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John Oliver has full creative freedom over Last Week Tonight, including free reign to criticize corporations, thanks to HBO's ad-free subscription model
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Johnny Carson once joked on The Tonight Show about a nonexistent toilet paper shortage which led to eventual panic buying leaving store shelves empty causing a real shortage that lasted weeks
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John Oliver has impacted legislation through his show "Last week tonight" so often that it is known as the John Oliver effect
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Richard Ayoade (Moss from The IT Crowd) wrote two plays with John Oliver (The Daily Show, Last Week Tonight) in the late 1990's when they were in the same Theatre group
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A news editor for MarketWatch and a Director at Storyful discovered their prom date photo eventually became a stock-photo when Last Week Tonight aired it with a bag of pot photoshopped into it.
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Producer of sitcom Welcome Back Kotter pitted star Gabe Kaplan and Marcia Strassman who played his wife against one another by falsely telling each the other didn't like them. Kaplan got wise and, as host of The Tonight Show that week, had Strassman on as a guest to tell the story
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Last Week Tonight host John Oliver's Paternal Two Times Great Grandfather was the Bishop of Ripon and court chaplain to Queen Victoria
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The game Twister, which turns 50 this week, was a commercial disappointment for Milton Bradley until Eva Gabor convinced Johnny Carson to play a game with her live in The Tonight Show.
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In 2016, Lin Manual Miranda sang a song about Puerto Rico on Last Week Tonight. His lyrics included "This is an island, 100 miles across. A hurricane is coming and we’re running up a loss."
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In 1973 Johnny Carson joked on "The Tonight Show" about a shortage of toilet paper. Panic buying and hoarding ensued across the United States as consumers emptied stores, causing a real shortage that lasted for weeks.
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Larry Wilmore (Last Week Tonight, the Daily Show) was a co-producer for Fresh Prince and a writer on many beloved 90s series
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The unseen "Jim" that Stephen Colbert regularly calls upon is a real director; Jim Hoskinson. In addition to The Colbert Report and The Late Show, he also directs Last Week Tonight
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The haunting cornet performance (If I Could Be With You--One Hour Tonight) attributed to Jackie Gleason in Woody Allen's Whatever Works is actually Bobby Hackett. Gleason's Music for Lovers Only with Hackett's cornet, is the US record for weeks in the Top Ten sales at 153. - source
Pulitzer prize winner Lee Manuel Miranda predicted a coming hurricane in a poignant song about Puerto Rico filmed over a year ago on Last Week Tonight. - source
In 2014, John Oliver's "Last Week Tonight" ran a bit on Ayn Rand that concluded: "Why would conservatives hold up as their idol someone who says things like that? Especially when there are so many other advocates for selfishness they could choose. Like Donald Trump."
The theme tune from Last Week Tonight was originally from a pop song called 'Go' by Valley Lodge - source
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