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Post by Ripley on Jun 12, 2016 22:14:20 GMT -5
Biting truth-bomb commentary about the election tonight with sating what we all needed to hear about Orlando.
His skewering of Hilary's attempts to master and best Trump on social media-where Trump is master.- is wonderful.
"Now go spot some elves!"
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Post by Ripley on Oct 25, 2016 0:58:08 GMT -5
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Post by dark sister on Oct 29, 2016 13:31:18 GMT -5
I love his show. I'm glad he got some Emmy love this year.
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Post by Ripley on Oct 31, 2016 8:10:49 GMT -5
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Post by Sexual Chocolate on Oct 31, 2016 12:39:18 GMT -5
Thanks, Ripley. I'm going to watch this later when I have more time.
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Post by Ripley on Oct 31, 2016 13:28:50 GMT -5
His comments on Emailgate Friday are spot on IMO.
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Post by Ripley on Nov 7, 2016 11:40:59 GMT -5
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Post by Ripley on Nov 7, 2016 11:42:04 GMT -5
If you know someone interested in Mult-Level Marketing (MLM) aka pyramid schemes this might be good to share.
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Post by Ripley on Nov 7, 2016 11:43:30 GMT -5
John Oliver also apologized last night for two old mistakes- one involving encouraing a Trump Presidential run, the other for claiming the Cubs would never win the Wolrd Series.
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Post by Ripley on Nov 14, 2016 19:01:06 GMT -5
Brilliant! He points out the EPA pick thinks climate change is "silly" and doesn't think scientists agree it exists .
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Post by Ripley on Jan 18, 2017 14:11:38 GMT -5
"...John Oliver knows he isn’t everyone’s cup of tea—in fact, he isn’t even the star of a new ad for his own show. HBO’s promo for Season 4 of Last Week Tonight puts the network’s other, more popular hits at the forefront, poking fun at the fact that Oliver's Last Week Tonight isn’t as big as, say, Game of Thrones, or as hotly anticipated as the long-awaited revival of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Oliver’s ego is taken down several more pegs by Silicon Valley’s Kumail Nanjiani. “Sometimes we don’t want a British man yelling at us about how the world is ending for a whole hour.” “Well, it’s a half-an-hour show,” replies Oliver. “Doesn’t feel like it,” quips Nanjiani. For those of us who do want a British man yelling at us about how the world is ending, Last Week Tonight returns Feb. 12 on HBO, just a few weeks into the Trump administration. Lord knows, he should have plenty to yell about..." www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2017/01/18/last_week_tonight_season_4_promo_on_hbo_video.htmlI love John Oliver so here's the promo: M
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Post by dark sister on Jan 18, 2017 14:42:30 GMT -5
I enjoy John Oliver too. He and Bill Maher are good fits for HBO.
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Post by Ripley on Feb 7, 2017 5:45:16 GMT -5
THR "John Oliver "Very Anxious" to Keep 'Last Week Tonight' From Becoming "All Trump, All the Time" "Going into his third season of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver indicated he didn't want to devote too much time on his weekly HBO series to the 2016 election. But as the presidential campaign ran its course, and Donald Trump became the Republican nominee and ultimately president-elect, the show found itself doing a number of popular pieces about the election and Trump, specifically, including an extended takedown of the real-estate mogul-turned-politician. And Oliver devoted his last episode of 2016 to Trump's victory. But over his three-month hiatus, the host said he wasn't eager to get on the air to talk about the headline-generating president, and he hopes to keep Last Week Tonight from being entirely about Trump as the show begins its fourth season on Sunday. Oliver talked more about how the current president is (and isn't) affecting the production of Last Week Tonight during a Monday morning Q&A with several journalists in New York... ..."We'll work it out. I don't know," he said. "I think we're very anxious to not make it all Trump, all the time — both on a level of interest and on a level of what the human soul can sustain."... link
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Post by Ripley on Feb 28, 2017 16:37:26 GMT -5
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Post by Ripley on Mar 6, 2017 11:26:41 GMT -5
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Post by Ripley on Apr 13, 2017 1:14:35 GMT -5
Oliver can make even issues with gerrymandering interesting.
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Post by Ripley on Jul 31, 2017 0:16:59 GMT -5
Thank God the show was back tonight after this week in politics. I needed John Oliver's surgical wit taking on Alex Jones duping his viewers by selling " personal wipes" and chocolate flavored chicken juice while wearing one of the 3 Rolex watches Jones owns. And sure Jan, Jones buys Rolexes "just to fit in with the Satanists" .
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Post by Ripley on Jul 31, 2017 4:39:00 GMT -5
THR "John Oliver Courtesy of HBO Coal baron Robert Murray's lawsuit over the June 18 episode of HBO's Last Week Tonight With John Oliver may take several years before it reaches any resolution. Murray, 77, stated through the complaint filed in West Virginia that he doesn't expect to live to see the end of the case. Nevertheless, two big decisions are looming that will set the tone for the litigation. On Friday, HBO filed court documents addressing both topics while blasting Murray for repeated attempts to chill free speech. Murray Energy and various associated coal companies are suing HBO and Oliver for defamation over statements that allegedly told viewers that Murray sacrifices safety and the health of its employees for profits. Oliver punctuated his commentary about Murray's business practices and policy positions with various bits of humor including describing Murray as "a geriatric Dr. Evil" and having an actor dress up in a squirrel costume. About a week after the case was filed in state court, HBO had it removed to a federal one. But not before Murray made an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order to prohibit the pay network from rebroadcasting the segment containing the statements being challenged as false and defamatory. "Plaintiffs' motion for a temporary restraining order and this lawsuit are merely the latest examples of Murray's ongoing campaign to use 'punitive litigation ... to chill constitutionally protected speech,'" states HBO in opposition papers. "The lawsuit by many of the same plaintiffs against The New York Times, which has a motion to dismiss pending in these chambers, is only one of many. In the past few years alone, Plaintiffs repeatedly have filed similar lawsuits against critics and members of the media, only to have them dismissed at the pleading stage. This history suggests that Plaintiffs' objective is not to prevail on the merits, but to impose a cost on those who have the temerity to criticize Murray. This temporary restraining order is a prime example of those efforts, and must be denied."..." link
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Post by Ripley on Aug 10, 2017 17:01:36 GMT -5
THR "A federal judge remands the case to state court, rejecting HBO's argument that coal companies were fraudulently joined to escape diversity jurisdiction. HBO has lost the first round in its fight with Murray Energy over a June 18 broadcast of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, which covered President Donald Trump's generous treatment of the coal industry. The network wanted a federal court rather than a West Virginia state judge to take up the quarrel over whether the show defamed Robert Murray, Murray Energy and other associated coal companies. HBO argued that because neither Murray, Oliver nor HBO reside in West Virginia, removing the case to federal court is proper. Four subsidiaries named as plaintiffs are based in the state, but the plaintiffs' lawyer argued they aren't real parties in interest. But in a ruling on Thursday, the federal judge has remanded the case back to a state court where it originated. "Defendants' primary contention is that the Plaintiff Corporations were not properly joined because the defamatory statements were not of and concerning the corporations, giving the corporations no possibility of asserting a right to relief," writes U.S. District Court Judge John Bailey. "As discussed herein, this Court finds that defamatory statements made about an executive of a business may be sufficient to defame his business where the statement was made about the individual in his professional capacity and reflects negatively on the operation of the business. Therefore, the Plaintiff Corporations may have been defamed by statements made about Mr. Murray, giving them a possibility of success in this action."..." link
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