John Oliver is sort of a guilty pleasure for me, I guess.
Like, an actual guilty pleasure.
Not like having a piece of chocolate after meals, but like, rawdogging strangers.
I enjoy it but know I shouldn't, and feel ashamed afterwards.
The jokes are old and stale, yet still make me laugh.
And he always talks about structural problems, yet fails to go deep enough to pin it all on capitalism, or even third way neoliberalism, and instead pulls out prematurely and offers some shitty ineffective "solution" at the end that obviously won't work because it relies on everyone in the world spending extra money, or politicians that listen to their constituents rather than corporate interests or something else equally unrealistic.Yeah, but there's like 10 jokes per episode inserted where they don't belong that you can tell even he doesn't find funny. "The Republicans scolding the Democrats on the deficit...? That's like ...a fish telling a frog it has a drinking problem! Shut up, fish, you need help! ...Anyway, the deficit has increased by 150 billion last year..." They have some formula of 1 joke per 3 minutes of exposition and it comes across as robotic.
Lmao the ones where you can tell even he doesn't think they're funny are the best. It's just so absurd, a comedian tell jokes even he doesn't think are funny. And they're not funny, they end up being weird run on sentences but delivered with the cadence of a joke, it's so fucking stupid I love it
I guess there's no arguing about taste. Once my suspense of disbelief is broken too many times, I don't want to go back. But whatever floats your boat!
At least good ole Bob had the decency to become a good billionaire this month
Something tells me you really don’t want to know his opinion on Jeremy Corbyn
Yeah, you're right. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is not a fictional tale.
they can approve of him now from a distance, if he were alive today they would 100% say he's too extreme
I mean those comic book characters were written to be like the real people, just through the lens of shitlib politics.
Funny enough Stan the Man didn't do that and was relatively left leaning, especially in the 60s.
some say that Hillary Clinton is the Malcolm X of the modern day
and some shit about realizing you can't fight hate with hate, you have to fight it with hope... hope expressed as voting
Yeah but it also have a lot of good clips about not-so-famous big problems that can be too spicy if libs payed enough attention to join the dots and conclude some obvious things.
Yes! But also all the serie about how shit the justice system is, and the one about scholl segregation, and the ones about abortion laws that basically tell them legal abortion in most legalized states is imposible, and many others.
The real struggle is deciding the 3rd best (least bad) thing on that list.
Yeah I've got Hillary and Hamilton 1 and 2, I'm having trouble deciding between West Wing and and girlboss RBG for 3.
