Television Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

This latest episode is probably one of the best I've seen from this show.
 
Jonny on form this week.

Loved The response to the Charlie Daniels NRA tirade:
The hill demons, the lake dog and the tiptoeing gators down in Cajun country … "that's the America I know and, I promise you, you're gonna be confused by it!"
 
I thought last night's show was excellent. The whole ending, the book thing, was truly inspired and really funny at the same time.

It's just getting better and better, really.
 
The book bit was brilliant. Lithgow as Pence :lol:

Been a great series so far, although to be fair the quality is always higher in the first few episodes after the show has had some time off. Some of the long segments must take ages to do.
 
Massive Spanner said:
The book bit was brilliant. Lithgow as Pence :lol:

Been a great series so far, although to be fair the quality is always higher in the first few episodes after the show has had some time off. Some of the long segments must take ages to do.
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I saw an interview where John was saying that some of the long segments are in the works for many months... it must be a pretty hard show to plan
 
fishfingers15 said:
I thought the book was a bit out of taste, but his segment on Pence was great.
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How so? The feeling I get from the 3 seasons and a bit more so far is that he's very genuine about the LGBT cause, and I think his dislike for Pence and his positions is pretty sincere. It didn't really seem forced or anything to me. I thought it was genuinely funny given they were actually making a book about the real rabbit, so ripping it off was fun in itself, but doubled with the fact that the proceeds go to that cause, I think that's pretty cool.
 
Rooney in Paris said:
How so? The feeling I get from the 3 seasons and a bit more so far is that he's very genuine about the LGBT cause, and I think his dislike for Pence and his positions is pretty sincere. It didn't really seem forced or anything to me. I thought it was genuinely funny given they were actually making a book about the real rabbit, so ripping it off was fun in itself, but doubled with the fact that the proceeds go to that cause, I think that's pretty cool.
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I loved his takedown of Pence and I think John Oliver is funny and invested in everything he does. I just think it's a bit OTT to put a book out there for children to read, just to spite Pence. Proceeds go to a good cause, but there is a cost associated with producing a book and I just think it could have been put to better use.
 
Rooney in Paris said:
How so? The feeling I get from the 3 seasons and a bit more so far is that he's very genuine about the LGBT cause, and I think his dislike for Pence and his positions is pretty sincere. It didn't really seem forced or anything to me. I thought it was genuinely funny given they were actually making a book about the real rabbit, so ripping it off was fun in itself, but doubled with the fact that the proceeds go to that cause, I think that's pretty cool.
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I thought the book bit was forced. Felt social justice warrior-y.
 
I love him and the show but sometimes he annoys me in his quest to be offended. Last week he was in a huff because McDonald's turned their logo upside down for international women's day. What's wrong with that?

Later in the episode he proceeded to do a mocking Russian accent when discussing Putin. Mocking accents are something he does quite often actually yet he'd be the first to spit his dummy out if Trump or any other public figure were to do the same thing.
 
Pink Moon said:
I love him and the show but sometimes he annoys me in his quest to be offended. Last week he was in a huff because McDonald's turned their logo upside down for international women's day. What's wrong with that?

Later in the episode he proceeded to do a mocking Russian accent when discussing Putin. Mocking accents are something he does quite often actually yet he'd be the first to spit his dummy out if Trump or any other public figure were to do the same thing.
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I work for McDonald's and I wasn't offended by the logo turning upside down and it was just a trivial thing on the show :lol: I think as a comedian, he does get some artistic license to mock people but it is different from people like Trump and other politicians

Just pointing out that to different people, different things matter. I thought it was funny but I thought the rabbit book was over the top.
 
fishfingers15 said:
Proceeds go to a good cause, but there is a cost associated with producing a book and I just think it could have been put to better use.
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Selling shit will always be the greatest way to make people give money to charity. Ideally people would just donate regardless if they want to, but there are countless of examples that people are more willing to buy something where the profit goes to charity rather than donating. I'd be very surprised if they could've gotten even close to the donations they'll get from the profits from the book. This book and the ebook are currently no. 1 and 2 on the hot new releases for Children's books on amazon (Pence's is in 3rd). Thought it was a funny and well planned way to tell Pence and the other evangelists to go feck themselves while helping out organisations that help people that Pence and co. directly harm.

Besides, I doubt it was that expensive to make really. Some staffers wrote the book I believe (read somewhere that Jill Twiss, who's listed as the author, is also Janice from accounting!), so they were already getting paid regardless and I imagine that the narrators for the audiobook did it for free. So it's only really the cost of producing the physical book, and Amazon's cut of course.
 
Strange to see some people's reaction to the book … which I found to be inspired and must have taken some outrageous planning to execute to that standard in time to coincide with the real bunny book launch (not to mention set up the audio book, web sites, make the animation etc.) … and it's all for a good cause!

Not forgetting that as well as the profits going to the charities every book sold is "educating" a kid in a new way to look at "life".

What's not to like? Another great show IMO :drool:
 
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