Hello, buglers! John Oliver has a weekly show, "Last Week Tonight"

one thing in his favor is that he keep the pace up and doesn't mug for the camera
i really really like this show btw but after a full season some of the cliches are beginning to show and wear

xpost 60% of the audience for Oliver/Daily Show/Late Nights Shows/SNL seems to be aggregation servants looking for content

yeah, i think i've made the joke several times, but i wouldn't be surprised if someone starts aggregating all the daily show/john oliver aggregation articles on a weekly basis

I also tire of the "No [silly name], nobody wants to see your [odd referent]. I hate you [silly name]!" set up or the "That's just a fact!" punchline.

I haven't completely tired of these yet, only because there haven't been any outright duds. But I really wish he'd stop going on and on at the end of a joke, e.g., "You're a dingo! Yes you are! You are! You're a dingo! You are!" and he gets stuck in a loop that goes on longer than the laughter/applause, and I feel bad for him, but not really, because he should've known when to stop.

I'm not sure I fully understood the joke "The only people who should be excited about a Rod Stewart concert are those who want to have sex with Peter Gabriel". Does that just mean: people who are old enough to remember Peter Gabriel as a heartthrob?

i felt like they flubbed that joke by using a contemporary rod stewart pic but an old old old pic of Gabriel
maybe they thought no one would recognize nu-gabriel
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Music/Pix/pictures/2010/3/28/1269786651743/Peter-Gabriel-001.jpg

Oh yeah the young Peter Gabriel pic definitely confused me. A young, fit pic of Peter Gabriel doesn't really drive the point home...

I didn't get the joke--people who really wanted to date Peter Gabriel instead get the less attractive Rod Stewart?

The joke was something like: 'The only people who should be excited when the substituion is a night with Rod Stewart are people who wanted to have sex with Peter Gabriel'

strange joke

Well, the context was that Obama wasn't coming, but Rod Stewart was. So... Yeah, it's still weird.

i was mainly amazed that a show with a target demo of 18-35 would attempt a joke featuring either rod stewart or peter gabriel

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Music/Pix/pictures/2010/3/28/1269786651743/Peter-Gabriel-001.jpg

Hans plays with Lottie,
Lottie plays with Jane
Hemingway and Eichmann,
Richard Nixon coming back again

I really liked the ending of last night's show. Calling one representative a piece of shit, and accusing a bunch of others at being potential chicken-fuckers. Basically trying to bully laws through the chamber. Kinda ballsy.

they seem to have stopped allowing non-US people to see the youtube version of this. it used to take a few days (which is fair enough) but now there are things weeks old that are still blocked.

you can sometimes find third party recordings, often people just pointing a camera phone at a tv, but a lot of these are silent or still frames.

(actually, last week's Standardised Testing was available, but that was the first in a month)

It's on Sky Atlantic

but i don't have space tv.

That's as helpful as saying "it's on HBO"

I can watch the youtube from Denmark. Might it be HBO UK who are blocking?

Again, not for me.

john oliver says "mom"

he doesn't want to confuse the americans

UK seems un-regionblocked now, meaning i have 4 or 5 to catch up on.

The song on last weeks episode was gold. I've liked a lot of ranting, but this was the first time in a long while that the final sketch-thingy was top tier.

The DC/states one? That was good.

link?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z4j2CrJRn4

It's a pretty well written lyric, and the glee on Oliver's face really sells it.

that dc outrage was p dumb tho.. like the college basketball one.

I liked the bit this week when he had up a photo of some juggalos and turned to it and said "call your parents, sean, they don't know what's happening to you" and no one laughed

i liked the DC bit. and i didn't know about those weed/needle/gun control things, so it's educational

I recently noticed that Rory Albanese, who used to do the character "The American" on the Bugle, often appears on the Nightly Show now

Oh how I miss The American.

He is now Executive Producer of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.

he was something similar on the Daily Show for a long time, but rarely if ever appeared on-screen there

i hate john oliver

i'm sorry, but you're going to have to phrase your criticism in the form of a series of similes to get through to me

i hate john oliver the way pig pen from the peanuts hates taking a bath no, pig pen, you cannot come to school with circles of stink lines around you, pig pen! no, pig pen!

^not bad

yeah that's really good! i was working on a parody as well but all i could come up was the ending ("no, Jeremy, you are NOT allowed to have another ice cream cone, that is not allowed!!")

i had done most of the hard work but stopped just short of finishing. it was as if the tortoise had overtaken the sleeping hare but then decided to take a little snooze for himself, just short of the finish line. 'no, tortoise, this is the worst possible time for a snooze, it runs counter to the entire lesson we're trying to impart here!!'

there, that feels better. anyway, his endless similes are actually making me insane, but i still enjoy the show on weeks where he has a particularly interesting subject.

he's covering worthwhile news topics that don't get much coverage elsewhere and the "jon oliver effect" appears to have actual impact so i can forgive occasional (read: repetitive) hackneyed set up / payoff in his delivery

yah the john oliver effect is real.. about as viral as hpv at a yale frat party.. no, gavin, you cannot get rid of your warts with vinegar and a skull and bones ceremony. no, gavin!

he overuses that comic device alright. its still the best show on tv right now though and i certainly prefer him to jon stewart who i always found unwatchable.

don't forget the "which is funny, considering (A) looks like a beach ball with mustard smeared on it" or whatever

Oliver's bag of tricks isn't a very deep bag, yet I like him anyway.

the bag shows up better without Zaltzman's bag in contrast - but then it could be the choice of a head writer, not of Oliver anyway

I said GOOD DAY SIR!