The US doesn’t deserve John Oliver. Thank you GB!
He’s on loan, please don’t get scratches on him that won’t buff out.
Yep, in exchange for returning him, we’ll let you keep James Corden. No need to thank us.
Even if you don’t return him for whatever reason, you can keep James Corden.
Yeah but he’s better than cordon’s not and that’s saying a lot.
I dunno, he’s a citizen now. Feels more permanent than just a loan. Sorry think we get to keep him and play with him as we see fit.
Only Adam Driver can play with him as he sees fit
To be fair, neither do we
They also brought us Piers Morgan though.
”Without these people, it would be painfully obvious how unfunny I really am.” - John Oliver, probably
Whatever. I’ve seen him do stand-up and I think he’s funny, but it’s not like Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert or Conan O’Brien write/wrote all or even most of their own material.
It’s not meant as an insult - this kind of self-deprecation sounds exactly like something he would say.
Yes, because English.
Ah, gotcha.
I was with you because of the “/s” missing.
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Yeah I got the tone right away. It is something John Oliver would say. And there is some truth to it. I loved the Daniel O’Brien Cracked videos (like After Hours) and he works for John Oliver now. There’s some bits Oliver does that’s just so Daniel O’Brien.
This one in particular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk011WMM7t0
It’s kinda trippy to hear John Oliver saying stuff that’s 100% a classic Daniel O’Brien Cracked video.
Pretty sure Jon Stewart was funny because of John Oliver!
I don’t think of Jon as all that funny. I listen to him for his honest and intelligent takes. He could be the least funny person in the world and I’d still listen to him.
HIGNFY aren’t returning my calls.
What a convoluted way to say “he’s mocking me and I don’t like it”
What a way to say “I’m illiterate”.
I agree the show has mastered this technique. But counterpoint, empathize with an audience that isn’t liberal. As a leftist, I’m rarely learning from this show. But this method helps me laugh at, rather than get angry at, our enemy. Leftists need to have fun.
you learn from the laughter at “enemies” of telecom parapolitics
Care to provide an example of a “non-sequitur or otherwise absurd metaphor”?
here’s ten minutes of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr9sbk9UTI0
He seems to actually care. He and Conan are the best.
Go listen to Strike Force 5, the podcast with all the late night hosts! Any profits they make from it (and their sponsors, mostly Ryan Reynold’s businesses) also go to helping their staff!
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/867-strike-force-five-122135023/
Can’t movie studios theoretically hold forever, because they still receive money from sources like streaming subscriptions.
Maybe we should start canceling these until the strike is over.
Cancel as many as you can. An actor I know said cancelling Netflix would have the biggest impact, so I’ve done that for now.
Strongly recommend fmovies.to
Thanks for this!
John Oliver is a national treasure.
Proof we are better with immigrants.
Somebody show this to Bill Maher.
He is too busy preparing to prove how insultingly unfunny he is. He won’t be doing all the parts of the show that require writers so he is just going to be profoundly wrong and shite for 60 minutes.
I heard he pays writers better than all the other late night shows because as a writer you have to deal with working with Bill Maher.
The worst thing about Maher as a performer is that he berates his audience when they don’t like his joke. I did professional stand-up for a few years and that’s like breaking unspoken rule #1. Even if the room is a shit room, you don’t act like they’re a shit room.
I mean that’s pretty much an unspoken rule for all touring performers. The guy really is shit.
I never noticed how insidious this was. I thought it was really funny at first. Like oh, I groaned and he’s reminding me to have fun. But he has taken it to mean his audience needs to be exposed to grifters and harmful talking points disguised as “challenging ideas”
I mean I really kept watching Bill after he dropped the N-word, I am a die hard comedy fan and it’s effectively impossible to cross the line with me. But Bill Maher is completely full of shit.
Stewart Lee does a bit where he breaks this rule deliberately, but it works explicitly because part of the joke is the audience realising what he’s doing, and also because it’s planned in advance so he can make sure he’s got it right
Almost makes up for being a Liverpool fan
What if he jumped to Wrexham?
We need more pictures of him looking spiffy.
What do you mean? That is one sexy beast right there if I’ve ever seen one.
Damn straight.
YNWA John!
Thats just a fundraiser with extra steps. Just checked and John Olivers annual salary is $8M a year for his current HBO show. Thats about 80-150 peoples worth of funding he could do but he would prefer you guys do it.
Get on your hands and knees guys
Yes, money he would not make without a team of people behind him; however, him making money does not exclude him from supporting others. If anything, his actions could help support more than his money could. Fixing a broken system is also better than just slapping a quick fix in the form of a check.
He is supporting others, but he is supporting the others who support him, with himself being the disproportionate beneficiary of the shared effort.
Oliver’s actions may not be wrong, but the admiration he is afforded through the post exceeds the degree that it is genuinely warranted.
So would paying a little piece back by showing support for those people perhaps help to tip the scale a little less? Sure, they aren’t balanced, but one shouldn’t ignore progress just because the job isn’t over yet.
And I would suggest the admiration should be earned, but I also have a hard time thinking of another entertainment platform that brings up issues and spot lights real problems that may go under reported. Using popularity to try and increase public awareness seems pretty admirable.
I am not objecting to your views as much as to any support for the specific views presented in the post, which I find exaggerated and misguided.
Yea he is fundraising and giving his weight to an issue rather than donating his own wages. John does deserve to keep the money he earns after working as a writer for like twenty years.
He is such a great man, glad he made it somewhere where he can do the right thing and be an example that the rest of them will ignore.
