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

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.

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

I'm sure that scenario makes up about .01% of the entirety of the Colbert Report.

never forget that, as great as the Colbert Report was,

or, wasn't,

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

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

just watched the Sex Ed one from a few weeks ago, pretty funny

Reddit turns on Oliver:

https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/3mox89/last_week_tonight_with_john_oliver_migrants_and/

i don't think i care what reddit thinks tbh

Didn't mean to suggest it mattered what "reddit" thinks, more pointing to the individual arguments in the thread for possible discussion.

Very sad the Bugle is on hiatus during the Pig Mouthfucking story.

he covered it on the last episode, didn't he?

yeah, i'm not gonna google that.

yeah, he covered it, but the Bugle would have dedicated 4 episodes to it

just don't like Oliver as much w/o Andy

hahaha, wow, i'm woefully ignorant here. i didn't realize john oliver had a podcast called The Bugle. you might ask, "didn't you wonder what the title of this thread was referencing?", to which i would say "i dunno, i guess i assumed fans of john oliver were called Buglers and i didn't really think about it all too much"

I would have loved Oliver to have Andy as a special correspondent for Cameron Pigfucking

I resubscribed to the Bugle's feed just in case there was a pigfucking special edition.

i love quartz

so...The Bugle must be dead. Not even an episode during the LWT hiatus.

They're planning on coming back as a monthly this year. Or crossing their fingers and wishing, maybe.

i've ridden hard for this show as culture positive but man the last two weeks sure were unfunny.
they kinda need a writer room shakeup and a moratorium on the same joke they make eight times per episode

or not so much "unfunny" as "boring"

Agreed. Also John really needs to think of at least one other way to deliver a joke.

NO, forks, NO. You will NOT tell that writers room how to write a joke. You will NOT. BAD Forks. BAD.

lol

id forgotten this guy i hate exists

is samantha bee's prog any good? keep meaning to check it out

Yes, it is. I like JO but she really makes his shtick seem extra tired/weak-kneed.

yeah Sam is killing it

Sam is amazing.

I do like this show but yeah last two weeks have been pretty boring

The Detour (Samantha Bee / Jason Jones' TBS sitcom) is also great btw!

Oh man, totally forgot about the Detour, must check it out.

Looks like Oliver is leaving the Bugle and Andy continuing with a rotating set of co-hosts (including Wyatt Cenac)

John Oliver Buys https://consumerist.com/2016/06/06/john-oliver-buys-15m-in-medical-debt-then-forgives-it/5M In Medical Debt, Then Forgives It

Oops, I mean: John Oliver Buys https://consumerist.com/2016/06/06/john-oliver-buys-15m-in-medical-debt-then-forgives-it/5M In Medical Debt, Then Forgives It

le sigh

My dvr cut off the episode before it got to the big finale, so I had no idea that's what happened!

$15M in debt for a cost of $60K. Every tv show on every network with the budget should be doing this today and weekly from now on. You wanna make people watch tv again? Buy up their debt and forgive it!

i wish this show was funny. or at least not so exhausting to get through. they seem good for the culture!

the occupy wallstreet people would do this - buy up foreclosed peoples' debt for pennies and write it off, just hand them the deeds.

also, the prog, the main segment anyway, is on facebook video if you want to see the end - https://www.facebook.com/LastWeekTonight/videos

(which is handy because the official youtube version is always region blocked but facebook isn't)

$15M in debt for a cost of $60K. Every tv show on every network with the budget should be doing this today and weekly from now on. You wanna make people watch tv again? Buy up their debt and forgive it!

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever)

this would be hilarious to watch because bad debt would immediately skyrocket in value, as the only reason it's so cheap right now is that nobody wants it. you'd have bidding wars between fallon's people and colbert's people for bad debt.

wish i could just buy my own old debt and forgive myself!

pretty good segment imo
i think they've been getting better, a little less reliance on their old joke formulas, and good to see them continue to focus on weird undiscuused bugaboos like this

the occupy wallstreet people would do this - buy up foreclosed peoples' debt for pennies and write it off, just hand them the deeds.

At the last minute Wilson told us LWT did not want to associate themselves with the work of the Rolling Jubilee due to its roots in Occupy Wall Street. Instead John Oliver framed the debt buy as his idea: a giveaway to compete with Oprah. The lead researcher who worked on this segment invoked the cover of journalism to justify distancing themselves from our project.

uff. that is disappointing.

on the plus side, anyone here CAN buy up old debt through Rolling Jubilee right now!
http://rollingjubilee.org/

Or not! But you _can_ support the Debt Collective which is lobbying for systemic overhaul of the system.
https://debtcollective.org/

What I don't get is that the debt he bought was beyond statute which would mean it's not recoverable, doesn't it? (And explains why it was so cheap) Or was the point that some dodgy debt collectors would still bully people into paying it? Possible through uncontested court cases?