S11 E09: UFOs, Gaza Protests & Islamophobia: 4/21/24: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

John Oliver explains why we need honest inquiry into UFO sightings, covers the week’s protests in the US over the war in Gaza, and recaps Adeel Mangi’s confirmation hearing.
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[@nekomasky]

Thanks once again for the full episode for those outside US

[@zima2252]

Geoblocking was so stupid, I'm surprise these executives have a working brain now

[@mainaccount4585]

It's been nine weeks since full episodes were released. How about writing an original, insightful comment about the episode itself?

[@UnicornsPoopRainbows]

​@@mainaccount4585 HBO doesn't care. It's engagement

[@user-lf8yv6qw6d]

​@@mainaccount4585how bout u stop bein a dick and let people enjoy shit eh

[@mohammadalzaimmohdhassan4923]

@@mainaccount4585 We're in KZbin comments, not an academic forum, mainaccount4585.

[@DallasTaylor]

John Oliver seems like somebody you'd meet in passing during an alien abduction

[@easytiger78]

Nah he's just from Birmingham. We're all like that.

[@helvete983]

No he'd be the manager you asked to see.

[@agonyaunt6325]

@@easytiger78 Ozzy Osbourne is a Bruimmie.... theory confirmed!

[@aribantala]

@@easytiger78 True, a Brummie is the closest we can get of easily observable Extraterrestrials

[@dr.davidenglish778]

Yes, because he'd be enjoying the free probing.

[@QueenMegaera]

Jesus Christ, poor Mangi, I can't imagine trying to stay professional through that kind of "questioning". Like, sirs, I'm a judge and a law scholar, not some kind of cultural ambassador.

[@TheKueiJin]

The only other "questionings" i know of is the one of Tik Tok and (vaguely) Suckersbergs. So... it's kinda the norm?

[@alexandersmith6140]

The Republican-nominated judges were nominated precisely because they were some kind of cultural ambassador.

[@danilooliveira6580]

the saddest part is that you can't even blame the people that believe in those arguments. when you are a fox news watcher and you don't have the context, all that missinformation looks very compelling, and they know those same people won't look for the context because they don't care or don't know that there is any. it's just depressing to think about, how do you even fight that ?

[@Drunken_Master]

Maybe he could go back to Pakistan and avoid such questions.

[@AV-es3cn]

@@Drunken_Master He's an American.

[@NewMessage]

Correction: You *shouldn't* eat books. But you can, if you're committed.

[@0Clewi0]

A man once ate a flying machine

[@gametheorymedia]

Some of those who *are* committed probably do,.occasionally 🧐

[@msul78]

If you are committed to an insane asylum

[@viiranen]

anything is possible. once.

[@singingsunflower9000]

This is the wrong guy for corrections, although thats a fun idea, correcting other hosts?!

[@Kiwi_DeFruit]

In times of ridiculous paywalls, this full free episodes are too nice 😊 you spoil us Juan Oliva 🤩

[@aldolazuardy6697]

thank you João Oliveira 🎉

[@yyyy-uv3po]

Merci, Jean Olivier.

[@Johndtreadwell]

Спасибо, Джон Оливер.

[@genethejean1906]

Multumesc, Ioan Maslinescu!

[@Shin0BixD]

Tack, Johan Oliv!

[@demle2]

"You're thinking of Religion"-joke starting at @24.10 is such a brilliantly visious and perfectly delivered truth-joke. Something that you simply just have to applaud.

[@MendezVictor3]

The laugh of that woman when he says "Deep Mouths" is both hilarious and disturbing! 😂😂

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

She was imagining several distressing scenarios

[@nahuelma97]

I absolutely adore the fact that that joke is exactly, precisely, accurately at the 50% mark of the video. Just hit 5 on your keyboard and you'll be at John saying "mouths"

[@ceber54]

Physicist here. While many of the more recent UFO videos are not very clear (as in the 1990s), they are certainly different, as their sources are more respectable: videos from military sources. However, e.g. the case of triangular craft on night vision cameras can indeed be drones, I use infrared scopes at work and it's hard to know where to focus the image if you don't quite know the distance to the object. And yes, some diffraction patterns can distort the image. Beyond that I couldn't say anything, as you need more data. Usually an image is not enough to say that something is something. On the other hand the videos coming from military aircraft are still from night vision cameras and also moving at hundreds of kilometers per hour! If you have seen NASA videos taken from airplanes, you will see that it is difficult to assume what is the position and speed of the object. And this is because of problems with parallax, that is, the relative velocity of the object according to its background, and it can be confusing. This 4-hour video deals precisely with these interpretation failures due to parallax. It is similar to when from a car we see an airplane, about to land, stop in the air. It is not that the plane is stopped, what happens is that the relative movements of both (the plane and the car) are such that they make the plane seem motionless. And yes, we need a lot more boring explanations. And in turn, we need ordinary people to look at the sky again, in an educated way at typical atmospheric phenomena and astronomical objects, so that they do not fall into easy ways out. And if it is necessary to say, I don't know, not to feel ashamed for looking for a boring explanation, which if we apply Ockam's razor, surely is the most plausible one.

[@Per_TP]

Thanks for the input. I have been pretty interested in the subject since 2017 after the New York Times article. But I'm like you looking for a simple explanation. I don't believe but also have a opened mind. I don't even know if I want it to be true because what would that even mean for the future?

[@Zett76]

I have a master's degree in psychology. I have seen ghosts. I know that they don't exist, that there is no solid evidence of their existence at all, and that there are PLENTY of good explanations why some of us see them... but I've seen them. ;)

[@cannadodry7022]

Alien here. No its us, trust me.

[@kilppa]

Thank you. The goose flying in the "ufo" feed is a good example of that. We should all remember what UFO is short for.

[@FelipeKana1]

Great comment! I just want to add that I hope the scientists that get to study this phenomena really don't get there with pre existing assumptions. Like, for real. Way too many scientists have mottos like "it's never aliens", even for weird astronomical and astrophysical phenomena, and just kicking out an hypothesis beforehand is not scientific.

[@aribantala]

That title drew me here faster than a Horse on Crack

[@causti9744]

What are you doing with your horse, ma? Is it you, Bojack?

[@aserta]

You mean Bear... right? Cocaine Bear?

[@TalkAsSoftAsChalk]

Bojack ???

[@miauzure3960]

that was intentional, add a title that nobody can resist (UFO) but also inject a lot of pathetic propaganda at the beginning, so that as much people as possible will be regularly brainwashed before incoming elections

[@marturb2581]

@@TalkAsSoftAsChalk A cartoon, Bojack Horseman

[@wisleylau3149]

John brought the geography guesing game of which is the real country into space, and as an astronomy nerd, I'm all in for it!

[@SetiSupreme]

I was bamboozled for a second by the second picture because it had the same green hue that Venus has on it's surface under the clouds. Those russian probes are to blame/thank that we got actual images of that hellscape!

[@hundredfireify]

​@@SetiSupreme Venus doesn't look green at all though..

[@Awoken_Remmuz]

Funny enough I'm not super into Astronomy but even I knew he was doing the fake outs, that's because as a gamer, I played games where those moons are playable locations X3

[@SetiSupreme]

@@hundredfireify I know it doesn't but when you're on the surface, everything has this green/yellow tinge. That's why the image of Venus is greenish in my mind.

[@danilooliveira6580]

@@SetiSupreme for me if they had shown titan with the clouds I would have been banboozled, but they used the infrared image showing titan's surface, and it's very distinct from Venus. but Io is impossible to confuse.

[@rappscallion3238]

"If a protest doesn't inconvenience, it's not a protest; it's a picnic"

[@iglidor]

Protest should inconvenience those who are in charge of the thing you are protesting against. if you are inconvenience to regular people who have nothing to do with whatever grief you have, you are just asshole.

[@germangru]

but doesn't it makes ir harder to get support? if you get out or your way to make random people feel worse you won't get sympathy for the cause, just more people saying fuck palestine

[@AloisMahdal]

​@@germangru when is the last time you supported views of someone who had a picnic in a park? The way I see it a protest will split the undecided mass, so certainly some (sometimes most) of them will turn against the protesters, but I doubt there's another way. But I think it's interesting to think about how exactly the people will make their decision. Often times when I talk to people about protests, they seem to be concerned mostly about the form of the protest. Like if that was the main point. For example, it often goes like this: people are concerned about safety and environmental (both local and global) impact of SUV's in cities. They feel that this issue is urgent. They go out and block some streets. Later I talk to people and even though some will acknowledge problems with SUV's, they seem to fall back on "but those protesters did that thing" and fail to see how "that thing" is negligible when compared to all the problems they are trying to prevent from happening. Ultimately everyone has to make their own decision but when it comes to protests we must learn to separate the form from the content (investigating *both* with critical thinking). If we to make that separation and process the information -- and ultimately make the decision -- in a healthy way we are doomed to shoot ourselves in the foot. Thing is, that separation and the processing of the information is crucial to our decision making and there's no way to avoid that. Protests are not actually causing this, they are merely escalating it.

[@perplexed8880]

​@@germangru how do you think you got every single right you enjoy?

[@alalalala57]

​@@germangru Nothing and no one is random.

[@uninvited5417]

The "You're thinking of religion" bit is among the most brilliant, as well as funniest, bits I've seen on this show since S01! 😂

[@Ramsey276one]

24:12

[@alexjordanofficial1116]

“You’re thinking of religion!”😮😂 You know…John is so inoffensive that he’s the perfect man to deliver these harsh truths.

[@perplexed8880]

John Oliver inoffensive?? wtf are you talking about?

[@Ramsey276one]

24:12 XD

[@smajl2]

That was savage! 😂

[@alexjordanofficial1116]

@@perplexed8880 I mean…he’s saying things that will offend but his face/countenance…accent. He’s the man for the job!

[@HowToChangeName]

A sincere thank you for full version every Monday morning in Asia

[@dr.davidenglish778]

I'm in Asia as well. It's great they are putting them on KZbin.

[@mhewwariya2395]

Yes! 🙌 A great way to start our weeks.

[@SantiagoGarza-bg9wp]

Ditto for Mexico

[@idreamtiwasbackatmanderley414]

Ditto for France

[@stephonpheng5806]

Awesome call and response joke there, John. Top class delivery. "...A vegetable platter."

[@hanifarroisimukhlis5989]

I'm only here for John Oliver to said "nightmare blunt rotation" 🤣

[@dr.davidenglish778]

I'm only here to see how many people said he was an idiot. And then beat the living *** out of them. And now this.....

[@magicvibrations5180]

The most frustrating thing about America is that every 20 years or so they'll declassify something that just says "Yes, we lied. What the fuck are you going to do about it?"

[@MckieDs595]

I’m truly curious about what they’ll declassify in 2041.

[@magicvibrations5180]

@@MckieDs595 Probably that the Afghan war took so long for no other reason than to keep Lockheed Martin profitable.

[@MckieDs595]

@@magicvibrations5180 I’m pretty sure they’ll talk about a lot of companies the government lied to get profits. Namely the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry. Or maybe the real reason why they locked down the whole country for a virus with a 2% mortality rate. Or the experimental concoction that they gave to over 5 billion people across the world. That didn’t go through the extensive trials to make sure it is safe like they’ve done with all the others before it. These are the things that need to be declassified. But that’s just crazy talk, the government doesn’t experiment on its own citizens. There’s no examples of that in our history whatsoever.🤔 Everyone knows the government goes to war for profit already.

[@jorg3023]

The big point that everyone always miss is the that the U in U.F.O doesn't mean alien from outer space

[@DaDunge]

Probably better that they think that, what's the alternative? thinking these things are Chinese? Now that would go down great... If people are going to be paranoid about these things it probably better they are paranoid about aliens. At the moment the chance are smaller they will go out and commit hate crimes agaisnt extraterrestrials.

[@yyyy-uv3po]

It could mean that squids are actually way smarter than we thought.

[@thinkingaboutreligion2645]

​@@yyyy-uv3po maybe Uter space? 😂

[@asdfghyter]

@@thinkingaboutreligion2645 perhaps it's Utter space?

[@Hedning1390]

If I take a picture of a football game, then what the people on the other side of the stadium are tossing in the air is unidentified. It might be a football, a paper plane, or a drink, but we need to spend 10000000 of NASA budget to investigate to make sure.

[@RandroidPrime]

'You use Euros in Ireland? I'd use the pound?" Clearly, he doesn't see the troubles with that proposal.

[@ViraMotorko]

The Irish pound was the currency of Ireland until 2002. There is a chance he was thinking about that one (though I won't argue)

[@helenokeeffe1823]

@@ViraMotorko you are thinking of the punt. It wasn't the same value as the Brit pound.

[@idreamtiwasbackatmanderley414]

Love the way you used « troubles » and I’m French… Doubt very much that Americans will notice, history is not their strongpoint. @RandroidPrime

[@Di7manya]

​@@ViraMotorkohe is an american tv host, there is a 0% chance he was thinking of anything but the british pound

[@alexlandherr]

It’s annoying that “UFO” came to mean “there’s little extraterrestrials there!” when the stands for “Unidentified”…

[@DaDunge]

I think it's best if we always read out the entire phrase, unidentified flying objct, rather than use the acronym UFO.

[@rumble1925]

Except that if its craft not built by us and intelligently controlled, the conclusion is still mindblowing.

[@anthosm]

@@rumble1925 well tough shit, they are built by us...

[@EustaH]

you know how it is, " I don't know, therefore aliens" ;)

[@LegendaryGauntlet]

@@anthosm Or on many cases, just a bird, or a refractive image of the moon or venus, etc..

[@-handala-]

Mangi just seems like a great choice for the role. These people are the worst as usual.

[@jojiboi]

Thanks for the full episode business daddy

[@NewMessage]

Mangi looks like an off brand John Oliver... who himself seems to be an off brand... but of who I can't quite tell.

[@aribantala]

Oliver seems to be an Off brand of Steven Mnuchin... Who's also seems to be an off brand of someone else as well... It's all Off brands all the way down

[@slickrick2420]

​@@aribantala Oliver looks like the human off brand Zuzu... Who knows where it ends

[@Knickerson]

John Oliver is an off brand impression of Patrick Stewart doing an impression of John Oliver.

[@Digibo]

​@@slickrick2420Zazu. It's Zazu, for back-flipping Christ's sake! You can't make such amateur mistakes under a serious John Oliver video.

[@NewMessage]

@@Digibo Ok, but admittedly, Seeing John cosplaying Zuzu Petals from Ford Fairlane would be a gas.

[@brunabekasmr]

"You are thinking of religion" 😂 love you and yours writers, John 😂❤

[@JacobMoretti-NotABot]

There’s something very toddler-like about John smacking the desk to the rhythm at the beginning 🇬🇧👶👵🏼

[@Triplemother]

I absolutely love it!

[@FrancoAii]

Tom Cotton is the most plantation owner name ever.

[@zoliking]

Thunderfoot did a pretty convincing deduction that the not so fast object in the last video is a bird.

[@DrWhom]

Quack quack

[@PROPAROXITONO]

the bipartisanship thing... if you want the two parties to vote equally, why have two parties? you're supposed to vote differently a lot of times, the middle ground will be achieved when there is a middle ground to be achieved. sometimes there are not, and it's these times that justify all the party's things to exist. if not, everyone should be independent or just one party.

[@aserta]

Because US' political field is 150% broken and devoid of functionality.

[@Alex-fy7sc]

Thank you whoever took the decision to post the entire episode! Thank you very much sir/lady

[@JackPitmanNica]

This show makes it so much more enjoyable to cook my eggs

[@u3u_o3o]

It makes mondays so much more bearable

[@destituteanddecadent9106]

​@@u3u_o3oyou in Asia? If it's already Monday.

[@no3namesalike]

​@@destituteanddecadent9106 It's been Monday here in central Europe for nearly 10 hours already 😅

[@destituteanddecadent9106]

@@no3namesalike I guess, maybe I assumed that people weren't watching this at 8 am before going into work 😅 I know some people have night shifts etc but the way they said Monday had me thinking they worked 9-5.

[@irinore]

This show is 40 minutes for how long do you cook your eggs?!?

[@zizinnnn]

this episode will help my fever go down 😂

[@asteractor2348]

Get well soon!

[@aserta]

Drink hot tea. Lots. Passing fluids through you helps, also regulates temp.

[@kureo-liam]

I recommend soup for fevers. Sleep well!

[@tokokujusi5946]

When Human protesting has much less worth for the people in traffic than Cows in the street for Indian people says what you needed to hear about the society. Protesting is a function of a democracy and is needed so democracy can work as intended yet some people believe it's not worth their inconvenience and time, meanwhile cows are sacred in India..

[@aserta]

Yup. Governments who don't allow protests are not democratic.

[@coffekihlberg]

those protesters are worth less than cows.

[@MarcusAurelius-uc4tu]

Ngl, as a student that's struggling on a lot of things. If I miss my flight back to uni because some people decided to block my way to the airport. I would probably be suicidal from the enormous stress that would cause on me. (Especially when the airline has the clause of not refunding or smthn). P.S. I am not against protesting nor protesting by blocking roads. I just think that a lot of these types of protests don't have things well thought out and usually have a high nosed "IDGAF because other people are suffering more" type of attitude which is irritating regardless what cause they are fighting for.

[@karthikmukund9526]

Cows don't block entire roads, are found mostly solitary even in the middle of the road (they don't block the road in big groups), and its easy to go around a stationary cow.

[@hanifarroisimukhlis5989]

@@karthikmukund9526 Yeah, that's 1 singular cow. Try an entire herd though. Bonus point: cows can't understand human language nor reasoned with.

[@enriquehernandez650]

- "While there is nothing fundamentally wrong with civility and compromise, it does depend on who your are being civil to and what are you compromising with." John Oliver

[@adi2ro-yt]

Imagine America calling terrorism "war"... how the turn tables...

[@jcdejesus2296]

Tom Cotton is it the same guy who said if singapore is in china?

[@aribantala]

Yep, the same Tom Cotton

[@HowToChangeName]

The same Tom Cotton who scores 0 in geography and history

[@-handala-]

Guy has a very very smooth brain

[@hanifarroisimukhlis5989]

@@-handala- That's somehow feels like an insult to fishes. Dude has cotton instead of brain.

[@rajabuta]

​@@-handala-he has a brain?

[@MasterLycan844]

Can we take a moment to appreciate the bird mascot? Not for the joke or the performance, though those were good too, but just for the sheer quality work on the costume? According to cosplayers and fursuit enthusiasts, suits like that can take weeks to create and cost tens of thousands of dollars in material and potentially labor costs. Please, can we give props to the costuming department that made that suit? Because it looked amazing.

[@riccardocalosso5688]

Am i the only one that find racists "fighting against anti- semitism" a bit oxymoronic?

[@Julia-lk8jn]

Does it help that they are putting up a bad pretense of fighting against it?

[@rawihago4965]

Hypocritical is probably the better word. They do this all the time, and usually wha5ever they accuse others of, they are far worse transgressors. MTG lead8ng censure of Rashia Tlaib for antisemitism was ic8ng on cake, recall Greene was the one who publicly tweeted that Jews were using Space Lasers to start wildfires and destroy America. That wad 1 year ago btw now she's the self appointed defender of Jews 😅

[@HastyElderHaman]

They don't actually care about anti-Semitism. They care about Israel, and many of the politicians in the US care about Israel because of the evangelical vote. The people that conflate anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment are disingenuous fools.

[@Tomas.Malina]

Honestly, if your protest has the goal to inconvenience normal people, you are doing something wrong. Inconvenience those in power who can actually stop the crisis, not people rushing to work who just want to make a living.

[@fanzhang3746]

Very few things make me happier than seeing this show popping up, thanks!

[@bananachocopie]

I’m glad to get this episode free. Used to have to go on weird sites to watch last week tonight

[@rerikm]

just pirate it like a normal broken person 🙄

[@TheMovieslingers]

Love that we're getting full episodes on KZbin. Thank you!!

[@HighlyEntropicMind]

Hello person who reads the comments. I know that in the season finale John is gonna mention these videos being uploaded in full for people outside the USA in order to prove a point about how foreigners are overinformed about the USA or something like that. Wouldn't it be funny then to show that a foreigner was able to tell this was your plan from the very beginning?

[@equasimilione6493]

I suppose it would, yes.

[@alisonhill3941]

12:12 I always love clips of middle-aged Americans not understanding British insults.

[@EngineerAAJ]

I like how John said that the UFO believers vs deniers would be fighting on these comment section, but this is the Non-US video and there is no discussion, just regular well minded comments. Let's see how the US video does for that, I sure hope that John or someone from his crew takes a look in the difference between this comment section and the other one.

[@sourouklemes4444]

I came to the comments 'cause of that bit too, but if this is the official US account I guess it's the US comment section as well. It goes to show that oliveheads, even in the US, are a proper community. Albeit we're also an echo chamber.

[@justanordinaryhuman]

I can’t take John seriously anymore when he completely ignores the elephant in the room - the rampant antisemitism and violence (especially against Jews) at these protests

[@vuaifermin3747]

Hey John, I love your videos even if they make me a little depressed. I love that story too did with jack waner. I'm from trinidad and tobago 🇹🇹

[@RR42636]

868

[@Nixx0912]

I apparently had a good timing with my nostalgia trip trough x-files😂

[@Tinmar_Isation]

The real question is: Why Americans are the only ones in the world to be so obessed by UFOs? Because they would do anything to be on TV!

[@MckieDs595]

I don’t think it’s only that. Some will do anything to get on TV. However my grandfather was a high ranking official for the navy. He’s told me that not only has he seen these objects in the sky and water. But the government across the world are actively suppressing it by any means. They had to sign a NDA once they saw them. This was on multiple occasions. I think the reason why America seems obsessed. Is because in America you can look like a fool with little shame, while people in other countries try to avoid that shame.

[@regulardragon]

the only man i always expect to hear bad news from and yet i'm always happy to see him

[@TheBrainFlow]

@2:25 Brilliant Looked like Robert Webb in a costume doing a skit lol

[@mjak993]

Absolutely, it's like " The Man Who Had A Cough And It's Just A Cough And He's Fine" or the other gem "Sometimes Fires Go Out"

[@Briseisgone]

I KNEW as soon as the joke started that there would be a real snake in the end 😂

[@JeddtheJedi]

John Oliver has, after all, described his show as "basically a petting zoo with a desk".

[@pathalenvivaldi7811]

Upvote for John terrorizing us with universal geography now, the Earth was never the limit. :D

[@user-ed1yd9lc8y]

So asking a potential future justice whether he believes if Israel has a right to exist in wrong? Shouldn't that be an incredibly easy answer, unless he is extremely racist? And if he is extremely racist, why does John want him as a judge?

[@kawuniadarunia2]

Thank you John for finally touching upon the UAP subject, I hope it'll help to decrease the stigma and ridicule of it. Although I wish he also brought up last year's congressional hearings and David Grusch testimony.

[@DaDunge]

Certainly the natural explanation that will arise from styduing these phenomon is clearly something as of yet unknown to us and should as such be studied. I will however only beleive it is aliens when someone proves that.

[@DarthOwenZ]

thank you very much! so awesome! keep up the great work

[@theon_ean_donly]

Im one of those that don't believe in UFO'S but during a trip to a small town in Mexico (population 800) my wife and I got to experience seen a white bright light as big as town block and the shape of a cake up on the hills. And as we stared at it in awe it just faded away..till this day im confused as to what it was.

[@davidtomlinson907]

There used to be a flying saucer McDonald's outside of Alconbury , in the UK, on the A14. It started out as a Megatron restaurant selling fast food in space themed shapes.

[@tanglingheadphones]

Out of the three topics mentioned in the title, UFOs wasn't the one I thought would be the main topic, tbh.

[@aiwenchew6269]

Saagar from Breaking Points is going to go crazy after this and say ''I don't really like John Oliver but he talks about UFOs so he is good in my books.''

[@softychews]

21:21 correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure there was a ufo themed mcdonalds in the east of England somewhere, I remember going there growing up! I think it closed down in the 2000s though...

[@cronobactersakazakii5133]

There never was, it was an intergalactic UFO service & repair workshop. Don’t you remember a flashing light when leaving ? 👽

[@missphase8127]

Thank you for uploading entire episodes for the rest of the world, I never knew how the big intro for the show consisted of John banging on the glass table like a toddler for every episode

[@luccagiovannini251]

Have you ever heard about the pratos operation? Was a military operation of the Brazilian army who was investigating and also documented sittings of UFOs that looked like flying ships.

[@jaungiga]

That's a California kingsnake. So non-venomous indeed

[@haqvor]

And very pretty!

[@golgol99]

John did u cover the 400 drones sent by Iran on Israel?

[@drakonyanazkar]

Tackling UFOs on this show was quite a surprise. I'm very much on board with everything Oliver said. It's not about whether it's aliens or not; it's about the fact people *do* see things they don't understand and we shouldn't shame each other for looking for answers and coming up with hypothesis. Even the aliens explanation is a valid hypothesis, since we really don't know for sure. Or do you think explaining polymers and stoms to a 14th century layman would have sounded more reasonable than men from outer space?

[@user-qh9dp7dp2e]

Maybe if the hemmes terrorists would surrender,this war have been over. But sure blame the victims

[@AndreiDinTheHouse]

Jesus backflipping Krist, Ted Cruz rambles like he smoked all my stash

[@RenatoHerrera-tn1tm]

The truth is out there...in the heavens of this show . Best show of the year so far

[@tee_es_bee]

Thank you for the full episode, my HBO subscription still continues! 🧡💛🧡

[@genidoagnelli8409]

I vote John Oliver for the next Dr. Who! That would be hilarious! 😍🤣

[@nadiahassan5307]

Full episode FTW!

[@Mene0]

Some really good jokes this time around hahaha

[@Peronioz]

8:09 is a perfect example of a perfect joke. RUle of three, set the expectation, then break it while staying on theme.

[@roberttremaine5620]

When money and meetings are more important than human lives, I think we need to take time out to review where our values are at!

[@egg-citing]

Thank you, John Oliver. Love this show!!!

[@ataakhan8432]

Lmaooo....the snake bit really was funny

[@alegrardo]

This has to be one of the funniest episodes, jokes were actually funny

[@davidladjani108]

As a French, it's funny to witness Americans express mixed feelings about protests. It's just a normal news report to me 😁

[@thelastloneman]

So an intelligent species would come from wherever they are ALL THE WAY to earth and not try to communicate with us but rather fly around at night?

[@Julia-lk8jn]

Makes more sense than you think. If we finally manage to sent human beings to another planet, we'll certainly ... okay, almost certainly, but I hope very much we'll make sure the planet is safe before we actuall have humans land on it. Like: toxins, or worse, potentially harmful germs in the atmosphere. Any intelligent life form who managed to develop to the point of interstellar flight would have to be at last as careful & rational as human beings, or more so, to avoid killing itself off once it has the technology to do so. (We've amply proven that getting to that point of technology is a lot easier than getting to the point of interstellar travel.) And then of course there's the ever popular theory that alien life is still in two minds of wether making contact with homo sapiens sapiens is _really_ a good idea. You never know how catching exactly madness is.

[@Gillsing]

If they can make it here, we're primitives to them. Interesting to study, preferably while kept in the dark, so as to not affect our natural behavior too much. Don't think so highly of yourself, great ape.

[@felixxtcat]

The guy at the airport didn't say they shouldn't protest, just that shouldn't block airports and make people miss flights. You can't get a ticket refunded if you miss your flight due to traffic. Plane tickets are expensive. WTF

[@pauldickman4379]

Maybe not refunded but they will easily rebook you. We recently missed our flight cuz we got there late, not even due to traffic just poor planning, and got rebooked for free.

[@felixxtcat]

@@pauldickman4379 If your sole reason for flying to attend a specific event like a wedding or funeral, and missing the flight causes you to miss the event, getting rebooked would not be helpful.

[@pauldickman4379]

@@felixxtcat true but that wasnt your original point at all…

[@MichaelLasotaTW]

The government doesn't profit if theres no war. Sadly, thats why they don't help. Even though Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan were most profitable so they dug their fingers in the honey pot.

[@pierrevade2328]

Good point from someone who's face I can only discribe as "books". Love the show ! Great team !

[@elpepito957]

I believe John Oliver is the alien

[@OscarSommerbo]

The UFO craze holds all the hallmarks of social contagion. It exploded out of nowhere (relatively speaking) in 1947, grew under the paranoid Cold War, and then diminished during the 80s and 90s. And is on the rise again with heightened would tension. And in 2024 everyone has a smartphone with a video camera and yet there are precious few videos and those that exists are of very poor quality. If the encounters were as frequent as some suggest, KZbin would be flooded with high quality videos.

[@gran-roan]

Only the term and specific figure. Aliens had been a topic for decades already in literature and even movies, but mainly as 'cigar' or sphere shapes. The TWISTER movie ushered a craze of storm chasers, just like Indiana Jones for Archeologists, but obviously it didn't materialize out of nothing. It just wasn't mainstream enough.

[@spaceforcemonkey7674]

Do you have zoom in these smart phones? try film something in the sky and put it in your laptop and see the quality of it. very poor

[@curiousdrivers]

Thank you john for speaking about Gaza

[@zez_gval]

The saddest (and scariest) part about aliens is that there's basically only two theories about it and none of them are very promising: 1) We really are completely alone in the universe, or at least we are the only planet that scientists know about (from all the can tell with today's technology, which is a lot) that has the perfect conditions for life 2) We are NOT alone, but whatever else is out there is so, SO far away that it's practically impossible for us to even know of each others existence, because even IF we could travel at the speed of light, it would still take billions of years to get there, and that's a time our own sun doesn't have, and he'll still be here after we go extinct (which will happen in a few hundred years if we keep treating the planet the way we are).

[@nyanuwu4209]

Even if aliens existed and had the tech to travel here, there are so many variables that have to line up flawlessly to make that even begin to happen. It's like a lottery. Also the observable universe is expanding away from us and slipping forever from out reach day by day so if they are too far away, they will never not be. So that's...Unsatisfying. And the very idea of "perfect conditions for life" is a silly one. The conditions for life down here have never been perfect. They've _been_ but that's not at all the same.

[@medealkemy]

Maybe that's why people are so fascinated by UFOs

[@TheBloodyViki]

I trusted John Oliver until he started vaping Also that's a really cute snake

[@aserta]

He did it for the lulz but yeah, that's a really cute snek.

[@NadeemShekh-uy9zn]

The UFO public hearing was last year

[@doniscoming]

Damn You John Oliver, I had to Google how Venus looks 😅

[@MxMattyB]

21:04 about lester holt vaping, i agree with john oliver on 2005 mock the week about equestrian events at the winter olympics "they could, but they don't, and if they did, it'd be great"

[@i-kahn]

Thanks John

[@AFFoC]

Using Hamas' casualty numbers is a new low even for this channel.

[@nddragoon]

what do you propose? believing israel? do you also think only 31 people died at chernobyl?

[@AFFoC]

@@nddragoon Almost anything is better than believing a group who's ideology advocates lying to non-believers. Plus there's also the part that they're a terrorist organisation. Even if all of the above weren't real, they also advocate for the total conquest of the world. Sorry, not the most credible source out there.

[@slasherfun]

​@@AFFoCUN currently reports that 33000 Palestinians have been killed in the last 6 months.

[@nddragoon]

@@slasherfun no you see the UN is hamas actually. anyone who disagrees with me is hamas. you should know this already

[@khpc82]

For people who know photography, many of the examples of UFOs shown are actually problems with either the camera sensor or the lens. When you point a camera at something, it does not stay in the same position in the frame throughout the whole panning motion, unless it is something stuck on the camera's sensor or lens. Could be dead pixels or just dust stuck on the sensor or lens.

[@Brian-tn4cd]

The audience seems much more involved this time, that's kinda fun

[@kirkyearwood4350]

Another brilliant episode

[@deepsy2k]

It's a pity Islam breads terror, all this suffering could've been avoided if terror organizations weren't using civilians as human shields

[@Julia-lk8jn]

Ohhhh, running snake gag is beautifully done.

[@arod700]

Great topics, excellent analisis as usual, but I could not stop looking at those four dots, at the bottom of the background picture. Looks like you can swipe right.

[@oddverses]

Been WAITING on the UFO topic more than we’re waiting on actual UFO’s 🛸

[@MrHusker1996]

People protesting at government buildings, embassies, important historical places, in front of tanks and in politicians faces brought about change and brought down communism and forced end to wars. People protesting in the streets make common people late for work and steal their time with their families, stop people from getting medical aid, make people burn more fossil fuels or prevent them from picking up their drunk friends before they decide to sit behind the wheel themselves, but luckily enough they wont be able to go anywhere, because the protest is blocking traffic, so i guess it eventually lead to something good. Protesting has gone from brave acts of giving voice to the people in face of government oppression and an instrument of change to preventing a mom from going home to her kids.

[@Staenhus]

...where do you think protestors at the Selma-Montgomery march were walking? In the woods? On the sidewalk? You can literally just google "Did the civil rights movement block traffic" and you will find that, yes, they in fact did. Same for the Vietnam protestors. So get your sanctimonious comparisons out of here.

[@randycarrier3401]

Oh boo hoo. A mom can't go home to her kids for a bit longer than usual. What about all the kids in Gaza who's mothers won't be there to pick them up because she is DEAD. Or the mothers who can't pick their kids up because some racist fascist leader of another country decided to bomb the school. My heart pumps piss for anybody who felt put out because some protesters "inconvenienced" them for a small part of one day in their pathetic self centered lives. How inconvenienced do you think ALL the people in Gaza feel? WAR IS NOT HEALTHY FOR CHILDREN AND OTHER LIVING THINGS

[@HastyElderHaman]

You'd be the same person championing MLK Jr, who was a socialist btw, while saying these protesters are doing it wrong. Read Letter from Birmingham Jail.