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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

2014

4.1

162 reviews

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Season 1 episodes (24)

1 01

4/27/14

Guest: Keith Alexander. Topics: the NSA's new image; the Indian general election; landmark POM Wonderful v. Coca Cola case.

2 02

5/4/14

Guest: Simon Ostrovsky. Topics: the death penalty in the U.S.; the Sultan of Brunei.

3 03

5/11/14

Guest: Bill Nye the Science Guy. Topics: the U.S. Senate election in Kentucky; the climate change controversy.

4 04

5/18/14

Guest: Fareed Zakaria. Topics: General Motors controversy; the 'right to be forgotten' and Google Spain vs. AEPD and Mario Costeja Gonzalez.

5 05

6/1/14

Topics: Net neutrality in America; the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

6 06

6/8/14

Guest: Right Said Fred. Topics: FIFA; Bashar al-Assad.

7 07

6/15/14

Guest: Stephen Hawking. Topics: Washington Redskins name controversy; U.S. immigration reform.

8 08

6/22/14

Guest: Steve Buscemi. Topics: Dr. Oz's Senate hearing and the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994.

9 09

6/29/14

Guest: Pepe Julian Onziema. Topics: Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby case; Nigerian LGBT rights.

10 10

7/13/14

Topics: Income inequality in America; the public image of the C.I.A.

11 11

7/20/14

Topics: Prisons with puppets; Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Commonwealth Games.

12 12

7/27/14

Topics: Nuclear annihilation; Russia's lost satellite carrying mating geckos.

13 13

8/3/14

Topics: Argentina's debt default; native advertising.

14 14

8/10/14

Guest: Sarah Silverman. Topics: payday loans in the U.S.; the Russian embargo on imported U.S. chicken and soybeans.

15 15

8/17/14

Topics: The Michael Brown shooting and police militarization in Ferguson, MO; equal pay for equal work.

16 16

9/7/14

Guest: A Great Big World. Topics: ISIS; student debt; a eulogy for the lost mating space geckos.

17 17

9/14/14

Topics: the Scottish independence referendum; Twitter.

18 18

9/21/14

Guest: Kathy Griffin. Topics: the U.S. embargo against Cuba; Miss America 2015.

19 19

9/28/14

Topics: Drones; the budget shortfall in Kansas.

20 20

10/5/14

Guest: Jeff Goldblum. Topics: the 2022 Winter Olympics; civil forfeiture.

21 21

10/19/14

Guest: Mohammad Usafi. Topics: special immigrant visas; the U.S. Supreme Court.

22 22

10/26/14

Guest: Jane Goodall. Topics: sugar; Toronto politician Doug Ford, Jr.

23 23

11/2/14

Guests: Nick Offerman, H. Jon Benjamin, Sarah Baker. Topics: U.S. state legislature elections; American Legislative Exchange Council.

24 24

11/9/14

Topics: state lotteries; the technological marvel that is the salmon cannon.

About this show

One of the funniest, most refreshing personalities to hit the TV scene in years, John Oliver comes to HBO in this series that takes a topical look at the week in news, politics and current events.

Ratings and reviews

4.1

162 reviews

Jay Roberts

March 23, 2017

Show should be called: Last Two Weeks Ago Tonight Really, really great show but paying to having to wait a week to see the latest episode is so not worth the money. You'd be better off just watching it on Youtube when the episode is relevant and not a week later. Why do people have to wait longer when they pay for this show than people who don't? Just a thought, maybe offer the new episodes sooner to people who pay...

Matt Tinker

March 16, 2017

I absolutely love this show. However, Being a cord Cutter in Canada means that I have to buy it specifically rather than in an hbo package, which I'm perfectly fine with except for the fact that it is the only show i actually care about watching on time and it takes them a week to post it after an episode. It makes no sense to me that people can pirate a show an hour after it comes out yet I pay to see it legally and have to wait a week? I would give this 5 stars immediately if the problem is resolved.

A Google user

December 1, 2018

A great show that is hampered by the system in which it is projected on. What concerns me is the inconsistency of the posting of videos. Not only do videos appear almost erratically but some episodes are missing all together or out of order. It appears to google play as almost an afterthought in trying to have viewers access content. This process undercuts the nature of a weekly news in review show as many of the topics discussed have already passed making much of the speculation to be irrelevant to the viewer as they already know how the event plays out.

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