Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

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Vaclav

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yeah I am probably gonna vote for Trump but Oliver was pretty spot on there and made me a bit uncomfortable, even though I know all that shit. Its a pretty sad world when your only two choices are gonna be Hillary or Trump, but even sadder thinking that the only other real choices were gonna be Hillary vs Cruz or Hillary vs Rubio
Crubio would be a trainwreck.
 

Gravel

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I wish he'd do more stuff like that, and less SJW bullshit. The last few episodes before this break have left me wanting to abandon ship.
 

Tenks

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I wish he'd do more stuff like that, and less SJW bullshit. The last few episodes before this break have left me wanting to abandon ship.
You're not a fan of watching a show just parroting biased liberal talking points completely and often times purposefully ignoring valid counter arguments? What is this currentyear?
 

Soygen

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Not sure I can deal with a season of nothing but unfunny Trump bashing. There's 10 other shows to fill that gap.
 
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spronk

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that was a pretty funny promo, but yeah him and sam bee just yelling shrilly about how trump is bad mmmmk isn't that interesting or watchable

the rest of those shows though, fucking A i can't wait. its really too bad he couldn't get westworld in there too, BAD JOHN BAD
 

moonarchia

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I skipped all the Trump junk after I heard it a couple times. His actual article pieces are worth watching.
 

iannis

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Yeah. Stewart wasn't afraid to go after Bush / Cheney, but his go-to target was FoxNews.

Olliver's go-to target does seem to be Trump.
 
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Screamfeeder

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Not sure I can deal with a season of nothing but unfunny Trump bashing. There's 10 other shows to fill that gap.
I liked Last Week Tonight more when it focused on the off-beat stories that don't get much media traction. The heavy Trump stuff in the lead up to the election was overdone and almost childish at points.

Hopefully it gets better. I still think John Oliver would have made a better Daily Show replacement.
 
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Soygen

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Yeah, his expose pieces were always very good and if they focused on those more, I'm down.
 
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Valderen

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Yeah. Stewart wasn't afraid to go after Bush / Cheney, but his go-to target was FoxNews.

Olliver's go-to target does seem to be Trump.

It's such an easy target though, material essentially write itself. :)

That being said the show is at it's best when they do their expose on some stuff that isn't getting much coverage elsewhere.
 

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I thought he actually somewhat restrained himself when it came to the election, since most other shows went full steam ahead with the Trump bashing. The expose pieces are what most people watch the show for I think, if they cut the short skits and extended that, I'd be happy.
 

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I still think John Oliver would have made a better Daily Show replacement.

That's not saying much. Trevor Noah seems like an interesting guy in interviews, but his Daily Show is unwatchable.
 
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That's not saying much. Trevor Noah seems like an interesting guy in interviews, but his Daily Show is unwatchable.

I used to watch the Daily Show...but I can't stand it now. It doesn't help that @Midnight has run it's course...Just a dead spot on the bedtime schedule that has been filled by Netflix and Amazon shows.

And agreed, the off-center topics like Mega Evangelical Church scams and FIFA are when John Oliver shines.
 
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That's not saying much. Trevor Noah seems like an interesting guy in interviews, but his Daily Show is unwatchable.
Yeah, he seems to be getting better but there are so many times while watching it that I just roll my eyes knowing Stewart would have done a much better job with the topic. I give the dude a few years before he grows into it. Took Stewart that long.
 
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Trevor Noah isn't bad, but he's no Jon Stewart.

It's also gone from leaning left to full on left wing circle jerk.

I think Oliver's on par with Stewart as far as being funny, but going full out anti-Trump the last few episodes was really disappointing.
 
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Soygen

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Trevor Noah is "ok". The writing team is terrible at TDS now. It's just not funny and I had to remove it from my DVR line-up; something I had never done before.
 
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