Abby Zimet: The Planet is on Fucking Fire
Bill Nye: “I didn’t mind explaining photosynthesis to you when you were 12. But you’re adults now, and this is an actual crisis, got it?”
Abby Zimet: This is the Bunny I Love
The Stellar Trolling of Mike Pence This week’s Canny Resistance Award goes to John Oliver, who deftly stole Mike Pence’s family’s homophobic thunder by, hours before the release of their … Continue reading
Video: Comedians have figured out the trick to covering Trump
. While major news networks have struggled to figure out the right way to cover the Trump administration, political satirists like Samantha Bee, John Oliver, Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, and … Continue reading
Daniel C. Maguire: Comedians to the Rescue
Let’s hear it for the comedians. We never needed them more than now in the age of Trump. Historically, societies have learned with a stunning unanimity that power untamed by … Continue reading
Video: John Oliver’s Blockbuster on America’s Crumbling Infrastructure
America’s infrastructure system—its dams, bridges, roads, airports, sewer systems, water treatment plants, etc.—is deteriorating and in need of serious renovation. In hopes to cure America of its blissful apathy to our … Continue reading
John Oliver: Ferguson, MO and Police Militarization
Aug 17, 2014. In the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, John Oliver explores the racial inequality in treatment by police as well as the increasing … Continue reading
Video: America’s prisons are broken. Just ask John Oliver and several puppets.
America has more people in prison than any country in the history of the world. How could things have gone so wrong?
John Oliver Takes on Climate-change Deniers
John Oliver hosts a mathematically representative climate change debate, with the help of special guest Bill Nye the Science Guy, of course.
