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John Oliver dinged Kate Middleton for her Photoshop fail and got a cameo from Jersey Shore’s Snooki on Last Week Tonight. At the top of the show, Oliver took a swipe at the drama in England over Kensington Palace’s release of a statement in which the Princess of Wales admitted to editing a photo of…

John Oliver took a subtle swipe at Deadline's coverage of Last Week Tonight in the latest episode of his HBO show. The British comedian mocked this very publication in a segment about medicine, doctors and state medical boards. We were the latest television target after Oliver slammed Dancing wit…

John Oliver has some ideas for DC co-heads James Gunn and Peter Safran as to who should be their next Batman. On the latest episode of Last Week Tonight, Oliver discussed the Supreme Court agreeing to take on Donald Trump’s immunity case and whether ex-presidents can be prosecuted. The HBO late-night…

Tom Sandoval of Vanderpump Rules continues to be the punchline of jokes for late-night shows and John Oliver took a swipe at the Bravo star on the latest episode of Last Week Tonight. Oliver took on the scam known as “pig butchering,” which is when scammers fatten up their victims with the promise of…

On Mondays while HBO’s Last Week Tonight is in season, host/executive producer John Oliver takes to X to post the main story segment from the previous night’s episode as it becomes available on YouTube. This Monday, following Last Week Tonight‘s Season 11 premiere last night, Oliver went on X to…

John Oliver started a new season of Last Week Tonight on HBO with a million-dollar offer to Clarence Thomas. On the Season 11 premiere of the late-night talk show, Oliver discussed the U.S. Supreme Court, saying that it’s reached “a breaking point,” citing several ways it could be fixed like…

Fresh off his big wins at the Emmys for Last Week Tonight, John Oliver is building more buzz for the 2024 premiere of his HBO talk show, taunting Disney. Now that Steamboat Willie’s version of Mickey Mouse is in the public domain, Oliver is freely using the character. Ahead of Oliver’s late-night…

John Oliver was on NBC's Today Show when he learned that his former boss Jon Stewart was returning to host The Daily Show. Stewart was unveiled by Comedy Central earlier today as the Monday night host for the late-night show through the election with the news team correspondents handling the other…

Carrying his two new Emmys awards, John Oliver was making his way through the packed HBO afterparty Monday night when he stopped to speak with Deadline about his relationship with fellow late-night hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers. Together, they launched a limited…

John Oliver has issued a typically playful response to Elon Musk after the billionaire X owner appeared to take umbrage with being roasted by the British comedian. Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, which clinched another Emmy on Monday night, flamed Musk in a section last month, with Oliver joking…

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver beat Saturday Night Live and A Black Lady Sketch Show to win the first ever Emmy for Outstanding Scripted Variety Series. John Oliver's HBO show continued its Emmy win streak, winning its eighth straight Emmy, having won seven years in a row in the Outstanding…

John Oliver decided to focus on Elon Musk on Last Week Tonight‘s last new episode of 2023. The comedian roasted the billionaire by recounting all the controversies he’s been involved in this past year and said he “could pull off any bad guy in a movie.” “There’s Lex Luthor posing for the cover of…