Last Week Tonight with John Oliver offers a sharp, half-hour commentary on the latest happenings in news, politics, and societal issues. With a blend of humor and thorough research, John Oliver dives deep into a single topic each episode, revealing the absurdities and complexities often overlooked by mainstream media. His unique blend of wit and insight not only entertains but also informs, encouraging viewers to engage critically with current events. This show has become a staple for those seeking an intelligent yet humorous perspective on the week's most pressing matters.
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Season 1
24 ep
1
POM Wonderful v. Coca-Cola
2
Capital Punishment
3
Climate Change Denial
4
The Right to Be Forgotten
5
Net Neutrality
6
FIFA and the World Cup
7
Immigration Reform
8
Dr. Oz
9
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby
10
Income and Wealth Inequality
11
Incarceration in the United States
12
Nuclear Weapons and the United States
13
Native Advertising
14
Payday Loans
15
Shooting of Michael Brown and Police Militarization
16
Student Debt
17
Scottish Independence Referendum
18
United States Embargo Against Cuba, Miss America 2015
19
Drones
20
Civil Forfeiture
21
Military Translators
22
Sugar
23
State Legislatures and ALEC
24
The Lottery
Season 2
Season 2
35 ep
1
Marketing to Doctors
2
Tobacco
3
Elected Judges
4
Infrastructure
5
U.S. Territories
6
The NCAA
7
Municipal Violations
8
Government Surveillance
9
The IRS
10
Patents
11
Fashion
12
Standardized Testing
13
Paid Family Leave
14
Chickens
15
FIFA II
16
Bail
17
Torture
18
The Internet
19
Transgender Rights
20
Stadiums
21
Food Waste
22
Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Laws
23
District of Columbia
24
Sex Education
25
Church
26
LGBT Discrimination
27
Public Defenders
28
Migrants and Refugees
29
Mental Health
30
North Dakota
31
Canada
32
Medicaid Gap
33
Prisoner Re-entry
34
Daily Fantasy Sports
35
Refugees & Pennies
Season 3
Season 3
30 ep
1
Voting
2
Abortion Laws
3
Donald Trump
4
Special Districts
5
Encryption
6
Border Wall
7
Congressional Fundraising
8
Credit Reports
9
Lead
10
Puerto Rico
11
Scientific Studies
12
911
13
Primaries and Caucuses
14
Debt Buyers
15
Retirement Plans
16
Brexit
17
Doping
18
Republican National Convention
19
Democratic National Convention
20
Journalism
21
Auto Lending
22
Charter Schools
23
Scandals
24
Police Accountability
25
Guantánamo
26
Third Parties
27
Opioids
28
School Segregation
29
Multilevel Marketing
30
President-Elect Trump
Season 4
Season 4
30 ep
1
Trump vs. Truth
2
Putin
3
Obamacare
4
Dalai Lama
5
American Health Care Act
6
Federal Budget
7
Marijuana
8
Gerrymandering
9
French Elections
10
Ivanka & Jared
11
Net Neutrality II
12
Dialysis
13
Stupid Watergate
14
Paris Agreement
15
Brexit II
16
Coal
17
Vaccines
18
Sinclair Broadcast Group
19
Alex Jones
20
Border Patrol
21
North Korea
22
Nuclear Waste
23
Joe Arpaio
24
Corporate Consolidation
25
Forensic Science
26
Confederacy
27
Equifax
28
Floods
29
Economic Development
30
The Trump Presidency
Season 5
Season 5
30 ep
1
Trump vs. The World
2
Italian Election
3
NRA TV
4
Cryptocurrencies
5
Mike Pence
6
Immigration Courts
7
Crisis Pregnancy Centers
8
Corporate Taxes
9
Iran Deal
10
Rudy Giuliani
11
Venezuela
12
Drug Rehabilitation Clinics
13
Guardianship
14
Stupid Watergate II
15
Xi Jinping
16
Mexican Elections
17
Gene Editing
18
Workplace Sexual Harassment
19
Prosecutors
20
Astroturfing
21
Trade
22
Felony Disenfranchisement
23
Facebook
24
Brett Kavanaugh
25
Brazilian Elections
26
Saudi Arabia
27
State Attorneys General
28
Family Separation
29
Drain the Swamp
30
Authoritarianism
Season 6
Season 6
30 ep
1
Brexit III
2
Psychics
3
Automation
4
Robocalls
5
Public Shaming
6
WWE
7
Mobile Homes
8
Opioids II
9
Mueller Report
10
Lethal Injections
11
Green New Deal
12
Death Investigations
13
Medical Devices
14
Equal Rights Amendment
15
Impeachment
16
Everest
17
Warehouses
18
Boris Johnson
19
Prison Labor
20
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov
21
Bias in Medicine
22
Filibuster
23
Legal Immigration
24
Compounding Pharmacies
25
One Child Policy
26
Weather
27
Trump & Syria
28
Voting Machines
29
SLAPP Suits
30
The Census
Season 7
Season 7
30 ep
1
Medicare for All
2
Modi
3
Coronavirus
4
Sheriffs
5
Coronavirus II
6
Coronavirus III
7
One America News Network
8
Essential Workers
9
Coronavirus Misinformation
10
COVID-19 Testing
11
United States Postal Service
12
Coronavirus Impact on Sports
13
Postal Voting
14
Police
15
Facial Recognition
16
Prisons & Jails
17
Coronavirus IX: Evictions
18
Conspiracy Theories
19
Uighurs
20
U.S. History
21
Juries
22
Border Wall
23
RNC 2020 & Kenosha
24
Supreme Court
25
Election 2020
26
The World Health Organization
27
Asylum
28
Trump & the Coronavirus and William Barr
29
Election Results 2020
30
Trump & Election Results
Season 8
Season 8
30 ep
1
Episode 210: The Next Pandemic
2
Episode 211: Meatpacking
3
Episode 212: Raids
4
Episode 213: Unemployment
5
Episode 214: Tucker Carlson
6
Episode 215: Plastics
7
Episode 216: The National Debt
8
Episode 217: Long-Term Care
9
Episode 218: Bankruptcy
10
Episode 219: Vaccine
11
Episode 220: Hair
12
Episode 221: Stand Your Ground
13
Episode 222: Sponcon
14
Episode 223: Asian Americans
15
Episode 224: Prison Heat
16
Episode 225: PACE
17
Episode 226: Health Care Sharing Ministries
18
Episode 227: Housing Discrimination
19
Episode 228: Emergency Medical Services
20
Episode 229: Opioids III – The Sacklers
21
Episode 230: Ransomware
22
Episode 231: Afghanistan
23
Episode 232: Lukashenko
24
Episode 233: Voting Rights
25
Episode 234: PFAS
26
Episode 235
27
Episode 236
28
Episode 237
29
Episode 238
30
Episode 239
Season 9
Season 9
30 ep
1
February 20, 2022: Critical Race Theory
2
February 27, 2022: Sex Work
3
March 6, 2022: Wrongful Convictions
4
March 13, 2022: Tickets
5
March 27, 2022: Harm Reduction
6
April 3, 2022: Trucks
7
April 10, 2022: Data Brokers
8
April 17, 2022: Police Interrogations
9
May 1, 2022: Environmental Racism
10
May 8, 2022: Abortion Ruling/Philippines Election
11
May 15, 2022: Utilities
12
May 22, 2022: Subway
13
June 5, 2022: School Police
14
June 12, 2022: Tech Monopolies
15
June 19, 2022: Rent
16
June 26, 2022: Water
17
July 24, 2022: Inflation
18
July 31, 2022: Mental Health Care
19
August 7, 2022: Monkeypox
20
August 14, 2022: Afghanistan
21
August 21, 2022: Carbon Offsets
22
September 11, 2022: Law & Order
23
September 25, 2022: Bolsonaro
24
October 2, 2022: Museums
25
October 9, 2022: Crime Reporting
26
October 16, 2022: Transgender Rights II
27
October 30, 2022: Bail Reform
28
November 6, 2022: Election Subversion
29
November 13, 2022: The Monarchy
30
November 20, 2022: Qatar World Cup
Season 10
Season 10
21 ep
1
February 19, 2023: Psychedelic Assisted Therapy
2
February 26, 2023: Artificial Intelligence
3
March 5, 2023: Ron DeSantis
4
March 12, 2023: TANF
5
March 19, 2023: Timeshares
6
April 2, 2023: Solitary Confinement
7
April 9, 2023: Homeowners Associations
8
April 16, 2023: Farmworkers
9
April 23, 2023: Cryptocurrencies II
10
April 30, 2023: Biden and the Border
11
October 1, 2023: Prison Health Care
12
October 8, 2023: Homeschooling
13
October 15, 2023: Food Safety
14
October 22, 2023: McKinsey
15
October 29, 2023: Chocolate
16
November 5, 2023: Abortion Rights
17
November 12, 2023: Israel-Hamas War
18
November 19, 2023: Dollar Stores
19
December 3, 2023: Organ & Body Donations
20
December 10, 2023: Freight Trains
21
December 17, 2023: Elon Musk
Season 11
Season 11
30 ep
1
February 18, 2024: Supreme Court
2
February 25, 2024: Pig Butchering
3
March 3, 2024: Airplanes
4
March 10, 2024: State Medical Boards
5
March 17, 2024: Student Loan Debt
6
March 31, 2024: Food Delivery Apps
7
April 7, 2024: Death Penalty
8
April 14, 2024: Medicaid
9
April 21, 2024: UFOs
10
May 5, 2024: Public Libraries
11
May 12, 2024: Opioid Settlements
12
May 19, 2024: Corn Production
13
June 2, 2024: India Elections
14
June 9, 2024: Deep-Sea Mining
15
June 16, 2024: Trump's Second Term
16
June 23, 2024: UK Elections
17
July 21, 2024: Migrant Crime
18
July 28, 2024: The West Bank Settlements
19
August 4, 2024: RFK Jr.
20
August 11, 2024: Hawaii
21
August 18, 2024: Hospice Care
22
September 8, 2024: School Lunch Programs
23
September 22, 2024: Disability Benefits
24
September 29, 2024: Federal Courts
25
October 6, 2024: Traffic Stops
26
October 13, 2024: Election Subversion
27
October 27, 2024: Mass Deportations
28
November 3, 2024: Trump's Businesses
29
November 10, 2024: 2024 Election Results
30
November 17, 2024: TikTok Ban
Season 12
Season 12
30 ep
1
February 16, 2025: Trump 2.0
2
February 23, 2025: Facebook
3
March 2, 2025: Tipping
4
March 9, 2025: ICE Detention Facilities
5
March 16, 2025: Sports Betting
6
March 30, 2025: Tasers
7
April 6, 2025: Trans Athletes
8
April 13, 2025: Trump & Tariffs
9
April 27, 2025: Health Agency Cuts
10
May 4, 2025: Deportations
11
May 11, 2025: Alliance Defending Freedom
12
May 18, 2025: Trump in the Press
13
June 1, 2025: Air Traffic Controllers
14
June 8, 2025: Med Spas
15
June 15, 2025: Child Incarceration
16
June 22, 2025: AI Content
17
June 29, 2025: Trump's Big Beautiful Bill
18
July 27, 2025: Gang Databases
19
August 3, 2025: Deferred Prosecution Agreements
20
August 10, 2025: Deportation Promise
21
August 17, 2025: Make America Healthy Again
22
September 7, 2025: Higher Education
23
September 21, 2025: Jimmy Kimmel Suspension
24
September 28, 2025: Benjamin Netanyahu
25
October 5, 2025: Presidential Libraries
26
October 12, 2025: Paramount Skydance Merger
27
October 26, 2025
28
November 2, 2025
29
November 9, 2025
30
November 16, 2025
Season 13
Season 13
16 ep
1
February 15, 2026
2
February 22, 2026
3
March 1, 2026: Police Body Cameras
4
March 8, 2026
5
March 15, 2026
6
March 22, 2026: Police Stings
7
March 29, 2026
8
April 19, 2026: Prediction Markets
9
April 26, 2026
10
May 3, 2026
11
May 10, 2026: Shadow Docket
12
May 17, 2026
13
May 31, 2026
14
June 7, 2026
15
June 14, 2026
16
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