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John Oliver recap
29 July 2024
John Oliver on JD Vance: ‘Great Lakes Ron DeSantis’
Last Week Tonight host rips into the couch controversy surrounding Trump’s running mate and explains illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank
22 July 2024
John Oliver on Republican ‘migrant crime’ rhetoric: ‘relentless, bad-faith fearmongering’
Last Week Tonight host looks into RNC and false but rhetorically effective ‘migrant crime wave’ messaging
24 June 2024
John Oliver on Tories: their ‘unremitting cruelty has stained the last decade and a half of British life’
Last Week Tonight host looks into surprise UK general election and last 14 years of Conservative rule in Britain.
17 June 2024
John Oliver on a second Trump term: ‘Really does promise to be far, far worse’
The Last Week Tonight host looks into what would happen if Trump were re-elected, this time with a conservative playbook called Project 2025
10 June 2024
John Oliver on deep-sea mining: ‘Time that we stop treating the deep ocean as something to exploit’
Last Week Tonight host discusses the deep ocean and the private company looking to mine it for precious metals.
3 June 2024
John Oliver on Narendra Modi: ‘India seems to be sliding toward authoritarianism’
The Last Week Tonight host looks into India’s massive election and the track record of strongman prime minister, and expected winner
20 May 2024
John Oliver tackles the US corn industry: ‘You might be thinking, so what?’
The Last Week Tonight host looks into federal subsidies effects and ethanol standards upholding ‘America’s No 1 crop’
13 May 2024
John Oliver on opioid settlements: ‘We can change the arc of this story’
Last Week Tonight host looks into spending by state and local authorities of $50bn from settlements in the opioid crisis
6 May 2024
John Oliver on public libraries: ‘Another front in the ongoing culture war’
The Last Week Tonight host looks into attacks on public libraries, from slashed funding to harassment to banning certain book titles
22 April 2024
John Oliver on UFOs: ‘There needs to be room for honest inquiry’
The Last Week Tonight host looks into speculation, study and cover-ups about unidentified flying objects in the US
15 April 2024
John Oliver on Medicaid mess: ‘Could the government blindside people with something beneficial?’
Last Week Tonight host digs into Medicaid ending insurance for millions in ‘unwinding’ emblematic of the system’s issues
8 April 2024
John Oliver on lethal injections: ‘A protracted nightmare of suffering’
The Last Week Tonight host looks into new “grim” developments on the death penalty in the US, and identifies a secret supplier of lethal injections.
18 March 2024
John Oliver on student loans: ‘It’s hard to feel like this system isn’t rigged’
Last Week Tonight host digs into ballooning costs of higher education and potential solutions to a vicious cycle of debt
11 March 2024
John Oliver to US state medical boards handling malpractice: ‘Fix this mess’
The Last Week Tonight host looks into the issue of state medical boards mishandling complaints about negligent or harmful doctors
4 March 2024
John Oliver calls for new leadership of Boeing: ‘Fix the culture that you have destroyed’
Last Week Tonight host looks into recent safety and profit-driven culture issues plaguing major US airplane manufacturer
26 February 2024
John Oliver on Alabama’s IVF ruling: ‘It is chaos’
Last Week Tonight host speaks about ‘seismic’ decision defining embryos as ‘children’ and Republicans pushing for it
18 December 2023
John Oliver on Elon Musk’s messiah complex: ‘The least surprising thing on Earth’
The Last Week Tonight host digs into the business history, public profile and immense power of billionaire Elon Musk
11 December 2023
John Oliver on the ‘terrifying’ state of America’s freight train industry
On Last Week Tonight, the host discussed the many ways an under-regulated and dangerous industry puts people at risk
4 December 2023
John Oliver on organ donation system: ‘Nowhere near where it should be’
The Last Week Tonight host looks into our flawed system of organ donation, transplant transportation and whole-body donation
20 November 2023
John Oliver on dollar stores: ‘They treat workers with indifference or outright contempt’
The Last Week Tonight host dug into mismanagement and employee mistreatment of stores such as Dollar General and Dollar Tree
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