John Oliver once again took aim at “Business Daddy” AT&T — which in May announced a deal to spin off HBO parent WarnerMedia and merge it with Discovery — on Sunday’s episode of HBO’s Last Week Tonight. This time he took issue with a Reuters report that surfaced last week revealing that AT&T helped create and fund One America News, a far […]
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John Oliver on Sunday used most of his HBO show to link Tucker Carlson to white supremacy, claiming that Carlson uses his popular Fox News show to share dangerous messages. The segment was hardly the first time the comic used Last Week Tonight to skewer Carlson, but Oliver’s condemnation reached a new level. Explaining first how Carlson […]
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Don’t expect John Oliver to have an in-depth opinion on the Twitter ecosystem. “I may have sent 100 tweets in my lifetime,” he told critics at the Television Critics Association press tour Wednesday. “Granted, 20 of them were incredibly offensive.” The “Last Week Tonight” host was being asked about the recent controversy surrounding the surfacing of offensive […]
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