Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Syrian Refugees, The Penny, End Of Year Recap
November 27, 2015 5:40 PM - Season 2, Episode 35 - Subscribe
This week... more on the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris. US politicians use the opportunity to pile on Syrian refugees. And Now: The Dismal Prop Comedy Of The United States Congress. Main story: The US Penny, its dwindling value, and the issues around supporting it.
YouTube (10m) And Now: What In God's Name Are They Covering On WCBS News At 11? And, finally, this is the final episode of this year of Last Week Tonight, so the show provided a retrospective, featuring the return of Wanda Jo Oliver. This concludes LWT's second season; it resumes in February.
Intro gag: Picture of a turkey, with the captions "Salmonellum" and "Turkey"
Hashtag #MCALLISTERSMCMURDERERS
France without its cultural institutions: "It would be Luxembourg, and nobody wants that. Did you know that if you Google 'Interesting Luxembourg facts,' the result is just a page that says NO." (The Luxemburger Wort was not amused.)
The Penny: "Once again, on the cover of this month's Infant Swallowables Magazine."
Intro gag: Picture of a turkey, with the captions "Salmonellum" and "Turkey"
Hashtag #MCALLISTERSMCMURDERERS
France without its cultural institutions: "It would be Luxembourg, and nobody wants that. Did you know that if you Google 'Interesting Luxembourg facts,' the result is just a page that says NO." (The Luxemburger Wort was not amused.)
The Penny: "Once again, on the cover of this month's Infant Swallowables Magazine."
Ooh, is this where I can say I went to a Franzia party at Janice from Accounting's house when we were in college?
I hadn't realized the show had done SO many long-form pieces on the prison industry until they listed them all together. That's some masterful work right there - having each episode stand on its own, but together make a damning indictment of the whole she-bang.
posted by missmary6 at 11:38 PM on November 27, 2015 [3 favorites]
I hadn't realized the show had done SO many long-form pieces on the prison industry until they listed them all together. That's some masterful work right there - having each episode stand on its own, but together make a damning indictment of the whole she-bang.
posted by missmary6 at 11:38 PM on November 27, 2015 [3 favorites]
Praise be.
posted by lmfsilva at 4:06 AM on November 28, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by lmfsilva at 4:06 AM on November 28, 2015 [1 favorite]
Dump the penny, but the metal supplier wants the business?
I was amused that the metal supplier apparently doesn't even want the business all that much.
And horrified that those poor clerks at that parking-ticket-asshole's school couldn't get hold of an automated coin counter for the day. Or at least some of those pre-marked plastic tubes that you can put fifty cents worth in at a time. Surely there was a coin counting machine somewhere on campus, off campus, anywhere? Making someone count eleven thousand pennies in stacks on the damn table is just evil. Ideal situation if the school can't/won't refuse to accept payment in pennies (and pennies that parking-ticket-asshole had clearly unwrapped for maximum annoyance) would be for the school to charge the asshole their costs for actually purchasing such a machine. A really expensive one.
Seriously, though. Banks generally refuse to accept unrolled pennies for deposit/conversion to real money. Make that asshole re-roll them all himself.
posted by asperity at 10:14 AM on December 1, 2015
I was amused that the metal supplier apparently doesn't even want the business all that much.
And horrified that those poor clerks at that parking-ticket-asshole's school couldn't get hold of an automated coin counter for the day. Or at least some of those pre-marked plastic tubes that you can put fifty cents worth in at a time. Surely there was a coin counting machine somewhere on campus, off campus, anywhere? Making someone count eleven thousand pennies in stacks on the damn table is just evil. Ideal situation if the school can't/won't refuse to accept payment in pennies (and pennies that parking-ticket-asshole had clearly unwrapped for maximum annoyance) would be for the school to charge the asshole their costs for actually purchasing such a machine. A really expensive one.
Seriously, though. Banks generally refuse to accept unrolled pennies for deposit/conversion to real money. Make that asshole re-roll them all himself.
posted by asperity at 10:14 AM on December 1, 2015
They're releasing a John Oliver Vinyl Figure that looks nothing like him.
posted by Gary at 4:07 PM on December 1, 2015
posted by Gary at 4:07 PM on December 1, 2015
That looks a really good Eggsy from Kingsman, who doesn't look one bit like John Oliver.
posted by lmfsilva at 5:10 AM on December 2, 2015
posted by lmfsilva at 5:10 AM on December 2, 2015
Time has an article on some of the real world good that has been done by Last Week Tonight.
posted by JHarris at 9:33 AM on December 2, 2015
posted by JHarris at 9:33 AM on December 2, 2015
John Oliver: Revised Resolutions (Web Exclusive).
They'll be back February 14th.
posted by Gary at 9:50 PM on January 3, 2016 [1 favorite]
They'll be back February 14th.
posted by Gary at 9:50 PM on January 3, 2016 [1 favorite]
Cher:
No,he’s adorable,But he’s been doing what he does for a sec, I’ve been doing it for 50 yrs. I deserve a bit of respect.
Er, Cher has a satirical weekly late-night news show that no one told me about?
posted by JHarris at 1:16 PM on January 15, 2016
No,he’s adorable,But he’s been doing what he does for a sec, I’ve been doing it for 50 yrs. I deserve a bit of respect.
Er, Cher has a satirical weekly late-night news show that no one told me about?
posted by JHarris at 1:16 PM on January 15, 2016
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Lost Graphics Vol. 2
Cher had a variety show with a future republican congressman. That's like a 3 year "Better know a District" segment, with music.
posted by Gary at 10:35 AM on January 25, 2016 [1 favorite]
Cher had a variety show with a future republican congressman. That's like a 3 year "Better know a District" segment, with music.
posted by Gary at 10:35 AM on January 25, 2016 [1 favorite]
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John on refugees: "There was only one time in American history when the fear of refugees wiping everyone out did actually come true, and we’ll all be sitting around a table celebrating it on Thursday.”
posted by Marky at 11:14 PM on November 27, 2015 [2 favorites]