Last Week Tonight depends on a formula that includes a villain, a punching bag, someone to “destroy,” so audience members can feel that they’re part of a morally and cognitively superior in-group, perennially exasperated by malign idiots in the out-group.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/03/john-oliver-call-out-culture/585505/ …
John Oliver is like the reincarnation of a 1950s East German Stasi officer who likes to tell jokes to his thuggish underlings while torturing dissidents. Same psychology, same morality.
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Definitely a proportional reaction
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I am constantly staggered by the number of people completely missing the point of Last Week Tonight.
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John Oliver's show is unimaginative. At least Jon Stewart had good guests and the Stephen Colbert character was a good parody.
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Someone suggested I watch him, and I found him so insufferable I didn’t manage 10 minutes.
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Jesus, I dislike this new crop of hyper-didactic "comedians" lecturing to their ideologically homogeneous audience as much as anyone but Stasi torturer seems a tad over-the-top as an analogy, no?
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That's....brilliant....
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Finally somebody said that!
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He was pretty on point about automation though..
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Which he nicked from Andrew Yang.
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His voice is so grating, but East Coast progressives love British/Commonwealth accents...
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