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John Oliver asks Monica Lewinsky about her experience of public shaming

sudshr47 March 18, 2019

Is it ever okay for someone to be publicly shamed?

That’s the tricky question tackled by John Oliver on Sunday’s edition to Last Week Tonight. As part of the deep dive, Oliver goes through some recent examples of times a single person has faced widespread wrath — from the woman wrongfully accused of being the “worst aunt ever” to the actors embroiled in the recent college admissions scandal.

To finish, Oliver interviews Monica Lewinsky — a woman he describes as someone who “might actually be the perfect person to remind all of us what the consequences can be to a mis-directed flood of public anger.” Read more…

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John Oliver has a perfectly brutal solution to the growing problem of robocalls

sudshr47 March 11, 2019

Ever picked up your phone to find yourself speaking with a robot?

You’re very much not alone. Everyone’s least favourite form of communication increased by 60 percent last year, per CNBC, and the fact hasn’t gone unnoticed by John Oliver.

In his latest monologue for Last Week Tonight Oliver is on his usual top, angry form — casually slamming mailboxes and AT&T before setting his sights firmly on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), who he clearly doesn’t think are doing enough to stop call-happy robots.

His solution? A message delivered right to the heart of the FCC itself — via robocall. Read more…

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John Oliver has some stark thoughts about the 2020 elections

sudshr47 February 19, 2019

Are the 2020 elections worth going into in any great detail at the moment?

John Oliver isn’t so sure.

“The bar’s pretty low now,” the comedian and Last Week Tonight host told Seth Meyers. “Whenever anyone announces for president now you just go, ‘Sure, fine — yeah, added to the list, you’re fine. Kamala Harris, great. Bernie Sanders, great. A tortoise, walking across an abandoned Wendy’s parking lot? Has he got an exploratory committee? You would work as well.'”

Oliver thinks that right now, there isn’t much to see when it comes to new candidates putting themselves forward.

“It’s dangerous I think giving it too much attention right now when there’s plenty of other **** we should be looking at,” he said. Read more…

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John Oliver shares his thoughts on Brexit and we honestly don’t know whether to laugh or cry

sudshr47 February 12, 2019

Deal or no deal, Brexit is happening on March 29. And while the idea of a no-deal Brexit has always been slightly terrifying, it was just made all the more so by British comedian John Oliver.
Oliver, who appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Col…

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John Oliver screaming Kelly Clarkson’s ‘Since U Been Gone’ is all of us

sudshr47 January 8, 2019

Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone” is too high-pitched for mere mortals like ourselves, Shaq, John Oliver, Rachel Brosnahan, Anthony Anderson, and even Mumford and Sons.
That didn’t stop Jimmy Fallon from challenging a bunch of celebrities and …

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The winners and losers of Trump comedy in 2018

sudshr47 December 18, 2018

From one wild White House Correspondents’ Dinner to a hidden camera show that changed the game, 2018’s comedy landscape was brimming with political takedowns. At the center of it all: Donald J. Trump.
Whether you delight in partisan mockery or …

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John Oliver’s latest deep dive takes a look at 1 very troubling global trend

sudshr47 November 19, 2018

If you thought John Oliver was going to pick a lighter topic to round off his most recent series, you’d be wrong.

Yep: the latest issue up for discussion is the fairly unnerving global trend of countries electing authoritarian leaders to power — from Vladimir Putin’s ongoing reign in Russia to Brazil’s recent appointment of the far-right politician Jair Bolsonaro.

In the clip above, Oliver breaks down exactly what makes an “authoritarian” leader — from projecting strength and demonising enemies to the dismantling of institutions.

And guess who it all comes back to in the end? Yep, Trump.

“The world is dabbling with something very dangerous right now, and America needs to be careful,” concludes Oliver. “And look, I know democracy can be, often by design, frustrating. Checks and balances can be irritating and slow, and might not deliver the outcome you wanted. Read more…

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John Oliver rips apart Trump’s old promise to ‘drain the swamp’ in 16-minute rant

sudshr47 November 12, 2018

Remember Trump’s campaign promise to “drain the swamp”?
John Oliver does. In the 16-minute clip above from Last Week Tonight, he breaks down exactly how well he thinks Trump has done when it comes to this particular promise.
Spoiler alert: …

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John Oliver’s scathing 16-minute rant about ‘the Brazilian Trump’

sudshr47 October 8, 2018

There’s been so much stuff going on in the world lately that you may not have had a chance to read much about the Brazilian election yet.
As John Oliver breaks down in the video above, though, the situation is pretty grim. Far-right candidate Jai…

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Net neutrality activists, not hackers, crashed the FCC’s comment system

sudshr47 August 7, 2018

An unprecedented flood of citizens concerned about net neutrality is what took down the FCC’s comment system last May, not a coordinated attack, a report from the agency’s Office of the Inspector General concluded. The report unambiguously describes the “voluminous viral traffic” resulting from John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight piece on the topic as the cause of the system’s collapse.

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FCC claims of DDoS net neutrality attack were ‘bogus’

sudshr47 August 7, 2018

Pretty much everyone saw this coming.

A forthcoming report from the FCC’s Office of Inspector General reportedly dispels earlier dubious claims from the FCC that its comment system was hit by a distributed denial of service attack in May of last year. It turns out, after all, that the commission’s site was likely brought to a crawl not by malicious hackers or pranksters but by — gasp — concerned citizens trying to make their voices heard in support of net neutrality.

“The Inspector General Report tells us what we knew all along: the FCC’s claim that it was the victim of a DDoS attack during the net neutrality proceeding is bogus,” reads a statement from FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel. “What happened instead is obvious—millions of Americans overwhelmed our online system because they wanted to tell us how important internet openness is to them and how distressed they were to see the FCC roll back their rights.” Read more…

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