Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014)
A half-hour satirical look at the week in news, politics and current events.
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6x01 Episode 150
18 February, 2019 7:00 am
Main story: the effects of Brexit; plus, Drumpf’s border wall “national emergency”; and New Zealand’s ongoing map crisis.
6x02 Episode 151
25 February, 2019 7:00 am
Main story: TV psychics can make a lot of money by exploiting vulnerable people; plus, William Happer, 2018 North Carolina election fraud hearings.
6x03 Episode 152
04 March, 2019 7:00 am
Main story: Automation and technological unemployment; plus, 2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit, Michael Cohen testimony, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump.
6x04 Episode 153
11 March, 2019 6:00 am
Main story: Pressuring the FCC to end the scourge of Robocalls; plus, the Brazilian president’s bizarre tweet; Trump signs bibles and welcomes Tim “Apple.”
6x05 Episode 154
18 March, 2019 6:00 am
Main story: A talk about the power of public shaming, good and bad, includes an interview with Monica Lewinsky; plus, Christchurch mosque shootings, Fraser Anning’s response to the shootings, a Brexit update.
6x06 Episode 155
01 April, 2019 7:00 am
Main story: World Wrestling Entertainment and its often-villainous owner, Vince McMahon; plus, fallout from the Mueller Report.
6x07 Episode 156
08 April, 2019 7:00 am
Main story: Mobile homes and Frank Rolfe; plus, Stephen Moore, Herman Cain, and the Catherine Pugh/Heather Holly scandal.
6x08 Episode 157
15 April, 2019 7:00 am
Main story: an update on opioid abuse and Richard Sackler; plus, Brexit gets a Halloween extension; Julian Assange gets arrested.
6x09 Episode 158
22 April, 2019 7:00 am
Main story: The Mueller Report; plus, Chiitan, the rogue Japanese mascot.
Guests: Hugh Bonneville, Ryan Barger
6x10 Episode 159
06 May, 2019 7:00 am
Main story: lethal injection and the death penalty; plus, the various options in the Australian elections.
6x11 Episode 160
13 May, 2019 7:00 am
Main story: Green New Deal and carbon pricing; plus, GOP states are passing extreme anti-abortion bills in an attempt to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Guests: Bill Nye
6x12 Episode 161
20 May, 2019 7:00 am
Main story: America’s system for conducting death investigations is a mess; plus, a look at the Eurovision 2019 Song Contest, Hatari, Trump’s tariff confusion.
Guests: Glenn Close, Tracy Morgan
6x13 Episode 162
03 June, 2019 7:00 am
Main story: The medical design industry has a troubling lack of regulation; plus, Jared Kushner’s Israel visit, Golan Heights, Glen Casada/Cade Cothren text message scandal.
Guests: Jane Krakowski
6x14 Episode 163
10 June, 2019 7:00 am
Main story: Equal Rights Amendment and Phyllis Schlafly; plus Donald Trump’s trip to the United Kingdom, Theresa May’s resignation as Conservative Party leader, 2019 Conservative Party (UK) leadership election.
6x15 Episode 164
17 June, 2019 7:00 am
Main story: The pros and cons of impeaching Trump; plus, Steve Bullock, Duncan D. Hunter campaign finance scandal.
6x16 Episode 165
24 June, 2019 7:00 am
Main story: Climbing Mount Everest has become dangerously popular; plus, Trump almost goes to war with Iran; and “Can Meghan McCain Say Just One Thing.”
6x17 Episode 166
01 July, 2019 7:00 am
Main story: E-commerce, warehouse working conditions and business logistics; plus, Trump’s foreign misadventures; Jared Kushner’s Mideast peace plan.
Also guest Gilbert Gottfried (voice-over).
6x18 Episode 167
29 July, 2019 7:00 am
Main story: How Britain’s new prime minister, Boris Johnson, has succeeded; plus, Puerto Rico’s governor resigns following mass protests.
6x19 Episode 168
05 August, 2019 7:00 am
Main story: Penal labor in the United States and Securus Technologies; plus, Boris Johnson, John Ratcliffe, Sam Clovis.
Note: This episode was preceded by a short monologue about the 2019 El Paso and Dayton shootings, both of which occurred earlier that weekend.
6x20 Episode 169
12 August, 2019 7:00 am
Main story: President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow and Guinness World Records; plus, Trump’s inauspicious visits to Dayton and El Paso in the wake of mass shootings; gun control and the NRA’s recent scandals; stone-skipping competition.
6x21 Episode 170
19 August, 2019 7:00 am
Main story: The roles that gender and racial bias can play in medical treatment; plus, Trump wants to buy Greenland; Hong Kong protests continue; and Pumpkin Spice Lattes are back!
Guests: Wanda Sykes, Larry David.
6x22 Episode 171
09 September, 2019 7:00 am
Main story: Legislation and the filibuster; plus, Trump’s weather map flub; Boris Johnson and British Brexit chaos; And Now: Fox Business’s Stu Varney Gets All Giddy Over the President.
6x23 Episode 172
16 September, 2019 7:00 am
Main story: Legal immigration; plus, corruption in Russian elections, And Now: Maria Bartiromo and Investigative Discovery’s Joe Kenda.
6x24 Episode 173
30 September, 2019 7:00 am
Main story: Why compounding pharmacies that create medication for individual patients can cause big problems; plus, “Stupid Watergate II: The Stupidest Watergate.”
Guests: David Schwimmer, Method Man, Jimmy Kimmel, RuPaul, Michael Bolton, Kristen Bell, and Kiefer Sutherland.
6x25 Episode 174
07 October, 2019 7:00 am
Main story: The consequences of China’s one-child policy; plus, the latest on Trump’s impeachment inquiry and his plea for foreign meddling.
6x26 Episode 175
14 October, 2019 7:00 am
Main story: Tension between the public and private worlds of predicting the weather; plus, two of Giuliani’s cronies are arrested, and the NBA-China mess.
6x27 Episode 176
28 October, 2019 6:00 am
Main story: The alarming decision to pull U.S. troops from the Turkey-Syria border; plus, the killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (the ISIS leader), Trump’s impeachment inquiry continues, and the latest on Brexit.
6x28 Episode 177
04 November, 2019 7:00 am
Main story: How voting machines work, how they don’t, and how we can fix them; plus, Trump and his allies attack witnesses in the impeachment saga.
Guests: Ken Burns (voice-over).
6x29 Episode 178
11 November, 2019 7:00 am
Main story: How SLAPP suits are designed to stifle public dissent (including an update on Bob Murray’s lawsuit); plus, Trump “caught” the swamp; Lindsey Graham’s desperate defense of Trump; Roger Stone’s trial begins.
6x30 Episode 179
18 November, 2019 7:00 am
Main story: Why the census matters; plus, the return of Chiijohn; Republicans struggle to defend Trump in impeachment hearings.
Guests: Hugh Bonneville, Seth Meyers.
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