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John Oliver Welcomes 'original Woke Bae' Dalai Lama To 'last Week Tonight

... about the Dalai Lama, then reminded everyone that the Chinese government has the exact opposite feelings. "Now the Chinese government, however, have a very different view," Oliver said. "Instead of vaguely loving the Dalai Lama, they very specifically hate him." That hate, Oliver said, is due to the dispute over Tibet. "The Chinese government's hatred of the Dalai Lama stems from its desire to maintain control of Tibet, a region in southwest China," Oliver explained, describing the region as the "Willem Dafoe's dick of planet Earth" due to its surprisingly large size. When asked about the Chinese government's depiction of him as an "evil wolf," the Dalai Lama kept his response reliably enlightened. "They describe me as a demon," the Dalai Lama said, mocking that description by putting his hands up as makeshift horns. "Whatever they want to say, that's their freedom. I have no negative feeling. ...

Students Should Watch John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight

... hate you. Cranberries taste like what a raspberry drinks before a colonoscopy”  — his jibes are funny and poignant. His brand of humor is singularly original and his takedowns are as slick as a whistle. Democracy, he once quipped, “is like a tambourine: not everyone can be trusted with it.”. Furthermore, Last Week Tonight has gained a reputation for embracing an unorthodox and endearing type of advocacy. For example, Oliver established a legally recognized church, Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption, in order to expose and ridicule televangelists who preach the “prosperity gospel” to embezzle money from unsuspecting followers. Later, he donated all money raised by the church to Doctors Without Borders. More recently, following a segment about Trump and his relationship with the truth, or lack thereof, Oliver obtained advertising time on cable news shows in the Washington, D. C. area in order to reach the ...

Dalai Lama On 'last Week Tonight With John Oliver

... interviewed on Sunday during Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. The resulting conversation was endearing and educational. The Dalai Lama is regarded as Tibetab Buddhists' spiritual figure-head. He lives in exile in India after he fled from China occupied Tibet in the 1950 s. Since then, he made India his home, and served as leader of Tibetan government in exile up to the time he retired in 2011. The Dalai Lama continues to be spiritual leader of the Tibetan Buddhists. Tweet This. Oliver started his program by sharing the relevant background information concerning Tibet, then proceeded to air the segment of the interview he recorded with Dalai Lama. It is to be noted he had visited India for this interaction. The first part of the interview consisted about Oliver saying the Dalai Lama was hated by the Chinese Government, saying that a Chinese Government functionary has described his Holines as wolf swaddled in the clothes of a monk. Oliver even playfully asked the Dalai Lama that he does not ...

John Oliver's Transgender Student Rant On 'last Week Tonight' Speaks Truth To Trump

... despite the fact that there is virtually no evidence of that happening.". The government is removing protections for transgender people. Here's our 2015 story on why that's dangerous. __link__/i 9 G 406 m PSF. Source: Last Week Tonight on Twitter. Here comes his epic point: "What there are reports of," Oliver alleges, "are of Trump himself barging in on women and teenagers who competed in his pageants while they changed." The allegations Oliver makes came from a Buzz Feed piece published in October. Trump's presidential campaign released a statement denying the charges at the time. Bustle has reached out to the White House for comment. It's impossible to know, of course, what actually happened at the pageants, but as Oliver points out, "In characteristic style, [Trump] has both denied and been recorded on tape bragging about." So, here's what Trump told Howard Stern on the matter. I’ll go backstage and everyone’s getting dressed, and ...

Watch John Oliver Compare Obamacare Replacement To Thong Underwear

... admitted there have been major issues with the ACA, including an unreliable website, skyrocketing premiums, massive deductibles and Obama failing to keep his "empty promise" that customers could keep both their preferred doctors and health care plans. But Republicans haven't come up with any solutions yet. Suggested proposals include "high-risk pools ("which sound like something you'd find at Jeremy Piven's house), health savings accounts ("very fancy piggybanks"), block grants and refundable tax credits. "A tax credit that's so small it helps cover your health insurance the way a thong covers your dad’s ass," the host cracked. Oliver cut to a clip from Trump's 2015 interview with 60 Minutes, where he promised that, under a new plan, patients could have their preferred doctors and plans – "they can have everything.". "'They can have everything,' period," the host said, mocking the line. "So everything short of that is a disaster, and insurers are going to need an answer soon, Republicans – so ...

John Oliver Rips 'consistently Monstrous' Trump's Budget On 'last Week Tonight

... of A Farewell to Arms broadcast by an i Phone submerged in hot coffee." Oh, and unfortunately for Oliver, he admittedly doesn't speak "fluid toddler psychopath.". (Note: This clip is NSFW due to language.). As Oliver sees it, the EPA, State Department and U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID) are such a small part of the budget, Trump's cutting of funds was done not to save money but to give a metaphorical middle finger. "It is the budgetary equivalent of inviting Mitt Romney out to dinner at Jean-Georges before not offering him a cabinet position," Oliver declared, "and I will say that was awesome by the way. Trump is so consistently monstrous, sometimes out of sheer coincidence he happens to do something amazing.". What Oliver didn't think was amazing are "programs" he assumed would also face cuts in Tennessee, like the Kid-Kitten Hard Hat Alliance and Grandma's Wish Coalition for Warm Cookies Straight from the Oven. "The cookies will be throw away," ...

John Oliver Says He Got More Ad Time To School Trump On American Health Care Act

... and showed a CNN report which said it would give the wealthy large tax breaks. "So this plan is literally taking money from the poor and giving it to the very rich," Oliver said in summary. "It's essentially a reverse Bernie Sanders.". (Note: This clip is NSFW for language and brief nudity.). The Englishman also made fun of Trump for saying, "Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated.". "Everybody knew that," Oliver passionately retorted. "Everybody knew health care is complicated, literally everybody.". Everyone including Catheter Cowboy, who will be making another appearance in an ad during Fox & Friends Wednesday, so said Oliver. The buckaroo who simplifies complex issues with southern vernacular appeared in an ads that ran  last month with the hopes of getting Trump's attention. This time around, Oliver said his program bought airtime during the Fox News show's broadcast in the D. C area. If you live outside the region, rest easy, partner. You can see the ad in the clip above, which again is ...

John Oliver Criticized Obama On 'last Week Tonight' & You Might Have Missed It

... Obamacare segment, Oliver showed clips of initial opposition to the ACA. These 2009 clips showed opponents referring to Obama as a Marxist, comparing him to Hitler, and expressing general anguish. But one man went even further. Presumably addressing Obama as he looked at the camera, he yelled: "You want to kill my grandparents? You come through me first!". Oliver used this as an opportunity to take a discrete jab at the former president. In a response to that particular clip, Oliver pointed out that Obama would have gone a different route if he had actually wanted to kill someone's grandparents. Look, relax. President Obama did not want to kill that guy's grandparents. And if he did, he wouldn't have used health insurance. He would have just ordered a drone strike and then declared them enemy combatants. That was his style. Source: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images News/Getty Images. This ...

John Oliver Gives Us The Word, From A To Z

... in everything, and everything in comedy. From street corners to theaters, arenas, print, television, film, or even the White House, if it's funny, or should be, we're talking about it. We also continue to bring you everything happening in the news that's worth discussing, the best recommendations on the internet, and interviews with the most creative people on the planet. Interested in contributing? Hit us up on our contact page. Our Commenting Policy. We love when you leave comments and we encourage active discussion and debate throughout the site. However our moderators may delete any comments at their discretion, particularly any comments that are off topic. Of course, defamatory, libelous, threatening, or otherwise illegal posts will be removed as well as any posts that are deemed abusive, or intentionally inflammatory. We also ask that you be respectful of our authors, guests, and other commenters. We reserve the right to edit or delete comments at ...

Artist' Trump, 'madam Ghostbuster' Sean Spicer

... That was a statement made by a very talented lawyer on Fox. So you shouldn’t be talking to me, you should be talking to Fox.”. “No, we should be talking to you about it because you’re the f—ing president, and you’re repeating it,” Oliver said in response to the audio. “‘He said it because he heard it on television’ is barely an acceptable excuse for why your parrot said a racial slur. ‘No, no, no, no, we’ve been watching The Wire! We’ve been watching The Wire.'”. Not even Fox News stood by the claims made by Napolitano, who appeared on Alex Jones’ Info Wars show in 2010 to spread a Sept. 11 terror attack conspiracy theory about the World Trade Center (“It’s hard for me to believe that it came down by itself”). “We love the judge, we love him here at Fox, but the Fox News division was never able to back up those claims and was never reported on this show,” Fox News anchor Bret Bair said last week. But despite reports that Spicer had apologized ...