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#EndorseThis: John Oliver Takes Down Marine LePen In Appeal To French ‘Superiority’

#EndorseThis: John Oliver Takes Down Marine LePen In Appeal To French ‘Superiority’

John Oliver, who hosts the most intellectually rigorous of America’s comedy news broadcasts, is worried about France — specifically, the French national election coming up next week. In the latest episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, he elucidates this complicated and crucial contest in a way that is both enlightening and entertaining.

After profiling the various candidates, including a sharp takedown of creepy racist weirdo Marine LePen, he concludes with a moving plea to the French voters, in more or less their own language, telling them to seize “the chance to prove your superiority to Britain and the U.S.,” since both have made grave “populist” errors in recent elections.

Exhaustive and sobering but very funny — as Oliver always is.

#EndorseThis: John Oliver’s Catchy Putin Pop Song

#EndorseThis: John Oliver’s Catchy Putin Pop Song

In the latest episode of This Week Tonight, John Oliver explores the repercussions of Trump’s spot for Russia, detailing the many reasons why Putin is so dangerous — and creating a catchy tune to drive home the message.

Because President Trump doesn’t seem to listen to even his closest advisers when it comes to the dangers of Russia, Oliver decided to once again take it upon himself to try to get through to Trump. Oliver explained:

“So someone needs quickly to get into Trump’s ear and educate him on how realistic getting along better with Putin actually is … We’ve put together a quick explanation guaranteed to stick in Trump’s mind in the catchiest possible form: sh*tty techno music.”

Only two weeks into his show’s new season, Oliver is brilliantly trolling Trump — first with educational ads about the nuclear triad and the Geneva Convention, and now with an inerasable earworm that immediately gets stuck in your head like a Carly Rae Jepsen song. We can only hope that it gets stuck in Trump’s head too.

Endorse This: No Pardon For The Turkey?

Endorse This: No Pardon For The Turkey?

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Sometimes it takes a foreigner to scrutinize a country’s weird traditions — and in a special video from HBO’s Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver gave a Briton’s take on the peculiarities of one thing that America does for Thanksgiving.

Click above to watch Oliver asking why a perfectly good turkey isn’t getting eaten for this coming holiday — then share this video!

Video via Last Week Tonight with John Oliver/HBO.

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