S6 E23: Legal Immigration & Moscow Elections: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

[@nyinyihtun9500]

10:28 I really like how Oliver always writes a poem whenever he mentions Ted Cruz.

[@Hayanomie]

It was hardly funny the first time tbh

[@GabeSteadyGeminiTaylor]

@hayanomie just as it was hardly funny when Ted Cruz read green eggs and ham for a filibuster

[@sagaofsarahrose]

@@Hayanomie GFY

[@_somerandomguyontheinternet_]

Pretty sure that last episode was the first time.

[@RicoSuaveTheGOAT]

@@Hayanomiecouldn’t hear you with Ted’s wang in your mouth

[@agiar2000]

One of my closest friends came to the USA from South Africa on the visa lottery. She has been a fantastic influence in my life. She has lived in many different countries, is very intelligent, and therefore has a really fascinating and broad perspective on things, which I really appreciate in a friend. Unfortunately, during the Trump administration, she became more hopeless and afraid, and she decided to leave the country before things got even worse. I am glad that she now lives happily and safely in Europe with her mother, but I really miss her, and I am sad that the problems with this country's systems and leaders led to us being separated by such a distance.

[@veldmuis8181]

Unfortunately Europe is becoming increasingly anti-immigrant too...

[@agingmillennialmainer]

I'm glad you had that very positive experience, even though it contrasts greatly with my experience working with folks from India.

[@beastonea]

@@agingmillennialmainer wdym

[@commenter674]

@@beastoneapeople from India are special

[@beastonea]

@@commenter674 how

[@watcherrdh]

Sad Zazu’s mildy interesting explain train is my favorite ride.

[@codatheseus5060]

"it was my birthday first" When I changed how I felt about her having the worst birthday

[@ruckusrevolution9475]

I mean it was. She spent a portion of her life with an uneventful birthday and the rest of her life with the most awkward birthday, which is publically pointed out every year on TV.

[@_--JohnVK--_]

Navalny 2019: Putin is upset, and he is stomping his little feet Navalny 2024: ... He won't making jokes about Putin anymore, will he... 😯😫 And what was the consequence of his untimely Death? Absolutely nothing.... It's disgusting... R.I.P. Navalny.

[@tiffanymarie9750]

There shouldn't be boundaries to human migration, period. We're a fundamentally nomadic species, for one. AND diversity is what makes a population stronger overall.

[@laggmonster99]

In theory you can fill up all livable space, but we're probably a few hundred years away from actually getting there.

[@TheCrystalBoat]

No one has ever called you smart, have they? Lmao

[@tiffanymarie9750]

@@TheCrystalBoat no one has ever said they loved you, have they?

[@TheCrystalBoat]

@@tiffanymarie9750 Every day

[@BeyondTrash-xe1vs]

​@@tiffanymarie9750You're smart!

[@adugnalsime7715]

‘Where are they now?’ still haunts me.

[@RochelleHasTooManyHobbies]

Right? She gets what? 10 minutes with you? She's pouring her heart out and on the verge of tears, but you can't even be bothered to actually listen. Heartwrenching.

[@kasparkado7303]

R.I.P. Navalny

[@loud865]

14:53 😂😂😂his lil nose was growing and shrinking back on that sign. Genius the way they punched that line. ❤❤❤

[@Apretentiouspotato]

I guess I should have expected Navalny in this piece. We miss you sir, rest in power. 😭 ♥️

[@zumabbar]

22:26 that sudden zoom-in out of nowhere was weird lmao

[@slipstick985]

Maria’s husband calls her birthday the international day of sadness. At least he didn't say that about their wedding anniversary.

[@counterguardian6145]

I don't think anyone cares about 9/11 outside USA, so much for international.

[@MikMortsllak]

"Moscow Elections" 🤣 Already a great joke in the title 😂

[@Karveyheitel]

I love John Oliver he’s the man

[@Repsikka]

ahh, an old episode, realized only after Oliver explains what Navalnyi encourages to do.

[@moogle68]

HOW.... How did you not realize when you clicked on the video titled " *_S6 E23:_* Legal Immigration & Moscow Elections"?! It genuinely baffles me how people can click on LWT videos and seemingly not read the title, because almost all of their videos have nearly identical thumbnails.

[@Repsikka]

@@moogle68 idk, maybe because it was Monday and i just saw last week tonight with John Oliver and just presumed it was a new episode and clicked it. It genuinely baffles me that some people in the internet get offended from the tiniest infractions, calm your titties and move on with your life

[@plamenstoyanov94]

​@@moogle68Are you stomping your little feet?

[@harku123]

​@@moogle68why does this bother you so much

[@JStorm13]

Everything fits as always with this show

[@Slipatoek1]

Would love to see an episode on Sheinbaum. Greetings from Mexico 🇲🇽

[@g_clayton]

his take on AMLO is one his worst segments

[@alexo6967]

Никогда не думал, что увижу, как Джон Оливер говорит о Тимати…

[@kevinnistor1954]

4 more years guys, 4 more years

[@pompeiiash]

Boy, does that title seem as timely as ever.

[@nbailey9391]

I have some friends from Turkey who won the lottery and are now in the USA, meanwhile my wife of 15 years has been in que for her green card for over 2 and a half years. Something is broken.

[@iyeetsecurity922]

12:37 I like how the graphic doesn't show anyone coming in from the north. I guess Canadians are smart enough to stay out.

[@Grizabeebles]

We have universal health care.

[@johntorres2268]

My family is living separated as well. My wife can not live with her family because the immigration process is so slow. America doesn't support legal immigration, it started with a republican president in 1924 and it continues today.

[@nicholasseaks95]

Pat Sajak joke didn't age too well, did it?

[@valwenventureco9285]

this episode was in like 2019 so he hosted for another 5 years and now is part of the production side of things. now if it had been Alex trabek that would be awkward.

[@JaneKaplun-js4lp]

I love his assessment of how house cats really don’t care about human suffering. He’s made other comments about cats which lead me to believe he’s a cat owner. Or rather he’s owned by a cat. And before anyone tells me how much their hairball tossing, curtain shredding, wakes you up at 4am as they run across your sleeping self on the way to cause a crash in another room cat *really*, truly, honestly does love you, I’m owned by cats myself.

[@axilleu_s]

I need an update on that bear of John and if the rapper wanted it

[@marilynmurray3041]

VOTE! Let’s get more people to be able to vote! Check on anyone who may need a ride to vote. They can vote early. Find more. Keep bringing people to vote all the way through Election Day! Verify you’re registered. Volunteer for Democratic candidates. Vote blue down the ballot. Help people get to vote!

[@kimberlykerner4988]

Love your show . Illinois

[@HT-vm6zm]

It takes years and thousands and thousands of dollars to become a legal citizen, they need to fix that

[@fracegont]

another poem for the collection

[@motivatedbjpenn5782]

awesome vid as always!

[@stephaniehendricks3537]

Awwww zazu reference!

[@jefflabbecomedy]

That lady's birthday at work is hilarious 😂 her coworkers are dimwits

[@sunshine3914]

I don’t have a tv, but I can’t remember any tv host celebrating their B-day. And this one seems especially cringe. WTAF?

[@BittaSweetJP]

He loves comedy which means he loves what he does

[@loud865]

16:34😂😂😂 why doesn't anybody have the balls to throw that in his face today in October 2024 only a weeks away from the most historic election ever? If was Kamala I would be all over his ass on the abortion and the chain migration. Why can't they just hire John Oliver to do the shit talking for them?😂😂😂😂😂❤❤Kamala just shows up to the debate with John and then she sits down and John answers all the questions politely with his British accent

[@deadeye8843]

How much do you want for that Stephen Colbert bear?😁

[@babydadoo]

Hey, I share my birthday with Mike Pence. I think I got the worst of the bad birthday vibes.

[@laggmonster99]

Wouldn't a Trump birthday be worse?

[@anotherks7297]

Remember that Mike Pence certified the results of the 2020 election

[@austinemms9772]

1:25 That Biden clip has not aged well, and honestly, that’s for the best.

[@Grizabeebles]

I'd say that clip has aged perfectly. Biden dropped out due to increasing evidence of mental decine. The same is increasingly obvious for Trump now that Biden isn't providing cover by comparison.

[@elaineb7065]

Nor has Biden...

[@BobBX542]

Is John using the Netflix font for the immigration slides??

[@Vibycko]

9:17 Love it

[@johnburroughs9864]

Every time Trump opens his mouth nothing but nonsense and lies. Come out of it.

[@c2757]

Not true. Sometimes when he opens his mouth, hamburders go into it.

[@PresidentClambake]

Genuinely, if you think America is full, I encourage you to look at a place called Wyoming. There's plenty of room.

[@HT-vm6zm]

Unless you are a politician then u can come right in

[@necrophobya]

Working moms is class tho

[@blackholesun5682]

Watching this in 2024, no more Pat, it's Ryan now, and the Sun is still burning. 😅😅😅 But imagine how few people will come to America in a second Trump administration. 😢😢

[@Logai74]

To the one that is in charge of the math in this episode. WTF?

[@agiar2000]

I didn't notice. What did they get wrong?

[@Logai74]

That 1997 was 21 years ago and that Melanias mother is 74 and Trump is one year younger than her.

[@agiar2000]

@@Logai74 15:46 He says that 1997 was 22 years ago, and this episode aired in 2019, so that looks correct to me. Melania Trump's mother, Amalija Knavs, was born in 1945, making her 74 when this episode aired, and Donald Trump was born the following year, 1946, making him one year younger than she is, based on what I could find when Googling those people. Am I missing something?

[@Logai74]

@@agiar2000 Then I am just an idiot. 😂 I was thinking that this episod was from this week!

[@solotraveler37]

RIP Alexei Navalny.

[@vanessaheine8093]

Man Navalny 😢

[@helicocktor]

Not so fun fact: Navalny died on my birthday :/

[@LittleJohn1124]

3:40 This didnt age well...

[@sunshine3914]

24:10 trump apologists would tell you, “He didn’t murder her family.”, like we should be grateful. They’re just as despicable as he is.

[@HT-vm6zm]

How long did it take you to become a citizen

[@jralberto]

Fax

[@SkelaKing]

Why does this have like a thousand views?

[@CoopAssembly]

The US takes in over 1 million new ciizens each year (legally). The concern is the millions who have crossed the border, and problems with how the federal govt is actually handling it.

[@Aglain_Plumrose]

*Normal God, Normal Satan* Humanity is known for supermen and supermen are not normal. Are God and Satan secretly ancient typical normalcy scoffed by ancient writers as their muses? In fact, any god appears more normal because maintaining a normal state is akin to being a superhuman. This is because of the subtle psychology of information whereby clarity is reserved for an elite. This is the tradition of plain faces on the thrones and in the aristocracy of Medieval and Renaissance periods.

[@MrStasyan2013]

а тут он еще живой...

[@gshak33]

Oh wait, this is an old episode right?

[@JaneKaplun-js4lp]

Season 6 is a hint. The full episodes from the seasons John Oliver owns are being released one by one. The main story for each episode from multiple seasons have been, and hopefully will continue to be, released by HBO to KZbin on Thursdays.

[@gmun2248]

​@JaneKaplun-js4lp Is that yt channel just HBO, or am I looking for something more specific? I'm not in the US, so I don't know. TIA.

[@johnchessant3012]

S6 E23

[@PoplarToppler]

First?

[@laszlobauer5274]

I think as Romanian who applied for the visa lottery that the US shouldn't accept more immigrants. Also, if anyone who crosses the green border on foot from Mexico is allowed to live and work in the US, that is unfair to the rest of the world. If I was Mexican I would probably try to get in illegally in my 20s but that was not an option for me. On the other hand this is kind of cruel but natural selection. Who can get in and survivez than find a loophole in the immigration system, they get to stay. If you can do this you probably are good enough to stay.😅

[@RochelleHasTooManyHobbies]

Nobody's stopping you from illegally overstaying a vacation visa; if you're willing to risk being here illegally, nut up or zip up. People entering from Mexico are largely refugees or people looking for work as farmhands/day-laborers. Entering the country illegally with the intention of claiming sanctuary is the same level of misdemeanor as a speeding ticket; I think people forget that all too often. Entering for work opportunities benefits our economy immensely, and should be encouraged. There are temporary visas for that which benefit the workers by ensuring decent conditions and pay, and then they are taxed on their wages, but the programs aren't widely known amongst laborers, which is a problem on our end for sure. We NEED those laborers; Americans have shown time and again that no matter what the pay is, we're unwilling to do highly physical jobs in enough numbers to harvest crops or build low-budget infrastructure. As an American, if you want to be here, I think you should come into reality a little bit and accept that this country NEEDS immigrants. And not just the highly educated ones, but also the ones who would qualify for food stamps so that we actually HAVE food to sell.

[@beastonea]

The US should prioritize merit based and stat based immigration

[@ZATYOUBOOG]

Where's all the fucking recent stuff,what's with uploading old shite from ages ago

[@RochelleHasTooManyHobbies]

They're releasing FULL archived episodes for free. Usually they only upload his main story to youtube, so we were missing out on half the show. New videos are still being posted, but in between, we get a season's worth of old episodes and can revisit them to see how they've aged. Some of these issues still haven't been addressed and are therefore still relevant. I really appreciate them. Especially the ones on the Trump administration; it's proof that we're not just catastrophising his presidency. He did real harm to this country throughout his term, and should not be allowed another.

[@ZATYOUBOOG]

@RochelleHasTooManyHobbies thanks for clarifying that,lol I was getting confused because one week he has black hair then next week he's got greyish hair,not realising the 2 episodes were years apart

[@admin11093]

Don’t listen to adult Milhouse

[@idanthyrsus6887]

Their called invasive species. Don't be nice to the enemie.

[@Mike-Wellman]

I unsubscribed because you keep uploading old episodes and not the new ones, I don't watch tv and I don't have apps I only watch KZbin so until you start putting the show back on KZbin when it comes out, I will not be watching this show anymore

[@kristelbrok998]

They posted the newest episode a few days ago...? What are you on about??

[@theendisoverdue]

Such an entitled moron

[@aidanrhodes2285]

​@@kristelbrok998I'm pretty sure they commented this exact thing on another reupload a couple days ago lmao

[@kristelbrok998]

@@aidanrhodes2285 yup, click their profile-pic, then you can see their comments (atleast on phone you can) 😅

[@varatheela]

They have set off weeks where they don't upload new videos and instead rest/ continue to do research/ etc. Cuz you know, they are human who have days off. They have started uploading the full seasons for Free - shocking, I know, to receive free things - on those off weeks, as stated very clearly in each episodes description. All of which is very clearly stated and has been done for this whole year. Either you are a troll or you don't actually watch this show, as - again, I cannot emphasize this enough - this has been clearly stated in each episodes description and title for the past year, And they have been releasing the new episodes on time this entire year.

[@JuStaNotherOne1337]

Honestly, what? How can your writing get this below Standards... For anyone else who did not listen. "Legal immigration bad", "illegal immigration fine" Trump make immigration hard... Offering no solutions to the actual problems again, just a trump groupie show. I don't know why you are pushing people towards trump, and it's geting wierd.

[@truckerdave8465]

Are you ok?

[@SuperOmi27]

You HAVE to be MAGA to have this kind of abysmal comprehension.

[@Samson16436]

He's actively criticizing trump and the immigration system what are you on about

[@JJ-zv1hp]

K-Neil Before Zod.... find K-Neil, Nowon before Zod!