Last Week Tonight
The Gay Mike Pence Bunny Book Exposes The Idiocy Of The Straight Mike Pence Bunny Book
In an interview on The Colbert Report shortly before he died, Where the Wild Things author Maurice Sendak dismisses one of Colbert's children's book ideas as "so bad that it not only will sell, it will make pots and pots of money." Like Colbert's fictional counterpart, Mike ...read more
John Oliver Made Mike Pence's Pet Rabbit Into A Gay Children's Book
On Sunday's episode of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, America's favorite bespectacled former British citizen dedicated the bulk of his show to tormenting America's least favorite anti-gay religious fanatic, Vice President Mike Pence. During the segment, in which he detailed ...read more
John Oliver: Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump Shouldn't Help You Sleep At Night
Last week, I wrote about Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's efforts to make it look like their completely unprecedented roles in the administration are having a moderating effect on Donald Trump. When in reality, they simply found ways to make it look like he's not doing the ...read more
John Oliver Explains How the Police Can Legally Take Your Possessions, in His Best Segment Yet
It's been said before but it bears repeating because it's such a shock to watch John Oliver's Last Week Tonight on HBO each week and behold the kind of work he's doing. While Oliver's team doesn't independently chase down sources nor confront its targets for comment, the detail ...read more
John Oliver Utterly Destroys the Miss America Pageant
If you're not watching Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, you really are missing out on one of the smartest, funniest and quite frankly most vital news and entertainment shows on television. Oliver does something even real news outlets don't do anymore by taking up to 20 ...read more