S3 E7: Congressional Fundraising, Nuclear Powers & The Yankees: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

[@austinemms9772]

It’s amazing to watch this episode and see that the thing that aged the greatest is John’s prediction about the Chicago Cubs.

[@bowdenproductions]

I was just going to comment on that 😂

[@Maxxisblitz]

I've always appreciated how at 15:40, John puts the phone away at the end of the bit. True professional right here.

[@kpatterson14206]

I will never have anything but respect for politicians who do interviews with John, knowing full well they will be the butt of jokes the entire time, no matter their platform or party

[@jasoncourtneybrown7221]

He iis actually very respectful of all of his guests. Repubs who come on the show usually know what to expect, it's called EMPATHY. That is what the bad guys are lacking, concern for other people. Pretty sure he wouldn't have anyone on who didn't, that would be a flame-grilled roast.

[@Rowsy91]

He was on his way out

[@Astral_Armadillo]

I was in the audience for this one!

[@iyeetsecurity922]

Pics or it didn't happen.

[@rjpittman4510]

Is it as fun as it looks?

[@ishotmyboss]

Get me a lock of his hair next time.

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

@@iyeetsecurity922kinda hard to do that on KZbin. Plus sounds like a weird thing to lie about

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

How was it?

[@dunkelmonkey]

Kinda crazy that during your "anything could happen" opening to the baseball segment, you said "the Cubs could win the World Series" and they actually did

[@Furonanator139]

I love with the full episodes releasing i get to see new john shenagins "Oh this rich jerk wants to make sure the peasents don't buy a 1$ ticket? I'll sell em fo a quarter and demand they dress like they don't belong"

[@TrexelCat]

This was still the beginning of his hero arc where he would spend loads of HBO money for a gag, and to make some uptight fuck crap himself for landing in the sights of John Oliver.

[@CrazyInsanelikeafox]

"Sure,... that's fair." Johnny Oliver , you crack me up so much!!😂😂😂 You and J.Stewart are the Bees Knees!

[@toastyy4186]

that congressman was kinda chill for sipping that bag ngl

[@asamlos]

My mother ran for state political office twice and was the local Democratic Committee chair for a while and I can confirm that fundraising becomes like a lifestyle when you're in the political sphere. It was absolutely insane lol

[@ericallen3654]

"Oh, Congressman, I would never do this to a glass" XD

[@rjpittman4510]

I love they started adding the full episodes. I always hated that I couldn't watch old episodes on HBO and could only watch the main stories on KZbin. LWT is great not just because of the main story and how they present the topic, but all the crazy crap John does in the rest of the episode

[@Vanq22114]

I didn't think it was possible to make me feel sorry for a politician but holy fuck, 4 hours of fundraising on the phone sounds like the circle of Hell that Dante forgot to mention

[@Achiles2209]

I think that would have been in malebolge among the simionists, flatterers, and panderers lol

[@arp711]

Calling him the "Marquis de Sade of trainers" tells me this bubba has never read the Marquis de Sade, because I am guessing he would run for the hills if he knew what that would actually entail.

[@MysteryMii]

3:27 Little did John know about what happened to the Cubs that season.

[@iyeetsecurity922]

Back to the Future part 2 knew.

[@MysteryMii]

@@iyeetsecurity922 They were off by a year tho.

[@Enjoyurble]

Thanks for reminding us about how Trump didn't understand why Japan doesn't have a military, John. Good thing we were smart enough to not vote for someone with so little foreign policy, John. Sigh. Of. Relief.

[@TheRealEvilkitten3]

japan definitely has a military lmao the current one has been around for 70 years. they still don't have nukes tho, as far as we know

[@Uruz2012]

Sounds like you're saying that Japanese people can't be trusted to defend themselves. Sort of paternalistic and a touch racist, tbh.

[@LunaryxDiarmait]

That song about ammonia nitrate is epic!

[@pineapplesandjellies]

THAT'S why he's always green-eggs-and-hamming Ted Cruz?!

[@rachelfox8108]

Truly the birth of an 8-year-long bit that's still going strong.

[@kristina_eb]

it started in the Fillibuster segment in 2019 when they showed that same clip

[@93DanielK]

John might’ve been the first to predict the Cubs winning the World Series in 2016 😂

[@stephaniehendricks3537]

A simpler time....awww john predicted correctly the cubs winning the world series in 2016. Awww, simple times

[@patrickhaley1312]

I think I love this man

[@DanieltheTruebadour]

I KNOW I do.

[@DanieltheTruebadour]

This man is a National treasure. It began, I believe, with Jon Stewart, when people actually went to a comic to learn their news. In that tradition, folks like Stephen Colbert, Seth meyers, Jimmy Kimmel and, of course, John Oliver, comics all, bring us our news and political commentary. (These are just a few, albeit the major players, so forgive me for leaving others out.) This brings me to a point. I feel that these comics / political pundits deserve special recognition, particularly in these times of tRump et al. Hey, I believe, or the major players in preserving our national sanity, and I feel that they, collectively, deserve the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Let them vote among themselves for the individual to receive the honor, as their representative. I believe the idea deserves a Closer Look.

[@kueifengtung]

that wine show ending was so cathardic

[@andrewwinslow9315]

16:26, 8 years Later, NBA Champ Kristaps Porzingis may actually make calls telling Celtics fans to celebrate their team by "Cold Calling" them. Knicks fans, WHAT HAPPENED

[@Ohm71]

isnt begging for money forbidden in many states?

[@Taospark]

Not unless they go over 5k.

[@bonniebrush94]

"But that's for thee and not for me". 🙄

[@zaxzumu4605]

Only for the poor

[@DrewSavo]

3:31 I’ve just found my new Sleep Paralysis Demon.

[@budgetreno]

This explains some of what I've seen on tiktok recently, "I've never sat in premium seats before" 😂

[@5amiann]

Re: Baseball. I wish you would do this for all the teams that have become so elitist. They would rather have empty stadiums than lower prices at all.

[@bobbyrooney]

"Ok, who brought the dog"

[@shannontobin7825]

having these full episodes still feels weird after years of cheating a Hulu subscription

[@kevinmcqueenie7420]

God the US political system is spectacularly weird. And I'm from the UK. So I know about weird political systems!

[@MsBrunoVarela]

I made a playlist in the correct order... kzbin.info/aero/PLOpXx5UbYp1vGOEdpIoL9FiWQuExZzAOg

[@jssmith0225]

Hero!

[@postmasterspecific]

Thank you oh my god

[@TheEmbessyNetwork]

I can now sleep to the proper setlist. Thank you!

[@Boonazis]

It's painful raising money haha

[@MitchellTF]

...I miss the day swhen we could share bag-wine with people without being terrified.

[@Hayanomie]

Seventh video and we got a mention of Putin so theres that. At this point he was well into decimating Syria.

[@DanieltheTruebadour]

"No," she responds.

[@zacharywolter]

The world before President Trump was so charming

[@MrMatteNWk]

0:21 Garry (misspelled in the intro) has been gone for that long??

[@williamjustus2677]

We owe this practice to Newt Gingrich Congress was not like that until he came along and fundementally changed the way it functions. It is a fact you can google it!

[@kiloftd]

our government literally spends 50% of its effort fundraising and we wonder why it is so dysfunctional

[@tigerrom03]

Best show

[@mrfooledyaa5430]

Bet we won't be seeing any republican candidates at T-Swift concerts anymore lol.

[@alt9082]

The Cubs winning it all 🥹

[@jimthemessiah]

that pic of arod looks like AI

[@MusicfromMarrs]

thanks for reminding us that there was a time when Trump the Chump thought that Kim, Jong Un was a mad man.

[@rmalonephoto]

I know this is quite an old episode, but I did a bit of research, and as of 9/30/2024, you can only buy 212 million tubes of Walgreens brand hemorrhoidal cooling gel for 1.7 billion. Thanks, Obama. This, of course, assumes you cannot secure a bulk discount, and that your local Walgreens has a truly absurd amount of cooling gel. In the more likely case that you will need to visit every Walgreens in the continental United States (sorry, everyone from everywhere else, I am only able to speak for the Walgreens I know, which is here in the states, so I don't know how accessible hemorrhoidal cooling gel is available in your country), the overall cost will be substantially higher, even before we consider storage fees. And this is why we need universal health care, because nobody should have to pay 1.7 billion dollars to take care of their hemorrhoids.

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

Our government is so messed up

[@heatherdowhaluk2128]

And along came MTG😂😂

[@MagnusLeeAmerica]

Revenge is something poor people do and wealth is not only monetary. Hold your heads high, instead!

[@helder2225]

I think Jared can find it for sure 😅

[@clxs8091]

I'm gonna win that contest 😂 wish me luck

[@Rowsy91]

the one from 8 years ago ? haha

[@SheevX66XPalpatine]

Hey, um, at least the cubs did win 😅 go cubs and god forgive us for trump..here in july 2024…maybe twice

[@JohnTLyon]

Okay, but a nuclear weapon is a pretty big bomb, too!

[@shellyjoseph3109]

The amount of.smh I did w them. Doing stupid stuff just amazes me

[@LucSkywalkerFTJ]

The Cubs did win and it was the only thing good that happened that autumn

[@gilmanmurray6550]

Can you say term limits anyone. Come on !

[@MusicfromMarrs]

19:46

[@ikazukison2]

Wow Trump used to be sort-of coherent, I mean it was always nonsense coming out of his mouth but he could at least speak a little faster, he's really lost all of his remaining braincells in the last eight years

[@mellowyellow2576]

😂

[@cepidehrazavi313]

2nd

[@kenpiedmont]

🎉🎉

[@Manhattan2025]

First