Excellent but underrated film

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

More appreciation is owed to Last Week Tonight than you think, and it is more necessary than other current shows you might compare it to. If you have not yet listened intently to Oliver's monologues, you cannot have an valid prejudice against it or assume the show merely tries to push the typical liberal agenda. Unlike the Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Colbert's show, and Seth Meyer's show, Last Week Tonight does not rely on the existence of Donald Trump to make comedic profit. We know this because before Trump even ran for President, Last Week Tonight reached prominence by repeatedly causing an actual effect on subjects it covered: Net Neutrality and the FCC, the woes of FIFA, Miss America Pageant, Bail requirements in New York, and Civil Forfeiture laws. No other comedian's show can boast this, to put very simply.If the show were not selfless, it would deserve the slogan "Make America Sane Again" a hundred times more than Real Time with Bill Maher.

I used to really like John Oliver, ever since he was on Colbert. However the blatant over the top political bias is now more prevalent at the sacrifice of the comedic value. It has followed the same lines of Colbert which is to propagate dangerous globalist elitism at the expense of common sense or truth. These guys have shown themselves as sold out to the cocktail sipping elite and flushed the working class down the tube as they produce a divided world and spread race baiting lies to poison the minds of the young or vulnerable. Unfortunately he has become nothing more than a deep state establishment media sycophant.

One episode made this realization rather obvious. As the leftovers from the daily show race towards the bottom, we are left with hilarious stupidity as Bee, Noah, Colbert and Oliver embarrass themselves on a weekly basis. Each show basically reaffirms the idea that not only have these clowns not gotten over the election, but they reached full retard in a short period of time. Remember mr. Oliver, you never go full retard.

John Oliver's show is one in which he intersperses current events with comedy. And to keep your audience laughing while looking at such events today is quite a feat. I've only been familiar with Oliver and his show since March of 2016, so I didn't know about the kerfuffle raised when he was not picked to host The Daily Show after Jon Stewart left. However, I think things turned out for the best because John in a weekly show where he gets to go deeper on issues is probably more useful and funnier than John only getting a monologue and a few one liners in on a nightly show.John rarely has guests of any kind, so he has to be imaginative in his main segment or he risks getting preachy, which usually just consists of John talking to the audience with clips to illustrate the point he is making. Oliver always maintains a sense of humor even when he is discussing some of the more heinous institutions of American life such as the concept of medical debt and medical debt collections. He doesn't sport a condescending smile but rather a "isn't it ridiculous that we do things this way" smile. He is quite unpretentious, describing himself as a "rat faced Brit" and his show as "a petting zoo with a desk".Since I only started watching the show since 2016, John has been blessed with having Donald J. Trump as an unfortunate wealth of comic material. So far in the 15-18 months I have been watching the show, John has highlighted some really oddball third party presidential candidates in 2016, and in the most recent season he transformed his desk into a French Bistro to explain to the French people in their own tongue - while smoking! - why they should not vote for far right wing candidate Marine Le Pen, given a new train set to a local news show in Scranton - John is somewhat obsessed with local US news programs, and traveled to Pennsylvania to buy five wax figures of presidents from a presidential wax museum that was closing, one of them being Warren G. Harding. He then proceeded to show a trailer of a movie entitled "Harding" that could be made if one had access to a wax figure of the president, which his show did. It was actually the only trailer I've seen in the past two years that made me want to buy a movie ticket - and the film doesn't even exist! Highly recommended if you want to see some horrifying things about American political and economic trends that you will definitely not see on the 24 hour news cycle, and get some creative laughs to somewhat counteract that horror. Highly recommended.