S2 E2: Tobacco, Yemen & Ecuador: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Season 2, Episode 2, February 15th, 2015. John Oliver explains how tobacco companies are keeping their business strong overseas, discusses a new militant group in Yemen, and responds to the president of Ecuador.
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[@richardc5100]

Who’s this young man and what have they done to the old guy.

[@jon5155]

The old guy is the new guy.

[@marion882]

It’s finally completed: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKKzoJKCrsR1sNUsi=j7flZHrZhzFYQSUr

[@bradleybarnett9545]

He's the only thing changing. All the news in s1- Gaza... Ukraine... FIFA... et cetera- is the same 10 years hence.

[@joerionis5902]

Hes gone, reduced to atoms

[@zumabbar]

this was him, 200 years ago

[@requiem4ameme2]

“So, which of these season 2 episodes should we upload first?” “Yes.”

[@marion882]

It’s finally completed: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKKzoJKCrsR1sNUsi=j7flZHrZhzFYQSUr

[@rstiles2253]

I came to this video, just for comments like this

[@TheCommanderTaco]

Was wondering if anyone else was commenting about their "subscription" being bombarded by John Oliver lol.

[@PhaZeUnleashed]

Episode 16 and 17 are switched in the playlist and they put them in the wrong order. So the playlist starts with the last episode and make it way to the first, kind of infuriating.

[@tbranch227]

Yeah, they could have done like one a day and caught up just fine.

[@Woozlewuzzleable]

Before he hit puberty. The sparkle in his eye, before the weight of the world crushed his spirit.

[@pennybutnotthecoin]

😂

[@einantassteinas7038]

That sounds like Homer Simpson 😂

[@Woozlewuzzleable]

@@einantassteinas7038 Good catch, I stole that line from the Simpsons.

[@stoodmuffinpersonal3144]

he was so young back then. So full of hope

[@Discitus]

I thought I somehow ended up browsing LastWeekTonight's channel, but no, it's my subscriptions page, full of Young John.

[@wowanothercookie]

Me too! I thought KZbin added a weird new function where the app saves the last channel you looked at or something

[@zumazuma568]

Lol the cohost throwing the guy under the bus saying his wife is expecting a baby as he's flirting with a model... Chef's kiss

[@Izandaia]

The first "country you think about so little" joke! The beginning of a glorious tradition.

[@zoro867]

Is this the episode with the first "COUNTRY, a country you think about so little that you didn't even realise this is not COUNTRY" joke John has ever done 😅 This joke never gets old

[@forgiveman]

I was about to say that. The countries joke is one of the best.

[@LionHeartSamy]

Yup seems to be the first. And here I am, eagerly looking forward to his "Don't call me, text me!" jokes haha

[@aficklefangirl2566]

So glad to be getting all the old Last Week Tonight episodes!! It is my comfort show, despite the often saddening topics, so I'm glad to have full episodes to enjoy!

[@Alicest.]

Why are so many people complaining about getting an entire season of the full episodes of the show? Is scrolling past it for 5 seconds that much of a hassle for some people? Jesus I'm just glad I'm getting more of the content I already enjoy

[@deimosvoralius2988]

You should know that rubbing brain cells together is tough work for adhd nation

[@7465610A]

When people have gotten used to instant gratification, a slight inconvenience is an insult.

[@Alicest.]

@@dustyoldhat I'm sure you're joking, since no sane person would imply that a youtube channel needs their subscribers' consent to post videos for some reason, but I'm not sure I got the joke.

[@Spencer-wc6ew]

​@@dustyoldhatby subscribing, you consent to a channel's videos appearing in your subscriptions feed.

[@RotatingPlatypus]

I scrolled straight past em and searched for a playlist in proper order, cuz theirs was backwards lol.

[@kayleehog]

The drake joke is even better now 😂

[@anthonylombardo1261]

Makes you realize our world hasn’t done shit in 10 years. Not shit.

[@rizingdemonable]

Not a goddamn thing has changed 😂😂😂 but I love john for trying

[@Alfonso162008]

@@rizingdemonable well, at least one thing has changed: Uruguay eventually won the lawsuit. No idea of what happened with the other lawsuits, tho.

[@violet7773]

Nah it's definitely got worse lol

[@thisisnotachannel]

There is another way of looking at it... We have done nothing BUT shit!

[@feckdrinkgirls]

The richest200 people have become 200 times wealthier than they were ten years ago. If you ask them, that's not shit.

[@LingLing1337]

Wrecking my KZbin subscriptions like this isn’t very cash money, John

[@mimicmey]

The worst part is that they're not even in order 😭

[@rishabhpb]

did HBO make some sort of deal? Last Week Tonight is never available on youtube in Canada

[@clex2005]

@@rishabhpb And they're old and it's hard to tell at first.

[@eragonawesome]

Honestly I'd rather this dump all at once that's easy to scroll past rather than the ones that just broke up the rest of my feed all week

[@JamesOfEarth]

And not even a playlist yet. Pretty sloppy form.

[@VanessaAbeyawardena]

"He saw what we did, and was not thrilled" is my favourite Last Week Tonight trope

[@RushikeshMane-cg2cy]

You definitely have my sub. This content is next level. For me Eledator was the turning point. Please keep doing what you do and keep being you, love it.

[@gazorpazorp9798]

Pre-covid energy really is something to behold.

[@user-fr3ck1ed5i]

Thats like 37 episodes in one day. I was legitimately debating buying HBO just to binge all of your old content. Thank you so much 🙏

[@DingDung420]

DON'T GIVE A CENT TO BUSINESS DADDY

[@thisisnotachannel]

I subscribe to HBO for Maher and Oliver... But they do NOT have previous seasons of either show available to watch. Only current. I get my "classic episode" fix here on YT... but not "Real Time"... Full episodes of that aren't available anywhere.

[@sullisen]

Eyey you don't tell them that! They have giveth but they can at any moment taketh away as well. You want to say you were never going to buy it but this free content allowed you to rediscover how great this show is and now you're contemplating it

[@RyanLesnerhatesneebsgaming]

A man who's wife died of lung cancer after smoking for ten years put up posters, billboards, news paper ads and a TV bulletin was sued by big Tabaco. The Tabaco Lawyer had a medical exam tech on the stand. Who said " I am 100% sure smoking four cigarettes a day for ten years is what killed her. " The lawyer asked " How can you be sure it was our brand that killed her? " The ME said " We did a chemical comparison between her lung tissue and your cigarettes and got a 90% match. " The lawyer asked " How accurate are these test? " ME " Quite accurate. Rarely wrong. " The company fired him after they lost the case.

[@dustyoldhat]

ok?

[@meghancalahan4798]

@@dustyoldhatits not ok and its an illustration of how evil companies can be and how driven by greed is the undoing of the whole world. This example is how we live, in thousands of ways, despite pushing back at the greedy powers-that-be

[@dustyoldhat]

@@meghancalahan4798 ok? so what? welcome to reality

[@olotocolo]

@@dustyoldhat That what he said asshat. Welcome to the comment section where some people try to inform others. If you can't stomach getting information leave.

[@charlescannon2469]

​@@dustyoldhatIdk, that lawyer was shockingly incompetent. If I had story where the lawyer either didn't bother with proper discovery or totally forgot they tested for chemical composition I'd totally tell it too.

[@hbanana7]

Omg so many people whining about the upload. You can mute the notification, and it isn’t every week, AND they warned us beforehand. The smoking baby is now a healthy, non-smoking teen.

[@jozx713]

My favorite show ever. Thank you for all the new uploads

[@TheTenthDoctorandHisTardis]

Yes! Season 2! The gift that keeps on giving while underscoring how we’ve been sleepwalking towards catastrophe for decades.

[@anoisano275]

Cried yet again when he said "my penis just yawned" 😭

[@aggarius2944]

Im very excited about this upload thing, but its gonna take so much scrolling to get to the rest of my sub feed😂😂😂

[@slazman999]

There is nothing else to watch. There is only John.

[@robinsparrow1618]

if it helps, when you mouse over a video in your subscription feed, 3 vertical dots will appear in one of the corners. if you click on it, there should be an option to 🚫 Hide the video it'll change the video to an option to undo this at first, but if you reload your subscription feed, all the videos you hid will be gone

[@aggarius2944]

@@robinsparrow1618 ily

[@subliminalvibes]

Quick... Must watch before someone notices it's available in Australia!

[@EntertainMeTV]

Not these notification whiners...Anyway, thanks for the nostalgia and content dropping full seasons!

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

is gonna be like this every time. people bitch about ANYTHING

[@coalblooded]

​@@EmpyreanLightASMR Ungrateful bastards, the whole lot of 'em.

[@MrPoeGhost]

@@EmpyreanLightASMR Bro it would be annoying if anyone spammed like 30 videos in one go, it just happened to be John.

[@Spencer-wc6ew]

​@@MrPoeGhostwhy? I genuinely don't see what's annoying about it. It takes 10 seconds to scroll past the episodes

[@AsrafAli-mn7um]

Here we go again, market analysis in circles. Finally, Bitcoin moved, but nothing grows like my wallet with Eledator, they can bring profit, that's the real deal.

[@ruckusrevolution9475]

I love when John plays French children.

[@Doi-]

LET THE OLIVER BINGE BEGIN

[@lruddy8820]

here in toronto when i was in high school there was a store that sold individual cigarettes to students for a quarter until one day someone in the parking lot thought they were in reverse and drove right thru the front window of the store

[@snowAngels55]

Wow, it sucks they did that, but I hope no one was hurt.

[@ryshow9118]

I legit never thought I'd be so thrilled to not have this team working on any given week 😂

[@claireconover]

uploading old full episodes was genius.

[@One_1_11]

I wonder if people in Togo are still wearing the Jeff shirts

[@YOEL_44]

The classic chapters are like unfound gems to me, what a great show!!

[@swiftrian]

he's always happiest when he gets to blow a budget on a real issue and stick it to corps or goverments like he paid off 10k peoples medical debt totaling 100's of millions for pennies by buying it from collections and just forgave it. hes amazing

[@amandaettere8383]

thank you so much for uploading these !

[@Gnosh1]

Thanks for uploading all these old episodes! Luckily, I don't need to watch any of them, because surely in the intervening years, all of these issues have been solved :)

[@anonymustly7818]

Thanks for adding old seasons. No HBO so I'm enjoying them very much. Also amazing how little has changed.

[@daveblack6951]

It has just occurred to me that I have never used used the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button!

[@coalblooded]

Me either. I wonder if those with a gambling addiction use it more often than those without that affliction.

[@daveblack6951]

@@coalblooded you raise a good point! That does seem plausible 🙏

[@Nereosis16]

It just took you straight to the first result btw

[@THE_WORLD_OF_beyblade]

I honestly don't understand why you're discussing these dubious schemes. There are plenty of options like Eledator and similar ones that are fast and profitable.

[@Bingobango07]

Did you guys just make every episode available in the UK? 😭😭😭 Im so happy.

[@Stevieisvbad]

Thank you Johnathan

[@IcefisherTenacity]

This is one of my favorite episodes

[@dustysweaters]

Truly an amazing batch upload

[@clashwithczar2.03]

This is awesome my friend thanks

[@JaceTan-90]

Many in the comments below complained that the episodes got released all at once and spoiled the sub feed. But at least all are up and available to watch anytime and however we want it without waiting. Kinda similar to some of the tv shows on other paid streaming platforms that also got released at once but strangely don't get much complain. I'm just glad that they are out and available. Thank you and looking forward to the other Seasons full episode release!

[@lananiella]

I think it's wonderful that they are releasing entire seasons like this. What is NOT so wonderful is the head scratching choice to release season playlists IN REVERSE ORDER! Most humans listen to playlists as follows "S2E1", "S2E2", "S2E3", "You sunk my battleship" no wait, i meant "S2E4" and so on. Here's the key as to which is correct. When 1 is over, autoplay plays the next one (oddly enough) automatically! "So what?" you ask. Take the first episode. Season finale. He talks about bits done during the year - WHICH WE HAVEN'T SEEN YET! John, if you're hiring, I'm available. Obviously I can type in your speaking style. ;)

[@danderedere]

This is the season I started watching this show during. I have no idea how I came across the show anymore, but I'm fairly sure this was the episode I first saw (and then season episode 1 at a later date) and I was absolutely hooked.

[@MizMadi00]

looove love the full uploads but the season 2 playlist is BACKWARDS 😭 whyty

[@lananiella]

I think it's wonderful that they are releasing entire seasons like this. What is NOT so wonderful is the head scratching choice to release season playlists IN REVERSE ORDER! Most humans listen to playlists as follows "S2E1", "S2E2", "S2E3", "You sunk my battleship" no wait, i meant "S2E4" and so on. Here's the key as to which is correct. When 1 is over, autoplay plays the next one (oddly enough) automatically! "So what?" you ask. Take the first episode. Season finale. He talks about bits done during the year - WHICH WE HAVEN'T SEEN YET! John, if you're hiring, I'm available. Obviously I can type in your speaking style. ;)

[@JaeJaeG]

Ty for all of these!!!!!

[@st.emilychristianson5609]

Beautiful reminder of the day I began learning Geography

[@jv7x]

10 years later and a Google image search of Marlboro mascot has Jeff as #2! I'd say that's a job well done, gang!

[@MiksrangSangma-il4mb]

Thank you for your research. I find your videos are well done. RIght now I'm keeping an eye on Eledator

[@VenetusAlpha]

That mime joke was magnificent.

[@4NGEL99]

Didn't even read the title, just clicked

[@samantha-elizabethemery3467]

Our town got wrecked by tornados and we were running out of distractions to watch on our phones. So thanks! Well timed! If you have any hot food back there with the rest of the videos, let us know LoL

[@BlakieTT]

Hope you keep good and are safe!

[@samantha-elizabethemery3467]

@@BlakieTT We're doing better than most of the town TBH. I'm glad my biggest complaint is that we only have to deal with a loud generator and a fridge full of dodgy food

[@sammi_spencer]

Watch ryan hall!!

[@jvissers3086]

Thank you.

[@nicoalexander774]

Damn!!! This a throwback right here! ❤

[@Sushistone]

Absolute legend! This guy never misses

[@andreschaves715]

i love that i came here for this - & got it.

[@BittaSweetJP]

Thank you

[@kanhaiyalalkumar5670]

Oh, I love you guys, the best market analysis! Seriously, why not mention Eledator?

[@hoangus7005]

I miss the old opening

[@elizabethjarrett8473]

Hahahaha so great to see my Togolese people in these t shirts!!!!! Thank you John and everyone at LWTWJO, great piece on tobacco !!!

[@joannejohnson7006]

Thank you John 😊

[@TheDylls]

"Deat to America! isn't literal. It's just, like, a thing you say" As a CANADIAN, that sent a chill down my spine

[@aaronhansen5588]

You ungrateful bastards. Thank you John and team for all the free episodes!

[@coalblooded]

For real!! I figured with the original air date not an issue they'd have nothing to complain about, but boy was I wrong. They'll find something, clearly.

[@OhWellWhatTheHell1]

I just think there had to have been a smarter way to do this lol, like dropping one per day, or releasing them unlisted and then relisting them after a week so it's not a wall of 10 year old johntent on everyone's feed

[@TheLovelyNelo]

BRUH my whole subscription feed is nothing but John Oliver. Space out your uploads! 😂

[@kingalainc1]

😂😂😂

[@saphricpcgaming5182]

MORE!!!!!

[@Spencer-wc6ew]

It took me less thab 10 seconds to scroll past them

[@Nereosis16]

Whinge more

[@brruunno]

😂😂😂😂 such a nice episode

[@RodrigoRodrigues-mc4oq]

Thanks for posting this in YT. I actually have HBO, but the captions on the videos there are trash

[@gspendlove]

Well, I know how I'm celebrating this Memorial Day.

[@ConsumeConformObey]

Love ya John

[@marvinjaybequillo7451]

One of my favorite episode HAHAHAHAH

[@mdeliacloherty]

Aah, Jeff. I love this episode.

[@somadoublecrossrdr]

Please can you upload all the other seasons again? My subscriptions feed would benefit from another 300 episodes to watch

[@wave631]

It took me at least 5 minutes to realize this was back in 2015... 😂😂🤣

[@dumaskhan]

you should put the original air date in the title. It might take a second to realize this is an old episode.

[@tokyodrifttt]

I love this show

[@skymarshal6787]

Epic show

[@Sheffield_Steve]

"When life gives you Yemen, you give Yemen Aid." Frankie Boyle. 🤭😉

[@hoodiesticks]

So this was it. The first ever "That's not [country], this is [country]" in the show's history.

[@TheCreepypro]

what a blast from the past!

[@hoodie3810]

Happy to report the Australian plain-packaging laws have held up. Unfortunately, we now have a problem with vaping, supposedly a prescription product to help quit smoking currently being sold at every other tobacconist to children. The tobacco industry needs to go take a long walk off a short pier.

[@Nossody]

I need to stop watching these 10 year old episodes thinking theyre recent lmfao

[@mikevanderman2727]

John Oliver is nuts jajajajajaja great show

[@em5522]

Woah, for once, I actually knew he was highlighting a different country since I did a project on Paraguay.

[@benwasserman8223]

God John looks so young and mildly innocent. It’s been a messed up nine years, hasn’t it?

[@ericpeterson6520]

Last Decade Tonight

[@ZedaZ80]

1:38 aged like wine

[@SkyEcho7]

🏆YAY🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Able to view in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 at last 🍻John💗

[@helenbodel3974]

While on a trip with one of my brothers on an Ethiopian Airlines prop-jet, we were hijacked by the Eritrean Liberation Front--and taken to Aden, Yemen, held on the plane for hours, after which we disembarked and were taken to a long-closed hotel. For three days we were taken to the airport early, held there under armed guard, and bussed back to the hotel at night. Since the hotel had been closed down since the government change decades earlier, its storerooms still contained things such as beer, tinned sardines and caviar (!) So, I learned about shandies and rinsed out my sweat-ladened dress every evening, putting it on--still wet--in the morning. With no local US-American presence, the British military stepped into the negotiations and helped us get back to Addis Ababa. I understand that in fifty years little has changed with regard to freedom and work opportunities in that poor, war-torn nation.

[@johnd3020]

Every video in my damn subscriptions

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

thank you intern for creating the playlist. if you could reorder them so they're in increasing order (ep 1 to 35) would be great, but otherwise, i just make my playlist from yours. either way.

[@mrfreddorenton]

The first map joke!

[@ninongfons]

@0:22 Hostus Maximus Jon Stewart. This episode S2E2 aired on February 15, 2015. On February 10, 2015, Stewart announced he was leaving The Daily Show.

[@DuchessChau]

"my penis just yawned" is easily the funniest thing ever said.

[@edtierney6076]

This episode was 3 months before I graduated college over 9 years ago 😨

[@argetlamzn]

Can someone explain this to me like I’m 5: why does a country like Uruguay have to take Phillip Morris’ suit seriously? Can’t they just say “go away we don’t want to smoke”?

[@Aengus42]

Who's syrup did ya 'alf inch John? 😆

[@ErutaniaRose]

Really glad I have sensory issues and acid reflux sometimes, keeps me from wanting to do any kind of smoking.

[@venusc5709]

3:53 😂😂😂

[@DavidJamesHenry]

The whole bit about his wife, Courtney, really truly hurts to listen to