself at one point.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: From his bit on Roger Goodell and the NFL domestic violence scandal, when Roger gets owned by an indignant reporter for TMZ: He then offers a bit of redemption for Goodell (or twists the knife) in a spot on the NFL player protests, and Donald Trump's reaction to them. When discussing how badly the WWE cares for its former wrestlers, John compares the company to the NFL, saying how the NFL at least has some forms of financial compensation for older players facing healthcare costs. He then goes on to say that if you've lost the moral high-ground to the NFL, you are 'morally subterranean'.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: In the Season 3 finale, John Oliver detonated signs reading 2016, claiming it to be a bad year. This would be repeated in 2020 for the Season 7 finale, claiming it to be an even worse year.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_3297cfbb	comment	Evolving Credits: The opening titles were the same for the first two seasons, last slide aside. Then every year some of the cards are either replaced, more often than not with references to past segments, or have the Canis Latinicus description above changed (Vladimir Putin was changed from "Adversarius Maximus" to â€œPOTUS Operandiâ€� during Trump's government, Facebook went from â€œMathematiculus Potentissimusâ€� to "Dislikeum") - although in one case it was the text that remained, as before 2017 "Caesar" was Hillary, and then it was Trump. John's card also started having him as he looked at the season's start.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: Jack Warner, the disgraced FIFA Vice President, became this to John Oliver, trading barbs at each other over Trinidadian television station TV6 with increasingly good production values. Coal mining magnate Bob Murray seems to have usurped Warner's position as John's nemesis, Murray troubling HBO with a lawsuit after John did a segment on him. Come 2019 and John fired back spectacularly.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_33a5b3fb	comment	Shamed by a Mob: Deconstructed during the segment on public shaming, as John notes that the alleged offense often gets warped out of context to the point that the backlash becomes highly excessive.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_33f067ea	comment	So Okay, It's Average: Invoked, as this is John's opinion of the Scrub Jay's sound in the Stand Your Ground laws segment.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_34a9299c	comment	It Was with You All Along: When discussing medical devices:
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_34dcfc96	comment	The show portrayed several real people as Corrupt Corporate Executives, but a special dishonorable mention goes to Bob Murray. His disregard for safety standards caused a mine to collapse (which he also claimed to have been caused by an earthquake). He also yelled at distraught families of the victims who asked for answers and sends Frivolous Lawsuits to anyone who criticizes him, including Last Week Tonight after the segment on him aired. All the while claiming that he just wants the best for miners.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_34f8042a	comment	Gratuitous French: Invoked in the segment on the 2017 French presidential election. At the end, John launches an appeal to the French people urging them not to vote for Marine Le Pen. In an attempt to make his speech more effective, he does the entire thing in French, while admitting his accent makes it sound like "a Guy Ritchie remake of AmÃ©lie".
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: John decides to respond to the ISIS attack on Paris with the sort of profanity HBO allows him. After the escape of ISIS fighters from prison, he boasts that they know exactly where they are and directs everyone's attention to "THE ISIS FIGHTERS!", at which point the curtains open on an empty cell. His reaction is being reduced to swearing and "Why did we give them shovels?!"
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_36400864	comment	Catharsis Factor: Invoked when doing a piece on WWE and the practices of Vince McMahon, where they showed various clips of the sketched abuse he received. John admitted that while certain things could be faked, you couldn't fake having your face pressed against a wrestler's ass.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_383fe1b8	comment	Embarrassing Old Photo: Actively invoked this on his segment on the so-called "Right to be Forgotten" (i.e. the argument that people should be able to take embarrassing pictures or stories about them off the internet, which, he points out, is pretty much impossible). He set up a campaign called "Mutually Assured Humiliation," asking everyone to post the most embarrassing pictures of themselves so that they would not be hidden or revealed against one's will. He even includes a couple of himself — one as a child with a sweater with his own name on it (which he says isn't an example, because he actually kind of likes it), and one of him as an incredibly dorky teenager. John's dorky high school photo is a Running Gag on the show, as he often uses it as a form of Self-Deprecation or to explain why high school was terrifying for him. It even appeared in some promotional campaigns for the show.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Once referred to his show as "Sad Zazu's Mildly Interesting Explain Train."
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: One of the overarching themes of the show is the fact that many of our problems exist because either the problem itself or the solution is seen as too boring in order to warrant any media scrutiny or political resources. There are many segments (such as the one on bail) where the discussion of possible solutions boils down to Boring, but Practical versus Rule of Cool. The "boring" solution (pre-trial services) leads to a much more efficient outcome for most nonviolent crimes, but the "cool" solution (bail bonds and bounty hunters) gives us lots of TV shows.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: If you're getting high in your house, there is a SWAT team outside your house coming to get you, and they have military grade weaponry which they're not properly trained to use. People in Yemen and Pakistan are terrified of sunny days, and probably check the skies more often than an adventurer in Skyrim. Drones are practically invisible in them.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Seeing how absurd HBO's retirement plan was caused Janice in Accounting to give a fuck and become a changed person, to the point of baking cupcakes for her co-workers and adopting a kitten.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_3b789458	comment	Recurring Extra: John has mentioned a "Janice in Accounting" several times in his hypothetical pseudo-skits on the show, once as the only person who says "everything is wonderful" (and that she's so extremely dysfunctional that it's clear she's lying), and second — the typical depiction of her — as that person who "don't give a fuck", and will eat anything out of the employee freezer (including a euthanized lion corpse), give lame Secret Santa gifts, win an office fantasy league while not caring about sports, and take over China's artificial islands! Janice (played by writer Jill Twiss) even appeared in the season one finale.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_3c908b33	comment	Fully Automatic Clip Show: Most of the "And Now, This" segments.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_3cb1d38d	comment	In "Multilevel Marketing", John discusses an MLM representative selling the fantasy of telling a Bad Boss to go fuck themselves:
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_3d038b36	comment	Rhetorical Question Blunder: In the "How Is This Still a Thing?" segment on the Sports Illustrated swimsuit magazine, the show plays a clip from a segment from CNBC's Squawk on the Street of NBC News correspondent Carl Quintanilla asking "What's left?" in response to the cover of the 2015 issue, which features Hannah Davis pulling down her bikini bottom just enough to keep from fully exposing her â€¦ nether region. The response?
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_3d197030	comment	Greedy Televangelist: An episode in 2015 focused on televangelists and the ways they are exploiting people for monetary gain. At the end of the episode, John Oliver and his wife (played by Rachel Dratch) parodied this by using a lot of the same language used by the televangelists they covered to set up a fake religious entity ("Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption") and an associated televangelism website and donation line, adding that any donations would be redirected to Doctors Without Borders. When the church was eventually shut down a few weeks later, Oliver announced that tens of thousands of dollars had been donated and were indeed forwarded to Doctors Without Borders.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_3d699462	comment	After Ronda Rousey won her bout in UFC 190 by knockout in 34 seconds, she was featured on the final slide with the title Gladiatrix.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_3ec0c879	comment	Parody Religion: Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption. With the kicker that — despite being a totally obvious parody of televangelism that says outright its only purpose is to receive donations — it's completely legitimate under current U.S. tax codes.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_3ece9e25	comment	Konami Code: Referenced in the "Nintendo Gay Marriage" segment where he jokes about a "civil union cheat code" which was this except with the "B-A" at the end with "Be Gay".
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_3fbad834	comment	Troll Fic: Played with in regards of A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo. Not a deliberately offensive fic, but to quote John:
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_3fc3406b	comment	Haggis Is Horrible: John feigns love for haggis while trying to woo Scotland back to remaining part of the United Kingdom in his segment talking about the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: In-Universe, he considers a Singaporean anti-gambling PSA about a kid whose father is a gambler released during the 2014 World Cup to be this, since even with the one made after Germany won (which was what the child's father is betting on), it accidentally implied that the father was too good at gambling for the family to be at serious financial risk.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_404caf13	comment	Unicorn: In his Grand Romantic Gesture to woo Scotland back to remaining part of the United Kingdom near the end of his segment on the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, John brings out two guys dressed as Scotland's national animal, the unicorn.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_40652d02	comment	The One Thing I Don't Hate About You: At the beginning of the episode about Vice President Mike Pence, John said that there was one positive thing that he would say about him, which he later reveals is the fact that he actually likes Pence's pet rabbit, Marlon Bundo (which John even says is an objectively good name for a bunny).
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_40bb59d0	comment	John manages to nest one triple inside another in response to Donald Trump's claim that Trump University had a 98% approval rating.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_40cbee83	comment	The NY/NJ Port Authority claims that the small commemorative plates featuring the New York City skyline being sold by local kitchenware chain Fishs Eddy are potentially damaging to its control of its own public image, while ignoring the Wretched Hive that is the Port Authority Bus Terminal, which multiple people interviewed on the street describe as "scuzzy", "fucking disgusting", and "kind of like a dumpy shithole from The '80s".
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: The prosperity-gospel megachurch John set up, "Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption", had its very own website, and it was exactly◊ as cheesy-looking◊ as you'd expect◊.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_41adcd34	comment	The Three Certainties in Life: John's introduction to a topic on death began, "Death, it's one of the few things you can't avoid, along with taxes and plugging in a flash drive upside-down on the first try."
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_42839f8b	comment	Up until late 2016, any instances of the word "fuck" had a Sound-Effect Bleep on the show's YouTube channel, which can be a bit surprising for viewers on YouTube to hear if they're used to John saying it uncensored in the present day.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_435a960f	comment	Limey Goes to Hollywood: Invoked; a Running Gag in his show is that John frequently discusses his success in the States when compared to his native UK.note For comparison, The Other Wiki charts his career in the UK as five appearances (2001-2005) at the Edinburgh Fringe (an arts festival held in August now known as a hotbed for burgeoning comedy talent); only once appearing in a solo show. After that, he appeared seven times in the first two seasons of Mock the Week, which took him to the middle of 2006. And that's it. After that, he showed up on The Daily Show in July 2006 and his career skyrocketed.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_43964f3	comment	Worst News Judgment Ever: Invoked by John in the segment on pennies and their obsolescence, admitting that it's not what you'd call an urgent matter, but since it's the last show of the second season, it's an easy, agreeable, low-effort note to go out on; he even goes on to point out that two different news teams from New York and L.A. have both run filler segments which just consisted of dumping a bag of pennies on the sidewalk and filming the indifference of passersby. In his segment on journalism, John points out that the increasing financial difficulty of print news, especially local companies, can lead to them emphasizing less important "clickbait" stories over more relevant but boring stories about corruption or world events. This is exemplified by a clip of former Tribune Company owner Sam Zellnote Who owned the media company (now operating as two separate corporations: Tribune Media, which owns the company's broadcasting properties [42 television stations, WGN America and a minority stake in Food Network], and its metadata and digital content unit Gracenote, and tronc [an acronym for "Tribune Online Content"], which operates the newspapers [including the quasi-namesake Chicago Tribune] spun off by the former corporate parent in August 2014) from 2008 to 2013; his 2008 privatization of Tribune saddled it with $12 billion in debt, resulting in it undergoing a four-year bankruptcy proceeding in which the company was ultimately taken over by its senior debt holders. This guy also sold the Tribune Company's ownership of the Chicago Cubs, only for them to win the World Series several years later and triple in market value. telling employees of the Orlando Sentinel that they need to focus on stories the readers want over the objections of a journalist insisting that they need to inform the community, which he punctuated by telling the journalist who raised the objection "fuck you".
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: Upon viewing a clip where Clemson Tigers football coach Dabo Swinney refuses to entertain the notion of paying student athletes because "there's enough entitlement in this world as it is" — keeping in mind that he's making millions off the kids, and has trademarked his own name to make even more money — John brightly smiles and informs the audience that "Dabo Swinney" is an anagram of "Soybean Wind", a not-so-subtle call to action for his audience to humiliate Swinney on social media (#SoybeanWind). Just watch his entire segment on transgender rights. For the entire segment, John's tone has an undercurrent of barely restrained fury, as though he desperately wants to hit some of the people in the clips he was lambasting. In particular is his reaction to Mike Huckabee's comments about transgender bathroom rights: When doing an episode on sexual education, he was disgusted by teachers and guest speakers using Slut-Shaming against non-virgins to make students become abstinent. His fury was shown after showing a clip of a sexual abuse survivor telling her story of how her pro-abstinence teacher used a chewing gum metaphor to shame non-virgins. To quote the man himself "learning nothing would have been better than learning that." When doing an update on the Brexit vote, he's visibly and verbally furious with the result. Due to the conspirators exaggerating the benefits, revoking their promises and then stepping down from their positions. The only time he's truly angry was when he summed up Brexit after an interview clip with a Portuguese migrant who asked the interviewer how should she explain the Brexit aftermath to her children. "Trump & the Coronavirus" is one, long rant towards former president Donald Trump and how he responded to the pandemic. The few times where John loses his composure are when he voices his concern for his staff and his concern for the medical groups breaking their backs carrying America through the pandemic. He's also barely restraining himself when he repeatedly points out Trump's callousness when he ignored advice from medical professionals, refused to set an example for the public, and sociopathically ignoring the pleas from the medical professionals for help with controlling mass infections. There's so much rage and hate in John's voice that there's barely any jokes in the episode to lighten the mood.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_44990492	comment	Parody Commercial: Done in either segments about certain companies (General Motors denying their cars are death traps, Fanta struggling to not remind viewers of its Nazi Germany origins) or to mock the concepts of others (tourists are causing damage to Antarctica, so the show made an ad asking "Don't go there!").
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Discussed in relation with the Mosquito Control District Board of Litchfield, New Hampshire — an administrative body comprised entirely of two men in a completely empty room, who nonetheless go through all the proper procedure demanded of their jobs, including reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, calling the roll, and opening the floor to input from a non-existent audience. John even mentions that their admirable level of dedication to a thankless job just makes the apathy they face even more heartbreaking.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_45bbcd70	comment	Never Accepted In His Home Town: Whenever the United Kingdom is discussed, John will say something related to this. Once he even declared he's known in Britain as "Who?"
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_45d7a6e0	comment	Actor/Role Confusion: Parodied in the Vaccine episode. John called out Fox News for this during a segment on the February 2023 East Palestine rail disaster, when a train full of toxic chemicals derailed in the Ohio town. After Rachel Campos-Duffy called it "an Erin Brockovich moment" and cited the 2000 film, Jesse Watters pointed out that Erin Brockovich herself (i.e. the real person) was currently in the town. Campos-Duffy's response was to question where Julia Roberts was.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_45de345c	comment	The Peter Principle: Discussed. In the episode about Boris Johnson, John fully explains that Boris relies on self-mockery and bumbling charm to avoid the consequences of his actions. While those traits did help win over the public when he was in a lower position of government but as soon as he became prime minister, however, his lack of preparation and over-reliance on buffoonish charm quickly fell flat. As people were now relying on him for competent leadership and he had to deliver on his promise of Brexit within 30 days, something that EU was more clear about when they were talking about their terms on the matter.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: John's stage persona appears to be a caustically bitter cynic who does not hesitate to tear into human stupidity with misanthropic Gallows Humor and caustic sarcasm; this is however an act to hide the fact he is actually a Sad Clown whose true fury is reserved for the cruel-selfish-and-corrupt who victimize innocent and decent people.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: New Zealand, and by extension its prime minister (2008-2016) John Key. Also the state of Florida. John himself sometimes takes his Self-Deprecation to this level. One example being the 2018 Italian election episode, where, after noting that one of the candidates for prime minister appeared on an Italian game show and lost (a received some harsh mockery from the host), he shows himself losing an old Italian game show and receiving similar harsh mockery. Look at how traumatized he appears.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: When John breaks down an attack ad against what it calls a bailout of Puerto Rico, he points out that the sad old people in the ad are stock footage models. And the entire stock footage of one gentleman in particular shows that he's in the process of smiling.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_4aa24ad9	comment	I Have a Family: When talking about Putin, John says that he was voted the sexiest man alive by a magazine which says in the title that it will say anything Putin wants, because it has a family.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_4db42cf3	comment	Male Frontal Nudity: In the fake attack ad against Mitch McConnell. In his interview with Edward Snowden, he uses a dick pic as an example of how the NSA could use parts of the PATRIOT Act to snoop on your data even if you have no foreign connections or probable cause. John then hands Snowden a folder containing (so we are told) a picture of John's dick. Snowden's reaction suggests John isn't kidding.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_4dc13d51	comment	Invoked again in the Scottish Independence segment (see Grand Romantic Gesture); when trying to win back Scotland's heart, John does the most stereotypical things imaginable — reluctantly eating haggis, downing a swig of Glenlivet, and enduring bagpipe music.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_4dc88e20	comment	Stop Being Stereotypical: Various segments centered around France end up recalling several stereotypes associated with the country, which surprises and annoys John. The segment on then-French President FranÃ§ois Hollande details how he would sneak out after midnight to pick up his mistress on a moped, "a sequence of events so stereotypically French, it's almost offensive." France's film ratings board greenlighting Fifty Shades of Grey as suitable for 12+ is perhaps the "Frenchest thing imaginable", and that's coming from a compromise decision because some thought it shouldn't have any age restriction. During his segment on France's 2017 presidential election, he described Jean Lassalle as "almost offensively French". Even segments related to John's native Britain end up being too British for John most of the time. Even John thinks British Prime Minister David Cameron embodies everything that's wrong with England, and John himself is English. He even shows up a picture of Cameron at Oxford wearing a tailcoat. A British newscaster saying that the extremely close race between David Cameron and Ed Miliband could "potentially get a little bit exciting" is, according to John, "quintessentially British enthusiasm." The entirety of the scandal facing Baron Sewel and the House of Lords, including Sewel's unflappably polite demeanor during a cocaine-fueled tryst with prostitutes, his insistence of turning a photograph of his wife face-down, The Sun coarsely referring to a woman's breasts as "boobs", and Sewel calling one of the prostitutes "luvvie darling" while indignantly replying that he doesn't waste taxpayers' money on lunch, he wastes it on them. The segment finally ends with a recitation of some of the Lords' Upper-Class Twit names, paired with fitting photographs of animals and scored by harpsichord music. The Canadian Senate expenses scandal. When detailing Australia's ridiculous giant sculptures of objects, he brings up a crocodile with boxing gloves meant to attract tourists to the town of Humpty Do, "a statement so offensively Australian that, if it were not true, would actually be racist." In detailing the video explaining Alaska's new ranked choice voting system, John takes note of the "offensively Alaskan" example ballot which uses a deer, a polar bear, a penguin, and an owl as the candidates.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: John called for humanity to unite behind saving a lost group of geckos on a Russian satellite, then made a web exclusive sketch when contact with the satellite was reestablished. Unfortunately, when it was brought back down it turned out the geckos had frozen to death.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_4e61fee5	comment	Just Like Making Love: "Foreign affairs is like sex. If you loudly announce that you will always come first, you're going to have trouble finding partners."
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: While discussing the NSA, John points out that the best person to talk to on the subject is Edward Snowden, who's still in Moscow. Talking to him is not easy because of Russia's draconian travel restrictions, plus an uncomfortable ten-hour flight â€¦ and John knows all of this because he flew to Moscow to speak with Snowden. The second time is about the Dalai Lama, where he again reveals that he traveled to India to meet up with him on a fourteen-hour flight. John gets Michael Keaton and Bryan Cranston to portray Richard Sackler, but realizes that HBO has access to another very popular series.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_4ec4c5ab	comment	Harsher in Hindsightinvoked: Invoked and Played for Laughs in the November 18, 2018 episode. Before reporting on the main story, we see the segment "And Now, This" titled "And Now: News Clips That Haven't Aged Well" and shows clips of Mario Batali, Harvey Weinstein, Jared Fogel, Bill Cosby, and Kevin Spacey being interviewed by reporters from CBS, NBC among other networks, while talking about their love lives, and using soundbites that sound like they had a double meaning when talking about other subjects. Some clips often showed them being interviewed by Charlie Rose and Matt Lauer, the former of whom ended the segment by asking about a question about sexual harassment.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Up until late 2016, any instances of the word "fuck" had a Sound-Effect Bleep on the show's YouTube channel, which can be a bit surprising for viewers on YouTube to hear if they're used to John saying it uncensored in the present day. The early seasons functioned much like The Daily Show, with John having interview segments with people.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_4fb60159	comment	Do Not Do This Cool Thing: Invoked and discussed in a segment about an anti-gambling advert produced by the National Council on Problem Gambling in Singapore at the beginning of the 2014 World Cup. In it, a young boy bemoans that his father has stolen his life savings and bet them all on one particular country to win. It sounds like a good idea for an anti-gambling campaign in theory â€¦ if it wasn't for the fact that the advert's producers chose Germany, whose team ended up winning the World Cup, to be the country that the kid's father bet on. This, as John points out, makes the kid's father look less like a reckless addict ruining his son's future and more like an incredibly lucky gambler with a knack for picking a winner while on a hot streak. When the fact that Singapore later produced a follow-up ad to save face comes up (apparently, the kid's father is still going to gamble away the money he earned on the win), John then screens a series of parodies that show the father making increasingly outlandish and specific bets and the family growing ever richer. The kid's friends eventually lose pity and tell him to shut up, and then when the final absurd bet (the July 2014 announcement that Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes were expecting their first child) comes true, money starts raining from the sky and the two other kids say "Your dad is the best!" and "Gambling is awesome!"
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_4fdd0d29	comment	Place Worse Than Death: New Hampshire, "where 'live free or die' is a legitimately difficult choice."
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_505ec51b	comment	Immigrant Patriotism: He'll mock America like no one's business, but he's made it clear he does love living there, and thinks the country has a lot of great things about it.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_506712cf	comment	Frivolous Summoning: One episode had a running gag about John Oliver being able to summon George Clooney whenever he wanted and irritating him with pointless summons.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_5094d45e	comment	From his bit on Roger Goodell and the NFL domestic violence scandal, when Roger gets owned by an indignant reporter for TMZ:
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_50b05d30	comment	A straight example comes up in "Mandatory Minimums". Jason Hernandez, a low-level offender sentenced to life in prison, was pardoned by president Obama. A clip shows him struggling to read this announcement because he is so overcome with emotion. When it cuts back to the studio, John is clearly moved as well.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: As John notes, standardized tests are so stressful that they have guidelines for if a student vomits on the test. He then says that, if students vomiting is so common that you've prepared an eventuality for it, then perhaps you need to consider that the test itself is the problem.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_514491f	comment	Job-Stealing Robot: John bemoans an attempt by Lowe's to replace their sales associates with robots. Not because he inherently disapproves of using robots in place of humans, but because robots are fundamentally incapable of performing the real job sales associates are there for: keeping couples from ruining their marriages over petty arguments. Done more seriously in his segment on automation, which delves into the practice of automation and its effects on the job market.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_51561f43	comment	The entire "#ShowUsYourPeanuts" speech. It starts off as a simple crude pun, then whips into a frenzied Hurricane of Euphemisms.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_51882a24	comment	Eyedscreen: Used when John is about to detonate a sign saying 2020 in the Season 7 finale.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_51ed5fb9	comment	Straw Hypocrite: John took Fox News to task for this over their early reporting on coronavirus.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_52aa0c4a	comment	The Caligula: In his segment on monarchies, John discussed this trope by arguing that one of the flaws to having a system of inherited power is the possibility that the country would be stuck with the person who, in any other family, would be the Black Sheep. To provide an example, John presented a Emirati sheikh who was convicted of torturing a man.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_52db461d	comment	Significant Anagram: "Soybean Wind", because Dabo Swinney, a college football coach with a $3 million salary and personal licensing deals sadly denouncing entitlement in the sport, "seems as pleasant as an edamame fart".
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_534bc834	comment	Escalating War: After Jack Warner bought five minutes of airtime on Trinidadian television station TV6 to defend his horrible abuse of power at FIFA, John bought the same amount to produce a segment encouraging Warner to spill all the dirt on the rest of FIFA's illegal dealings. Warner replied with another video that he didn't need a "comedian fool" telling him what to do, scored with absurdly epic music. At this point John actively tried to keep it going by challenging Warner to respond to every one of his own videos in an increasingly epic way, using the same music plus flame jets. Unfortunately, Warner didn't respond and the incident has yet to be referenced again, not even by the show itself to celebrate John's victory.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_53830d	comment	The Internet Is for Porn: In the "How Is This Still a Thing?" segment on the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which outsells the actual magazine by leagues (an average of 800,000 copies compared to 68,000 for any standard issue during the rest of the year), it's pondered why the magazine has such spectacular sales when a simple Google search will turn up far more actual nudity at the press of a button and with no cost, and further posits that their attempts to stay relevant mean the issue will inevitably lose the swimsuits entirely.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_53c47260	comment	You Monster!: John ends his second web segment on fan mail (YouTube comments, to be precise) by stating, "You're all monsters, goodnight!"
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_54367e5d	comment	Mathematician's Answer: John thirsting over Adam Driver is a Running Gag season seven. After one spiel, he offers a quick sidenote:
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_54ff97ae	comment	"Sesame Street" Cred: Just in case a pastiche wasn't enough, here's him on the real thing. And in the segment on lead poisoning, Sesame Street characters came to the show.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_5539b84f	comment	Corrupt Church: He brings this up in his segment on televangelism with how there are an unsettling amount of churches out there who are trying to convince people to give them money. He even, in what is one of the more outrageous end-of-segment mock jokes he's done, created his own entirely legal church based on the idea of mocking predatory televangelism and jokingly endorsed people to pay him for it, emphasizing that yes, all of this was actually legal and totally tax-exempt (all donations he received were given to Doctors Without Borders once he shuttered his church—at least, those donations with monetary value; they kept the giant wooden dildo statue they were sent).
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_5717e34	comment	An example for the show itself happened on the October 15th, 2023. Before the opening title screen plays for the episode, John sat down and explained that the episode would not discuss the conflict currently happening between Israel and Palestine in any way. Not only was it far too horrific for John to make jokes about, but with how fast the story was moving, trying to do journalistic analysis of it would likely date the entire story in less than a few hours. John also refused to inject himself in how both sides should make peace due to his British background, subtly criticizing the British Empire for causing the Israel-Palestine conflict in the first place.note For historical context, John could have been referring to the World War I-era Hussein-McMahon Correspondences (in which the British government promised Arab nationalists support for an independent Arab state carved from then-Ottoman Arabia), Sykes-Picot Agreement (in which the United Kingdom (and France) divided up the Asian portions of the then-Ottoman Empire, which included Palestine) and / or the Balfour Declaration of 1917 (which promised a Jewish homeland in then-Ottoman Palestine)
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_57980ca0	comment	Smoking Hot Sex: Referenced in the segment about tobacco, when John is talking about how prevalent smoking used to be.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: In his second story about net neutrality, John calls on all the diverse groups of Internet dwellers, even the trolls at 4chan and Reddit who hate him, to come together and support net neutrality, since it's the one thing they can all agree on.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_598ad6e2	comment	During the 2020 season, John thirsting over Adam Driver, intensely ordering him to attack him.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_598fc338	comment	Internet Safety Aesop: Discussed on the topic of Right to be Forgotten, John ends the segment by telling the audience that nothing on the internet is going away and everyone has something on the internet that they aren't proud of. The best you can do is embrace what happened and accept it.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_5a0e88d8	comment	Bring It: While discussing the 2015 Canadian federal election, John mentions that there are stiff penalties for non-Canadians who make statements that might influence their politics, such as fines and even prison time. To which he laid down some money, saying he was willing to risk it in urging people to vote out incumbent Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Part of his profanity-filled tirade after the Paris terrorist attacks: When talking about coal, he specifically went after Robert Murray, who had warned the show not to badmouth him or his company, Murray Energy, on the grounds that if he did, he would sue. John deliberately defied the order, and talked about how Murray Energy had been cited for its lax enforcement of safety regulations, specifically how a mine collapse in Utah left six miners, and three rescuers dead. He also mentioned how employees were offered an optional meager overtime instead of benefits, with one employee giving back his check with the sentence "Eat Shit Bob". John also talked about how Murray is an ardent supporter of Donald Trump, since Trump has promised to reinvigorate the coal industry, despite the fact it has been in steep decline in recent decades, and because Trump promised to decrease environmental regulations. He also mentions that an insider stated that Murray got the idea to create his company after a squirrel told him to. The episode ends with "Mr. Nutter Butter", a guy in a giant squirrel costume, holding a Giant Novelty Check with the phrase "Eat Shit Bob" written on it. Not surprisingly, Murray filed a defamation suit on John and Time Warner citing "character assassination," something he had done in the past against media outlets that criticized him and his company. Months later, the suit was thrown out of court, because the West Virginia State Supreme Court, where the case was filed, ruled that Murray had no basis to sue on the grounds that John's comments were satire, which is protected under the First Amendment to the Constitution, and the segment criticizing Murray Energy's safety track record was based on public record.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_5aa4ec8a	comment	Ambiguous Syntax: Discussed when covering Chief Justice John Roberts' comments on Obamacare in the Supreme Court case challenging the legality of federal subsidies intended to allow lower-income residents to purchase health insurance at a discount rate. Using an example of the "inartful drafting" of the law's languagenote The case was brought to the Supreme Court because of confusion over the inclusion of the sentence, "established by the State," determined to be a reference to the government. that Roberts mentioned to point out that such snafus in language occur often, John shows an image of a banner used to support the England women's soccer team in the 2015 Women's World Cup — "Come On Our Girls!" — pointing out that it really could have used a comma.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_5bc2106	comment	"John McCain Has Another Favorite Joke", in which, for years on end, he relates a bogus anecdote about having arrived at the airport that very morningnote The name, of course, changing depending on the city he's in and being mistaken for someone who merely resembles John McCain.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_5ce2c9c6	comment	Suddenly Shouting: Often used by John in punchlines to emphasize how infuriating the cruelty/callousness of this week's stupid politician is.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_5d103ea8	comment	Awesome Mc Cool Name: Argues that a major part of Donald Trump's success as a businessman and as a politician is connected to the inherently "rich", successful-sounding name "Trump" ("Trump! — It's the sound produced when a mouthy servant is slapped across the face with a wad of $1,000 bills!"), and upon learning about his family history, as what became #MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain, tries to reintroduce viewers to the man and his known negative qualities under the name "Donald Drumpf".
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: While John has gone into many dissections of the flaws in America's legal system, he especially views their immigration courts like this. "Immigration Courts" ends with "Tot Bench" a parody of American daytime court shows where children ran everything. The narration at the end comments that it makes only slightly less sense than real American immigration courts.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_5eb3a0a0	comment	Audience-Alienating Premise: Invoked. John knows when certain topics will drive viewers away. He promises more adorable things following the segment twice (in the death penalty segment, as compensation; in the abortion one, for those against the topic to return). One time, he simulates a viewer doing a picture-in-picture to the Entourage movie rather than watch a discussion on Economic Development Incentives, only for them to return following an awful one-liner.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_5fc9b36a	comment	Vigilante Injustice: In the episode about bail, John points out how counterproductive bounty hunters are. John shows that celebrity bounty hunters hunt people for spectator sport and have even hurt and killed innocent people during their hunts, simply because the bounty hunters went to the wrong address.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_5ff56a1f	comment	Long List: After airing a clip of Donald Trump saying American jobs are going to places Americans haven't even heard of, John first notes that he called Nepal "nipple" and Bhutan "button", then rattles off an extremely long list of mispronounced country names of countries "Americans haven't even heard of". Highlights include "Urethra" (Eritrea), "Fat Hamster" (Guinea), "Ballsinya and Hatavagina" (Bosnia and Herzegovina), "Gay Water" (Fiji), "Pocahontas" (India), "Hot Girl with Jizz in Her Hair" (Cameroon) "MAH WIFE!" (Kazakhstan), "Daddy Fat Hamster" (Papua New Guinea), "Jared's [Kushner] Friends" (Saudi Arabia), and "Hotel for Dogs, no wait, the other one, the one thatâ€™s not for dogs, Hotel That One" (Rwanda). The only ones he says right are Lesotho and Russia â€¦ and then he also uses "Russia" for Ukraine. During the episode on lethal injections, John shows a clip of an interviewer asking a supposed expert whether he has ever done research into a very long list of drugs that can potentially be used in lethal injections, which he says no to every time.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_607d2ef7	comment	Mouthing the Profanity: In a segment parodying the hypocrisy of Mother's Day coupled with very little rights and benefits given to mothers in the U.S., one mother is seen mouthing (or screaming, made inaudible by the voice-over) an Atomic F-Bomb in frustration at one point.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_607d4ada	comment	Run for the Border: In the parody advertisement for a timeshare exit service, Wanda Jo informs the viewers that they can reach her in her van, at least until she crosses the Mexican border, a spoof on how such businesses tend to shutter their offices by the time anyone thinks to start asking questions.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_60c53080	comment	Parody Assistance: Right Said Fred sung a version of "I'm Too Sexy" against Bashar al-Assad (who was revealed to have purchased the group's songs), Michael Bolton did a version of "How Am I Supposed To Live Without You" praising the IRS, and Days of Our Lives actors Alison Sweeney and James Scott did a sketch reuniting their characters in homage to a Syrian immigrant who learned English through the soap opera.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_6116ca8d	comment	Hellhole Prison: How John sees Guantanamo Bay. In the October 9, 2016 episode's segment on the Cuban detainment camp, he argued that it would be better for the United States to close the facility due to the conditions and the somewhat shaky legal justifications for its existence.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: During the segment on nuclear weapons when talking about the (non-lethal) Goldsboro Incident, where the government accidentally threw two nuclear bombs on North Carolina.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_620475f4	comment	Tastes Like Purple: John mentions that Mountain Dew: Code Red actually does taste like the color red.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_620b59b4	comment	#HashtagForLaughs: John sometimes does this. One of the show's Running Gags is to tackle "#Feminism" to completely unrelated topics as a tongue-in-cheek parody of attempts at female inclusion and equality even in the most ridiculous circumstances. While complaining about corporations making offensive tweets about social issues for advertising purposes, he unveiled the hashtag "#WeUnderstandThatAsCorporateEntitiesOurPresenceInCertainDiscussionsIsNotAlwaysRequired SoWeWillStriveToLimitOurActivitiesToJustSellingYouShit." It's even exactly 140 characters long to make sure it's idiot proof.note This was before Twitter changed the character limit of tweets to 280.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_627264e0	comment	John plays a clip of Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to the UN, in which he complains about the deal with Iran, and then spends 45 seconds just staring at the delegates.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: The Canis Latinicus opening. Season 3 even adds many a Call-Back to past episodes — the salmon cannon, the dogs dressed as the Supreme Court; Wanda Jo; Jeff, the Diseased Lung in a Cowboy Hat; and a lot of segment subjects.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_630e5e56	comment	My New Gift Is Lame: John notes that, besides the more pressing diplomatic implications of Jared Kushner's gift of a map of Israel featuring the Golan Heights to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a map is a very boring gift.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: Played for Laughs in "Olympics Opening Ceremony", in which John claims that this is how he cries. However the way he describes it, as well as the graphic accompanying it (an edited image of John crying in the way a toddler would), is not exactly the dignified manly tears you would expect from this trope. A straight example comes up in "Mandatory Minimums". Jason Hernandez, a low-level offender sentenced to life in prison, was pardoned by president Obama. A clip shows him struggling to read this announcement because he is so overcome with emotion. When it cuts back to the studio, John is clearly moved as well.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_67c30747	comment	Fetish Retardant: Invoked deliberately for comedy, mostly coming from external sources; given that the show is uncensored, it often gets downright disgusting. The fake Mitch McConnell attack ad uses of footage of an old man's naked, flappy dick. In the ALEC segment, two California state legislators excitedly discussing their fondness for spanking into a hot mic; as John himself puts it, they're simply not very good at telling when things are turned on.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_680bb6b1	comment	Hot-Blooded: Mike Bost doesn't quite appreciate sifting through all the bills the Illinois General Assembly has to pass every day. After reading the statistics on it,note The state legislatures passed over 240 times the number of bills as Congress, with Illinois processing an average of 13,000 proposals per session John is inclined to agree.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_6875260	comment	The Russian army found Major General Michael Carey too drunk for them. And what was Carey in charge of? Nuclear missiles.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_69121204	comment	The Un Favourite: John suggests this regarding two of Donald Trump's children. In "Trump vs. Truth" he cites Tiffany's name as something he likely doesn't remember (alongside the components of America's nuclear triad). Later, in the segment on Robert Mueller's investigation into possible Trump-campaign collusion with Russia in 2016, he says Donald Jr. likely has no "general knowledge" of anything except the feeling of disappointment that his father hugs flags more often than he hugs him.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_6977c45e	comment	Purple Prose: John is briefly taken aback at how Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) describes Mexican drug runners as having "calves the size of cantaloupes" from hauling bales of marijuana across the border — it may be an abhorrent, factually incorrect message, but it's still such a beautiful, poetic way to say it.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_69fb91e8	comment	Chewing the Scenery: The segment on cryptocurrency features a clip of Carlos Matos at a conference of the company Bitconnect giving a presentation brimming with this. That clip was parodied at the end of the episode, with Keegan-Michael Key playing Matos with the same level of over the top enthusiasm.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: John concedes that Donald Trump had every right to be annoyed at the quirks in the political primary system, which rewarded more delegates to Ted Cruz in Louisiana despite that fact that he lost the state in the popular vote.note Of course, that became deeply ironic when Trump won the presidency despite losing the popular vote. Earlier on, in the episode about infrastructure, John had to concede to Trump with regards of infrastructure, even if he disagreed with his surly approach to it:
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: A segment regarding the crown prince of Thailand landed John on their police watchlist, after he apparently violated a law prohibiting the mockery of that country's royalty. He decided to tempt fate further by insulting the royalty of Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands and Denmark, which have similar laws on the books.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_6b5ab38a	comment	Fan Community Nicknames: Parodied when John coins the name â€œOfficious Birdwatchersâ€� for the showâ€™s fanbase, taking the phrase from a Fox News clip he's commenting on (where it was used in a completely different context). John is the officious bird, the fans are the watchers.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: When Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption was first introduced, Pastor John and Wanda Jo make clear that they don't want actual seeds, they want money. A few weeks later, the church is shut down because they received vials and jars of sperm in the mail, and Wanda Jo and John utter the same statement they made the first time, "We ain't interested in your seeds!".
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_6c8ce91f	comment	Insult to Rocks: When a British reporter compares Queen Elizabeth II to a train, in that they both just keep chugging along (she's Britain's longest-serving monarch), John finds the comparison insulting. Trains serve a purpose. When a teacher in Myanmar compares Facebook to a toilet, John considers it an insult to toilets. Toilets are designed to remove waste. Facebook retains it forever, and often brings it back up.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_6d7026fa	comment	He finds that the name of Mike Pence's pet rabbit, Marlon Bundo, is actually a pretty clever name for a rabbit.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_6e0a57d6	comment	Like an Old Married Couple: To celebrate the marriage of Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, the show has the segment "And Now, A Look Back at the Romance Between Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski", which is a series of old clips of them arguing.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_6e37c196	comment	Once Done, Never Forgotten: Discussed regarding New Zealand politician Steven Joyce getting a dildo thrown in his face.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: After the 2015 elections in the UK, which occurred less than nine months after the failed referendum on Scottish independence, John is aghast that the Scottish National Party has won nearly all the Scottish seats in the UK Parliament, meaning another referendum in the near future is very likely. The montage of all the times conservatives said Obamacare would soon be repealed ended with one Republican asked whether he'd still try to repeal it, all but saying that he would.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_6f059863	comment	Oddly Small Organization: John thinks this of the NRA, which wields outsized influence for an organization whose membership lags behind that of some national gym chains. He then explains that the reason they're so effective is because their membership is really motivated and has an extremely specific message about gun legislation: "No!"
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_6f465fea	comment	The Triple: The Cuban embargo. Among Florida's many common misdemeanors: feeding meth to an alligator, feeding an alligator to a meth dealer, or being an alligator/meth dealer. John manages to nest one triple inside another in response to Donald Trump's claim that Trump University had a 98% approval rating. In the Canadian anti-adultery advert, the narrator tells lumberjacks to turn off their chainsaws and hockey players to stop skating around. Then it switches to a moose, whom the narrator tells to keep moosing because it doesn't concern him.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_7040b6bc	comment	Understatement: In the segment on nuclear weapons, when a report says that the North Dakota facilities housing the United States' nuclear stockpile are getting rid of personnel and the proficiency of the place is barely passable, the only thing John says is "that's not great".
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_70bdac19	comment	Honest John's Dealership: The segment on auto-lending primarily focuses on these types of dealerships and discusses the major problems they cause. The segment ends with a fake advert for Crazy Johnny's Used Cars, complete with his cousin Crazy Jimmy (Keegan-Michael Key) and their accountant Crazy Walter (Bob Balaban).
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_72757e0d	comment	"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: Much like Jon Stewart, he'll preface particularly outrageous truths with "and this is true" or "and this is real!" John has to clarify that Javier Milei, the Argentinian anarcho-capitalist president (who was a candidate at the time of the episode) who refers to clones of his dog as his chief strategists, is not a character created specifically for the show, as much as it sounds like he was.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_72e0023f	comment	After making a joke about Black hair, John tries to invoke it by finding out if the joke writer was Black. When the writer is revealed to be a White man, he's distraught.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_7434bef6	comment	Sins of the Father: Played With in his segment on The British Royal Family and the legacy of the British Empire. While going over the British monarchy's role as a symbol of both the United Kingdom itself and its former Empire, John does not suggest that the modern royals are responsible for events that took place generations (or, in the case of the Transatlantic slave trade, centuries) before their lifetimes. Rather, John faulted the modern royals for not properly reckoning with what the British government did in the Crown's name to the indigenous residents of former British colonies.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_74463f7f	comment	"Anger Is Healthy" Aesop: In an episode about North Dakota, John encouraged North Dakotans to be angry after discovering how much damage is being done to them by the oil industry. To encourage their anger, John produced a video encouraging North Dakotans to get angry at the oil industry instead of welcoming them. He even had a billboard put up telling them "Be Angry. (Please.)"
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: An entire segment focused on police brutality and accountability, due to the crumbling relations between police and the citizens they are assigned to protect, complete with fury when talking about Black students needing classes to understand how not to suffer police brutality.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_74b5724e	comment	We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties: The "Please Stand By" variant is used when John implores Thailand to google Hitler:
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_7582930a	comment	Hollywood Science: Discussed in his May 8, 2016 segment on scientific studies seen on daytime network shows. The message of that segment is that the general public frequently misuses science (either intentionally or unintentionally) to draw conclusions that serve their interests and fail to accurately check the research.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_758c3034	comment	Prison Rape: John presents a montage of jokes about prison rape from sitcoms and comedy films (mostly puerile "dropping the soap" gags) to demonstrate that Americans care about prisoners so little, they can comfortably joke about a horrifying thing that potentially could happen to any of them.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_762b9223	comment	Played for Laughs in "Olympics Opening Ceremony", in which John claims that this is how he cries. However the way he describes it, as well as the graphic accompanying it (an edited image of John crying in the way a toddler would), is not exactly the dignified manly tears you would expect from this trope.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_76468dfa	comment	Internet Jerk: Discussed in-depth during the segment on online harassment.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_76b4b7dd	comment	The Comically Serious: C-SPAN's Steve Scully, "the most patient man on television." There's an entire series of "And Nowâ€¦" compilation segments which gets laughs out of his unflinching reactions to bizarre callers. Edward Snowden, of all people; this is best shown when John asks him questions to gauge American loyalty. David Kaye's announcer. Whether it's a single sentence, such as in the "And Nowâ€¦", or extensive voiceovers, the text is often ridiculous, and the deadpan delivery only makes them funnier.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_76cde6e	comment	Better the Devil You Know: Deconstructed in the episode about Medicare for All, as John discusses the reluctance of many Americans, including many American politicians, to retool the American health care system substantially into a universal health care system like the UK's National Health Service, pointing out how this reluctance only exacerbates the problems with the current system.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_7815ba15	comment	N-Word Privileges: After making a joke about Black hair, John tries to invoke it by finding out if the joke writer was Black. When the writer is revealed to be a White man, he's distraught. At one point, he goes on a long tangent about the life of the only old White man officially allowed to say the full N-word. He was chosen because he never actually says it.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_7870735b	comment	In a segment about credit report, is shown that two different women named Judy Thomas were denied credit after wrong reports that mistook each for other Judys with another surname. And it somehow goes From Bad to Worse, as another one was mistaken for a terrorist and another mistaken for not just a sex offender, but three at the same time, and all of them operated at a time when he was barely a toddler.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_7962aeec	comment	Relax-o-Vision: As a reward for his viewers sitting through a segment on capital punishment only two episodes in, John shows a video of tiny hamsters eating tiny burritos. Following his segment on abortion, John plays a video of sloths in a bucket, and subsequently brings out an animal trainer who puts a live sloth on his desk in a nightcap to help viewers sleep. Steve Scully, "the most patient man on television," apparently deals with his crazy callers by retreating into images of space, animals, and plants before a spirit deer informs him that it's time to start paying attention again.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_7a1856ba	comment	I Reject Your Reality: John says that the unintentional message of the 2016 Republican National Convention is that politicians can treat feelings as fact, regardless of how much the actual facts contradict them.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_7a265daa	comment	Eagleland: Mixed Flavor: John often remarks on how much he loves America and how glad he is to live there, while still making fun of it from an immigrant's perspective.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_7ab84d9a	comment	Punctuation Changes the Meaning: John mentions a missed piece of punctuation when covering Chief Justice Roberts' comments on Obamacare, then bringing up a banner used to support the London women's soccer team — "Come On Our Girls!" — pointing out that it really could have used a comma.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_7ac5c1de	comment	Unishment: While discussing Mandatory Minimums, John demonstrates how much of an anti-drug fervor America was in the 1980s and 1990s by showing a couple of anti-drug PSAs and some choice clips from Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue. Afterwards, he points out:
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_7b50237d	comment	Distinction Without a Difference: The segment about infrastructure features a clip from a 60 Minutes segment including a comment from the former U.S. Secretary of Transportation regarding "structurally deficient" bridges: "I don't want to say they're unsafe, but, they're dangerous."
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_7c0bfb83	comment	Obviously Evil: Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, a San Francisco Triad leader and arms trafficker who actually took Scarface-esque glamour shots of himself at one point. John notes that among the shell companies revealed in the "Panama Papers" were some named Goldfinger, GoldenEye, Moonraker, Spectre, and Blofeld. Roger Stone, who dresses bizarrely like a cartoon '40s gangster.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_7c63d3de	comment	Questionable Casting: Invoked by John when he complains about the mentally ill being placed in nursing homes.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_7cd6822e	comment	Significant Name Overlap: invoked During the segment on credit reports, this is shown to be a major problem when someone is wrongfully rejected. For example, a man called Sam Jackson (no, not him) was mistaken for three sex offenders that shared the same name, one of whom was convicted when he was 3 years old. The show also found two news segments about different women named Judy Thomas who spent years trying to correct errors on their credit reports.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: An Indian news presenter delivered one of these to John in a clip from Indian TV that condemned western shows criticizing president Modi. The presenter directs all kinds of ad hominem attacks towards him, before telling him he should be ashamed of himself. After watching the clip, John triumphantly replies that he has embarrassed himself on TV so many times, that he has become immune to feelings of shame.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_7e07f634	comment	Paranoia Fuel: invoked In his segment on drones, John shows that their increasing overseas use has turned clear, blue skies into a terrifying omen of death, while grey skies are seen as good because drones don't fly in them.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: After criticizing Pom Wonderful's product in his series premiere, the company sent him a mini-fridge full of the stuff along with a letter, concluding with the statement that they would take his suggestion of a pomegranate enema under advisement and that "what you do with the cooler full of Pom is your business." Invoked by John when he admitted that Donald Trump was funny when comparing a bottle of water he was emptying to Marco Rubio's sweat and in a tweet where Trump wished the best for his haters on 9/11. He finds that the name of Mike Pence's pet rabbit, Marlon Bundo, is actually a pretty clever name for a rabbit. After the show did a bit about buying stuff from Russell Crowe's divorce auction, Crowe responded by donating the money to an Australian zoo's Koala Chlamydia ward â€¦ on the condition that they name it after Oliver. The show added an entire segment in the next episode just to appreciate that joke.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_808b6d16	comment	Sdrawkcab Name: In the segment about multilevel marketing, Market America CEO JR Ridinger uses this to explain how his company isn't a pyramid; he calls it a 'dimaryp'.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In a segment on a proposed Internet tax in the eastern European nation, John notes several troubling things about Hungarian prime minister Viktor OrbÃ¡n: he wants to end liberal democracy (admitting to attempting to shift the government toward an authoritarian-style illiberal democracy), he's a friend of Vladimir Putin (himself the head of an illiberal democracy), and he likes the way Turkey and China (which both have repressive illiberal governments) do things. John then adds that if OrbÃ¡n were to like the smell at Hollister's, they could just go ahead and declare him a war criminal. Home improvement stores are a lethal combination of everything that can ruin a relationship: spending money, reconciling tastes, long-term planning, and fluorescent lighting. John lists several examples of television programs that have acclimated the public to same-sex marriage: Will & Grace, Ellen, Queer as Folk, and SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob and Patrick). John describes The Pope's itinerary while visiting The United States in September 2015: John's criticisms of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper include rolling back environmental regulations, screening Syrian refugee applications to admit Christians only, and playing keyboard in his band and singing a terrible rendition of Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline". John justifies why the U.S. Treasury Department should get rid of the penny. During his special districts segment, John says the only people who should have to pay $1,000 more than their neighbors across the street are people who blanket their houses with Christmas decorations. "They should be taxed, and then they should be imprisoned. And then they should be told their lights were better last year, because it's that one that would hurt them the most. That's the one that would sting." In the journalism segment, John noted how the Best Picture win for Spotlight finally gave newspapers the recognition that we normally reserve for important subjects like the incredible bravery of real-life Hollywood filmmakers, the incredible bravery of fictional Hollywood filmmakers, and the incredible bravery of wanting to fuck your daughter's friend. During "Eat Shit Bob: The Musical," John and company insult Robert Murray (see Bring It below) in as many absurd and ridiculous ways as possible, knowing that satire is legally protected. Of the many awful things Bob Murray is accused of (including staring World War I, masturbating to Schindler's List, and having sex with squirrels) are "He wrote the Macarena and dots his i's with hearts," and "He doesn't like Tom Hanks." In the segment on the bidding for the host of the 2022 Winter Olympics between Beijing and Kazakhstan, John points out the problems in choosing either of them: Both have appalling human rights records, Beijing doesnâ€™t have a mountain for skiing within 50 miles, and the world will be subjected to two weeks of Americaâ€™s foremost douchebags doing Borat impressions if Kazakhstan wins out.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: John occasionally breaks up the serious and heavy topics of the show with something lighter. In particular, the episode on Pennies and their uselessness has him admit that it's ultimately a very minor and low-stakes issue, but it also happens to be one that could actually be solved and without much pushback. (As he points out, even the company that manufactures the zinc for it only spends a paltry $140,000 lobbying for them when their parent company is worth $10 billion)
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_80d55f20	comment	Cuteness Proximity: Reasoning that, if the visual appeal of Keyboard Cat can make a bad Casio tune entertaining, the basic principle will hold true for anything, John stages an entire room of animals with costumes and fake paws to accompany audio from a Supreme Court hearing. It's a success.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_812a2820	comment	Pink Means Feminine: Discussed and parodied in a segment on the UK Labour Party's misguided use of this for a campaign minibus to attract female voters in the run-up to the 2015 Parliamentary elections — while it helps sell toys, the color pink does not automatically garner votes, especially for a leftist party.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_813e694d	comment	Continuity Cavalcade: The first two season finales had brief recaps of notable moments, and the return of some notable characters (Season 1: a breakdancing Abraham Lincoln, a pageant contestant, the Supreme Court dogs, the Sesame Street knockoffs and costumed characters such as a unicorn; Season 2: the Bud Light Lime waiters, Wanda Jo, Jeff the Diseased Lung in a Cowboy Hat, three of the mascots for government departments, and Janice in Accounting).
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: In contrast to The Comically Serious narrator, a really overblown voiceover is warranted for pumpkin spice latte and hating peeps.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_8387bb18	comment	Good Girls Avoid Abortion: The segment on Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) mentions that in order to keep the abortion rate low, and eventually non-existent, they set themselves as alternatives to places like Planned Parenthood. John also mentions that although they do provide some worthwhile services like parenting classes and free diapers, the attitude of some of these places is, "once the baby baby is born, the mother and child are on their own, lest they become parasites to our organization." John also mentions that although CPCs laud themselves for wanting to make sure every woman carries on to full term, they also vehemently oppose contraception, a service available at places like Planned Parenthood, believing that sexual intercourse must lead to pregnancy and birth.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_8391b1c7	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law: John puts up a grandiose display, complete with $5,000 in cash, with Mike Myers to supposedly break a Canadian law which states that foreigners cannot induce Canadians to influence their vote. The next day, the regulatory body for federal elections, Elections Canada, explained that John was in no trouble in any way, since "inducement" must involve offering some kind of material good like money to voters. By contrast, all John and Mike did with their stunt was to express an opinion, which is perfectly allowed under the law. Though it has still been noted that the wording was vague enough that it could indeed be taken as what he claimed, something even many Canadians were unaware of. The September 11, 2022 segment is devoted to, of all things, Law & Order and its use of this trope, particularly in its depiction of the police. Namely, John deconstructs how Law And Order has, for decades, shaped the American public's understanding of how the criminal justice system works. Namely, John criticizes the franchise for side-stepping many of the realities that law enforcement has struggled with (e.g., police conduct towards people of color, rather low conviction rates, etc.), even if such artistic license would be necessary for the Police Procedural format. John also points out that, if a Medical Drama such as Grey's Anatomy had adopted a similar course of action regarding its subject matter, the conversation would be quite different. While recounting the Murray Energy lawsuit, Oliver states that "all four Justices" of the West Virginia Supreme Court were impeached in a scandal over inappropriate spending. While four Justices were indeed impeached, there are actually five positions on the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia; the fifth one, Justice Stenis Ketchum, retired before impeachment proceedings could take place against him. Of the four impeached, two continued serving on the West Virginia Supreme Court, Justice Beth Walker, whom the Senate voted not to remove, and Justice Margaret Workman, whose trial was halted following an injunction from the Supreme Court. In fact, Justice Allen Loughry, the main justice whom Oliver refers to in his recap, was the only Justice to be removed and convicted due to this scandal.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: John showing tiny hamsters eating tiny burritos at the end of a segment on capital punishment. He even invokes this trope with the following quote: After getting wrapped up in figuring out exactly which person in a 1993 video of Princes William and Harry playing football is current Prime Minister candidate Rory Stewart, it turns out some staff members have created a "Second Rory Theory."
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: In the episode about the 2018 Mexican presidential elections, one candidate openly stating that he doesn't believe in Santa Claus somehow makes Santa himself appear on the show. John is overjoyed, but soon becomes pretty upset after he finds out that Santa Claus spends all year masturbating. And this is before he reveals that his yoga classes allow him to blow himself.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: In his segment on chickens, John lampshades that the viewers expect it will be about animal cruelty. But there's enough of that in the news, so he reveals it's actually about chicken farmers, whose story is no less depressing. In his segment on the American Health Care Act, he brings up the image of a man in a thong he used to demonstrate the Affordable Care Act, then says "take it down". Cue the thong being pulled halfway down. One segment is introduced like this: After showing a Brazilian political ad with a spinning sign with the names of ex-president Lula and his candidate Haddad, John attempts this with a sign with "Busey" and "Lucy" and states that "one is America's sweetheart and the other married Desi Arnaz".
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: John's interpretation of the Egyptian tourism board, who managed to get the rest of the world to still associate the country with the pyramids of Giza rather than the region's widespread practice of female genital mutilation.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_88a97dd4	comment	The entirety of the scandal facing Baron Sewel and the House of Lords, including Sewel's unflappably polite demeanor during a cocaine-fueled tryst with prostitutes, his insistence of turning a photograph of his wife face-down, The Sun coarsely referring to a woman's breasts as "boobs", and Sewel calling one of the prostitutes "luvvie darling" while indignantly replying that he doesn't waste taxpayers' money on lunch, he wastes it on them. The segment finally ends with a recitation of some of the Lords' Upper-Class Twit names, paired with fitting photographs of animals and scored by harpsichord music.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_88dee3b3	comment	Talks Like a Simile: A major portion of the show's humor, where John constantly crafts absurd, outrageous metaphors just to properly describe the equally absurd, outrageous situations the show covers.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_89d001bf	comment	Do Wrong, Right: When Vice Admiral Tim Giardina — who until that point was in charge of America's nuclear weapons stockpile — was caught using fake poker chips, John's first comment was, ethical issues aside, if he were remotely competent for his position, he would never have been caught. Revisited when the Secret Service leaked Jason Chaffetz's failed application. Which is worse: that they acted like a table of high school mean girls, or that they didn't bother to learn he regularly embarrasses himself without outside help? In the episode on farmworkers, a news clip is shown of a farm-owning couple is confronted with video of their son calling one of their workers the N-word. All either of them have to say is that their employees are Mexican, not Black, so they don't know why he used that word. John thoroughly mocks this response:
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_8bff32a8	comment	Creepy Doll: In his segment on nuclear waste, John keeps cutting to a shot of a doll collection in which one doll, Felicity, keeps moving around on the shelf. The third time, she's disappeared from the picture entirely, only for the camera to pan and reveal she's somehow moved to John's desk. In between seasons 9 and 10, there's a couple of short web exclusives relating to the creepy dolls that keep washing up on South Texas beaches, some of which are auctioned off by the Mission-Aransas Reserve as fundraising for their sea turtle preservation efforts. John finds them so viscerally creepy that he decides he must destroy them (although he was probably planning to make the donation anyway), so he gives the Reserve ten thousand dollars in exchange for all the dolls they currently have, so that he can destroy them. Eventually the dolls meet their end in the singing trash cans of Malmo.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_8cf6aa	comment	Literal Metaphor: Using the same "seed faith" rhetoric as several televangelists, John and Wanda Jo urge viewers to "sow their seeds" by donating to Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption, while explicitly stating they want actual money, not seeds. They receive at least two bags of seeds anyway. This also played a part in why the church was eventually shut down: People mailing them semen.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_8d6d9535	comment	He also compares many lawmaker's suspicious insistence that abortion laws are for protecting women's health is to a computer folder labeled "definitely not porn". In fact, a lot of it actually falls under Artistic License â€“ Medicine such as requiring doctors to claim that abortions can cause breast cancer.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_8ed04a07	comment	Mis-blamed: Invoked in a segment on pennies, when a student was expected to pay a fine he thought was unfair, he paid the entire $110 fine in pennies and watched two people count the fine for three and a half hours. John immediately quips: "Wow, that college kid sure taught those two employees who had nothing to do with the policy he was protesting a lesson".
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_8f1f3f3e	comment	Soccer-Hating Americans: John acknowledges that his American audience might not understand the epic scale of the FIFA scandals, as in America, "soccer is something you pick your 12-year-old daughter from."
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_8f7b77d3	comment	Cargo Ship:invoked Upon seeing The Beau Rivage Palace, where negotiations with Iran were hosted, John says he wants to have sex with it. Not in it, with it. After playing several clips of Donald Trump bragging about how wonderful and even beautiful his proposed border wall will be, John posits that Trump is sexually fantasizing about the wall.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_8fd7af48	comment	Sir Swears-a-Lot: Since HBO is a privately owned cable company that does not have to adhere to as tightly to the moral standards of FCC censorship, John regularly swears like Eminem crossed with David Mamet, particularly if a particular act of cruelty/callousness angers him.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: John points out that the same day that Britain voted for the "Brexit" from the European Union, which some supporters, such as the UKIP, praised as "Britain's Independence Day" — in contradiction to the fact that Britain was already an independent nation, and as John points out, several other countries celebrate the anniversary of their independence from Britain — London itself got trashed in the actual sequel to Independence Day. On a more personal level, your sympathy for a flower vendor whose supply is about to be completely wrecked by Brexit likely evaporates when you find out he voted for it, not considering at all how it might affect his business.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_9125c7ab	comment	Advertising Disguised as News: The subject of the August 3, 2015 episode's main story. The show humorously reverses it by having an actor advertising Diet Coke mention some then-current news items within the commercial. A whole segment was dedicated to this trope, known as Sponsored Content, which takes a look at this trope. He even makes a fake product called Venus Veil, a blanket which promoted sexual activity and had it promoted on local news. One thing that should have tipped off anyone off in doing just quick research is "cutting-edge technology developed in Germany about 80 years ago" which was during Nazi Germany. Oliver estimated the total cost of achieving everything at just $7,200.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_9245d989	comment	Sinister Minister: The televangelists, who have been shown to ask for large donations from people who can't afford them, and who use those donations for personal enrichment. One egregious example is Mike Murdock, who, in one clip, bragged about purchasing two jets with cash, then passive-aggressively chided the less-than-responsive crowd as being "jealous", and requested $1000 donations from people in another clip (explicitly promising those who donated despite being in deep debt that "God will wipe out your credit card indebtedness").
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_9298d265	comment	Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life: Several lead stories are about how mostly small offenses can lead to huge problems when low-income people have trouble paying the fines. If someone can't pay the fine off immediately, many additional fines will be added until paying the fine off is all but impossible, at which time they will be jailed for failure to comply; if the defendant attempts to contest the charge in court, they're more often than not issued a court-appointed lawyer who is so overworked they have no time to actually look at a case, and instead prompt their clients to just settle with a plea deal that is usually horribly unfair. There is also the problem that some states require you to pay for these lawyers yourself — if you can't, you're fined, and the process starts all over again.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_92d7976	comment	You Keep Using That Word: "And Now, Politicians Literally Misusing the Word 'Literally'" "And Now, People on TV Misunderstanding What the Term 'Spoiler Alert' Means" "And Now, Newscasters Misidentifying Photographs as Selfies" "And Now, Newscasters Stretching the Definition of the Word 'Exclusive'"
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_932da128	comment	Monster Clown: Ronald McDonald, who apparently blacks out periodically and awakes with his hands covered in human blood. While John refused to apologize to Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa for insulting him, he did apologize to Ecuadorian celebrity clown Tiko Tiko for assuming him to be a generic clown (as any good Non-Ironic Clown, Tiko Tiko was offended when John made Monster Clown jokes), because Tiko Tiko scares the crap of him. When discussing standardized tests, John claims the only other way to inspire such terror in your kids with five letters (referring to the "a" through "e" multiple choice bubbles) is to whisper "clown", complete with appropriate image. After watching a commercial for an auto loan company, John insists that they not approve the clown featured in it, since clowns are genetically programmed for murder. When a Scranton area native accuses John of treating them like clowns for his amusement after he did a segment on the train set used by a local news station, John responds that he wouldn't do that, if only because he doesn't think clowns are amusing:
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_936581e6	comment	Tastes Like Feet: "Pumpkin-spice lattes taste like candles taste. Don't ask me how I know that." The segment parodying Bud Light ads contains many such similes, comparing its taste to among other things "a liquid John Mayer song," "water spraying from a gutter full of dogs' teeth," "the ghost of a dead lemon" and "a raccoon [ejaculating] carbonated vinegar inside of an old log". John pleads with FIFA's sponsors to "Sepp Blatter go away", promising to drink a Bud Light Lime, which he describes as tasting like a puddle beneath a dumpster at a Long John Silver's restaurant. In a later segment when he keeps his promise, he has a few more things to say about Bud Light Lime before downing a bottle of it. An offhand joke about Total cereal during his story on corporate tax evasion has John state that it tastes like your spoon somehow missed the cereal and you just started eating the box.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: On the August 21, 2016, episode, at which point almost everyone still expected Hillary Rodham Clinton to beat Trump in a landslide in the upcoming US presidential election, John notes that at that point, Trump seems to have two options. He can (1) keep going down his ostensibly losing path, thereby undercutting his brand as a successful businessman and perpetual winner, or (2) retool his campaign, win, and take on The Chains of Commanding, which would make him miserable because he's The Hedonist and likes to show off his wealth. In response, John proposes a third option that he drop out and admit his campaign was "a satire designed to expose the flaws in the system", such as the deleterious influence of big money in politics, a mediascape uninterested in issues that affect people, and how senior Republican officials and civilian Trump supporters alike continued to support him, openly or tacitly, despite or even because of all the appeals to bigotry he made. Of course, when Trump won a couple of months later, that suggestion became moot.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_9578bb87	comment	Canis Latinicus: The opening has plenty of it, aside from the occasional right Latin (over time there's "Tempus Fugit" — 'time flees').
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_9593e2d7	comment	Stereotype:invoked Discussed. An anti-Scottish independence ad showed a housewife as clearly conflicted and unsure about the voting process. John took it as portraying women as lacking the mental fortitude to decide for themselves.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_95b875b1	comment	Not Me This Time: In the 2018 segment on Venezuela, John makes the argument that while the U.S.'s actions in Latin America have led to instability in many countries in the region, the then-current Venezuelan economic crisis was not actually caused by American interference.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_966da803	comment	Defiant to the End: The "Doomsday Video" section. When the news of Ted Turner's Crazy-Prepared idea for CNN's last broadcast in the event of an apocalypse was revealed, many commentators (John included) faulted it for being so mournful and depressing. Instead, John calls Martin Sheen to prepare a new broadcast where the attitude is that even if the world is ending, humanity should value what it did, good and bad, instead of feeling sorry.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: John claims the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is this to his show, considering that they are directly and indirectly responsible for many of the issues he's covered. He even gives them a shout-out in the credits, as "Associate Producer of Creating Horrifying Things for Us to Talk About," thanking them for giving him so much material. To a lesser extent, FIFA and The British Empire, both of which he has lamented in the past as "real-life supervillains". From Season 3 onwards, Donald Trump has cemented his position as this.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_97c8b5b0	comment	Tyop on the Cover: The Miss America Foundation website's "About Us" page would greet you with the sentence "We Fun Scholars!" The segment on vaccines included a TV news report titled "Swapping Spit & Passing Pus." However, on the title graphic, the word "pus" was spelled with two S's.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: John argues that crisis pregnancy centers are basically this for abortion. An anti-abortion activist got caught on tape admitting that such centers are "not a charity," are critically short on supplies compared to the number of women they're attempting to help, and (in her opinion) should cut women off from receiving any supplies at all after they give birth.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_98a19d7f	comment	Money, Dear Boy: Invoked by John when he sometimes makes jokes at the expense of Nicolas Cage and Robert De Niro regarding some of their more recent work.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_99156d7e	comment	Head Desk: The poster for season five shows John with his head on his desk, looking absolutely exhausted.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_9c4a7090	comment	Springtime for Hitler: In a segment dedicated to Vice President Mike Pence, John mentioned that Pence's daughter wrote a book about their pet rabbit, Marlon Bundo, which told the reader about what the Vice President does everyday through the rabbit's viewpoint. To comment on the fact that Pence was responsible for some homophobic legislation as Governor of Indiana, John revealed that the show wrote a book about Marlon Bundo as well, where the story centers on the bunny falling in love with another male bunny, and their trial and tribulations of how the animals around them, in particular a stinkbug that totally does not look like Pence at all, opposed their relationship. John expected to sell just a couple of books to a small number of curious readers, but was surprised that not only did his book outsell Pence's book, but had to order a reprint to meet demand. Discussed in the Brexit segments. When the Brexit vote resulted in the United Kingdom leaving the European Union, John theorized that the Brexit collaborators (Boris Johnson, David Cameron, and Nigel Farage) weren't expecting to win the vote because of their actions after it. John showed that as soon as the Brexit vote came through, David Cameron stepped down as prime minister and Nigel Farage took back his promise to fund the NHS with the 350 million pounds that Britain was sending to the European Union.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_9cc1a329	comment	Upper-Class Twit: British Prime Minister David Cameron. Listening to him, John admits Scotland's bid for independence isn't unexpected.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_9d3b4703	comment	This Is Reality: Watch An Actual American Tail, Fievel's journey through the hellish reality of immigration.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_9d4f79e2	comment	Animal Athlete Loophole: Cites this trope in his segment on the Italian election — just like there's no rule that says a dog can't play basketball, there's no law that says he can't run for Prime Minister.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_9d5a2cdf	comment	Intimidating Revenue Service: Everybody thinks of IRS employees as easy targets, but John explains that IRS employees are not a bunch of evil Obstructive Bureaucrats who take all your money, but an underfunded, understaffed, overworked group of Beleaguered Bureaucrats who are Just Following Orders — and not orders from their superiors in the IRS, but orders given to them by Congress; orders that they are constantly changing. He also says that there's something heroic about doing an important job that is that soul-crushingly boring.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_9d725e12	comment	Fan Fic: A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, a Take That! story about Mike Pence's pet rabbit falling in love with a boy rabbit made in response towards Pence's homophobic views after it was announced that the Pences would release a children's book based on their pet rabbit, Marlon Bundo.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_9d7e0313	comment	Attack of the Political Ad: After criticizing the attack ads in the 2014 Senate race in Kentucky between incumbent Republican congressman/Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Democrat Allison Lundergan Grimes, John declares "there is no way things are going to get better until we collectively hit rock bottom" — so he decides to make the worst attack ads imaginable, using the full creative license that a premium cable network like HBO provides him. In the ad for McConnell, Grimes is shown slaughtering coal miners with a chainsaw; in the ad for Grimes, McConnell is represented by an old, white, wrinkled penis. Later discussed in the segment on judicial elections, by showing an actual 2010 attack ad against Illinois Supreme Court justice Thomas Kilbride; the ad used three "evil shadows" representing violent killers that Kilbride supposedly sided with in their appeals, but — as John points out — Kilbride did not actually release them, but merely questioned procedural points in their trials.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_9f00986d	comment	Gut Punch: John notes how season 2 delivered one after another of those regarding prisoners — mandatory minimums overcrowd prisons, bail punishes the poor, public defenders are overworked and understaffed, and people get arrested due to minor municipal violations — and if one binge watches those four segments, it's better to go after some ice cream.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_9f80e1da	comment	Sarcasm Mode: Anytime he ends a clip of people saying or doing Totally Radical stuff, he says "Cool" in the most flattened, forced inflection.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_a084f0e0	comment	Never Speak Ill of the Dead: Although Justice Antonin Scalia was a frequent punching bag on the show (see Take That!), John does manage to avoid making fun of him in the third-season premiere, which occurred shortly after his death, noting that his family is currently going through a bad time; instead, the segment mainly focuses on how the vacancy caused by his death has thrown the Supreme Court into jeopardy and the GOP is determined to block all of Obama's potential appointments (but they will have to kill Pickles the bulldog).
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: John's wife is a combat veteran, so any segment referring to mistreatment of military personnel or veterans is likely to cause him to stop the jokes and become legitimately angry. Similarly, he's a parent, so stories where children are mistreated, especially by those who are supposed to be taking care of them, will get him pissed.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_a13e4744	type	Tyrannical Homeowners' Association
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_a13e4744	comment	Tyrannical Homeowners' Association: The main story of Season-10 ep. 7 was "Homeowners Associations," (HOAs') and after Oliver explains why so many municipalities have them, to keep taxes low via the collection of fees to pay for services and infrastructure, he goes on to mention several horror stories that came as a result of interactions with HOAs', such as: a man who kept getting fined for having a bench on his front yard; another household that got fined for having a non regulation shed on his property, which could only be seen from the air; and another who had her home foreclosed by her HOA, and had her house sold for an over 99% discount, as in her property was originally valued at several hundred thousand dollars, but was listed for a few dozen dollars.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly Long Gag: The "Other Countries' Presidents" segment on Tony Abbott naturally features the infamous 2011 clip in which Tony, then leader of the opposition party in the Australian Parliament, is questioned by news reporter Mark Riley to contextualize his remark of "shit happens" about a soldier killed in a firefight; Abbott, in response, falls into a silent panic for half a minute, bobbing his head up and down with his mouth open, then weakly counters, "I've given you the response you deserve". John plays a clip of Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to the UN, in which he complains about the deal with Iran, and then spends 45 seconds just staring at the delegates. "And Now, John McCain's Favorite Joke", where he tells the exact same dumb quipnote "I've been sleeping like a baby — sleep two hours, wake up and cry; sleep two hours, wake up and cry." over and over to multiple news outlets and talk show hosts, even years after his 2008 run as a Presidential candidate. At one point, three separate tellings are played simultaneously, and his delivery barely changes. "John McCain Has Another Favorite Joke", in which, for years on end, he relates a bogus anecdote about having arrived at the airport that very morningnote The name, of course, changing depending on the city he's in and being mistaken for someone who merely resembles John McCain. "And Now, Basketball enthusiast Pat Roberts spends 12 minutes fantasizing about shooting hoops with the President" (which is thankfully edited down during the program).
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_a27c0c2c	type	Artistic License â€“ Religion
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_a27c0c2c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Religion: When reporting on Arkady Babchenko's faked death, Oliver compared the subsequent anger from his coworkers over being put through emotional turmoil to the Apostle Paul being peeved upon seeing Jesus at the resurrection. However, Paul never met Jesus in person during the latter's lifetime, was not at the resurrection, and wasn't an apostle yet. According to The Book of Acts, Paul's only encounter with Jesus was a divine vision that took place well after Christ had resurrected and returned to heaven, and during which Paul was an enemy of Christians.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_a3509d95	type	The Password Is Always "Swordfish"
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_a3509d95	comment	The Password Is Always "Swordfish": Discussed with Edward Snowden in a web exclusive outtake from John's interview for the segment on government surveillance, when Snowden notes that simple passwords are so ineffective they are basically pointless. As an example of a strong passphrase he 'spontaneously' suggests MargaretThatcheris110%SEXY, which leaves John speechless.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_a426ae28	comment	Multiple-Choice Past: John in one episode, as a joke, claims he was exiled from England for crying during a screening of The Notebook, while in a later episode he claims that the only times he has ever cried as a grown man was during the rousing speeches given by coaches in sports movies.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_a4c37cbe	comment	In the episode of medical devices, John shows a serious-looking clip of a woman talking about her fears about getting a hip replacement, which ends with her break dancing with a bunch of other middle-aged women called "Momz N Da Hood", and comments on the Mood Whiplash of the video.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_a52f8fdf	type	Bolt of Divine Retribution
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_a52f8fdf	comment	Bolt of Divine Retribution: The "Other Countries' Presidents" segment on French President FranÃ§ois Hollande notes that he's one of a few world leaders to question the existence of God, then points out how much of a coincidence it is that his plane was struck by lightning on the day of his inauguration.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_a6c677c4	comment	Not Hyperbole: In a web exclusive, after getting tired of news websites using click-bait headlines that claim he's "destroyed" the various topics on the show, John takes out his frustrations on something which can be objectively broken, not just metaphorically — a piÃ±ata. In the episode about the 2022 Brazilian election, John discusses how incumbent Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro is threatening to contest the results violently if he loses the election, similar to how Donald Trump orchestrated an insurrection after losing the 2020 American election, but explains that, unlike Trump, Bolsonaro has the backing of Brazilian military leaders. He adds, "Generally, when someone threatens democracy, it's a lot easier to say 'You and What Army?' when you're absolutely certain that person doesn't have an actual army behind them."
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_a6fa41b	comment	Recycled Premise: The presentation and style are almost identical to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, but concentrating on considerably fewer issues to write more cutting comedy, while The Daily Show runs a lot of fluff pieces. The two shows diverge in that Last Week Tonight does not have correspondents nor includes in-studio or on-location interviews in every episode.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_a7189582	comment	Parallel Porn Titles: When he hears about an auction of pornographic toys in Kansas, John rattles off a number of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz-themed porn titles.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_a7e47a11	type	Your Approval Fills Me with Shame
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_a7e47a11	comment	Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: John notes that North Korea had the gall to call United States torture techniques "brutally medieval." And he says that probably the most insulting thing about it is that North Korea probably meant that as a compliment.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_a7ffb2e7	comment	When talking about coal, he specifically went after Robert Murray, who had warned the show not to badmouth him or his company, Murray Energy, on the grounds that if he did, he would sue. John deliberately defied the order, and talked about how Murray Energy had been cited for its lax enforcement of safety regulations, specifically how a mine collapse in Utah left six miners, and three rescuers dead. He also mentioned how employees were offered an optional meager overtime instead of benefits, with one employee giving back his check with the sentence "Eat Shit Bob". John also talked about how Murray is an ardent supporter of Donald Trump, since Trump has promised to reinvigorate the coal industry, despite the fact it has been in steep decline in recent decades, and because Trump promised to decrease environmental regulations. He also mentions that an insider stated that Murray got the idea to create his company after a squirrel told him to. The episode ends with "Mr. Nutter Butter", a guy in a giant squirrel costume, holding a Giant Novelty Check with the phrase "Eat Shit Bob" written on it. Not surprisingly, Murray filed a defamation suit on John and Time Warner citing "character assassination," something he had done in the past against media outlets that criticized him and his company. Months later, the suit was thrown out of court, because the West Virginia State Supreme Court, where the case was filed, ruled that Murray had no basis to sue on the grounds that John's comments were satire, which is protected under the First Amendment to the Constitution, and the segment criticizing Murray Energy's safety track record was based on public record.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_a814671b	comment	N.G.O. Superpower: John occasionally highlights these. Examples include Eliot Management Corporation boat-jacking an Argentine warship and Phillip Morris International bullying several small countries into backing off from tobacco legislation that might hurt their international sales.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_a8702292	comment	Barbershop Quartets Are Funny: Used to great effect during the musical number to celebrate the case filed against him by Bob Murray being officially dismissed. Accusing a man of being a furry who has sex with squirrels? Strange. Having a barbershop quartet of seven-foot squirrels do it? Hilarious!
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_aa42306e	comment	"Cool", said sarcastically whenever the previous clip features a statement indicating the subject is trying too hard to be cool.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_aa8dcc21	comment	The episode on S.L.A.P.P. (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) Suits, explains that these lawsuits rarely ever make it to court, with both parties either settling outside of the courtroom, or, more frequently, with the defendant deciding not to pursuit the matter any further, because the plaintiff is usually a large corporation with an Army of Lawyers and near unlimited cash supply. Oliver mentions that the S.L.A.P.P. suit filed by Robert Murray (who was covered in the episode about Coal) was dropped because Oliver's segment was ruled to be protected speech, and the claims he made against Murray were taken from the public record.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Many of the issues John explores are often the product of the attitudes of different eras. In his segment on the U.S. Territories, John explains that their lack of national voting rights is due to the Insular Cases, which declared the residents of these territories to be "alien races" in 1901. The guy who wrote them? Henry Billings Brown, the man who wrote the majority opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson*The ruling that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities under what came to be infamously known as the "separate but equal" doctrine, and is widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history. — and even he only intended for the Cases to be a temporary measure, while they're still in effect 115 years later.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: John feels the only way to get people to do something about the hilariously exorbitant Loophole Abuse regarding stadiums and their troubles is to give a fake halftime speech. So he does. In the segment about doping, John describes cyclists who have hidden urine-filled condoms in their anuses and covered them with fake hair, saying their coach must've given one hell of a pre-race speech to get them to do that. The third episode about Brexit, in the Season 6 premiere, has a pseudo-Churchillian parody of Churchill's "We shall fight them on the beaches" speech (narrated by Stephen Fry, no less!) in regards of the consequences of Brexit.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_ac06a60c	type	Think of the Children!
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_ac06a60c	comment	Think of the Children!: John notes that the argument for doing something about man-made climate change used to be so we could leave a better world for our children. He concludes, based on the fact that opposition to doing so is still so fierce, that they've decided "Eh, fuck 'em." When the New Hampshire legislature introduced a bill written by a little girl requesting to make the Red-Tailed Hawk the state's official raptor, the legislature, against all common sense, proceeded to engage in ridiculous debates over it, and one of them proceeded to use it as a segue to say that the hawk's sharp talons, which it uses to tear into its prey, makes it a better mascot for Planned Parenthood. This naturally left John bewildered.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_ac12cde1	type	Bully Hunter
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_ac12cde1	comment	Bully Hunter: John is a variation; while he does not actually go out to hunt down the corrupt, he is more than capable of humiliating said social-villains by exposing their cruelty and turning public opinion against them through his wicked wit and biting sense of humor.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: John's reaction when he learns that the Thai military government is angry with him, thanks to a previous segment where he made fun of Thailand's then Crown Prince, including calling him an idiot and showing a video with him and his topless wife feeding their dog cake, something so ridiculous he considers it entrapment, because Thailand has a law against lÃ¨se-majestÃ©. Of course, his reaction is to then mock the royal families of the Netherlands, Kuwait, and Denmark, which have similar laws. John has this reaction in his second episode when he finds out that he's going to have to talk about an issue as serious and controversial as the death penalty. He reacts this way to all the stories of America's mismanagement of its nuclear missiles, from near nuclear mishaps to incompetent officials to the ridiculously outdated equipment. A very genuine, non-rehearsed example: after personally mocking Russia for over 25 episodes, John learns while waiting to interview Edward Snowden that their hotel is right across the street from the old KGB offices, now the location of the country's Federal Security Service. And they know he's there. He looks terrified again later in the same segment after Snowden informs him that John is probably on the NSA's "list" now. John takes a while to digest the terror of either being hunted by the NSA or being stuck in Moscow forever.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_ad40d85	type	I Can't Believe I'm Saying This
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_ad40d85	comment	I Can't Believe I'm Saying This: Said by John as he realizes that, by complying to the Paris Climate accords — unlike Trump — "Wal-Mart and Philip Morris are the good guys"!
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_afb088a5	comment	John admits that his credit report is probably low, given he spends HBO's money on "silly costumes, pyrotechnics, and checkered shirts."
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_afd446fc	comment	Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch: John calls out Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) for their press remarks condemning President Obama's announcement of a deal with Iran regarding suspension of the latter's nuclear research and development program, even though, in those same remarks, both congressmen admit that they haven't actually read the agreement, and don't know exactly what it contains, but invokedthey know that Obama definitely made a bad deal!
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: John starts every show with "Welcome, welcome, welcome!" "Holy shit!", said with bewilderment by John at least Once per Episode following a surprising statement in the preceding clip. "What are you doing?!", said whenever the subject of a clip makes a statement that exposes the person's inability to see the issue with it. "Cool", said sarcastically whenever the previous clip features a statement indicating the subject is trying too hard to be cool. "Praise be!" said whenever Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption is brought up. "â€¦Hashtag #Feminism", a somewhat tongue-in-cheek note of female inclusion and equality even in the most ridiculous circumstances. "What are you talking about?!" whenever someone, usually Donald Trump, says something nonsensical or contradictory. "â€¦and this is true," said before statements that are true in nearly all cases, but also some that might be or are anything but. When the show moved out of their normal studio due to the COVID-19 pandemic, John opened nearly every show with some variation of "Hi there, welcome to the show. Still taking place in this white voidâ€¦", followed by a joke on the depressing look of the new set. Seguing into a different segment, he always says: "And now, this."
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: After an incident in which New Zealand economic development minister Steven Joyce was hit in the face with a dildo thrown by a woman protesting the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, he tweeted "Someone send the gif over to John Oliver so we can get it over with.." The show still had a field day with it, as shown by the top response of that tweet — from the Last Week Tonight account, Peter Jackson waving a modified New Zealand flag with an image of Joyce being hit by the sex toy (complete with "HERE'S YOUR GIF"). John notes that before the segment, the show planned to put the brakes on stories about New Zealand until they found out about Joyce's tweet, not only making the flag but also hiring a choir and two guys tethered by wire in dildo costumes.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_b1dde8fd	comment	John feels the only way to get people to do something about the hilariously exorbitant Loophole Abuse regarding stadiums and their troubles is to give a fake halftime speech. So he does.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_b2d56	comment	Arson, Murder, and Admiration: In a segment on tobacco, John notes that the Loophole Abuse used by a tobacco company's legal team to make it possible for them to sue the country of Australia was so ingenious that you want to give those lawyers a pat on the back. Followed by a punch to the face, of course, but still â€¦
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: John argues this is part of the problem with reforming the primary election process: people generally only care about it when their preferred candidate is losing and don't when their candidate is winning.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_b47d95be	comment	No OSHA Compliance: Literally in his segment on the North Dakota oil industry. OSHA's inspection division is woefully understaffed and overworked, so the oil industry can get away with a lot of violations. Chain dollar stores are also violators, especially Dollar General. In his 2023 episode on dollar stores, John makes reference to a mea culpa and a series of promises to reform its practices from Dollar General in response to a damning report from the US Department of Labor, but then points out that they had said similar things in similar circumstances eight years earlier, which didn't reflect well on them.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	In the story about COVID-19 conspiracy theories (and conspiracy theories in general), John plays a clip of Rush Limbaugh, of all people, saying that Trump spreads conspiracy theories in such a way that he never says he actually believes them, as a way of deflecting backlash.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: During a segment on native advertising in online news websites, he points out that HBO has no sponsors, meaning he doesn't need to watch what he says about various products, and promptly gives out take thats to Cadbury Creme Eggs, Old Navy clothing, and Snickers bars, just to show that he can. Later, he does a phony "native advertisement" for Mountain Dew Code Red, and afterwards bitterly refers to it as "the most disgusting fucking drink ever manufactured" (although, true to its name, it does taste a lot like the color red). John is clearly one of the many people that is not incredibly fond of the New York Port Authority Bus Terminal, "also known as the single worst place on Planet Earth." When making his bid to have the 2022 Winter Olympics hosted in his studio by complying with their bizarre demands, he offers a cooler with various Coca-Cola products, including Vanilla Coke. After watching the Turner Doomsday Video,note Which consists of a marching band playing the hymn "Nearer My God to Thee." he states the only comforting thought is that the marching band will also die. He also compares marching bands to jails: something that if you're in for at least a little while, will ruin you. In the segment about Japanese mascots, he calls Japan "a nation so vibrant, not even Sofia Coppola and the band Air could make it boring." He likens political scandals during election campaigns to raisins on cookies: they shouldn't be there, and they disgust people. The segment on multi-level marketing, in which he gives proof that shows that most are pyramid schemes, ends with John instructing people to pass on this video to others in what is basically, you guessed it, a pyramid scheme. The show even produces a Spanish-language version of the same segment for its YouTube channel hosted by Jaime Camil for the same purpose, after noting how multi-level marketing schemes frequently recruit Latinos. To drive the point further, that episode featured a clip from the Mexican telenovela La Fea mas Bella (a Remake of the Colombian Yo soy Betty, la fea, the same telenovela that was the basis for Ugly Betty) where some of the main characters talk about the benefits of Herbalife products, and where Jaime Camil was the male romantic lead. After admitting that the topic of "economic development incentives" isn't an interesting topic, John is then promptly put into the corner as the "viewer" picture-in-pictures in Entourage. John then tells them to switch the audio, and listen to the first line, to see what they would prefer watching. One "I may have to jerk it before we even get there!" later, we are promptly returned to the episode. When doing a story on the election fraud scandal surrounding Mark Harris' 2018 election in North Carolina, John says of the state "of all Carolinas, it is definitely a Carolina", suggesting there's nothing else positive to say about it. While covering the controversial anti-abortion "heartbeat bill", we get this gem after a clip where Republican sponsor John Becker says that "people smarter than me can figure out what that means": In the Compounding Pharmacies segment, John took two jabs at Cats, the other movie at the time time with a widely mocked trailer showcasing infamously creepy CGI creations. Really, it's easier to name a reference to a person, country â€¦ ice cream flavor ("Strawberry is for perverts!") or any other thing that hasn't received one. One case being a subversion in which John said that the only person who could pull off being three different sex offenders is Neil Patrick Harris not as an insult, but because he's that amazing of an actor. In the "Televangelists" segement, John illustrates how the IRS definition of a religion as a "strongly held belief that is not illegal" can apply to literally any belief: He goes after Shyamalan again in "Pennies" upon showing how people often literally throw the titular coins away: In his segment on misinformation in foreign languages, John notes that "all it takes is a few superficial labels and style choices to convince people that something with no real substance is actually meaningful and good. Or as it's known in America, the Marvel Cinematic Universe." The audience actually groans at this one, which prompts John to tell them to grow up. On his coverage of Critical Race Theory, John describes NFTs as "Ugly Monkey jpegs, sold by and for dipshits". During his Home Ownership Association piece, John ends up making a reference to The Voice, at which point he goes on a tangent about how not a single person who has ever won it has become an actual celebrity. While talking about Dollar Stores, John takes note of the fact that nobody has actually watched any TV shows on Apple TV+, describing it as a streaming service "where celebrities go to hide".
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_b61f1b2b	comment	TouchÃ©: John has a moment of this in one of the fan mail videos after receiving one telling him "At least you serve your corporate masters well, Unfunny Live-Action Beaker". John claims it's one thing when someone merely insults him, and another when someone "out-comedians" him.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_b6cebad3	comment	In his short segment on International Women's Day 2016, John takes the time to highlight various figures who just don't quite get it. Russian President Vladimir Putin unintentionally brings up the Double Standard of women having to control their emotions in the workplace. Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan says that he thinks women are mothers above all else, and that economic independence is bad for them. In China, a shopping mall offers discounts to women, but only those deemed sufficiently attractive by a facial scanner. Finally, Fox News commentator Greta Van Susteren decides to congratulate men for being better than the Taliban (or, as John puts it, giving them credit for "doing basically nothing").
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Deliberately invoked. John mocks Senator Orrin Hatch for being obviously fed lines by an aide during a hearing on the American Health Care Act. He then loses his train of thought and an intern does the same thing for him. John points out how NBA players are being transparently forced to praise China in advertisments, only to follow that make making an equally forced plug for HBO's HBO Max service. When pointing out how Hotstar (a Disney subsidiary in India which distrubutes the show there) made ham-fisted edits to the program to hide parts mocking Disney, John criticizes their editing for being obvious in how it diverges from the show's standard camera angle while deliberately switching to odd angles each time he brings one of the edits up.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_b84adf36	comment	By "No", I Mean "Yes": When Russell Crowe auctioned off his many props to pay for his divorce, there was a lot of open speculation that John Oliver, who'd covered it on his show, was the mystery bidder who paid $7000 for his jockstrap. Addressing the rumors, Oliver said, "The bad news is, we didn't buy it." Then, after a long pause, added, "â€¦We did though."
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_b8e38fc5	comment	Metaphorically True: Discovered when attempting to debunk the Miss America Pageant's boast of being the largest provider of scholarships for women; despite learning that the organization's monetary claims are severely overinflated and hard to acquire, they nevertheless are technically correct about their base claim, even if the amount is total bunk. John is disappointed by this. In discussing state lotteries, which often claim that the revenue goes to funding education, John points out that most states fail to actually spend more money on education with these programs in place. Rather, the existence of this revenue is used as an excuse to remove other forms of revenue while allowing education to break even. Lower corporate taxes are just one example of a cut going hand in hand with the gain. In his segment on smoking, John brings out a correspondence between the tiny country of Togo and Philip Morris International, in which Togo is warned that they would lose any court case, citing the decision of an Australian judge in a previous legal battle. What they failed to mention is that said judge was the lone dissenting voice on a panel that harshly condemned their business practices, and that PMI actually lost that case.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_b8f395f	comment	Royally Screwed Up: Deconstructed in his segment on monarchies, as John argued that generations of inbreeding coupled with a privileged upbringing can result in the heir either being a potential tyrant or a weak monarch.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_b970a40	comment	John is very good at accents, and has no problem mimicking them quite successfully — Australian, Russian, French, etc. His Valley Girl, however, is absolutely terrible, which, in turn, just makes it funnier. His Surfer Dude impression is also unspeakably awful, sounding more like an old man than a surfer.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_b9d334b2	comment	As of 2017, mentions of "President Trump" are followed by examples of other words that just sound wrong together, with the latter generally being famous people with not-quite-common names, such as "walrus porn" or "Tilda Swinton".
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_ba0ff694	comment	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: The "How Is This Still a Thing?" segments, which cover some kind of trend or event which has persisted despite perceived problems, outdated rhetoric, or waning public interest. Columbus Day and Ayn Rand are two examples. The "People Who Somehow Got Elected" segments, which profile politicians who were elected to public office despite glaring personality flaws; Maine governor Paul LePage is the first subject. The "Other Countries' Presidents of the United States" segments similarly profile world leaders whose flaws also should have precluded them from becoming heads of state.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_ba236071	comment	Really, it's easier to name a reference to a person, country â€¦ ice cream flavor ("Strawberry is for perverts!") or any other thing that hasn't received one. One case being a subversion in which John said that the only person who could pull off being three different sex offenders is Neil Patrick Harris not as an insult, but because he's that amazing of an actor.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: John loves mocking people with extreme egos. See Hue Sen, the Cambodian Prime Minister who demanded a rematch between Mayweather and Pacquiao citing "foul play". The thing is that Sen's only concern was that he bet money on Pacquiao, and he's not exactly someone who can complain about being unfair, considering the corruption and repression that has defined his regime. Implied in the COVID segment attached to the ransomware episode:
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_bb22911e	comment	Pandering to the Base: Invoked in the Dr. Oz segment; as John demonstrates, you don't need to give unscrupulous testimony to please your audience — George R. R. Martin, adorable puppies, ladies catfighting, free T-shirts, Steve Buscemi tap dancing, and a marching corps will do the job even better. Invoked again in the Scottish Independence segment (see Grand Romantic Gesture); when trying to win back Scotland's heart, John does the most stereotypical things imaginable — reluctantly eating haggis, downing a swig of Glenlivet, and enduring bagpipe music. Once he learns Kenny G is very popular in China, John brings him along to play his sax while trying to calm the Chinese down regarding a naval dispute.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: John occasionally begins a rant about some person he finds objectionable with "First of all, fuck you, (name)".
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_bc03c871	comment	Child Hater: Zig-zagged: While John's onstage personality frequently mocks children as spoiled, stupid and entitled brats and rants how they have nothing to say worth an adult's time listening, the sure fire way to get his character enraged is to harm innocent/decent children; such as when he angrily chews out the dancing monkey mascot of Standardized Tests for fooling a talented 14-year-old girl into having faith in a system that destroyed her dreams of higher education and drove her into tears of despair. The apparent disdain for children is likely an act, as John is a father in real life.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_bcba27a1	comment	Putting on the Reich: Invoked in mentioning the swastika-like flag and fascist salute of Greece's nationalist Golden Dawn party, which are so similar to Nazi Germany's symbols and rallies that Hitler could conceivably sue them for infringement of copyright.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_bce728ca	comment	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: As John notes, when Trump ordered the withdrawal of US forces in Syria, he alienated the Kurds, who had been allied with the US during the Iraq War, who subsequently allied with the Syrian and Russian governments.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_bd7d0416	comment	Beleaguered Bureaucrat: The segment on the IRS shows the entire agency to be this, thanks to Congress constantly changing the tax code and responding to attention-getting scandals by cutting their budget by 20% over the past five years. He includes a clip of IRS commissioner John Koskinen testifying that his agency literally doesn't have enough people to do the job it needs to do. Public defenders are also this. They are so overburdened with cases, that they have no time to help a client aside from suggesting they take a plea bargain. Members of Congress are also this. Much of their time is taken up by fundraising, which is a dehumanizing, demoralizing process in which you actually have to beg strangers for money, and you spend too much time fundraising that you can't do your job.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_be6c0705	comment	Streisand Effect: invoked Discussed in the segment on the "Right to Be Forgotten", as Mario Costeja-Gonzalez, the man from Spain who petitioned the European Union for the rule to be legislated did so in regards to his personal debts from 1998. This happened again during his segment about the coal industry, as the show was sent a Cease & Desist letter by Murray Energy, which prompted them to focus even more on that particular company than they had initially planned to. The company filed a suit just 3 days later.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_be6f7ae7	comment	Brief Accent Imitation: John is very good at accents, and has no problem mimicking them quite successfully — Australian, Russian, French, etc. His Valley Girl, however, is absolutely terrible, which, in turn, just makes it funnier. His Surfer Dude impression is also unspeakably awful, sounding more like an old man than a surfer. John himself parodies this in the segment on Scotland's ballot referendum for independence from the United Kingdom, when he refers to Scottish as "that accent you think you can do, but really can't."
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: One school in the Standardized Testing segment ended up having a reading section on their test about a talking pineapple and hare that was so surreal that it was taken off the test, especially since it was so bizarre no one was able to understand it.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_bf3e372	comment	Torture Is Ineffective: John discusses the torture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who revealed secrets of an alleged terrorist plot in Montana, but nobody had realized that he was just lying until well after the fact.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_c007c53	comment	Cool and Unusual Punishment: In his main segments, John will occasionally respond to the issue by crafting a hilarious response meant to shame the offender. For example, Phillip Morris International was given a new cartoon mascot to accurately represent their product while also allowing them to have brand recognition: Jeff, the Diseased Lung in a Cowboy Hat.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_c0b6ded	comment	Lie Back and Think of England: John claims that "feelings are supposed to be irrelevant" is printed on every British marriage certificate.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_c0d6d1a	comment	Loud of War: After featuring the Attorney General of Arkansas warbling an off-key rendition of "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy", John ends the show on state attorneys general with two minutes to go at the end, imploring viewers to research their state's AG for the upcoming election, and then invokes this trope with that same song played on the bagpipes, then adding an accordion, then a theremin, and finally six children playing recorders.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_c145f69b	comment	One of the judges in Bob Murray's case against John turns out to be someone he mocked on his segment on elections for judges. subverted when he and the other judges all get impeached for an unrelated scandal.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_c1d57cf7	comment	"The Villain Sucks" Song: The episode on SLAPP lawsuits ends up with a huge, bombastic musical number about how much Bob Murray sucks, the idea being that the claims in it are so outrageous and clearly false that he can't be sued for slander for them.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_c2288824	comment	A Nazi by Any Other Name: Discussed when far-right groups won in European elections in 2014.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: John argues that the relationship between the American taxpayer and the IRS should be this. They're not a likable institution, and it sucks having to deal with them, but at the end of the day they are here to help you and it's not their fault that taxes are high or overly complicated. They definitely don't deserve to have their budget slashed by 20%, or to be compared to the Gestapo, or to be forced to wipe down checks soaked in mustard.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_c36c2e8d	comment	Wrestling Doesn't Pay: Mentioned in the WWE piece when John mentions that the company labels their wrestlers as "independent contractors" so that they can not receive employee benefits (a literal case of wrestling not paying), saying that an independent contractor is someone that one might hire for a specific, limited task, like a plumber or an accountant, and that wrestlers aren't either of those things, "apart from this wrestling plumber" (while showing T. L. Hopper) "and this wrestling accountant" (showing Irwin R. Schyster). John also uses this on Vince McMahon, saying that besides playing a Heel on screen, he is a real life Heel.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_c396fef9	comment	In the episode that discussed how companies that engage in multilevel marketing are basically Ponzi schemes in all but name, he centers his criticism on Herbalife, which frequently targets the Latino community with its Spanish advertising. To demonstrate it, he shows a clip from the Mexican telenovela, La fea mÃ¡s bella (a Remake of Colombia's Yo soy Betty, la fea, the same telenovela that was the basis for Ugly Betty) where some characters talk about the benefits of Herbalife. At the end of the episode, he creates his own recruitment video to warn people about multilevel marketing, with Jaime Camil, star of Jane the Virgin and the male romantic lead of La fea mÃ¡s bella, recording a similar video in Spanish.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: The saga of five geckos stranded on a Russian satellite, as told in three hashtags: #GoGetThoseGeckos, #WeGotThoseGeckos, and #GoodbyeGeckos.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_c3fbac64	comment	Talking about how fuckable horses are whenever a horse is mentioned.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_c4d09d24	comment	Couch Gag: The last card of the opening credits montage usually has a reference to one of the previous week's big events (for example, the card on the August 11, 2014 episode, which aired just after the 40th anniversary of the conclusion of Watergate, was of President Richard Nixon).
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_c52ac939	comment	Helium Speech: On the segment on Execution, after playing a recording of a criminal justice professor trying to demonstrate the supposed painlessness of nitrogen gas execution by playing video of a girl passing out after breathing helium, John reacts by breathing helium himself before delivering his response. He then breathes helium again at the very end of the segment to deliver his closing message on the topic.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_c5ef2d50	comment	Cringe Comedy: Most, if not all, of the "And Now, This" segments consist basically of this: "And Now, CNN Weatherman Chad Myers Hates His Job, His Life, and Everyone Around Him". "And Now, Excruciatingly Awkward Silences Caused by Technical Difficulties". "And Now, CBS This Morning's Awkward Sex Talk", followed by "And Now, More of CBS This Morning's Awkward Sex Talk" and "Seriously, the Sexual Tension on CBS This Morning Is Through the Fucking Roof".note This became much invokedHarsher in Hindsight after Charlie Rose was fired following a long pattern of inappropriate behavior. "And Now, the Inevitable, Sad Consequences of Morning Show Anchors Celebrating Halloween", which is followed by "And Now, Oh Sweet Jesus, They Put the Weather Forecasters in Costumes Too". One of these has even produced enough material to become a recurring segment, as C-SPAN host Steve Scully — dubbed "The Most Patient Man in Television" — endures calls from rambling, inarticulate malcontents; paranoid, elderly racists; and the occasional Howard Stern fan, and yet never loses his composure.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: John's hypothetical campaign ad against Mitch McConnell features nothing but an old man's wrinkled penis. In order to demonstrate the coverage of the Affordable Care Act, John shows a picture of a middle-aged man in a thong, shot from the back: Terrible, but better than nothing. To demonstrate its potential replacement, the American Health Care Act, he has the thong lowered halfway.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_c69902e7	comment	Church of Happyology: John explicitly compares multilevel marketing companies to the Trope Namer. The parallels are pretty chilling, including strangely named levels which can be obtained (such as Double Black Diamond) as well as almost fanatical entrances of the leaders of the MLMs at corporate events.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: During the segment on student loans, John includes a reference to Community, on which he played Professor Duncan, much to the audience's glee. In the title sequence, over a Gorilla, is the phrase "Damned Dirtius Apus". Twice the opening had an homage to an retiring television host, Hostus Letterman and Hostus Maximus (John's former employer Jon Stewart). After Ronda Rousey won her bout in UFC 190 by knockout in 34 seconds, she was featured on the final slide with the title Gladiatrix. Over John's shoulder in the collage of real landmarks is Dragonstone, Stannis' castle on Game of Thrones. When referring to a St. Louis deputy who explicitly called for more racial profiling in an internal memo: Chiijohn Part 2 involves the titular mascot otter and his new friend visiting America to find John after they receive a message in a bottle from him. In New York, when someone finally helps them on their quest to find "TV's best late show host", they're sent to the set of Late Night to meet Seth Meyers. The Laser Kiwi flag is discussed when the topic of the New Zealand flag referendum came up. John praises the flag due to its hilarity.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_c87e2665	comment	John details a school field trip in New Hampshire to the state legislature, where they introduced a bill to make the red-tailed hawk the official state raptor. Rather than just humor the kids and pass what was essentially a meaningless bit of fluff, the merit of even reviewing another bill was debated at length, with State Rep. John Burt sarcastically remarking "Bottom line, if we keep bringing more of these bills [forward] â€¦ we'll be picking a state hot dog next", and Rep. Warren Groen even using the characteristics of said hawk as an out-of-left-field swipe at Planned Parenthood. The bill was ultimately defeated by a narrow margin; worse, as John notes, it all took place with that same class of children in attendance.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_c8d69cac	comment	Even the Rats Won't Touch It: During the "Dollar Stores" segment in 2023, John plays a clip of a woman in a dollar store offering a rodent inside of a dollar store a Pringle, who doesn't even move from its spot even after she backs away and leaves the chip for it. John is quick to make fun of this after the clip ends, imagining a hypothetical sequel to Ratatouille depicting this overly picky rat as an "Absolute Food Bitch".
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: John never misses an opportunity to mock himself and the show: John admits that his credit report is probably low, given he spends HBO's money on "silly costumes, pyrotechnics, and checkered shirts." In the segment about abortion laws: A brief opening segment has John show off an actual API advert that blatantly steals the design and presentation of his show's opening credits. He then plays the show's theme over the ad to make the comparison even more glaring. In the segment on journalism, while playing an old clip, to showcase the show's reliance on printed references: The season 4 trailer has the narrator dramatically announce the return of HBO's greatest/hit/whathaveyou show â€¦ which isn't Last Week Tonight and John keeps showing up uninvited. He does it again in the first episode of season four, referencing his haters about his show, saying that they most likely call it Last Cuck Tonight with Johnny Triggerwarning. John refers to Britain as the place where he is "affectionately" known as "Who?" When Alex Jones attributed John's popularity to the "legitimate" sound of his British accent, John was quick to issue a rebuttal the only way he knows how. In the retirement episode a running gag was that the research staff was working hard while John and everybody else were wasting time googling pictures of teacup pigs. He began one of the many stories relating to immigration with: "Immigration. The system that brought you: me. But, it's still good, and I promise that won't happen again." John constantly makes fun of his "strength". Just for one example, in "Chiijohn", he decides to contact his friends overseas with a bottled message. He heads to the docks and throws the bottle as far as he physically can â€¦ the camera follows the bottle as it hits the water approx. 2-3 meters from John. In the segment on Death Investigations, John notes that some U.S. counties have the local hairdresser serving as their coroner: When mentioning the four Hogwarts houses one time, John claims that if he were at Hogwarts he would be sorted into a separate, fifth house "specifically for cowards". While covering the 2020 Republican National Convention, John mentions that calling Joe Biden a radical socialist is much like calling him history's greatest Zazu — "you can say I am all you want to, and, honestly, I wish I were, but the fact is, it's not even close." A history book calling slavery "tasks" was compared to "calling Hitler 'a best-selling author', JFK's assassination 'a bad day', and this show a comedy." After a clip where a man assigned for jury duty complains that he was locked in a place without HBO, John notes he doesn't get free HBO either "and I'm helping ruin it!" In "Long Term Health Care", he says that choosing a haircut is the kind of thing you'd expect to figure out through trial-and-error (as opposed to figuring out long-term healthcare): In "Multilevel Marketing", John discusses an MLM representative selling the fantasy of telling a Bad Boss to go fuck themselves: After John mocked the city of Dunbury, the mayor said he'd rename the local sewage plant after him because "it's full of crap, just like you, John". Sure enough, John complimented this move and asked them to go through, even saying that had they not done so, he'd give donate to charities of neighbouring towns instead of Danbury's. And they did, on the condition of John being there to cut the ribbon. Once Joe Biden was filmed sleeping at an environmental conference right right as the presenter noted the concerns:
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_c972d624	comment	When doing an episode on sexual education, he was disgusted by teachers and guest speakers using Slut-Shaming against non-virgins to make students become abstinent. His fury was shown after showing a clip of a sexual abuse survivor telling her story of how her pro-abstinence teacher used a chewing gum metaphor to shame non-virgins. To quote the man himself "learning nothing would have been better than learning that."
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_ca5eda76	comment	In a segment dedicated to Vice President Mike Pence, John mentioned that Pence's daughter wrote a book about their pet rabbit, Marlon Bundo, which told the reader about what the Vice President does everyday through the rabbit's viewpoint. To comment on the fact that Pence was responsible for some homophobic legislation as Governor of Indiana, John revealed that the show wrote a book about Marlon Bundo as well, where the story centers on the bunny falling in love with another male bunny, and their trial and tribulations of how the animals around them, in particular a stinkbug that totally does not look like Pence at all, opposed their relationship. John expected to sell just a couple of books to a small number of curious readers, but was surprised that not only did his book outsell Pence's book, but had to order a reprint to meet demand.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_cbd705be	comment	Shamu Fu: Upon seeing a video of a salmon catapult designed to launch them upstream, John decides he must make his own. He then decides to test it, resulting in a montage of many celebrities getting smacked by fake fish.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_cbe3d017	comment	Damned by Faint Praise/Overly Narrow Superlative: John agrees that Alexander Lukashenko is the best president in this history of independent Belarus, but only because he's the only one.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: The show portrayed several real people as Corrupt Corporate Executives, but a special dishonorable mention goes to Bob Murray. His disregard for safety standards caused a mine to collapse (which he also claimed to have been caused by an earthquake). He also yelled at distraught families of the victims who asked for answers and sends Frivolous Lawsuits to anyone who criticizes him, including Last Week Tonight after the segment on him aired. All the while claiming that he just wants the best for miners. In the beginning of the segment on Amazon's unions, John compares Jeff Bezos to Lex Luthor.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_cd809603	comment	Tank Goodness: The segment on the racial discrimination by local police that led to the August 2015 riots in Ferguson, Missouri and police militarization has a part where John mocks an advertisement of the Doraville, Georgia police force's new tank with the original background music—Dope's "Die Motherfucker Die"—being switched out and replaced with Simon & Garfunkel's "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" to illustrate how the footage doesn't pair well with any other song than the former.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_cdd835ce	comment	The "Other Countries' Presidents" segment on Tony Abbott naturally features the infamous 2011 clip in which Tony, then leader of the opposition party in the Australian Parliament, is questioned by news reporter Mark Riley to contextualize his remark of "shit happens" about a soldier killed in a firefight; Abbott, in response, falls into a silent panic for half a minute, bobbing his head up and down with his mouth open, then weakly counters, "I've given you the response you deserve".
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_ce9d25a6	comment	Shady Scalper: "Tickets" is an episode on tickets to concerts and sports games. Of course it also talks about ticket scalpers, even claiming that Ticketmaster was accepting scalping resellers as partners.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_cec8b87a	comment	This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: Edward Norton combines this with complicated engineering lingo in the fake movie trailer for Infrastructure:
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_cef6a167	comment	Second Place Is for Losers: John lampshades this in the segment on stadiums, when he notes that a boastful rap about San Diego, created by a local rap artist to convince the city council to fund a new stadium for the San Diego Chargers,note The Chargers eventually decided in January 2017 to relocate to Los Angeles after it failed to reach a stadium deal with the San Diego city government. includes the line "San Diego â€¦ second largest city", which John noted is a "strange boast for a rap song":
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_cf16cfa9	comment	Golden Mean Fallacy: Discussed in his discussion on the idea of "Spreading out" vaccines over a longer period of time, as opposed to immediate vaccination on schedule or no vaccination
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_cf4d770	comment	Nightmare Fuel: invoked "Melon Kuma", a yurukyaranote A specific form of Japanese mascot. from Hokkaido meant to promote Yubari melons; because the region is also known for its wild Ussuri brown bear population, the creature is a snarling chibi grizzly with a huge melon helmet◊. John, struggling to keep from laughing, even plays a clip of Melon Kuma's visit to a kindergarten class, where he pretends to bite the screaming, crying children.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_d0b60f23	comment	Gosh Dang It to Heck!: The third season finale ends with a montage of comedians and random New Yorkers declaring "Fuck you, 2016!" When it's "Weird Al" Yankovic's turn, Al, who prefers to keep his material somewhat family friendly, declares that "2016 â€¦ falls well below my standards of quality."
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: Infrastructure, a movie where if nothing happens, it's a good thing. After discussing the problems of the bail system, he thinks the reason why many communities haven't implemented pre-trial services is because most people think of bounty hunters like Dog the Bounty Hunter, so John created Pre-Trial Services.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_d1c3f8dd	comment	Sexy Whatever Outfit: In the Halloween 2014 episode, John is shocked to discover that "sexy" female Halloween costume versions of both comedian Louis C.K.note With bald patch and beard included. and himself are now available for purchase at the Playboy Store, commenting "I don't know if I've ever been as confused as I am right now" on the latter.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Jane Goodall, famed primatologist. In her interview with John, she is unfazed throughout by his ridiculous queries, yet cracks some great jokes of her own (such as suggesting the chimp name "Poothrow Wilson" become "Poothrow Hitler"), and chomps on a banana at the end through the skin like a chimp would, while John gags trying to do the same.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_d3510138	comment	Right on the Tick: John plays a video on Cade Cothren's texts that reveal he was doing drugs, and makes fun of the attention the clip puts on the exact time that these texts were sent despite the fact that the time has no real significance, rather than the actual content of said texts.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_d394829d	comment	Frivolous Lawsuit: After John heavily criticized coal CEO Bob Murray in a segment on coal, Murray sued him for defamation, despite all of the information presented on Murray being either factual or clearly satirical. True to this trope, a judge dismissed the case in February 2018 arguing that the plaintiff's side lacked merit.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Frequently, John will explode at a target of his criticism. And then in the Season Seven finale, he ended up on the receiving end of this from Adam Driver, who took issue with the season's running gag about him, being understandably more than a bit creeped out, getting John to apologize.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: John points out that slander laws give an exception to speech that is clearly ridiculous and not meant to be taken as factual, which he then realizes can be used to say purposefully ridiculous and over-the-top things about Bob Murray without it affecting his lawsuit against him. He does this in spectacular musical fashion.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_d46ddfa2	comment	Cloud Cuckoolander: John sometimes comes off as one, with his insistence that there's only one Olsen twin, his love of penguins, and various other eccentricities that pop up while he's giving the news. All in-character, of course, and it works really well; it's funny as hell, and it provides some levity to otherwise horrifying topics.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_d4acfe18	comment	Retroactive Recognitioninvoked: Discussed. The "Sex Education" episode reveals that Jonathan Banks, who played Professional Killer Mike Ehrmantraut on Breaking Bad, played an awkward teenage boy in a 1970s' sex ed film. At the end of the segment, Banks corrects a "fact" from that clip by clearly stating, "If anyone tells you that their period makes them better at bowling, they're a fucking idiot."
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_d50e7e13	comment	White Void Room: The show uses one in promotional materials, as seen in the page image. Once the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the show's studio, the new location was this. And it's an actual room in John's house. The August 22, 2021 was announced as the last to take place in the room, and the September 12, 2021 episode was the first to take place in the regular studio with a live audience since the pandemic began 18 months earlier.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: In his segment on voting, John points out that lawmakers who push restrictive voter ID laws in the name of preventing fraud are often guilty of stealing the votes of their fellow lawmakers during legislative sessions, some even using sticks to log in the vote of their fellow legislators while they're not even looking.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_d5a1770a	comment	John has jokingly claimed that in the UK, crying in public is punishable by exile from the country.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_d6653787	comment	Sudden Musical Ending: At the end of the "SLAPP Suits" Episode, John concludes with a big Broadway-style musical number filled with wild and crazy anecdotes about Bob Murray.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_d6707631	comment	Waxing Lyrical: When seeing that Brazil built a stadium for The World Cup that now was mostly used as a bus yard, John notes how "they paved paradise and put up a parking lot." John says that a successful Kickstarter on a Lionel Richie giant inflatable head should get its creators locked up "all night long. All night. All night."
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: John coins the term "Libyan pool party" for any time military action backfires (Vietnam, Iraq, etc.), taken from a clip of Libyan rebels capturing an embassy and then having a pool party.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_d85c505	comment	Racist Grandma: When John brings out people from all walks of life to demonstrate why gerrymandering is harmful to democracy, one is a racist grandma. He's quick to warn her not to say anything.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_d8e40b47	comment	El Spanish "-o": In his segment on civil forfeiture, John plays a clip of a cop trying — and we use that word charitably — to ask a truck driver if he has a large amount of money in his truck. His attempt, "Tenny mucho mucho denero in su trucky-trailer" (though John mishears denero as De Niro), is so comically wrong that John loves it for just how terrible it is, even noting the sentence's mispronunciations and impromptu shift from Spanish to English. What the cop is trying to say is "Tiene mucho dinero en su truck y trailer?" ("Do you have much money in your truck and trailer?").
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_db7efdaf	comment	Thailand's unhealthy to the point of hilarity obsession with Hitler. John even suggests entertainer Rip Taylor (a mustached and overtly theatrical guy) as a substitute. invoked
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_db99b292	comment	Mondegreen Gag: An "And now â€¦ This" segment shows a montage of news anchors saying "mask debate," the point of the joke being that it sounds like "masturbate."
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_dbca2c99	comment	Discussed during the segment on mental illness. One of the only times people — Republican legislators, in particular — appear to be willing to talk about it is in the aftermath of mass shootings, even though statistics acknowledge that mentally ill people are more likely to be the victims of violent crimes rather than the perpetrators, and each discussion comes off as a diversion in debates over gun control as ultimately neither problem is resolved.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_dbfd6b8	comment	Lyrical Dissonance: When talking about Ashley Madison â€” a dating website for adulterers â€” John plays one of their commercials: a poppy, auto-tuned piano melody â€¦ whose lyrics consist of an all-male chorus celebrating how the website helps them cheat on their wives. John calls the ad â€œthe catchiest song about being a complete monster Iâ€™ve ever heard since the Monster Mash.â€�
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_dc774000	comment	Start X to Stop X: In the episode about robocalls, with the FCC refusing to do anything to stop them, John sets up his own to send to all the organization's top people every 90 minutes until they decide it's worth addressing. The episode about the filibuster ends with John giving a filibuster about abolishing the filibuster, arguing that it is a needless hindrance in American politics.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_dc8ba6d5	comment	The Scapegoat: He calls out some Republican nominees for blaming mass shootings on mental illness so they won't have to address the issue of gun control; even though mentally ill people are more likely to the victims, rather than the perpetrators, of violent crimes.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_dca6a9d	comment	Start My Own: Occasionally does this as part of any story about certain industries or businesses being too unregulated. Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption is probably the biggest example.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_dcab4435	comment	Magic Floppy Disk: One of the many ridiculous things John points out about America's nuclear weapons. As in, the launch computers in nuclear missile silos use them. Oh, and they're not those memorable 3Â½-inch plastic ones that made a mess of Sandra Bullock's life in The Net. They're the 8-inch wide ones.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_dd34bb93	comment	Made from Real Girl Scouts: Comes up during one of John's digs at Guy Fieri.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_dd9fba61	comment	A Rare Sentence: In the segment on the NCAA, following an MTV Cribs-style clip showing the opulent football facilities at the University of Alabama illustrating how colleges aggressively use their funds to build stadiums and sports facilities: The sentence, "We did it perfectly at the end of The Vietnam War", regarding resettling refugees who helped the U.S. during the war, which he comments, "There is a sentence you donâ€™t often get to say out loud." "Scorpions, what is wrong with you? Stop hiding in bananas in Pittsburg area Walmarts, get your shit together, and fight terrorism like snakes and bees! What a sentence!" After a segment about Hungary in which protests led to successfully postpone the making of a law that would've taxed the internet, John notes that "the protest worked," a sentence he immediately compares to "Great one-man show," "Guy Fieri, that was delicious," or "I met my wife at Dave & Buster's." John noting how marijuana legislation being passed in several states and people celebrating it, the same night Donald Trump being elected President as "being a little weird." When discussing Lord Buckethead, a joke candidate in the UK's 2017 snap election who's made public denouncements about both Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn's lack of preparation for the upcoming Brexit talks: On Equifax: "That angry business-casual farm animal on Fox Business is talking sense." On NRA TV: "I didn't think this was possible, but I think that guy just slut-shamed marijuana." In the story about COVID-19 conspiracy theories (and conspiracy theories in general), John plays a clip of Rush Limbaugh, of all people, saying that Trump spreads conspiracy theories in such a way that he never says he actually believes them, as a way of deflecting backlash. In the story about Texas' 2021 anti-abortion law, John recounts how some Tik-Tok users are protesting it via posting links to Shrek porn on the website set up to report people violating it.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_dfa40c1b	comment	Didn't See That Coming: In his second segment on FIFA, John offered to sample the various products of FIFA's sponsors — most notably, a Bud Light Lime — if they would pressure Sepp Blatter into resigning. When Blatter actually did resign, John admits he never thought it would happen.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_e08f95fd	comment	Everything's Louder with Bagpipes: John feigns love for bagpipe music while trying to woo Scotland into remaining part of the United Kingdom in his segment about the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_e154ff08	comment	On a more terrifying note, one of the people that believes the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique works in real life is Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: John eventually shutters Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption after receiving several bottles of semen, some of which are presumed to be fake and others â€¦ not so much. He considers this the point at which any endeavor has met its end. All the (monetary) donations were in turn given to Doctors Without Borders.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_e1f59bf0	comment	Musical Episode: The end of the SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) episode, after Oliver explains that the West Virginia court where Murray was suing him threw out the defamation lawsuit, has Oliver put on a Broadway Musical daring Murray, who is currently facing bankruptcy, to go ahead and sue for defamation again for singing shit about him.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_e26465db	comment	Backhanded Apology: Done for laughs when John "apologized" for being snarky about Fifty Shades of Grey.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: Both John himself and others note For example, in the "Fan Mail" videos and the "John is a rat-faced bastard" Running Gag. have frequently compared his appearance to that of a rat or a bird (particularly big-billed birds like puffins, parrots and toucans).
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_e3a3bc2	comment	Adjacent to This Complete Breakfast: John compares the ineffectiveness of "FDA Cleared" certification to this trope, saying that even heroin can be part of a balanced breakfast if you put it with enough healthy foodstuffs.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_e409de66	comment	Manipulative Editing: Invoked and played for laughs in the chicken industry segment.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_e44a1a70	comment	Bounty Hunter: Deconstructed in a segment on bail. Shows like Dog the Bounty Hunter have glamorized them, but bounty hunting is a profession that requires no real qualifications, tests, or even background checks, and they often endanger people who for the most part have been accused of victimless crimes.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_e4f05faa	comment	Jaw Drop: In "Family Separation", after the harrowing scene of son and mother's strained relationship due to Trump's policy, you can briefly see John's mouth wide open in shock and disgust.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_e545d293	comment	Narm: Invoked when John considers the ridiculous line "Socks don't protect my heart", from a sex education video promoting abstinence which compared a woman who had already lost her virginity to heavily used shoes, to be the funniest thing ever said on the show, and he's furious that his people didn't write it.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_e57c714d	comment	Insane Equals Violent: Discussed during the segment on mental illness. One of the only times people — Republican legislators, in particular — appear to be willing to talk about it is in the aftermath of mass shootings, even though statistics acknowledge that mentally ill people are more likely to be the victims of violent crimes rather than the perpetrators, and each discussion comes off as a diversion in debates over gun control as ultimately neither problem is resolved. Played straight during the May 22, 2016 segment on Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov (and his lost cat), with John insinuating that Kadyrov is psychotic for his human rights abuses and his authoritarianism.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: In discussing the right to remove embarrassing links from internet searches, John plays a clip of CNBC anchor Brian Sullivan hypothetically suggesting "that article of me running over a squirrel on my bicycle while drunk and naked" as something one might want removed. John concludes that Sullivan must have done this in the past, as it is too bizarrely specific to be a spontaneous, off-the-cuff example and not something he is personally familiar with — then, just in case there isn't a photo somewhere of Sullivan doing just that, he creates a Photoshopped approximation of it, and declares it will soon be everywhere on the Internet (true to form, "squirrel" shot up to the second Google Search suggestion when typing "Brian Sullivan", and remains near the top to this day). John maintains that FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler stating outright that he isn't secretly a dingo, then adding that he had to look up what the animal was on the Internet, is exactly how a dingo would lie about being a dingo disguised as a human being. After British prime minister David Cameron was connected to a shell corporation mentioned in the Panama Papers, Cameron responded in a speech saying he "doesn't own shares in that company". The press took such wording as an invitation to look further, and found that yes, he was correct: Cameron didn't own shares in that company at the time he made the statement, because he had already sold them. After Louise Linton, wife of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, asked one of her critics on social media whether they thought the government had paid for their European honeymoon, John pointed out that this was a suspiciously specific thing to ask out of nowhere, and indeed, surprising nobodyone, it transpired that they indeed tried to get the government to pay for it (fortunately, it refused).
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_e6730c11	comment	Accidental Aesopinvoked: John played a portion of Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (as a depiction of how much of an Anti-Drug fervor we were in the 80s and 90s) before mentioning this:
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_e6775fbe	comment	Old Money: In his segment on the wealth gap, John argues that the increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of a rich elite coupled with fewer taxes on inheritance may lead to America developing a "landed gentry" reminiscent of the one that traditionally ruled John's native England.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_e6c88e42	comment	Old Shame: At the end of his segment of Sex Education, Jonathan Banks appears at the end to condemn an old PSA commercial he shot in the 70s: namely that only a "fucking idiot" would believe that getting a period makes a girl better at bowling. John himself expressed regret on the show, just before the 2016 elections, about a bit he did on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart where he encouraged Trump to run for president, because he thought that would be really funny at the time. In the segment on public shaming, John expressed regret about another Daily Show piece he participated in. It was a bit commemorating the 10-year anniversary of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, which featured a graphic reading "Ten Suckin' Years". Looking back, John calls it "gross", feeling that it just added to the intense and disproportionate amount of humiliation the media put Lewinsky through.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_e794cb54	comment	Powered by a Forsaken Child: A kid's presentation on an anthropomorphic piece of coal in the episode on coal mining gets turned into this as its logical conclusion.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_e7ab58d3	comment	City of Everywhere: The city in the background is a composite, containing landmarks from New York, D.C., London, and many other cities, with what may be the tip of a pyramid looming in the background. In early episodes, the background also contained "Castle Dragonstone" from Game of Thrones.(Link.)
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_e83f211c	comment	"Trump & the Coronavirus" is one, long rant towards former president Donald Trump and how he responded to the pandemic. The few times where John loses his composure are when he voices his concern for his staff and his concern for the medical groups breaking their backs carrying America through the pandemic. He's also barely restraining himself when he repeatedly points out Trump's callousness when he ignored advice from medical professionals, refused to set an example for the public, and sociopathically ignoring the pleas from the medical professionals for help with controlling mass infections. There's so much rage and hate in John's voice that there's barely any jokes in the episode to lighten the mood.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_e8749dab	comment	Teach Him Anger: John admires how polite and milquetoast North Dakotans are (including showing a picture of a real billboard there that simply says "Be Polite"), but after discovering how much damage is being done to them by the oil industry, John produced a video encouraging North Dakotans to get angry at the oil industry instead of welcoming them. He also had a billboard put up telling them "Be Angry. (Please.)"
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_e9e35e8f	comment	After British prime minister David Cameron was connected to a shell corporation mentioned in the Panama Papers, Cameron responded in a speech saying he "doesn't own shares in that company". The press took such wording as an invitation to look further, and found that yes, he was correct: Cameron didn't own shares in that company at the time he made the statement, because he had already sold them.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License â€“ Geography: Invokes this trope in a Running Gag in which he mentions a country, saying "a country you think about so littleâ€¦", and then revealing that the map graphic he's using is highlighting the wrong country (exposing the viewers' unfamiliarity with such countries). It started with his segment on smoking, in which John brings up a graphic of South America with Uruguay highlighted. He then points out that most of his viewers know so little about the country, they didn't realize he's actually highlighted Paraguay, at which point the highlight switches to the correct country. The joke is repeated with Bolivia in the next week's segment on judicial elections, highlighting two wrong countries before moving to the right one and lampshading that it will always be funny. Perhaps because they reused the same graphic and didn't think to adjust it, the background flag is that of Uruguay. And repeated again with Venezuela in a segment about embattled President NicolÃ¡s Maduro being sent mangoes written with demands for him to provide services, this time highlighting two wrong countries (Bolivia and Uruguay) before revealing that he had it right the first time, but now that the viewers know the joke, they didn't realize it. Done again with Nebraska. In a segment on the abolition of the death penalty in that state, he first highlights the neighboring state of South Dakota before switching to the correct state. John then scolds the audience for not knowing the geography of their own country. Repeated once again with Azerbaijan in a segment on the Olympics-analog European Games. This time, the false Azerbaijan he initially highlighted wasn't even a land mass but a body of water to the east of it, the Caspian Sea, upping the element of surprise. The joke is done again in a non-geographic context with the US Secretary of Transportation, using a made-up name and a stock photo. Repeated yet again with Guatemala in a segment on that country's elections in 2015. This time he just shows a map of Central America with nothing highlighted at all, and tells us to just look it up for ourselves if we want to know which country Guatemala is. When discussing the 2015 Canadian elections, the joke is subverted, as instead of showing a map, John refers to Canada as "the country you think about so little, that's it. End of sentence." In the introduction of the segment about the release of the Panama Papers,note Documents that revealed prominent individuals with offshore accounts in the Central American nation. the false Panama shown is a rough outline of a Scottish terrier, which the actual country shown afterward strangely resembles. In his student film on special districts, he has the kids pull this with the Nile in Egypt. The Season 4 premiere goes completely meta with the gag, as he brings up various disappointing topics the show can cover that year, including special tax districts, "a topic so boring you didn't remember we actually did an episode on it last year." When he actually returns to the map version of the gag at the start of his segment about the Bolivian "Zebras for Road Safety" program, he does a particularly elaborate version of it: Another variant of this gag is done for which member of The Bee Gees is still alive in the segment on the American Health Care Act. Another variant is during his endorsement web-exclusive, where he brings up how Trump is endorsed by Stephen Baldwin, showing a different one of the Baldwin brothers. In his story about Facebook usage in Myanmar, John reveals that the graphic he's using for the country is actually Mikhail Gorbachev's birthmark. Averted when he talks about Ukraine following Russia's invasion of the country in 2022; since it was in the news a lot, he refers to Ukraine as, "A country you know so much about". When he covered Belarus, he started with the game and a mini-rant about how it was meant to encourage people to learn more about geography, not invokedan exercise in ongoing humiliation. It was then double-subverted when he revealed he played he had highlighted the wrong country, though he didn't identify it as Lithuania. ("Happy now, you freaks?")
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_ea5c413d	comment	Since AT&T purchased Time Warner John's made a sport of taking cheap shots at AT&T as part of a(n often unrelated) joke, and then gleefully saying things like "You like that, Business Daddy? I got you good!"
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: John's proposed streaming video network Nutflix, where it mostly shows people getting kicked in the balls, which he mentions in his segment about net neutrality.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_eb04f8d5	comment	Fascist, but Inefficient: In collecting money from municipal violations from those who are too poor to pay, the system will often waste an inordinate amount of resources prosecuting them for that inability, including jail time, the overall cost of which far exceeds any money they might recoup from the offender. On a similar note, John explains that, due to the ineptitude of the Florida justice system, a sickly, non-violent offender was imprisoned because he could not cover the cost for a public defender, which contradicts the constituional right to be provided a free, public defender if a person cannot pay for a lawyer on their own. While the state was eventually paid the fee, John notes that it was much less than the money the state paid to imprison him.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_ebbf48c0	comment	Silent Credits: After his O.O.C. Is Serious Business signoff in the "Police Brutality" episode, silent white-text-on-black-background credits play instead of the normal black-text-on-white-background credits set to the show's Instrumental Theme Tune.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_ec133ae3	comment	Discouraging Concealment: In an episode on encryption, John describes two ways of making sure no one reads your email: Encrypting it, or titling it "Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Hilarious Joke From Uncle Walter".
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_ec1a1233	comment	Running Gagged: The Adam Driver gag got a resolution in the Season Seven finale, with Adam himself showing up to chew John out about it.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_eca7a21d	comment	Song Parody: In response to learning that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's music downloads include "I'm So Sexy" by Right Said Fred, and realizing that we're basically never getting rid of Assad because the alternative is even worse, John decides there is only one recourse: actually getting Right Said Fred to do a parody of their own song calling out Assad. Michael Bolton also did "How Am I Are We Supposed to Live Without You", about the IRS.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_ecb480a4	comment	Two Words: I Can't Count: In the COVID vaccine episode:
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_edd102ba	comment	Soul-Sucking Retail Job: Working in a dollar store is one, according to first- and third-person coverage of such. It's not much of a surprise, therefore, that some dollar-store employees have gone "Take This Job and Shove It" — in real life or in the "Dollar Bucket" satirical sketch at the end of the segment.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_eeaeb6df	comment	Appeal to Obscurity: In his web video on going back to school, John compares the coverage of Asia and Africa in the curriculum to his knowledge of actor Penn Badgley. You can describe the general shape, but that's about it.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_eef90616	comment	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: In the "Lead" episode, John reacts to an old clip describing the titular element as "humble" by suggesting some other personalities for metals: "Passionate zinc, whimsical copper, or incredibly racist tin." One "And Now, This" segment featured the narrator giving new names to the dogs who participated in the 2021 Westminster Dog Show. Almost all of them were goofy names based on their appearance or just non-sensical, such as "Beef", "Good Carl", and "Bad Carl", except one of them, "Cuban Exile and CIA Asset Antonio Veciana Claimed He Witnessed a High-Ranking CIA Officer Meet with Lee Harvey Oswald in September of 1963."
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_ef2fcbe1	comment	Le Film Artistique: John's monologue at the end of the French presidential election episode was filmed in black and white, has him deliver the closing monologue in French, smoking cigarettes, and with an accordion player right beside him, while sitting in a bistro overlooking the Eiffel tower.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_f05444a4	comment	"Holy shit!", said with bewilderment by John at least Once per Episode following a surprising statement in the preceding clip.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: During his segment on the Indian election.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_f174d8e8	comment	Trying Not to Cry: In the episode on Trump's family separation policy, John is visibly shaken after watching a gut-wrenching clip of a five year old from Honduras who is traumatized after being locked away from his mother for a month. John struggles to hold back tears of anger while ripping into the policy that allowed that to happen. It is rare and often really subtle, but there are a few more moments where something is so upsetting or moving that John seems to become genuinely emotional, such as in "Police" and "Mandatory Minimums".
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: In the OAN episode, he mocks host Chanel Rion have a word of the day calendar that in the end is basically imploring her viewers to use these words to seem smarter, which Oliver uses aganist her both by describing it with the word "Fanfaranode" and using a string of them at the end.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_f4412666	comment	Sex Miseducation Class: Discussed by John. Due to there being no federal standard for sex education classes and certain conservative districts limit what can be said during sex education classes, many students wind up under or misinformed about sex. Attention is also pointed at creative workarounds, such as teachers who aren't allowed to show how to put on a condom instead give a demonstration on how to properly put on a sock.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_f47bdd2a	comment	Violent Glaswegian: In the segment about the Scottish independence vote, John commented that Scotland's national flower is the thistle, and mused that they probably chose it because it's a flower they can stab someone's throat with; and when he mentioned later that, if the vote succeeded, their currency would change from the British pound sterling to the one they had before joining the United Kingdom, he assumed that said currency was "sheep and threats."
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_f4cd67af	comment	Bob from Accounting: Recurring character Janice in Accounting, who "doesn't give a fuck."
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_f642b1f9	comment	You Bastard!: John isn't afraid to point out when the viewing audience might have some fault for the things he criticizes. For example, at the end of his segment on native advertising, in which he criticizes the insidious and increasingly unethical ways in which advertisers are slipping advertising into news content, he points out that the reason they are forced to go to such lengths is that the public has been spoiled by the easy availability of free news media thanks to the Internet, meaning that this is one of the only ways they can stay afloat.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_f6d4d22d	comment	Everything's Precious with Puppies: In order to make Supreme Court hearings more interesting to the general public (as the Supreme Court doesn't allow cameras into the hearings), the show staged a hearing using dogs as the justices and lawyers, dropped the raw footage on YouTube, and then basically sat around to allow the internet to do its thing. In order to prove to Dr. Oz that you can pander without making false claims about products, John brought out an adorable puppy that he literally calls precious.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: After Jack Warner called him a "comedian fool", John replied that that wasn't an insult so much as his business card. During the Season 3 trailer, John actually agrees with the criticism thrown at him, and he seems less perturbed by the fact that Cher said he had a "wee rat face", and more amazed that Cher acknowledged that he existed! (for context, she said that to finish a praising tweet, of all things!) In both the Season 3 trailer and subsequent social media covers for the show, there are four negative assessments they had to be proud of — along with "comedian fool", there was "more unpleasant than a diuretic", "very boring", and "Makes people dumb".
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_f76b8969	comment	Anthropomorphic Personification: He goes in-depth regarding "Lumpy" during his segment on coal, finishing off with this.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_f8014e64	comment	Homeschooled Kids: Discussed in his October 8, 2023 segment, as John acknowledges considerable nuance in homeschooling in America. Namely, while he acknowledged some Truth in Television of the stereotype of right-wing evangelical parents who homeschool their children due to objections over the culture of public education, John also pointed out that there were plenty of left-wing families across the United States who homeschool their children as well (often due to white-washed cirriculums or lack of resources in accomodating special-needs children). John also acknowleged the little federal oversight over homeschooling, and the negative impacts that this approach has had on some homeschooled children.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_f9c3ecc6	comment	Series Fauxnale: At the end of the May 6, 2018 episode, it was revealed that the Blockbuster in Alaska accepted the Russell Crowe memorabilia the show bought for them, and Crowe then donated a large amount of money to the Australia Zoo, which is run by the family of the late Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, and used it to set up the John Oliver Koala Chlamydia Ward. John then announced that having a Koala Chlamydia ward named after him was the goal of the show, and announced that he was stepping down, and thanked all his viewers for watching the show all these years, walking off set as it was being taken down. On May 13, 2018, he started his show by claiming that his contract with HBO is still in effect, and he can't just walk away like he tried to do. Also, he claimed that he visited the ward, and was disgusted by the koalas up close that he doesn't want anything to do with them.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Highlighting a country on a map, then saying "a country you think about so littleâ€¦", and then revealing that the map graphic he's using is highlighting the wrong country, then chastising the audience for knowing so little about the country that they didn't notice. Sometimes this is coupled with showing the wrong flag in the background of the map, which goes uncommented. "Fuck you, X!" / "Fuck this guy!" John will issue this proclamation tongue-in-cheek for various reasons. For example, when the race horse California Chrome lost the chance to win the Triple Crown, he puts up a picture of the other horse and says "I wanted a different horse! Fuck this horse!" Whenever John watches a video of any kind that tries to portray its topic as hip, badass, interesting or intimidating, John simply replies emotionlessly with a bored expression, "Cool". Assigning names and entire fictional backstories to characters played by stock photo models while using their pictures in jokes, such as "Declan", the goldbricking douchebag son of a successful lawyer ("You're the WORST, Declan!"), and "Gerald", a fat guy who will pay $750 for a gym membership he won't use ("This is learning to speak Korean all over again, Gerald!").note Tom Schlarping and John even both acknowledged it as one of their own personal favorite elements of the program during an interview on The Best Show. Making up Twitter hashtags based on random jokes (e.g. #HalfAHemsworth for his claim that Liam Hemsworth is worth half of his brother Chris Hemsworth). Their most common is to include the pair "#Feminism, #[completely unrelated topic]" as a tongue-in-cheek note of female inclusion and equality even in the most ridiculous circumstances. At the end of most episodes, blowing a bunch of HBO's money on ridiculous stuff like Japanese mascots or a decently star studded trailer for a fake film about infrastructure or buying up $15 million dollars in medical debt and forgiving it all in the biggest TV giveaway in history. "John Oliver is a rat-faced bastard." After setting up his Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption church, John received a note and a t-shirt calling him such. Later, in fake advertisement for Peeble, an app in which users are rated by Mario van Peebles, Mario calls him a rat-faced bastard and gives him two stars. The trailer for the third season featured one of Cher's tweets, which said John has a "wee rat face" (with the rat represented by a rat emoji). Saying that only a certain group can successfully make an article of clothing look good, then showing an image of Gwyneth Paltrow doing the same as a counterpoint. "Janice in Accounting don't give a fuck." As of 2017, mentions of "President Trump" are followed by examples of other words that just sound wrong together, with the latter generally being famous people with not-quite-common names, such as "walrus porn" or "Tilda Swinton". Speaking of Tilda Swinton, there have been multiple gags about John being creeped out by her. John absolutely hates Caillou. Referring to Sean Spicer as Melissa McCarthy, following her portrayal of him on Saturday Night Live. Whenever John wants to relay a message to Donald Trump directly, he takes out an ad on programs Trump watches, always narrated by the Catheter Cowboy, a parody of catheter ads in which a cowboy shills said product. Shilling DeWalt ladders and taking swipes at their competition, Werner, while insisting that he's only doing so out of a personal fondness for the former. John insisting that the Olsen Twins are in fact one person who is moving back and forth at superhuman speeds to create the illusion of being two people, and that there is a grand conspiracy to convince the world there are two of them, for reasons he cannot understand. It even showed up in the segment about Facebook, where a scene when various people mention conspiracy theories lists the Olsen twin among them. The Celebrity Resemblance between John and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, usually combined with John gushing over how handsome Mnuchin is. In season four, after catching Donald Trump in a lie or mistake, John will sometimes proclaim "We got him!" and start a celebration, only to be informed that he's still President regardless. Eventually, the tiger mascot loses his temper and smashes the button. Then he switches it up with a "We got her!" button after the Olsen twins being unable to prove him wrong in person is taken as proof they're actually one person. Post-Game of Thrones finale, repeated jabs at HBO's status as a network taking a nosedive. That began during the final season's airing. Responding to fearmongering about crime rates with, "Is this The Purge?", followed by him wondering how exactly the Purge works. Since AT&T purchased Time Warner John's made a sport of taking cheap shots at AT&T as part of a(n often unrelated) joke, and then gleefully saying things like "You like that, Business Daddy? I got you good!" During the 2020 season, John thirsting over Adam Driver, intensely ordering him to attack him. Every year since 2017, when the news note pumpkin spice latte has returned there is a montage glorifying that. Talking about how fuckable horses are whenever a horse is mentioned. As a nod to how Texas senator Ted Cruz filibustered against Obamacare by reading Green Eggs and Ham in 2013, John often uses Green Eggs and Ham-eseque rhymes to denounce Cruz whenever he's discussing him. During the 2021 season, John reveals that when he snaps his fingers, he can summon George Clooney. This has lead to several moments where he does it on accident and summons a very annoyed George. In one instance, George reveals that when he claps his hands, he can summon Kermit the Frog, but he doesn't do it out of respect. John dares him to do it anyway, whicn upsets both George and Kermit. In the season finale, George had gotten so sick of this that he gave John the power to call on any other celebrities, so he summons Jennifer Coolidge, Will Ferrell, Ru Paul, Cardi B, and Leslie Jones.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: When the American electronics chain Radioshack went out of business after 94 years (in actuality, its stores were folded into Sprint as extensions of its existing store chain), John offered the company use of a farewell video that consisted of about a minute and a half of the announcer giving a Cluster F-Bomb to America for making Radioshack's slow demise into a punchline. One of the judges in Bob Murray's case against John turns out to be someone he mocked on his segment on elections for judges. subverted when he and the other judges all get impeached for an unrelated scandal.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: The NY/NJ Port Authority claims that the small commemorative plates featuring the New York City skyline being sold by local kitchenware chain Fishs Eddy are potentially damaging to its control of its own public image, while ignoring the Wretched Hive that is the Port Authority Bus Terminal, which multiple people interviewed on the street describe as "scuzzy", "fucking disgusting", and "kind of like a dumpy shithole from The '80s". John details a school field trip in New Hampshire to the state legislature, where they introduced a bill to make the red-tailed hawk the official state raptor. Rather than just humor the kids and pass what was essentially a meaningless bit of fluff, the merit of even reviewing another bill was debated at length, with State Rep. John Burt sarcastically remarking "Bottom line, if we keep bringing more of these bills [forward] â€¦ we'll be picking a state hot dog next", and Rep. Warren Groen even using the characteristics of said hawk as an out-of-left-field swipe at Planned Parenthood. The bill was ultimately defeated by a narrow margin; worse, as John notes, it all took place with that same class of children in attendance. In his short segment on International Women's Day 2016, John takes the time to highlight various figures who just don't quite get it. Russian President Vladimir Putin unintentionally brings up the Double Standard of women having to control their emotions in the workplace. Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan says that he thinks women are mothers above all else, and that economic independence is bad for them. In China, a shopping mall offers discounts to women, but only those deemed sufficiently attractive by a facial scanner. Finally, Fox News commentator Greta Van Susteren decides to congratulate men for being better than the Taliban (or, as John puts it, giving them credit for "doing basically nothing").
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_fc6845d0	comment	Virile Stallion: Parodied in the episode about Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, the president of Turkmenistan who associates himself with horses (specifically Akhal-Tekes, the national breed of Turkmenistan) and John makes fun of this by implying that his love for horses borders on bestiality. Berdimuhamedov has written books about horses, wrote a poem about one of his horses, instituted horse beauty competitions, made it illegal to rename Akhal-Tekes, has horse-themed decorations in his office, and calls himself the "People's Horse Breeder".
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_fd76df83	comment	Artistic License â€“ Economics: John demonstrates how Donald Trump's much-vaunted border wall is built primarily of this trope, first by showing video clips of how Trump's own estimation of the cost of the wall tripled over time, then demonstrating how even that figure wouldn't cover the cost of engineering, construction, and maintenance. And even that figure would need to be increased, due to the border passing through large tracts of uninhabited desert, so a whole network of access roads would have to be built first. Then he takes on Trump's claim that the project could be paid for out of the US trade deficit with Mexico, which Oliver describes as "literally not how anything works". Trump's questionable grasp on economics returns in an episode which discusses his obsession with the trade deficit in China. Oliver shows Trump talking about how the trade deficit means that not trading with China at all would save money.note Trade deficit simply means you are buying more from a country than you are selling to them. Whatever one may think about trade deficits, it is flat out wrong to claim it is throwing money away when you obtain goods in exchange for the money. The guy spearheading the issue in the administration seems to be Peter Navarro. When an interviewer asked him to name any economists who agree with his views about international trade, he gave two names. One was a professor who said there is no evidence to support Navarro's claims, the other was a blogger whose response was that he has no degree in economics.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_fd9763d3	comment	While John refused to apologize to Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa for insulting him, he did apologize to Ecuadorian celebrity clown Tiko Tiko for assuming him to be a generic clown (as any good Non-Ironic Clown, Tiko Tiko was offended when John made Monster Clown jokes), because Tiko Tiko scares the crap of him.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Employed often, as something shown at the beginning of the segment will be brought back for the payoff. Invoked in the segment on the problems with the instruction of sex education in American schools, which starts with John showing an old sex ed video staring a young Jonathan Banks in which having a period is shown to make women somehow super good at bowling. The parody sex ed video at the end of the segment ends with Banks showing up and telling the viewer that anyone who says that having a period makes you good at bowling is a fucking idiot. North Korea loves accordions, and John lists "Weird Al" Yankovic as one of the few people who share this opinion. So the segment ends with Al singing a polka asking North Korea not to nuke the U.S. In the episode about the crisis in Venezuela, John introduces Venezuela as the country that "gave the world oil, seven Miss Universes, six Miss Worlds and one Wilmer Valderrama," and at one point mentions embattled Venezuelan President NicolÃ¡s Maduro's infamous claim that his late predecessor Hugo ChÃ¡vez appeared to him as a bird. So of course a bird appears at the end sending a message to President Maduro, and guess who plays the bird? Seven Miss Universes? John says that the Brett Kavanaugh hearings are so bad he can't talk about the new Philadelphia Flyers mascot, Gritty, as much as he wishes to due to Gritty's really weird appearance. By the end of the episode-long segment, John decides that Gritty will stand in for Kavanaugh on their animal Supreme Court. At various points during the Trump presidency, whenever he became embroiled in a scandal that seemed to be the end of him, John brought out a button and shouted "We got him!", unfurling a banner and triggering a celebration. When Trump lost the 2020 election, the Couch Gag of the next episode featured the "WE GOT HIM!" banner.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_fea27091	comment	Buffy Speak: When introducing the Stand Your Ground Law segment, John describes guns as "big pew-pew sticks that go boom-boom".
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