There's too much cringy sexual humor in John Oliver's Last Week Tonight but that's always come with the territory of late night talk shows. And I've never really been a big fan of talk show interviews anyway, which I find only modestly more interesting and engaging than post-game interviews with athletes. But what Oliver does really isn't a talk show. It's more muckraking journalism with a heavy dose of talk show sarcastic humor; news satire. Fittingly, Oliver is an alum of Jon Stewart's Daily Show. I don't find every topic he takes up compelling but he's especially good at the savage takedown, like this one about the billionaires' new favorite mainstream conservative journalist, Bari Weiss; recently named to head the news at CBS for a couple hundred million dollars. And which Oliver might be particularly exercised about because the billionaire, Larry Ellison, who has elevated Weiss at CBS has a son, David, who is trying to acquire Warner Discovery, which owns HBO, where Oliver's show currently resides:
Or his ongoing series on forced deportations and immigration enforcement:
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