With the TV news satire business being shaken up – Stephen Colbert taking over Late Night from David Letterman on CBS, Jon Stewart exiting The Daily Show – HBO is perhaps wise to hang on to what it has by renewing Last Week Tonight with John Oliver for two more seasons consisting of 35 episodes …
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John Oliver Destroys Dr. Oz with Bonus Tap Dancing Buscemi
With Stephen Colbert stepping away from his Colbert Report persona to take over for Letterman soon, there’s an impending vacuum of caustic (and utterly necessary) satire and criticism of the news media on TV. While it hasn’t quite hit its stride yet, the HBO weekly ‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’ appears ready to help …
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