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‘Last Week Tonight With John Oliver’ Renewed For 3 Seasons At HBO, Deal Runs Through 2026 (deadline.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Djinn@lemm.ee to c/moviesandtv@lemm.ee

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 38 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Good, he's one of the few people who still calls out corruption left and right. Even if it means pissing off his parent company. I'm sure there are things he doesn't talk about but I've honestly been impressed with how honest he is

[–] BaronVonBort@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

When you see John Oliver leave like Jon Stewart did, you know the barricades of truth have finally fallen.

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

If you can find them, his old episodes of "the bugle" podcast were amazing

He was working for (Murdoch's) Newscorp. But when there was some nasty news stories about him, John and Andy just straight up said Rupert was a liar and guilty of all charges and then went on to just call him very rude words on a podcast he was paying them to make.

They lasted for months doing that before getting fired. So while I think John will pick his battles, he's not afraid to hit the hand that feeds him, if it deserves it.