Synopsis
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014– ) is HBO's satirical news show you can watch online on iFILM. Every week, British host John Oliver spends half an hour on the headlines and one deep-dive topic, dug into far further than any nightly program bothers to go.
The setup looks simple: a host at a desk, a screen behind him, and a tightly researched segment. Oliver picks something that sounds dull on paper — tax law, debt collectors, the bail system, municipal landfills — and turns it into twenty minutes that are funny and genuinely alarming. Before the main piece he rattles through the week's politics and big stories, with the occasional famous guest like George Clooney dropping by.
After years as a correspondent on The Daily Show, Oliver built his own writers' room, and the series has taken home Emmys for both writing and variety talk programming. What sets it apart is reach: its segments have nudged real court cases and policy decisions. A great fit if you like your comedy doing actual journalism on the side. Stream every season of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver online on iFILM.
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