5 years in, HBO’s Last Week Tonight is a lot more than “just comedy”
No matter what John Oliver says.
When Last Week Tonight premiered on HBO in 2014, it was growing in the shadow of Jon Stewart’s hugely influential Daily Show, and not just because Last Week host John Oliver had come to fame as a “Senior British Correspondent” on Stewart’s show. (Oliver had even hosted The Daily Show in Stewart’s place for an eight-week stretch in 2013, when Stewart was away making the film Rosewater.) Both shows covered current events from a comedic perspective with a liberal slant... Читать дальше...