S2 E34: Daily Fantasy Sports, France & India: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Season 2, Episode 34, November 15th, 2015. John Oliver discusses daily fantasy sports sites that claim they are not gambling enterprises, the deadliest attack in France since WWII, and India's claims that England stole the Koh-i-noor diamond from them.
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[@jergervasi3331]

Kathryn Hahn is hilarious.... Her scenes with Rogen had me almost choking with laughter.

[@briheartsgames7651]

I binged season 2 and am impatiently awaiting season 3, so much has changed and yet so much hasn't.

[@bloodyneptune]

I cant _wait_ for season 3. Its the 2016 election, and he doesn't yet know whats coming.

[@cameronmcknight1525]

GOOD NEWS

[@briheartsgames7651]

@@cameronmcknight1525 I binged seaason 3 in one day because i have zero self control lol

[@jcwoodward0629]

The theme song still trips me out. Words?! Who knew?!

[@theteob689]

6:01 Kevin Spacey yikes, those m&ms must be dirty

[@briheartsgames7651]

Yeah that aged like milk lol

[@theteob689]

@@briheartsgames7651 so it's cheese now? 🙃

[@violet7773]

​​@@theteob689 if you leave milk alone expecting it to turn into cheese by itself, you are in for a very disappointing and disgusting surprise

[@Aggarius]

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

[@jreyes4286]

I'm excited to relive all of these old episodes too. Sad to see the world is still shit... Somewhat.

[@ruckusrevolution9475]

First world problems 🙄

[@austinfrench3436]

​@@jreyes42860:09 0:11

[@pre-covid-life]

Try watching

[@augiekintop6242]

​@@pre-covid-lifebut hole

[@zaeranos]

Ah damn, I had almost forgotten about the number 4 🤣

[@MutantG]

This episode hits different after the Supreme Court legalized sports gambling 😢

[@Charge0Complete]

"You're and idiot." HAHAHAHAAHAHA

[@Onigirli]

I remember when old 4chan /b/ would be littered with those kinds of comments. "you, sir, are and idiot :)"

[@mikedavison4313]

Facilitating what is in effect a wager between players on a game of skill, and taking a commission for that...... sounds exactly what casinos do for poker. Ergo... if poker in a casino is regulated gambling then fantasy sport is also. The other reason it needs to be regulated as a gambling is it imposes strict regulations on the entity to prevent fraud and manipulation. e.g How do you know these organizations aren't syphoning off some winnings by using things like ghost players.

[@LakeFX]

No one's acknowledging the Freaks & Geeks collab (Rogen & Starr) at the end

[@browncloudchronicles]

#bringbackjanice

[@stoodmuffinpersonal3144]

I like his more recent episodes on the diamond, and the monarchy

[@smok3yMny]

Literally listening to this while putting in FanDuel baseball parlays. 😂😂😂

[@portmantologist]

Bryce Dallas Howard, Christina Hendricks and Jessica Chastain look a lot more similar to each other than Amy Adams and Isla Fisher, to the point that it never even occurred to me that those two looked similar.

[@Ladiofthewoods]

Brits have a spice rack??

[@stumccannel9675]

Even though this vid is old, it shows now sport shows have been taken over by sponsers gaming websites. whooof 🤮

[@justinspicyrhino3075]

6:06 😂😮

[@4thalt]

Welp, guess I have to change my username now.

[@eifbkcn]

Fourth

[@andersmoore]

6:00 You forgot to look into the future and one very specific adjatiave. 7:30 hate to break it to you…. 9:30 hate to break it to you… again….

[@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819]

The fuck do these time stamps mean?

[@violet7773]

6:00 He's not clairvoyant???? He didn't "forget" to look into the future?

[@DrMcFly28]

You gonna do this for all old episodes? You do know how time works, right?

[@michealhenry5556]

Primarily a game of skill. So's poker. And blackjack. So......

[@Onigirli]

So what?

[@stephaniehendricks3537]

John oliver should do an episode updating about sports betting websites like draft kings and espn bet.

[@elphieofkiamoko]

*Especially* in view of the fact that they're endorsed by the MLB. As a baseball fan, I think it's utterly *disgusting.*

[@MKPiatkowski]

To operate in the Province of Ontario, they officially became part of the Ontario Lottery Corp, run by the government. Sick of them everywhere.

[@alexandergreen7230]

It’s really freaky how these are from years ago.

[@calumproctor981]

I've asked KZbin to block gambling ads for me, and ive individually blocked a load of them. I still get the same gambling ads. Hey, KZbin. Gambling addiction kills people.

[@valrabellkeys9867]

I got an ad for an online poker site after watching this.

[@cthulhuhoops]

I sold a customer $900 worth of Draft Kings "gift cards" the other night at work, so I guess nothing good came out of the NY attempt to legislate it.

[@LunaryxDiarmait]

Speaking of gambling, more people should play Russian roulette. Five out of six people say it's a blast!

[@bavandrade]

And the other one had his mind blown!

[@pheebo42]

26:03 Kathryn Hahn?!?!!!!

[@jessehammer123]

Yeah, when I saw her in Glass Onion, it took me a while to figure out why she was familiar. Turns out it was this!

[@jergervasi3331]

@@jessehammer123 She was awesome with Piven in "The Goods"!

[@DocVerdant]

@@jessehammer123Wait, and Daniel Craig appears in this episode too... and wait, a terrible Southern accent (Spacey's) is mentioned too! Man, Glass Onion must've had fantastic foreshadowing!

[@vonriel1822]

I love that she gets Seth Rogen to crack first. That whole segment at the end killed me.

[@SometimesCompitent]

I got a fucking fan duel ad on this video.

[@FungiRy91]

Man, i love this show. Now upload season 3 for us fiends. 😂

[@stumccannel9675]

us fiends?

[@Onigirli]

@@stumccannel9675 ...Yes?

[@DryBones271]

John Oliver's James Bond: A Lisence to Run Away! The Dame, who listened to him talk The Man with the Golden Voice I can't think of anymore, so you guys add to it!

[@octohunter7775]

No time to spy, how about Thursday?

[@Cosmosisification]

Making Seth Rogan laugh should automatically earn you a Nobel Peace Prize.

[@QapNPoo]

Seth Rogan laughs at just about everything, you are an idiot.

[@spiderside3892]

the way "sheer shutz-paw" has been a part of my vocabulary for 8 years

[@joesantos2455]

Ya - it's a game of skill...if you're ON THE TEAM! If you can't impact the data, there is no game of skill. You DON'T gamble if you understand math.

[@bitzi1]

So many were posted all at once - my for you page scroll is just John Oliver aging progressively

[@TheUltimateYouTuberyay]

I cannot stand turning on my TV, and every single ad break, and they still do it every 90 like clockwork; "Fanduel is now live in NC!" And then right after that, Kevin Hart appears "Draft Kings sports book in NC!" Like, damn that's crazy, but who the fucked asked?

[@rockpaperlazer]

Jerrod Carmichael! He’s such a baby here

[@calumproctor981]

Aversion to Violence would definitely be better than Quantum of Solace.

[@BittaSweetJP]

Just realized i dont know when i stopped befoee. Thank you.

[@davidsalter4204]

Was way ahead of the game on this issue!

[@calumproctor981]

I've asked Y**T*** to block gambling ads for me, and ive individually blocked a load of them. I still get the same gambling ads. Hey, Y**T***. Gambling addiction kills people.

[@The987654321andy]

LOL. now fanduel is legal in NY...nobody has a damn spine when it comes to gambling. I love the cfo "fanduel is entertainment"

[@qienna6677]

It's always annoyed me that gambling 'games' are part of the advertising kids get spammed with on mobile games

[@kevinmcqueenie7420]

Oh yeah! Seth Rogan used to be funny!

[@vonriel1822]

22:26 I can't get over that the promo code on this _official ad_ for their gambling service is _astroturf._ There is no way that wasn't on purpose, they're just parading it out in the open and daring someone to notice. Amazing.

[@ecbst6]

I have never seen all those betting commercials, but I cut the cord and ditched all the antennas more than 10 years ago.

[@kiloftd]

feels like half the old episodes begin with mention of some terrorist attack or mass shooting or conflict

[@fireflyfox93]

How dare you sir 😂 04/04 is my birthday!

[@kgy121]

Stronger than divorce: Restraining Order.

[@nebulan]

His office is going to demand he bring salsa 🍅🍅

[@joannejohnson7006]

This show is absolutely beautiful 🤩

[@mahimnavyas1928]

Kohinoor Diamond, not koroner

[@jaymanaventurier]

I love Janice.

[@ToddBlackToddTalk]

The irony of course is that the sites were banned...and then sports gambling was made legal! ...so...victory for what John said? He said they ARE gambling, which they were, and that they needed to be intentionally approved so they can be regulated...which I guess they are!

[@sweepkick]

John Oliver could absolutely be the next Jabes Bond. *Absolutely* And Isla Fisher is > than Amy Adams, but not by much.

[@SameAsAnyOtherStranger]

Singles day- China's equivalent to Valentine's Day. Seems kinda quaint the greetings card cabal could start a quasi national holiday feeding off of people's loneliness.

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

What he said about the British Museum applies to any number of national museums globally (I'm not saying the BM is innocent, just flagging up other info). The BM gets the worst of it because of the size of the empire, but remember what the Spanish took from S America (and elsewhere; they still have some enclaves in N Africa, remnants of larger possessions). The French, Germans, Italians plus multiple other countries had their own empires. I'm not sure if Belgium was officially an empire but it ruled African countries... And that's only the European ones. The USA, China, India and _many_ other countries invaded others, "liberating" objects. I just think it's a bit rich to pick on the one museum when there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, globally which contain items whose provenance is... dodgy!

[@TiexinGuo]

Is that Gilfoyle from the Silicon Valley?

[@DefaOmega]

You better believe it!

[@GuitarSlayer136]

in

[@saberbyte3989]

Woah is that Schmitt? 27:21

[@Serioussmile51]

Anyone else notice that ads are starting to creep onto/into the channel? 😞

[@nonasuomi282]

Nope. Revanced on mobile, ublock origin on desktop.

[@omgandwtf1]

Only at the start which is both fine and normal.

[@arp711]

Started around the same time that they began delaying uploading new episodes...

[@filthybonnet]

No because I have an ad blocker add on in Firefox.

[@Boardwoards]

aight yall lets talk about something actually interesting instead

[@XYZ96543]

So what happened in France exactly?

[@de231]

I was wondering the same thing and then noticed that though this video was just posted it’s from 2015

[@emmadenton1826]

​@@de231 I'm assuming it's the multiple terrorist attacks that happened over 1 day in Paris in late 2015

[@therealjasonbueno]

My timeline tho.

[@forgiveman]

Funny that he is defending the British Museum on this episode, only to make a couple of years later a complete episode about why they are the worst museum in the world.

[@tyrxian6452]

Did you watch the video? It wasn't defending it

[@janetbiju2762]

Saying that the British museum is a crime scene is a weird way to defend it huh

[@bernardorodriguez4285]

Also, tea wasn't stolen.

[@DaDunge]

Yes it clearly native to the british Isles.

[@TheOriginalKazooMaster]

Where do you think it came from?

[@stumccannel9675]

Nov 15, 2015 doesn't seem like13 days ago . Can y'all just post when the vid came out ?

[@HarryVella-Thompson]

It has the original air date at the top of the description.

[@bernardorodriguez4285]

The diamond was freely given by Singh who won it in battle. Simple. This is not a hill to die on.

[@violet7773]

"freely given" is how the british describe how they acquired the Kohinoor diamond, that doesn't mean it's true. They also describe many things they took from their colonies - including land and the lives of the natives - as "freely given" as well. You have to hand it to british propagandists - their version of "the truth" has stood the test of time in a lot of scenarios. Hell, I learned British propaganda about the Irish famine as fact in school **in ireland** . Nothing in history is "simple", there's your mistake

[@thepostaldude2217]

Everyone wants reparation for shit they weren't alive for 😂

[@bobbylindsey]

Oooh, a white person making reparations jokes in a KZbin comment section, aren't you edgy and cool.

[@violet7773]

You clearly don't understand how generational wealth (or lack thereof) works, or how colonialism impacts countries for decades after the fact. India only got independence in the 1940s, so there are definitely people still alive today who experienced living under a colony.

[@thepostaldude2217]

More than you apparently

[@meherenow793]

❄

[@thepostaldude2217]

They definitely are

[@stevebiking6277]

Cracks me up that he's trying to make a country known for surrendering sound hard.

[@jackm2499]

Read more history

[@stevebiking6277]

@@jackm2499 six weeks.

[@Onigirli]

@@stevebiking6277 ?

[@glenjennett]

I don't understand why it's a big deal whether or not daily fantasy apps are considered gambling or not when gambling is legal in most states anyway, so even if it's considered gambling, it wouldn't be considered illegal. Most states that i know of have a state lottery, which is definitely gambling. There's no difference. I don't participate in any of it, so I don't really care one way or the other. I just think it's silly to quibble over the classification of something that doesn't matter. This episode doesn't even discuss whether it's legal or not, just whether it should be considered gambling or not. My personal stance is like one guy said, if you have to pay to play and you have a chance to win money, it is indeed gambling.

[@violet7773]

Did you watch the episode? He explicitly states why it's important: gambling is illegal in some states and in others at least regulated differently to games of skill. And the companies are using their status as "not gambling" to argue why they should be legal in states where gambling is illegal Whether or not states that disallow gambling should have lotteries is a different question - it's similar but a different conversation (I do agree that lotteries are gambling but that's not what is up for discussion rn)