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Actor Michael Rapaport unloaded on HBO host John Oliver on Monday, demanding that he “shut the f**k up” and stop “whining” about America’s political climate and the Supreme Court nomination process.

DANBURY, Conn. — A Connecticut city won’t waste an opportunity to get a sizeable donation from comedian John Oliver about a weeks-long joke pertaining to the name of a sewage plant in the area.

Officials from the town of Danbury, Connecticut, drew a furious reaction from HBO’s left-wing late-night house John Oliver, naming their sewage plant “The John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant.” 

HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver is the latest TV pundit to deny the widespread violence in Portland, Oregon, insisting on his weekly show on Sunday that the protests have been “mostly peaceful.”

John Oliver used Sunday’s edition of his HBO show, Last Week Tonight, to defend the Black Lives Matter movement and its specific demand to “defund the police.”

HBO “Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver weighed in on the sexual assault allegations against former Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, arguing that there are “clearly big questions to be answered” about his conduct.

In the latest episode of his HBO show, host John Oliver slammed President Donald Trump over his response to the coronavirus but went comparatively easy on China for its cover-ups and attempts to silence government whistleblowers.

HBO host and comedian John Oliver said that he would like to see the Trump presidency come to an end because it is bad for America, his personal health, and the state of comedy.

British-born, elite-educated, New-York-based HBO talk show host John Oliver wants more migration into the United States.

HBO host John Oliver has found himself in a war of words with e-commerce giant Amazon, after criticizing the company’s notoriously “brutal” warehouse conditions.

Appearing Sunday on HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” Bill Nye launched into an profanity-laden and hyperbolic rant about climate change, exclaiming “the planet’s on fucking fire!”

According to a new poll from The Hollywood Reporter, Americans view Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert as the most liberal late-night hosts on television.

Chinese authorities have blocked HBO’s website in China, just days after comedian John Oliver criticized the president Xi Jinping, an anti-censorship and monitoring group GreatFire.org said on Saturday. 

The Last Week Tonight host John Oliver is running an ad in Washington, D.C., in hopes of speaking directly to Trump regarding the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal.

“Will & Grace” co-creator Max Mutchnick has announced that he will donate copies of John Oliver’s children’s book, about a gay rabbit, to school libraries in Vice President Mike Pence’s home state of Indiana.

Vice President Pence’s daughter, Charlotte Pence, says she has purchased John Oliver’s book lampooning the Pence family’s rabbit.

The HBO host John Oliver’s spoof of a new picture book by the wife and daughter of Vice President Mike Pence was No. 1 on Amazon.com as of midday Monday. Buying the book, Oliver said, is a way of telling Pence to ‘go f*ck himself.’

Pierce Morgan ripped John Oliver for attempting to speak on behalf of Americans in the wake of the deadly shooting in Parkland, Florida.

[ADULT LANGUAGE WARNING] Sunday night on HBO’s “Last Week Tonight,” host John Oliver declared that President Donald Trump was damaging America’s image around the world by causing many citizens to be “profoundly embarrassed by him.” Oliver said, “As an immigrant who has

Comedian Billy Eichner announced on Thursday that he has teamed up with the film company Funny or Die for an initiative called ‘Glam Up the Midterms,’ intended to encourage millennials to participate in the 2018 midterm elections.

More women are accusing Dustin Hoffman of sexual misconduct, including an incident in which a playwright says the actor exposed himself to her in a New York hotel room when she was 16 years old.

Alec Baldwin lashed out at liberal late-night hosts John Oliver and Stephen Colbert, insisting that they have help turn talk shows into “grand juries” in the court of public opinion.

Comedian and HBO late-night host John Oliver confronted Oscar-winning actor Dustin Hoffman Monday at a Tribeca Film panel over allegations of sexual harassment.

Some top comedians — including John Oliver, Jon Stewart, Trevor Noah and Conan O’Brien — helped raise money for military veterans Tuesday night at a raucous event at Madison Square Garden in which many of the best barbs were hurled at the current commander in chief.

During his Saturday night HBO show, left-wing scold John Oliver lied to his audience with the claim that President Trump disrespected the U.S. flag by rubbing it against his “old boner.”

Last month, HBO funnyman John Oliver spent an episode of his show “Last Week Tonight” delivering a profanity-laced rant demonizing coal, coal-energy advocates, and presidents of the United States who don coal-miner hard-hats. He did so following the formula that Jon Stewart has used so successfully throughout his career: Be witty and quote a lot of apparent facts in order to back up your satirically-expressed opinion about any issue and hope your audience will accept you as an expert.

John Oliver is facing a defamation lawsuit filed by multiple coal companies after the HBO host lambasted the coal industry and mining company Murray Energy Corporation and its chief executive Robert E. Murray.

Last Week Tonight host John Oliver has emerged as one of the leading anti-Donald Trump personalities in the entire media landscape, with his biting critiques often shared, discussed, and debated in the mainstream press. But according to a Wednesday report in the Observer, the late-night funnyman used a tax loophole created in part by Trump in the 1970s to allegedly avoid paying a large tax bill on the $9.5 million New York City apartment he purchased in 2014, just weeks after deriding tax breaks for the wealthy during a segment on his HBO show.

Comments criticizing Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Ajit Pai are “full of bot accounts, fake comments, and death threats,” according to a report.

Donna Laframboise has a great piece in the Spectator – How Many Scientific Papers Just Aren’t True? – about why so much science research these days is bunk because the whole “peer-review” process is broken. She means climate science especially, of course.

[Language Warning] During the Sunday broadcast of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight,” host John Oliver ripped into American Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte over the story he gave about how he and three other swimmers were robbed at gunpoint in Brazil, which Brazilian police deny.

On the latest installment of HBO’s Last Night with John Oliver, the show’s host returned from his hiatus for a special episode and was joined by some of America’s top recording artists, who slammed Donald Trump and the Republican National Convention and warned politicians not to use their songs without permission on the campaign trail.

On Sunday’s broadcast of “Last Week Tonight” on HBO, host John Oliver sounded off on doping in the Olympics after some Russian track and field athletes were been banned from competing in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro for doping.

John Oliver, host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight, has been accused of stealing the idea of “debt-buying” from another organization and using it on his show.

[LANGUAGE WARNING] On Sunday’s “Last Week Tonight,” host John Oliver took on the New York Yankees after their COO Lonn Trost defended a new ticket policy that Trost said will protect the premium fans from sitting near a fan who has never sat

“If the Republican Party wasn’t just doing damage-control at the national level this week, a number of local elections also threw-up terrifying results. Just look at Texas,” cracked John Oliver on Last Week Tonight. Oliver then pinpoints to the vulgar, newly-elected Travis County, Texas, GOP chair who calls himself “Donald Trump on Steroids.”