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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - returns Feb 12th 2017
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Also, as promised in the end of the segment.
Spanish version for the Latino community with Jaime Camil in the end portion.
Mercadeo Multinivel: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
Spanish version for the Latino community with Jaime Camil in the end portion.
Mercadeo Multinivel: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Thank you. Love Jaime Camil.
I used that Daily Show segment a bunch to point and laugh at the undecided vote.
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/260mio/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-the-stupid-vote
I don't think I can use it anymore.
I dodged multiple MLM bullets in my lifetime. This is one thing I can be truly thankful for.
I'd be a terrible salesman anyway.
EDIT: Holy crap, the video is 31 minutes long?
I had the bullshit It Works all over my Facebook feed. I had to take care of that nonsense
AbsolutBro
Member
Woooo! Glad to see my work making it to LWT!
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
It works for some. But only some. And you hear from them a lot.
tearsintherain
Member
I live in Vegas and these events are hosted here (and Florida) a lot. I've gone to a few, because I got free passes. The food is AMAZING, you have an open bar at a top nightclub afterwards, and you meet all sorts of people who want to try and partner up with you (in the business sense, but probably in the familiar sense too).
I have zero clue what the fuck anyone was selling, I happily play zelda on my 3DS while they drone on but damn the food is top tier. You also sometimes get free tchotchkes like toys and office stuff. I'm married so I immediately go home afterwards but I imagine a lot of hooking up goes on at these things too.
Didn't they already do a segment on this? Or was it something similar? I remember Oliver talking about people who were in MLMs and got screwed hard.
Oh I know. He seems to be doing well with it, but I'm well aware that is more outlier than normal.
Woooo! Glad to see my work making it to LWT!
What was your work?
I think he did a segment on pyramid schemes, or ones the SSC would classify as such in an earlier season, but this about things like Amway who go around trying to look like legit businesses, but are clearly pyramid schemes
Oh gotcha. Okay, these bigger MLMs are significantly worse then.
AuthenticM
Member
I totally have a former school colleague who is a higher-up in one of these companies. Crazy. I thought everything about her company felt sketchy as shit.
AbsolutBro
Member
I do litigation support for the FTC. I (along with many other EDU people) did work on that case processing discovery data for the lawyers to use. I'd have to double check, but I think that included the FTC's forensic team cloning some of the servers at Herbalife offices.
In addition to the settlement against Herbalife that is mentioned, the FTC took action against Vemma, also mentioned in the John Oliver bit.
I am half expecting the first 5 minutes to be john oliver to merely say
"fuck you america" and walk off set and then it just to be a recording of the set doing nothing for 5 minutes until they do a transition to something like "the next president of the united states" with a collection of scenes reminding people what they just voted for before moving on to the main story.
Hell, this should be the main story. Or a 20 minute retrospective comparing his rise to the presidency with the election of Hitler.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
30 minutes of John hiding under his desk?
Bits N Pieces
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Last Week Tonight and Bill Maher's show are going to be great and horrible viewing in a perverse kind of way on Monday night 
I was surprised by the decision to run the MLM piece instead of something like what he did during the final days before the Canadian election. That hit like fire up here.
Novel Mike
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I'm more curious how Samantha Bee's episode tonight is going to be. I don't know how funny they'll be able to be with how angry they'll likely be.
Colbert, Bee, and Oliver are going to be depressing as fuck. And keeping it 1600. All the shows that gave me so much hope and entertainment will now have to face reality.
We might want to experiment on John's magical future prediction powers.
We already got a taste of that last night, during Colbert's Showtime special. The show started out with everyone joking around, but by the midway part of the show when it was inevitable that Trump was going to win, the jokes stopped.
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
Watch Colberts show from last night. He actually ended it early I think. You see him laughing then he just trys to keep it cool.
He didn't end it early.
And_Gignac
Member
Uuuuh, I can't wait to see this fucker's face. Gonna be glorious.
You are going to see Trump's face a lot don't worry.
They didn't even bring out half of the guests.
It just turned into an improv "what do we do now?" with an anxious and visibly upset audience.
In hindsight I'm glad I made a thread for it, but looking at the OP and what was planned, holy fuck.
Yeah, it was kind of surreal seeing the show transform from a typical Colbert Late Show, to a depressing mess. I'm really interested to see tonight's Full Frontal and Sunday's Last Week Tonight.
Freeza Under The Shower
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I think the more likely, actually relevant, topic is how the hell everyone missed what was actually happening. Whether that kind of postmortem is possible within five days is a different matter, but that should really be the first thing to address. Because apparently, that white rust belt and white women voting against women can get shit done NOBODY else wants or even considers a good, decent, human idea. Or relevant for any kind of future generation. They probably don't vote under that motivation, but that's what they've sown anyway. They'll never blame themselves, because "they're all good people". Buuuut that's what needs to be addressed and called out for the future.
It was pretty clear the major city states, much like with Brexit, were in favor of Clinton.
I got tired of the wall to wall Trump coverage months ago and stopped watching The Daily Show and Colbert. Now I think ti's finally time to take them off the DVR schedule.
An entire episode on the rural/urban divide for 30 minutes, or 25, with 5 of John weeping.
Have Andy on to console you John, it'll be fun
FlammableD
Banned
i mean what do you want them to do
Just ignore it, and it will go away.
FlammableD
Banned
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
At least John gets to keep his Emmy.
Somehow, I think he'll trash it
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Jag
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Hopefully he'll use the power of the "John Oliver Effect" to good use and continue to expose the waste and corruption in our society. The man actually makes an impact, an important one. Not many people have that ability.
Regarding Trump, I expect him to address it briefly at the beginning and probably let us know that they will be doing a segment on the "how this happened" later on down the road. Being fairly self-deprecating, I also expect him to admit that the hubris and arrogance of the media that dismissed Trump as a joke was at least partly complicit in his getting elected.
Salena Zito said it best:
Regarding Trump, I expect him to address it briefly at the beginning and probably let us know that they will be doing a segment on the "how this happened" later on down the road. Being fairly self-deprecating, I also expect him to admit that the hubris and arrogance of the media that dismissed Trump as a joke was at least partly complicit in his getting elected.
Salena Zito said it best:
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