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Hans plays with Lottie, Lottie plays with JaneHemingway and Eichmann,Richard Nixon coming back again
― pplains, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 16:31 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Frederik B, Monday, 18 May 2015 13:51 (nine years ago) link
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.
― koogs, Monday, 18 May 2015 13:58 (nine years ago) link
(actually, last week's Standardised Testing was available, but that was the first in a month)
― koogs, Monday, 18 May 2015 14:00 (nine years ago) link
It's on Sky Atlantic
― tayto fan (Michael B), Monday, 18 May 2015 14:10 (nine years ago) link
but i don't have space tv.
― koogs, Monday, 18 May 2015 14:12 (nine years ago) link
That's as helpful as saying "it's on HBO"
― ( who ALSO my boss and his sister!) (sic), Monday, 18 May 2015 23:39 (nine years ago) link
I can watch the youtube from Denmark. Might it be HBO UK who are blocking?
― Frederik B, Monday, 18 May 2015 23:44 (nine years ago) link
Again, not for me.
― ( who ALSO my boss and his sister!) (sic), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 02:06 (eight years ago) link
john oliver says "mom"
― conrad, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 20:04 (eight years ago) link
he doesn't want to confuse the americans
― NotKnowPotato (stevie), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
UK seems un-regionblocked now, meaning i have 4 or 5 to catch up on.
― koogs, Monday, 15 June 2015 16:05 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 14:30 (eight years ago) link
The DC/states one? That was good.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
link?
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 16:08 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z4j2CrJRn4
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 16:09 (eight years ago) link
It's a pretty well written lyric, and the glee on Oliver's face really sells it.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 16:19 (eight years ago) link
that dc outrage was p dumb tho.. like the college basketball one.
― chaki (kurt schwitterz), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:21 (eight years ago) link
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
― conrad, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 19:08 (eight years ago) link
i liked the DC bit. and i didn't know about those weed/needle/gun control things, so it's educational
― Nhex, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 01:51 (eight years ago) link
I recently noticed that Rory Albanese, who used to do the character "The American" on the Bugle, often appears on the Nightly Show now
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Friday, 21 August 2015 14:29 (eight years ago) link
Oh how I miss The American.
― franny glasshole (franny glass), Friday, 21 August 2015 14:41 (eight years ago) link
He is now Executive Producer of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.
― conrad, Friday, 21 August 2015 15:02 (eight years ago) link
he was something similar on the Daily Show for a long time, but rarely if ever appeared on-screen there
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Friday, 21 August 2015 15:15 (eight years ago) link
i hate john oliver
― conrad, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 19:23 (eight years ago) link
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
― 1994 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 19:28 (eight years ago) link
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!
― chaki (kurt schwitterz), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 19:39 (eight years ago) link
^not bad
― conrad, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 19:41 (eight years ago) link
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!!")
― 1994 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 19:45 (eight years ago) link
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!!'
― 1994 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 19:47 (eight years ago) link
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.
― 1994 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 19:49 (eight years ago) link
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
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 19:56 (eight years ago) link
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!
― chaki (kurt schwitterz), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 19:58 (eight years ago) link
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.
― tayto fan (Michael B), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 19:59 (eight years ago) link
don't forget the "which is funny, considering (A) looks like a beach ball with mustard smeared on it" or whatever
― slam dunk, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 06:18 (eight years ago) link
Oliver's bag of tricks isn't a very deep bag, yet I like him anyway.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 06:25 (eight years ago) link
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
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 09:27 (eight years ago) link
I said GOOD DAY SIR!
― conrad, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 09:34 (eight years ago) link
And guess what: This isn't even John Oliver's bag of tricks. I showed you someone else's bag of tricks and you didn't even notice.
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 13:48 (eight years ago) link
ha, yes!
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 14:28 (eight years ago) link
I really hope it's Oliver's bag of tricks, because he so often laughs at his own jokes that I would hope he's just happy because he loves that kind of humor, rather than because he thinks he's some awesome joke-teller or something. Also, I do like most of the running jokes, though at times it seems they time his political rants and put in a joke at exactly the point it becomes boring, rather than where there was actually a good opportunity to say something funny.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 15:05 (eight years ago) link
I think you're right on that - they strive too hard to keep the viewer's attention - but I can't blame them too much for that, given the wonkness/boredom of a lot of the topics he covers
― Nhex, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 15:29 (eight years ago) link
Actual irl lolz at this.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 15:36 (eight years ago) link
x-post: Yeah, I'm fine with it also. Even when it isn't fun at all, it allows me to breathe. I actually really really like the show, and his stuff with the Church of Perpetual Exemption, though obviously inspired by Colbert's Super PAC, has been really funny.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 15:47 (eight years ago) link
never forget that, as great as the Colbert Report was, they would spend hours on stuff like air guitar battles against guys from the Decembrists
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 15:51 (eight years ago) link
I'm sure that scenario makes up about .01% of the entirety of the Colbert Report.
― Evan, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 17:37 (eight years ago) link
never forget that, as great as the Colbert Report was,
or, wasn't,
― help computer (sleepingbag), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 17:47 (eight years ago) link
Colbert had an unbelievable amount of shit material, comes with the territory of doing four shows a week for so many years. On the whole he was great though
― Nhex, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 17:52 (eight years ago) link
that's kind of what I meant about Oliver--I don't get hung up on slight failures or annoying tics as long as he produces some very good material regularly
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 18:34 (eight years ago) link
just watched the Sex Ed one from a few weeks ago, pretty funny
― Nhex, Sunday, 30 August 2015 22:42 (eight years ago) link