In less than three seasons , John Oliver has execute a passel onLast calendar week Tonight– and that ’s not just referring to hisall - dog Supreme Court . The English expatriate has make a series that wed some of the most creative insults on television with serious journalism .
And they do n’t call it " the John Oliver effect " for nothing : here are the HBO star ’s most savage , surprising , and silly rants to date , most of which even – gasp ! – instigate his lazy American audiences to natural process . Keep # soybeanwind alive , people .
Brexit
If John Oliver is upset about the world-wide thriftiness , you should in spades be worried about the global economy . Here he import out all the disastrous things that are about to hap as a result of Britain ’s vote to leave the EU –which he warned everyone about explicitly the week prior– balance the fact that " lives hang in the balance " with comparing Boris Johnson to a shaved orang with Owen Wilson ’s hair’s-breadth . Most significantly , he pleads with Americans not to make Britain ’s mistakes : as Oliver monish , " There are no fucking do - over . "
Donald Trump
Really , how do you pick a best part ? Is it John Oliver ’s comparison of Trump to a gold Sharpie ? ( " Something that gives the appearance of riches , but is in reality just a cheap tool . " ) His constant digs at Trump ’s hands ? ( " Cocktail sausage fingers . " ) No , it ’s probably his princely reveal of the " Make Donald Drumpf Again " hat – but skillful fortune finding one of those now .
Prison
Oliver has tackled problems related to the U.S. prison house system many clock time – there are heavy tirades onbail , prisoner re - launching , andmandatory minimums . But this former exploration of prison house issues offers some dead on target revulsion story brightly contrasted with a sunny Sesame Street segue . Just do n’t take heed to the crocodile ; he ’s talk about zoos .
Net neutrality
Sex education
fare for Mike Ehrmantraut ’s 1974sex - ed telecasting , outride for the update reading with Laverne Cox and Nick Offerman .
FIFA II
To understand any of this , you first have to watch Oliver ’s 2014exposé on FIFA , the governing consistence behind the World Cup . After the U.S. Department of Justicearrestedabout a dozen FIFA officials in 2015 , he did this follow - up video . Whereas the first edition is clearly come up from a massive association football fan who ’s sadden by the tainted leaders running the show , the second one sees Oliver in elated imp mode as he unleash speedy - fire burns on former FIFA president and " Swiss daemon " Sept Blatter .
Miss America
Oliver ’s squad really flexed their research skills for this takedown of Miss America , which claims to be the big supplier of scholarships for charwoman with $ 45 million in useable funds . After exhaustively debunking the call and hosting a mock beauty pageant with Kathy Griffin , Oliver exclaim out small-scale cleaning lady ’s encyclopaedism pecuniary resource suitable of contribution . You ’ll also hear other rumblings of his " Drumpf " masterpiece with the casting - off line : " Miss USA , for instance , is possess by Donald Trump , a clown made of mummified prepuce and cotton fiber confect . "
Televangelists
For a legal brief , shining moment , Oliver ’s Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption was an fantabulous disembowelment of televangelism . Too badall the semenruined it .
Ferguson and police militarization
The riots in Ferguson inspire several passionate condemnations of racial profiling and medium preconception . ( Many from Oliver’soldboss.)Last Week Tonightapproached the subject by discussing America ’s more and more weaponize police force force . Oliver build his case effectively by pointing to horrid storage tank owned by small townspeople sheriff ’s office , but his sign - off is the most acerbic : " I know the law have intercourse their ridiculous , unnecessary equipment , so here ’s another patronizing test : allow ’s take it all away from them and if they can make it through a whole month without killing a individual unarmed black-market man – then , and only then , can they get their fucking toy back . "
Tobacco
Joe Cool was without an heir for years , untilLast workweek Tonightintroduced Jeff the Diseased Lung . He may be kind of rotten ( literally ) , but he does have a hip cowboy chapeau .
The border wall
Math does n’t have to be boring . In this protracted section , Oliver systematically rase Trump ’s proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexican border , buck by one dollar bill . see out for impudent cameos from an old ma’am playing golf and the former United States President of Mexico , Vincente Fox .
The NCAA
The bogus video gameMarch Sadness , which skewers the NCAA development of pupil athletes , is fantastic . But let ’s not bury # soybeanwind , the most wonderfully nonsensical hashtag Oliver has ever created .
Government surveillance
This is a retentive one , but it ’s worth it . Oliver spends 14 minutes cracking joke about the Patriot Act , NSA , and " un - Cumberbatch - able " Julian Assange before the show cuts to him in the streets of Moscow . There he sits down with Edward Snowden for an interview most political journalists only woolgather about . But do n’t worry , he still manages to babble out about Hot Pockets .
Online harassment
Oliver gives a abbreviated overview of Twitter scourge and retaliation porn laws ( or miss thereof ) in this section . He ’s particularly harsh on a pair of pervy news anchor , but really , the entire Internet – a.k.a . " a dark carnival of humanity ’s most wretched impulse " – is subject to his wrath .
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