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Last Week Tonight With John Oliver Season 7

Mojochi

Mojochi

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I gotta hand it to him. Of all the taped live tv shows that are having to pair down or have their hosts operate from home, without the benefit of an audience reaction, his is by FAR meeting the challenge better than anyone else. He's going bonkers at home alone, mind you, offering $1,000, & a $20K Food bank donation for a 28 year of piece of erotic cartoon rat art, but still in all, the show is managing to continue to be a lot of fun :guffaw:

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I haven't watched a single thing since he said that student loans couldn't be just paid off for. He's a corporate tool.
 
Mojochi said:
He's going bonkers at home alone, mind you, offering $1,000, & a $20K Food bank donation for a 28 year of piece of erotic cartoon rat art, but still in all, the show is managing to continue to be a lot of fun :guffaw:
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Well, before the Coronavirus he bought Russell Crowe's jockstrap for 7K, so I think he was bonkers before being home alone.
 
bigdaddy said:
I haven't watched a single thing since he said that student loans couldn't be just paid off for. He's a corporate tool.
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It took a while for me to figure out what you're talking about...I'm pretty sure you're referring to John Oliver's criticism of one particular plan proposed by Jill Stein and whether or not that plan made any sense on either a practical or constitutional level. I'm not going to get into whether or not Stein was accurately represented, but it's a huge stretch to say that John Oliver is opposed to paying off student loans just because he disagreed with one method proposed by Stein.
 
I love this show. Nobody else would get Edward Norton to shoot an overdramatized film trailer about rebuilding our dam infrastructure.

Major roll eyes at calling him a corporate tool for only agreeing with you about 99% of progressive things.

I only agree with you on 85% of progressive things, I must be a MAJOR corporate tool.

Maybe Trump wouldn’t be President if so many progressives weren’t equally demanding of ideological orthodoxy as Evangelicals.
 
Snaploud said:
It took a while for me to figure out what you're talking about...I'm pretty sure you're referring to John Oliver's criticism of one particular plan proposed by Jill Stein and whether or not that plan made any sense on either a practical or constitutional level. I'm not going to get into whether or not Stein was accurately represented, but it's a huge stretch to say that John Oliver is opposed to paying off student loans just because he disagreed with one method proposed by Stein.
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No it's not. You want to know how you pay off student debts? You just go 'They are paid!', that's it. The banks got 1.5 trillion dollars from Congress because of Covid, even before the commoners got their pennies. All they did was move a comma and a period. This after the fed gave several trillion to the banks throughout the fall without any approval.
 
bigdaddy said:
No it's not. You want to know how you pay off student debts? You just go 'They are paid!', that's it. The banks got 1.5 trillion dollars from Congress because of Covid, even before the commoners got their pennies. All they did was move a comma and a period. This after the fed gave several trillion to the banks throughout the fall without any approval.
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That's $1.5 trillion in short--term collateralized loans. It's a fairly important distinction.

Regardless, John Oliver just thinks paying off student debt would have to go through the normal legislative process. At most, this is a disagreement over process rather than outcome (at least, as far as it relates to the people in debt).
 
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You can’t just magic debt away and expect it to have no terrible side effects.

Take economics 101 and then we’ll talk about orthodox progressivism.

I will say about John Oliver, he has clearly never performed without accounting for applause.
 
Mojochi said:
It's pretty close. :guffaw: It's a painting of anthropomorphized rats sexing each other up lol

Edit: I'm really hoping to see that he got it :biggrin:
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Yeah, I definitely hope he gets it, especially after getting the five president wax statues (and then made a short film starring Laura Linney!) and Russell Crowe's jockstrap from Gladiator. :D
 
Anybody see him on Colbert? I think the reason he makes it work is like he says. His format, & even his masochistic style as a comedian kind of works whether people are laughing or not. He somehow is sympathetic in delivering jokes to emptiness. Doesn't work for everybody
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I like Colbert so much more when he's back in cahoots with his old Daily Show peeps. You can just see the friendship
 
Mojochi said:
It's pretty close. :guffaw: It's a painting of anthropomorphized rats sexing each other up lol

Edit: I'm really hoping to see that he got it :biggrin:
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They're pretty good at frivolous spending:
John Oliver Japanese mascot
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Musical production (at the end) as an F-U over winning a lawsuit
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