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.
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.
Damn straight.
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.
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
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.
They also brought us Piers Morgan though.
To be fair, neither do we
He seems to actually care. He and Conan are the best.
John Oliver is a national treasure.
Proof we are better with immigrants.
YNWA John!
”Without these people, it would be painfully obvious how unfunny I really am.” - John Oliver, probably
Are you sure that’s not a quote? I can hear him say it.
HIGNFY aren’t returning my calls.
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.
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.
It’s not meant as an insult - this kind of self-deprecation sounds exactly like something he would say.
Ah, gotcha.
I was with you because of the “/s” missing.
“/s” has become a crutch for people lacking critical thinking and reading comprehension skills.
What’s wrong with crutches? Lots of people need them
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.
Yes, because English.
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
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
What a convoluted way to say “he’s mocking me and I don’t like it”
What a way to say “I’m illiterate”.
Almost makes up for being a Liverpool fan
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.
Sounds like a good time to 🦜🏴☠️
Bought a parrot, a boat, and raided my first family in the middle of the Pacific. Unclear on the rest
You forgot the rum. You need shit-tons of rum.
You forgot the rum. You need shit-tons of rum.
Always wondered what a pirated would think about Rum with Cola.
They’d be like wtf is cola. And then they’d ask why you need to water down this already extremely weak rum.
And then they’d ask why you need to water down this already extremely weak rum.
Somehow I would not expect a pirate to take being served weak rum very well. An occupational hazard for a beverage server.
The rum’s gone
Drink more
Sounds like a good time to 🦜🏴☠️
Now is a good time to get a tropical bird and stay away from waste dumps?
(I know, I know. Just throwing a little bit of humor out there to try to improve someone’s day.)
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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!
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
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.
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.
