S2 E32: Medicaid Gap, China & Syria: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

[@JaxDax]

As a Chinese person, I was like wdym Kenny G is popular in China, no he isn't. Then I heard the song play and was like HOLYYY SHT HES AN ENORMOUS DEAL THERE

[@lifebeautiful6389]

I had the same reaction XD

[@CatThatLostHisHat]

These old videos are going to get really depressing around mid-2016. Like watching a train crash in slow motion and knowing you can't do anything to stop it.

[@enikata7349]

That's exactly how I felt too

[@a.polaris5726]

John's show: "Why should we care about the 2016 election? It's in more than a year. Also, about pangolins?" Us, today: "By knowing how much time you have left, you appreciate how precious it is. SAVOR IT, PAST JOHN"

[@Rowsy91]

we got another crash to look forward to in 2024 no matter who wins! buckle up lol

[@Zeb364]

Kenny G might legitimately deserve a nobel peace prize because it's 9 years later and the US and China have yet to go to war.

[@TheTexas1994]

I would like to thank Kenny G for maintaining relative peace in the South China Sea for the past 8 1/2 years

[@RodrigoRodrigues-mc4oq]

Cmon, don’t jinx it. Have you seen all other pieces about Russia/Ukraine, Israel/Palestine, Russia/Syria…?

[@isaacbasilchambers9934]

Ahhh 2015, back when no one knew what a pangolin was… such innocent times 😢

[@seymourdemonica9264]

Honestly, I was only aware of pangolins because it was a weapon manufacturer in the world of the video game Borderlands lol.

[@KrisCorby-iv8dg]

...or cofeffe!...🤷‍♀️

[@Rowsy91]

still would not know what it was if not for south park lol

[@千代白渚]

Well now I know who's calling me home through PA system at every high school evening. Thank you Kenny G from China❤️

[@davidlewis8814]

When he didn’t reflexively savage Kenny G, my first thought was, “oh, he’s backstage waiting to come out for the finale”

[@imac.13]

Guys, they listened to our comments. They put the original air date in the description.

[@renchesandsords]

Oh my gosh, I didn't know this was the backstory to the song that's been stuck in my head for 15 years

[@smalltime0]

Unironically this would be great if it was the standard song for closing time everywhere.

[@cloudbrooks]

i feel like having a certain song for when its closing time is kinda fucked. imagine living for decades, kids growing up with that song "reminding them of home/making them want to go home as soon as possible", to paraphrase that one woman. then, imagine moving somewhere else. like yeah sure if it was that way EVERYWHERE then maybe it wouldnt be so bad but then imagine hating that song. and then u cant escape it by moving countries. and only being able to escape it by moving into the woods or something. i hate the whole concept 0/10

[@theotakux5959]

Chewbacca has a bandolier that seems to have pouches, he can keep an ID on him.

[@veggigoddess]

I don't care what anyone ever says, I will always love Kenny g! Ever since Songbird in that very small seen and pretty woman I have been listening to him. Songbird and forever in love are two of the most beautiful songs in the history of music!

[@jellysecret]

that fatal collision reported by Eazy is 5 minutes from my home. really trippy to kinda listen along and hear an intersection i drive through all the time!

[@carlairving]

11:47 Everyone in 2015: I'm not a pangolin, why should I give a shit? 2020: hold my beer

[@theotakux5959]

I'm sure it'll be fine. Unless Mickey Mouse and a weed farmer find one, but what are the odds of that?

[@dthack0]

Pangolins saw this episode when it first aired, and began plotting their revenge.

[@agiar2000]

I'm out of the loop. What did pangolins do?

[@darth_kal-el]

@@agiar2000in South Park the pandemic started because Randy Marsh and Mickey Mouse had sex with a pangolin in China.

[@michaelf8221]

​@@agiar2000they are linked to the starting mutation that caused COVID

[@justaworm1201]

News anchors dressing up on Halloween is funny but have you ever had your obgyn put your feet in the stirrups while dressed as Cleopatra?

[@cloudbrooks]

holy shit lmaoo

[@Shinigami13133]

That's gotta be a real trip

[@bunkbeds3001]

Annnnd there's a new kink for the vault

[@jackzeng3016]

As a chinese person I am literally numbed, start to feel hungry and recall my grandma who would meet me outside the primary school…you CANT IMAGINE how this song has been part of our world.

[@Ani-rq7wv]

Ya know what. The game grumps were right. Dan does look a bit like Kenny G

[@arp711]

This is like when you're watching a horror movie and yelling at the screen NO DON'T GO UPSTAIRS!!!!! Except worse because reality.

[@mechengr1731]

The "Sweet Jesus, they put the weather forecasters in costumes too" has me withholding a cackle bc I'm at work. The voice over speaking with such abject horror just kills me

[@stephaniehendricks3537]

We need kenny g again

[@mirrankei]

Why are weatherpeople so much better at Halloween than every other newscaster

[@Moderateflocka93]

“that’s so fuckin smooth!” 🤣🤣🤣

[@RobertMichael]

Glad we got the full catalogue here !

[@charliepoet13]

As someone who loves Sandshrew I knew what a pangolin is, but it's always a treat seeing one on the internet.

[@somestormchaseridjitwithwi2024]

Wow.... When you learn things about star wars you never noticed in 36 years from John Oliver of all places...... Chewy only met Anakin once. In that dining room....... fucking WEIRD.

[@ayelemensah8816]

Ah… the sweet old pre-2020 days when most people didn’t know what a pangolin looks like…

[@ToddBlackToddTalk]

We need to eventually get every season episode on KZbin and then make a list of all the celebs he's gotten on the show...because it's a pretty big list by this point!

[@carlairving]

Thanks for the massive uploads. As a new mama, these episodes makes night breastpumping a lot more fun!

[@ErutaniaRose]

8:40 Gods, I watched that as a kid all the time. I remember loving the prison scene because he was sad. 😂

[@kimberlybrady6976]

Watching this in 2024 and boy, were those more innocent times...

[@trinafirey1175]

Love Kenny G❤

[@Jcewazhere]

Bevin won, but since 2019 Andy Beshear is gov of KY.

[@BittaSweetJP]

Thank you for the episodes

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

If Kenny G ever passes, I hope he has a vault full of brand new unheard of recordings to release posthumously, and slowly over time, to keep the peace.

[@andersmoore]

11:10 seams like a pretty good idea in hindsight.

[@jasierose13]

Kenny G, the man that Dan Avidan has been mistaken for.

[@Zeb364]

David Cameron, one of the few people on earth who can spread Swine Flu as an STI.

[@richwiebe8084]

that wouldn't be a possible-stick grave, but a popsicle-stick-headstoned grave

[@Caelris]

Pangolins are so cool

[@imanijaldinhartsough1342]

2015 Secretary of State 20 countries gathering to try to broker ceasefire between Syria's gov and the rebels. But there were no Syrians.

[@lizheyrman8293]

Matt Bevin did win the governorship in Kentucky in 2015 and went on to become one of the least popular governors in the nation, ultimately losing re-election to a Democrat in 2019. Small blessings, I guess.

[@jgunn03]

Methinks Oliver might be jealous of the shirtless, shaved Donald Osmond. DOG FIGHT!

[@kashmir7952]

Why are the dates stamps all fd up?

[@KpopZuko]

I talk to my Mimi all the time. I send her memes

[@Ganso_Bomb]

Pangolin def caused the Covid outbreak because of Oliver’s jokes here

[@imanijaldinhartsough1342]

The Supreme Court now lets states decide whether or not they want to choose to expand medicaid. Feds pay 100% for the first three years and then pays 90% and 10% going forward. Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana turned down expansion of medicare.

[@imanijaldinhartsough1342]

20 states declined expansion causing a Medicare gap for 3 million people.

[@rebgates]

Sadly I looked up if Mat Bevin and Dick Black won and they did, removing Medicaid for a lot of people.

[@AFN2750]

As a sax player, the last bit physically hurt me

[@irinaphoenix2169]

You'd be surprised how many people don't know who Donny Osmond is! Like people on TV reality competitions.....

[@brittanysuttner6911]

The way he says Can-yay tho...

[@imanijaldinhartsough1342]

Kathy Owen (Texan) 8k stands in the way of 20 more years of life bc of the need for a colonoscopy. Medicade gap was supposed to be solved by Obama care Ppl who made above the poverty line subsidized insurance. Those below the line got full medicare which used to only be for children their parents and the disabled.

[@JosephCarven]

Wow.. Jake Tapper aged a lot.

[@faillblogkeyboardcat]

11:07 Thank you, South Park.

[@tracynonumbers]

oh they've got the Trumptastrophe ahead of them

[@mschottelk]

It is truly scary how relevant your topics still are in 2024. Sad.

[@AP-pj6zx]

I know Scalia is dead but seeing his face was depressing

[@WarMasterX6]

-me watching old videos about Israel, the 2020 bs and pangolin post covid- This was fine...

[@Trockenfurz]

„they wanna turn the american dream into the european nightmare“ he said. /if that‘s so, if it‘s really a nightmare, why, for gods sake, does every single US soldier that has ever been stationed in germany, wants to stay in germany then because everything is better in germany except for some additional paperwork & the inet on the far out countryside, just to citate a few US soldiers that became german youtubers…?/

[@imanijaldinhartsough1342]

It was illegal in Ukraine to campaign on Election Day in 2015

[@TheRealEvilkitten3]

so like is kenny g an exception to john's anti-jazz stance in the early days then?

[@KY-Guy]

I wonder if that was the Covid pangolin?

[@irinaphoenix2169]

"YOLO county"??? Nice

[@DDT-For-Human]

lol, how uk has continue to go down hill for 10 years

[@lanierjenkins276]

Go South Carolina

[@staciehatfield3642]

I miss Janice from accounting. 😢

[@lanierjenkins276]

He's from my state and he's killing us

[@MikolajF]

15:09 "European nightmare" :D

[@anthonyseveri9652]

Jesus so many videos all at the same time

[@GuitarSlayer136]

21?

[@imanijaldinhartsough1342]

Fiscally conservative governors like Mike Pence and Chris Christie expanded medicare.

[@imanijaldinhartsough1342]

medicaid

[@jakebarrett7013]

extra depressing in 2024

[@garethmckee5927]

America is awful.

[@martinjrgensen8234]

It really is

[@Rowsy91]

better than syria or china though

[@garethmckee5927]

@@Rowsy91 wow, setting the bar very low. That is not the powerful gotcha you think it is.

[@Rowsy91]

@@garethmckee5927 it’s the other countries discussed in the episode .

[@gimmiefriedchicken]

Ah, i do wonder if Joe Biden will throw his name in the ring

[@MisHarmony]

I can deal with Yanni, Celion Dion (kinda), Barbara Streisand, and even poorly arranged Musak, but Kenny G?!? No thank you. Worst last week tonight ever!

[@irinaphoenix2169]

So sorry this wasn't a good audience for a "bell-end" joke.

[@nubianking7097]

26:08 minutes in, makes sense to me. Hearing that crap would make me want to leave too

[@awakeningthespine]

this guy is an agent of the government. :( sadly he pushes political choices and propaganda (say his basher joke about abusing the people)

[@Boxycar79]

Please update the map of Ukraine this is offensive

[@emiliskog]

Whatever the issue this episode is 10 years old they're not gonna change much

[@Boxycar79]

@@emiliskog The issue is misrepresenting the map of Ukraine, especially with what they have gone through the moscovite oppression, let alone ten years of it

[@emiliskog]

@@Boxycar79 I understand the issue taken and my original comment was somewhat dismissive but the issue as I said is this is an upload from the archives that was originally released back in 2015 so things will not be changed sadly

[@Boxycar79]

@@emiliskog I truly understand what you’re saying however just because something has happened in the past doesn’t mean you ignore it and not acknowledge the mistakes

[@emiliskog]

@@Boxycar79 entirely fair

[@marvj8255]

I swear I will unsubscribe so fast if you don’t stop dumping all this on my feed

[@GuyMichaely]

It's KZbin's doing, not LWT

[@DannyD-lr5yg]

I’m so torn lol. Normally I’m VERY quick to revenge-unsub when people do this….but on the other hand, releasing the entire back catalogue of full episodes for free feels like someone’s finally “sticking it” to HBO and every paid streaming service.. 😂😅

[@nicoleyoung5890]

Why are you so angry? We get bonus John

[@Hayanomie]

​​@@nicoleyoung5890I havent even used the sub feed since 2009 when i only subscribed to like 3 people lol

[@eggs8021]

Oh yeah this comment will be what stops them

[@raveneskridge3143]

love Last Week Tonight, hate this fucking flood upload

[@bobbobby8250]

So society has to pay for women who choose to be single mother, either because they got pregnant out of wedlock, chose a mate poorly or broke up their family by leaving? Not my tax dollars #Personalresponsibility

[@kathleenflick6041]

Our society isn't improved by being cruel to the poor. Even if that poverty is their "fault." Stick your greedy judgment where the sun don't shine.