Last Week Tonight

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[[File:John Oliver November 2016.jpg|thumb|right|165px|Oliver in 2016]]
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'''''Last Week Tonight''''' is a comedy show on {{wpl|HBO}} hosted by [[British]]-[[American]] comedian {{wpl|John Oliver|John Oliver|.}} The show profiles current news stories and includes a detailed segment focusing on a specific topic of interest. ''Last Week Tonight'' has profiled the following notable subjects:
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*[[Capital punishment|Death penalty]]<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kye2oX-b39E Death Penalty], Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 5 May 2014.</ref>
*FIFA and the World Cup<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlJEt2KU33I FIFA and the World Cup], Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 8 June 2014.</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr6ar3xJL_Q FIFA II], Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 1 June 2015.</ref>
*[[Alex Jones]]<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyGq6cjcc3Q Alex Jones], Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 31 July 2017.</ref>
*[[Internal Revenue Service]]<ref>[https://youtu.be/Nn_Zln_4pA8 The IRS], Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 12 April 2015.</ref>
*[[Net neutrality]]<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU Net Neutrality], Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 1 June 2014.</ref>
*[[Cyber-bullying|Online Harassment]]<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuNIwYsz7PI Online harassment], Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 21 June 2015.</ref>
*Predatory lending<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDylgzybWAw Predatory Lending], Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 11 August 2014.</ref>
*[[Sex education]]<ref>[https://youtu.be/L0jQz6jqQS0 Sex Education], Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 9 August 2015.</ref>
*[[Televangelists]]<ref>[https://youtu.be/7y1xJAVZxXg Televangelists], Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 16 August 2015.</ref>
*[[Torture]]<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmeF2rzsZSU Torture], Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 14 June 2015.</ref>
*[[LGBT_rights#Transgender_rights|Transgender Rights]]<ref>[https://youtu.be/hmoAX9f6MOc Transgender Rights], Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 28 June 2015.</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns8NvPPHX5Y</ref>
*Translators<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QplQL5eAxlY Translators], Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 19 October 2014.</ref>
*The United States Postal Service<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL8g0W9gAQ USPS], Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 11 May 2020.</ref>
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==Donald 'Drumpf'==
''Last Week Tonight'''s most watched segment discusses [[Donald Trump]], which popularized the term  {{wpl|Donald_Trump_(Last_Week_Tonight)|Donald Drumpf|.}}<ref>[https://youtu.be/DnpO_RTSNmQ Donald Trump], Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 28 February 2016.</ref><ref name=wapo16>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160302070315/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/02/29/john-oliver-slams-trump-a-k-a-donald-drumpf-for-22-brutal-minutes/ John Oliver slams Trump, a.k.a. Donald ‘Drumpf,’ for 22 brutal minutes.] ''The Washington Post,'' 29 February 2016.</ref>

==Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption==
Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption was the name of the [[Parody religion|parody church]] that Oliver created to mock [[televangelist]]s and expose holes in the [[United States]] [[tax]] code pertaining to churches. In the typical style of televangelists, he asked for seed money so that "great things will happen to you". 

The church was eventually dissolved and all money sent to the charity {{wpl|Médecins Sans Frontières||,}} as originally announced,  attributing the dissolution to being sent massive bags of seeds, a four-foot-tall wooden [[Penis|dong]], and five packets of semen. Really.<ref>[http://www.ourladyofperpetualexemption.com/ John Oliver's Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption], September 2015.</ref>

==Nuclear waste==
John Oliver made highly misleading claims in a video about [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwY2E0hjGuU nuclear waste].
This video has been addressed in an article by a scientist.<ref>[https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2017/08/24/please-john-oliver-please-talk-to-a-real-nuclear-scientist/], John Oliver on nuclear waste</ref> Another researcher has also addressed this issue.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbYcJcisg-k],Addressing John Oliver: Why nuclear waste isn't being mishandled</ref>

==External links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3XTzVzaHQEd30rQbuvCtTQ Last Week Tonight with John Oliver] on [[YouTube]]

==References==
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Categories: American media, Comedy, Television programmes