John Oliver - The Decline Of The American Empire

[@Villainurmom]

He looks like if Harry Potter never became a wizard

[@PurushaDesa]

Monarch Yeah, a life insurance salesman.

[@jblue1622]

Monarch “After years of reminding people he killed Voldemort, Harry got sick of dealing with regular Auror jobs and decided to do something outlandish like doing muggle standup”

[@brodycaldwell9678]

He actually enjoys hearing several of these insults

[@gur262]

@@brodycaldwell9678 he pretends to enjoy them while nobody knows if he is even capable of enjoyment as he's just too British for that

[@psychxticrose]

He looks as if Harry Potter and Dudley Dursley had a child

[@hugogirardisking]

A British guy doing a set about America in Montreal. John Oliver is amazing.

[@arnavbhagwat4232]

hugogirardisking Talk about Globalisation!

[@francissmith3364]

This guy hates America more than ISIS .. since he is not American, is that just bigotry and racism he is speaking? And Canadians laughing is also racism

[@natevirtual]

Americans, not a race, but a culture. I don't think he hates America, he just makes fun of the typical American ideologies.

[@harithwaseem8468]

Francis Smith he doesn’t necessarily hate Americans even his wife is American

[@tiberiussempronious6252]

@@francissmith3364 - He is American, he got his citizenship

[@paul5715]

Strange seeing John standing lol

[@SpoilerAlert__]

He worked his way up

[@ronbarzilai5705]

@@SpoilerAlert__ While working his way down at the same time

[@ronbarzilai5705]

@just a channel I was referring to him going down to the seated position.

[@asecretturning]

Yeah, he's usually busy on DEEZ NUTS ha got em

[@OzzieTheHead]

@hi there r/whooosh

[@KevKelly48]

"the numbers aren't good" ... "but those are just facts" - Political satire then, actual political stances now

[@who_is_Yabets]

You have no idea how right you are, especially right now. 😂😂😂😂

[@sirsurreal9154]

@@who_is_Yabets I'm glad I found others who also found this. It's too perfect for how long ago it was

[@gennyyy.13]

perfect for now

[@tiffanypaulsen5334]

@@gennyyy.13 unfortunately true

[@jerryburke7877]

Gets even better each year😹

[@aaronmaxie2633]

For anyone wondering, the exclamation mark on the Library sign was added by the owner of Flying Pie Pizza with the city's permission in '95 to illustrate the point that libraries are exciting places and more people should enjoy them.

[@Ajhcr]

Libraries are so underrated! I Looove being in a library, leisurely browsing all subjects, fanning the pages and just inhaling…… Painstakingly picking two or three books to read ….keep your kindle, I say, and I’ll take your books!

[@MasterArchfiend]

I admire that reasoning, but the fact it was deemed necessary also saddens me.

[@diegokanocanizares3952]

Wasn't wondering but nice interesting fact, thanks. Not sure if the people there got it!!

[@FJUH]

How did it go?

[@ceven8037]

'its about looking at facts and just saying "no"' oops america

[@dablet]

cant believe this was back in 2011 and still so relevant today. wow

[@LudusAurea]

You'll believe it more easily once you look through time and understand that literally nothing has changed in the entire time you've been alive nor your parents lifetimes.

[@thcrimsnfckr666]

Cas Moons My Nigga

[@Casmaniac]

thank you

[@EmbracingTheChaos]

Except that you're not from 'west Europe'; you are an american liberal. And those were opinions, not arguments.

[@conor8629]

John Oliver was making jokes about facts and tiny hands 6 years ago, now they've become all too real

[@henhen7890]

Just like how when he heard about Trump running for president he said 'Do it'.

[@ConservativeAnthem]

henhen7890 But did he send a campaign contribution like he promised? In the meantime, a second-rate comedian comes to North America to talk down to us and pretend he and his stupid, reactionary, wholly derivative leftism is light-years ahead of Americans. FAIL!!!

[@ConservativeAnthem]

Steve K -- Must be a very small bit of genius in John cos it's getting buried by all the rest of the crap. His standup is stale. But I guess all you Snowflakes have to bow down and worship your entertainers when they bloviate on politics, correct? Such an incredible coincidence that all these folks who spent a lifetime learning how to entertain others also happen to be political savants, no?!! Go back to your TV dinner, and ease down into your recliner Stevie...no one is taking away your opiate for the asses.

[@conneryates1767]

ConservativeAnthem Do you understand criticism and satire? Some people enjoy both of these...

[@ConservativeAnthem]

Conner Yates -- IMHO, folks like Oliver who come to America to attack our supposed epic ignorance -- compared to the UK/EU -- and to expose politicos like Trump, are an acquired taste. Unless you already hate Trump, folk like Oliver & Trevor Noah are not especially entertaining.

[@VideosByCal]

Hi. I'm from Boise. And when John talked about our "LIBRARY!"... I let out the most maniacal laughter I could possibly muster.

[@bevanadonis9732]

I love this man but nobody can ever come for our LIBRARY!

[@KysonChannell]

I love the LIBRARY!

[@cronchycatmom]

Been to Boise all of one time and I had a feeling he was going to say Library!

[@wolfenman1013]

Bevan Adonis Also from Idaho and I was dumb enough to assume he was going to say something nice about the capitol building or the green belt or...something.

[@silvermegaman8519]

It is nice

[@boskyp]

"America has never been about facts. It's been about belief... let's try something better than that." Damn! The concept of 'alternative facts' was originally John Oliver's observation about America!

[@JustGotALife]

And now the fact is that he doesn't really on facts when it comes to his own show.

[@2beatteam01]

John Oliver needs to go back across the pond. With the rest of the liberal fucks

[@JustGotALife]

drew leonard i don't go for emotions. If he is factually right then i would take it. I don't whine. But sadly he isn't.

[@teethgrinder83]

2beatteam01 your showing your ignorance mate-the right wing has been in "power" over here for quite a few years now. Maybe to your lunatic American ass we are "liberal" but believe me when I say that your alone. The Western country that still has the death penalty, has mass incarceration to the benefit of businesses, a huge income gap, a healthcare system that punishes the poor, a country that accepts legal bribery in the form of political donations and is blasé about gerrymandering-oh and let's not forget about your gun laws! But "go 'Murica!" haha your the laughing stock of the West-if it weren't for your military and wealth (extremely concentrated wealth of course!) then you'd be nothing. Your country has added so little of positive value to the world-fucking nuke yourself already

[@Krystalmyth]

Did you misquote him on purpose to make a point?

[@truepatriotusa4627]

A brit doing a set about America in Canada is like seeing your two best friends talk shit about you behind your back

[@savokgrim4131]

I wanted to like your comment... but I can't push you to 70. I am an American for fuc*'s sake.

[@trejrco]

You two best, but both very jealous, friends ...

[@Matt-iy3zy]

TJ Evans anyone jealous of us right now is like someone running on a treadmill feeling envy over a paraplegic shitting in a diaper rolling on down the street in a wheel chair

[@roxanne1231]

Yeah I believe he’s American right? Or so he has said recently....Wikipedia knows😁

[@alexandrian7772]

That’s funny, impying America had friends

[@christianoconnor4184]

Canadian's cheering the "stolen native land joke" is at minimum, ironic.

[@OnMePro2000]

Too ironic

[@glass.hammer]

As the kids say, not a good look.

[@devforfun5618]

@@OnMePro2000 that is the thing,i didnt knew why they were cheering, either the joke was good, or they were really proud of stealing the native land

[@theladoflads7884]

Is funny joke

[@Zodroo_Tint]

They compensate and happy they are still not called out. Remember: USA is bad, Canada is good.

[@zednott688]

how has john oliver aged 20 years in 6 years

[@Zado19]

a haircut

[@Krystalmyth]

DHT.

[@ARealityStorm]

Living in America...

[@doctypepublic]

Parenthood. Almost losing a child.

[@pinkiBaerchen]

doctypepublic losing a child? Did something happen?

[@shadhubler4947]

i can listen to this guy talk all day...love how he speaks

[@anonanon5608]

Shad Hubler the only kind of news I can watch tbh

[@VS-et4pn]

*9 years later* John Oliver: "Well, I've just become an American citizen..."

[@jblue1622]

Vincent Snyder “I seem to be stuck in a white void, which is a pretty damn American way to explain America”

[@TheBlackMambaa248]

This is basically an episode of Last Week Tonight

[@funeralgiggle3771]

With slightly more athleticism

[@princessaria]

Michael Scott it’s nice to see his sense of humor is basically the same. 😂

[@stoodmuffinpersonal3144]

It's the Alpha, or the Beta. Season one was release, and each seasom since is a patch, lol

[@joshkaid]

John Oliver is the only guy who can insult America and still make me proud to be American.

[@diegokanocanizares3952]

That is his superpower. No body else can. At the fact that is British is more impressive

[@m.oliveira5627]

That moment I was listening to this while I was doing homework and I heard him say “I was in Boise, Idaho...” and I was so startled because I didn’t even think anyone else in America knew we existed but the sheer amount of terror I felt after he said it because I knew. I knew. Nothing good could come from his next sentence 😂

[@diazinth]

I'm fairly sure I've laid tracks there in Sid Meiers Railroad Tycoon.

[@JL6293]

It takes an outsider to truly understand America because as a self-absorbed nation what do we even compare ourselves to for self-evaluation?

[@jasonomnia9295]

For self-evaluation? we compares ourselves to pretty much anyone else, Chinamen. Where'd you think "America is the greatest country in the world" and the policing the world comes from?

[@susieq9801]

@@jasonomnia9295 - "America is the greatest country in the world" comes from your imagination. As for "policing", try policing Russia or China and see how THAT goes. Most countries you are "policing" don't want you there.The US has mythology, not history. Calling someone "Chinaman" shows what a racist dump the US truly is. Blew it didn't you?

[@jasonomnia9295]

@@susieq9801 Calm your black titties Susie Qing, I was saying that's where the mentality comes from, I never said America is the greatest country in the world even though you chinese have your anchor babies here. As far as policy Russia and China, those countries are currently under our economic thumbs through sanctions. This country is also affected, but the Chinese is being taxed considerably higher than they can tax our businesses

[@donparker5349]

@@susieq9801 Can you not take a joke? Sheesh...

[@susieq9801]

@@donparker5349 - WOW, I never knew I was Chinese!!! Actually I'm of Scottish and German ancestry. Always wondered why I liked Chinese food. My titties are also pink, not black. I have no anchor babies. Never had kids because I'm smart. As for having China under your thumb, the tariffs being levied at Chinese goods are not paid for by China but are placed on goods that come into the US from China, hence when American consumers buy Chinese goods, which are omnipresent, AMERICANS pay, not China. China also has no fear of Americans buying fewer of these goods because they have a worldwide market of consumers. It's nice for them to have a US market but not essential. They have the fastest growing economy on the planet with or without the US market. The Chinese don't buy many American goods and are becoming leaders in both new technology and production of technological goods. Look at stuff in Walmart or Best Buy or Target....almost all "Made in China" (or India or Pakistan or Vietnam or Korea....not in the US because labor is so cheap there. This is where so called American companies make their products). While on the topic, China in retaliation now refuses to buy all American agricultural products such as soy and pork which was a massive market for American farmers, That means American farmers have had their biggest market, China, taken from them. China can get these goods from other countries like Canada and Russia so it's no problem for them. That is also why the government, that is to say US TAXPAYERS, are having to compensate American farmers with billions of dollars to make up the shortfall created by loss in sales. YOUR tax dollars. In essence that is putting American farmers on welfare. Many American farmers will loose family farms that have been in their families for generations. Russia has a corner on the market with the gas and oil supply to Europe. It also trades with other communist block nations like North Korea and China. They'll survive. Americans DO have mythology not history. According to what they learn in school, the US invented everything from water to air. :)

[@AriOrSomething]

2:08 "And Utah, what do you even do?" As a not-so-proud Utahn, I ask myself the same question every day.

[@MichaelJohnsenOslo]

This is more accurate now than ever.

[@Kotazo85]

kinda like idiocracy RIGHT?

[@ascent8487]

Depressingly so : (

[@rainbowwriter672]

Michael Johnsen check out the Jon Stewart clip from the same festival..positively eerie coincidence

[@cookie-dough-fox69]

Michael Johnsen, even more accurate 9 months later...

[@thereseklingele236]

Gets funner with time

[@prattabi]

I love this man. I love this man so much.

[@martell203]

A_Pratt I did too! When he was this man.

[@coena9377]

I suppose an exclamation point would be better than a question mark.

[@littlesnowflakepunk855]

"There is nothing you could do to us that we are not already doing to ourselves," holds frighteningly true these days

[@YeshwanthReddy]

Corona

[@littlesnowflakepunk855]

@Scott's Precious Little Account Who is "them?" Vague outgroups don't really help anyone.

[@dwolivas]

He needs to look back on this 7 years later and realize how smart and right he is and was. America, he called it 7 years ago

[@spencergraham-thille9896]

* was.

[@spencergraham-thille9896]

Before he started generating hysteria about mundane topics and one-sided arguments for lrftist causes.

[@johndanes2294]

@@spencergraham-thille9896 So it's leftist to criticize your own country now? So what you just blindly follow your eternal leader now and march mindlessly to your state then?

[@gregrock7451]

​@@johndanes2294 1) *"So it's leftist to criticize your own country now"* He was about 8 years shy of becoming a US citizen when this was recorded; ergo. it wasn't "his own" country. If an American who moved to Britain, made a nice living for himself, and then did a gig in Paris where he said numerous unflattering things about Brits to a theater full of Frenchman...it might be objectively funny, it might make most people laugh, and some of those laughing might be Brits. But anyone who says that there wouldn't be a lot of Brits who'd take exception is full of crap. Brits in general are as fiercely proud of their Britishness as us Yanks are about being American, and no less prone to putting their foot up someone's ass for dunking on them. Sure, if you ask, they'd say "Nah...that don't bother me!" and would most likely tell you they don't give two craps about their country's hereditary monarchs, as they're just a bunch of rich, out-of-touch, privileged toffs who should all just drop dead already. But if you're anything other than British, try going to a pub, knock back a couple pints, and start talking smack about the British and the Queen Mum and see how well the evening ends. Generally speaking, I like John Oliver, and I regularly watch "Last Week Tonight" because I find it genuinely funny, even if I disagree. But every once in while, he starts acting like some high-arsed liberal douchebag. *[EXHIBIT "A"]* " NOW LET'S GET ON OUT THERE AND SHOW EVERYONE WHY WE STOLE THIS COUNTRY FROM THE INDIANS!!" How about you blow me instead, John? I mean, you *DO* realize that modern-day Canada is a rather large chunk of real estate that used to belong to thousands of indigenous people who were conquered or otherwise brought to heel at the business end of a musket, right? Moreover, I'd bet my life that you are thoroughly aware that England was once a dominant world power, an empire built largely on military conquest and occupation whose reach extended to just about every corner of the world. An empire that was once so vast that the British used to say (with considerable pride) "The Sun never sets on the British Empire." In fact, America started out as a succession of 13 British colonies built on land that was taken from the natives by people who prior to 1776 were mostly loyal subjects to the British crown...many of whom remained that way when the colonies formally seceded from England. Most Americans can take a joke, and they can also handle honest criticism. In fact, I'd say we're far more tolerant than most. Between John Oliver goofing on America's political/social/economic/historical issues, Gorden Ramsey tearing a new one into the asses of Americans who have no business working at McDonald's much less owning a restaurant, Simon Cowell making aspiring performers wish they'd never auditioned or even been born, that tight-assed British chick who would tell Americans "You are The Weakest Link: **GOODBYE!!**" or Piers Morgan constantly making Americans out to be crazy people with a bizarre gun fetish, we can't get get enough of foreigners-- *especially* Brits-- busting our chops and rewarding them handsomely for doing so. Hell, up until a few years ago, John Oliver was a regular cast member of a political satire show currently helmed by a biracial South African immigrant. Like I said: by and large, I like John Oliver. In all fairness, he has no problem at all taking some self-deprecating jabs at Britain, British history, British culture, and his own Britishness, so he's a good sport. He has also traveled into active war zones on behalf of the USO to entertain and bring some much-needed laughs to US troops living in circumstances not conducive to merriment; as an American, a veteran, the son of a career soldier and the brother of a career Marine, and who has had relatives in harms' way in virtually every major exchange of hostilities in the past century, I'm grateful for that. But comedy is subjective, and sometimes it falls flat, even predictably so. 2) *"So what you just blindly follow your eternal leader now and march mindlessly to your state then?"* Of course. Because we all know that one cannot be critical of liberals without it being an automatic, de facto act of praising conservatives. **EVERYONE** knows that!! Saying that one thinks John Oliver habitually spouts Leftist/liberal rhetoric and dogma is precisely the same as saying Donald Trump is the most awesome politician/statesmen in all of recorded history. I find it funny how people in other countries frequently regard patriotism, love of country, and a propensity to push back on foreigners who are critical of these things as some sort of weird, even irrational trait or affectation unique to Americans, as an impenetrable mystery they can never understand. Oh, but see what happens when you lob a few broadsides at **them** and see how dispassionately calm they are about it.

[@tonishort3503]

Nah,you just didn’t realize it,it’s happened forever

[@joseaguilera9533]

I'm not gonna lie, his speech was pretty motivational.

[@kiawev970]

“They don’t waste time tHInkINg.” Right in the heart, Ollie

[@TSFboi]

I love how Canada just meet up and talk shit on America

[@thaumatomane]

The fact that we are not Americans is the only distinctive point of national pride and identity that we, as Canadians, have.

[@jwaustinmunguy]

In Montreal, English-speaking comedy has to be about America. There would be a civil war if someone made light of French Canada and nobody in Montreal wants to take the mickey out of Toronto because they are there on holiday and crapping on Trawna is their day job back home.

[@bobbiusshadow6985]

"The Decline of the American Empire" was a Just For Laughs theme, which hosted mostly American comedians.

[@JordiVanderwaal]

It's not just a Canada thing though. All around Europe we do it too. Specially when they (you?) mess it up on elections, wars, etc (so at least once 4 years basically, not counting wars). Sorry? xD

[@sweiland75]

@@thaumatomane Speak for yourself, American.

[@Nuisance_Bear]

strangely prophetic.

[@MJFAN666]

Jonathan Unger youre prophetic

[@МахамбетМамыров]

point of the show is that murica always has been like that

[@donparker5349]

@@МахамбетМамыров No. The point of the show is to make jokes about the United States. You missed the whole point if you could not laugh at any of the jokes...

[@bennyton2560]

A harbinger of misfortune

[@johndanes2294]

@@donparker5349 Yeah. The joke is America has always been shit.

[@charlietrelawney6867]

8 years later and it's still relevant and freakin hilarious

[@047Kenny]

*Comes out on American scooter* *in super thicc British accent* “WHATS GOING ON MONTREAL” 😂😂😂

[@shreyassarangi6106]

I died at the supply and demand joke xD

[@Lucy-fn9rj]

john oliver running is by far the funniest thing i have ever seen

[@budgie0003]

Lucy *jogging :P

[@toproductions3931]

John: “Let’s just hand China the number one spot”. Corona: “Hello There”

[@toproductions3931]

lmao nice

[@tmuller9905]

7:05 "It makes complete sense, if you don't really think about it!" Now THAT is something I will say often from now on.

[@didderjade]

Only John Oliver could send me to the floor solely through his sublime delivery of the words, “London, England.”

[@travissmith575]

I'm offensive and I find this American

[@yahyafati]

I'm offended by your statement

[@sasabnis]

Nice, it works both ways. It's a palindromic metaphor.

[@GuyShōtō]

@@yahyafati I'm your statement and I find it offended

[@blanchekonieczka9935]

🤣

[@mysterirhys]

Beautifully said

[@stacia2016]

I love how he's so stupefied by America's baseless confidence, that he cant help but admire it🤣

[@abramfedorov4483]

No that's called joking

[@donttrip7057]

This is hilarious a brit taking about America to Canadians

[@EmbracingTheChaos]

Comedy will never be the same.

[@turningpoint6643]

Canadians? Uh if you live in western Canada it ends right around Medicine Hat. East of there is pretty much a wasteland until you hit the Ontario border, then it gets worse. Montreal has the best looking women out of any city I've been to in North America. That's it's only redeeming quality. East of that I don't know about but the Newfies sure can hold there liquor so there true Canadians as well I guess. :-)

[@RobertK1993]

British and Canadians don’t have Empires anymore.

[@sparklinglemon-limepop8442]

I’m cryinggg-just discovered this gem and by God this is hilarious! The entire sports coach speech had me in stitches😂💀💀🌟😆😂

[@xiomara5147]

I love Last Week Tonight and all, but like... I want some more of this shit! That was hilarious!!

[@xoi4040]

ok bot

[@stephenwright8824]

His hitting the middle, as far as his popularity and earnings were concerned, at stand-up was one of his reasons for leaving England. The stand-up he did here was done just to get people familiar with his sense of humour. Then, of course, he met John Stuart and shelved doing stand-up.

[@themightykyuss]

That's a Supercuts haircut if I ever saw one.

[@HarryRenner-h9q]

As a British immigrant, John Oliver has acclimated to being an American citizen quite well. and along with being a TV celebrity, he is an accomplished stand up comedian.

[@djslinkk]

This is John at his absolute fucking best. It makes me so happy to see him doing stand up, even if it’s an older clip. I miss John Oliver Has A Show.

[@tfos993]

A british man, doing an all-american patriotic themed comedy show, in Canada. What

[@funeralgiggle3771]

Easy! He was making the US look bad, Canadians love that.

[@jaxvoice718]

@@funeralgiggle3771 No, he flattered the US, and the Canadians still loved it.

[@bobbiusshadow6985]

@@funeralgiggle3771 look bad? no, au contraire, he made America look better, despite its flaws.

[@RemixerUltimate]

@@funeralgiggle3771 oh no no no. I love this country, always will. Which makes this so, so much funnier.

[@mobiusstripper7279]

I'm only just realizing that John only became a citizen for our unlimited and naturally occurring supply of comedic material. _Sigh_

[@lostsilver1162]

"Murica" hell yes! I say that all the time and I'm so glad a fellow Murica has said that in front of so many people!

[@tonystyles4040]

This stand up was perfect

[@Will6753]

Canadians laughing at a joke about Americans stealing Native American land, meanwhile treating their own native american policy like it's still the 1700's

[@kunstderfugue]

Someone's offended

[@evergreen6702]

@@kunstderfugue I mean, fuck America, but he's got a point

[@nolankuffner3573]

Versus American coal and oil magnates who have been illegally processing Native American settlements in the US, while the current president refers to an actual presidential candidate as 'Pocahontas'. Am I saying they're equally terrible? Yes, yes I am.

[@DEV3N87]

@@nolankuffner3573 aww did trump say a bad word? lmao calm down

[@jorenvanderark3567]

@@DEV3N87 You know what? Give me a list of things Trump did right, not just in idea but also in execution. I'll wait.

[@michiro8470]

(i’m American) and John Oliver is brilliant! Other Americans need to open their eyes

[@natedavies954]

John actually expanded on this set during one of his shows in NY, and I know because I own both seasons and watch them almost daily.

[@tommydebo5]

It's 2019 and this is somehow more true now than then

[@fungoidshaman3120]

It's 2020 and this is reaching it's logical conclussion. Seriously thou stay safe and in high spirits out there.

[@elljay02]

John Oliver is the truest American that ever lived

[@aureusyarara]

look how much hair he had!!!

[@bezukhov]

macdonaldguo it's a look, tbh

[@moonlily1]

He derides the bangs now, but I think they were actually working for him.

[@anishjawalkar]

This is the first time I"m watching this guy. Damn. He is amazing.

[@bonesofeao3968]

1:45 As a michigander i feel personally attacked, the accuracy is scary

[@Loomit23691]

He looks exactly like Vector from Despicable Me :D

[@gibrana9214]

Lol yes

[@sushantsapre28]

Squid Launcher !!!!

[@dollcruel3476]

I knew he looked familiar

[@aminadaoudi1822]

Brilliantly funny

[@starbug5399]

I'm from England and i never took to John Oliver in stand up. However, whoever had the thought of last week tonight with him in it needs points on the package😂. Best show on TV........ And I don't have a TV. But follow every episode through KZbin.

[@maxheadrom3088]

During the pandemic there was something really funny: People giving interviews from home with books behind them. People in the US had their books just like they arrived from the bookstore - people in Canada and Europe had their books all messed around all damaged from handling.

[@Sortiack]

Was talking about alternative facts 6 years before alternative facts became a thing

[@sophienugre4161]

Alternative facts have been a thing with narcissists for a good long while.

[@donparker5349]

@@sophienugre4161 Alternative facts weren't popularized though. They became popular some time after John Oliver did this comedy stand-up.

[@xoi4040]

Except for Bruce, Carlin, Rock, and every comedian an iote better and more practiced than a Soccer flunkee.

[@TheJesperX]

Trump got his strategy from John Oliver

[@jexelbur6872]

I see why HBO loves John Oliver so much.

[@aamonrenshaw8869]

3:10 As a resident of aforementioned Boise, Idaho, I can confirm that even we don’t understand what the purpose of the “Library!” sign is...

[@taylorbarrett3767]

Obsessed with his pronunciation of "Montreal"

[@TennantJunkie1993]

I'd love to see more of his stand-up.

[@TheSaltwater]

look where he has reached now

[@dirtriding3333]

Wasim Akram yeah, it was all down hill from there

[@dirtriding3333]

Jake Cyr he’s a liberal talk show host who is not funny in any way shape or form

[@TheBlackMambaa248]

Dirt Riding why watch this video then?

[@dirtriding3333]

Joe Michael I honestly don’t know but I’d say that’s not really any of your business.

[@NatRealActual]

Dirt Riding you can have opposing views and still find someone funny, political humor is super hard and the fact that he hits it at least a little is really good

[@wanderlustwarrior]

I'm not Canadian or from the First Nations, but I feel there's a little bit of irony in Canadians clapping for someone point out how the USA stole Native American land. Canada was better about it, but still. Also, I had to look up the story behind the exclamation point in Boise's "Library!".

[@advaithpillai]

Library!

[@kickassmonkey6083]

ladies and gentlemen john olivers majestic OSTRICH RUN.

[@ankurparashar9045]

when you need some motivation to live upto 77 years

[@fajaradi1223]

Ankur Parashar To break some world record?

[@philomathstudies9226]

Watching this in August of 2020. No context needed lol

[@warren52nz]

He's one of the funniest guys around these days!

[@turkestansmonster3787]

he looks like a drunk tenth doctor

[@jjsafire_1233]

the moment he said take it with there tiny hands, I straight up just started laughing so hard

[@DavidItaliano16]

Im American, this stand up show was the biggest compliment, thanks you John!

[@kaustavsahu3136]

Great to see this youtube recommendation during coronavirus pandemic.. everything has become real now

[@marccolten9801]

Best Half Time sports speech. "Oh, I'm sorry ladies, I thought this was the men's locker room"

[@Krystalmyth]

He has legs? I thought he had one of those floaty chairs Xavier had in the Xmen cartoon.

[@a.bookmonkey6790]

I've lived in all the states he called out by name and now i feel personally attacked lol

[@toroscottishfold8252]

John Oliver, you rock!

[@masroorahmed7706]

Your are the best comedian I have ever seen. Congratulations!!!

[@coboarderdude5169]

I love John Oliver he is just great

[@julienweiner3519]

0:34 2020: You gotta boost those numbers, those are rookie numbers

[@aaronsmith1023]

This is so funny and accurate, but also so very sad and accurate.

[@conors4430]

Lmao. A good laugh, but also pretty accurate. The similarities between the last decades of the Roman Republic and the United States are remarkable.

[@thewitchsfamiliar]

Watching this today is absolutely scary because the prophetic fallacy of this is terrifyingly accurate

[@craigverwey983]

The biggest goof ever! Wrote this before the ads were finished thank god!

[@PinaColadas0604]

As an American, I have never heard truer words about America 😂

[@graavy]

He's always been hilarious, but his delivery has gotten soooooooooo much better.

[@thelonewanderer4084]

“The Divided States of Embarrassment” - Eminem

[@sadstormtrooper]

5:05 Lmao..that "In a world.." narrator voice in trailers xd. Too good

[@shreyassarangi6106]

his joke at around 6:20 sounds like a danny bhoy

[@viridian9673]

Shreyas Sarangi yea that scottish motto

[@donjiaye6263]

So true. This is Awesome

[@milesjolly6173]

As a Brit, I will say that the Americans I’ve met are lovely people but very intense. I think it’s because in the U.K. we have a reputation (partially correct) of being reserved and stuffy. America is like that friend you have who is a bit crazy and you have arguments about stuff but you know deep down there’s a strong friendship and you have each other’s back (at least most of the time). For better or worse (that’s a whole other debate), the U.K. and US have had a very close relationship since probably World War I and particularly since World War II. There is also the quote “America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.” by Arnold J. Toynbee, British historian (1889-1975) So on the whole I like individual Americans as I meet them but their government is a bit crazy sometimes. But you could say that about nearly any country.

[@andreilemieux9525]

Never realized how good he is at stand up! Where can I find any specials? I love his last week tonight show, and he was great on the daily show/Colbert report back when I want to see this owl faced tiny hands telling some zingers

[@alexlevesquee]

I wonder what they cut at 5:58

[@Stoudie003]

its something like "because that was the biggest imaginable *EFF YOU* message to terrorist we could possibly issue."

[@lastnamefirst650]

‘A six year old girl could talk to you that way’ ‘Of course because that would be adorable’ ‘No. Because you’re a five year old girl and there’s a pecking order’

[@parrotdowell5472]

Is it just me or does the statue of liberty look a bit like a weeping angel?

[@2xdrews]

It is a weeping angle

[@obliviousotterI]

AMY RORY WHY

[@o76923]

I think they did an episode about that.

[@Montesama314]

I wondered why it looked like the torch moved when I blinked...

[@stephenwright8824]

I thought it was Lady Liberty doing a facepalm.

[@josephcohen734]

When he did the bit about "who do you think put 10 rattlesnakes in their mouth" I 100% though he would say "australians"

[@spellboring333]

Thought*

[@makikomi]

The woman at 6:34 is just so natural and beautiful....

[@alyssastewart738]

Aw I love seeing nice comments it's so refreshing

[@IceXiao]

Montreal chicks are awesome

[@pmbluemoon]

I'm still here in September 2020 looking for my John Oliver fix when he's on vacation! These videos are awesome! If only he knew back then what's happening now, these are prophesy lol! Edit: Wipeout TV show, OMG so true! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@spellboring333]

Don't worry he will start this season in February i think

[@pmbluemoon]

@@spellboring333 Yup, I had to look it up, Valentines day! lol I wonder what he'll have to say about the new year! 🎉