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Former Daily Show host and correspondent John Oliver brings his persona to this new weekly news satire program.
1 August 1958, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York, USA
22 November 1956, Trenton, New Jersey, USA
28 February 1955, Brooklyn, New York, USA
4 August 1961, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
6 April 1969, Passaic, New Jersey, USA
17 September 1989, Augusta, Georgia, USA
31 October 1961, Pukerua Bay, North Island, New Zealand
16 July 1967, Irvine, California, USA
6 May 1961, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
2 June 1972, Columbus, Georgia, USA
3 June 1967, New York City, New York, USA
June 21, 2018
Oliver makes these segments digestible through humour, breaking information down into ways which the average viewer can easily understand with little effort.
June 21, 2018
Taking on one controversial topic after another, host John Oliver never fails to stir up the conversation that leaves audiences fired up well into Monday morning.
June 25, 2018
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver is foul mouthed, scabrous, sometimes wickedly offensive, but also achingly funny.
June 21, 2018
As [the show's] work in 2015 proved time and again, they're pulling it off with flying colors, going places that other popular news programs won't even tread.
June 21, 2018
[Oliver has] provided his own unique, informative spin on making the news funny...by eschewing interviews for longer in depth segments about subjects that usually aren't covered anywhere else on television.
June 20, 2018
Oliver's show stands out for its investigations into topics as varied as the militarization of the police state, Net neutrality and Argentina's debt crisis.
