Last Week Tonight

Last Week Tonight is a comedy show on HBOFile:Wikipedia's W.svg hosted by British-American comedian John OliverFile:Wikipedia's W.svg. The show profiles current news stories and includes a detailed segment focusing on a specific topic of interest. Last Week Tonight has profiled the following notable subjects:

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Donald 'Drumpf'

Last Week Tonight's most watched segment discusses Donald Trump, which popularized the term Donald DrumpfFile:Wikipedia's W.svg.[14][15]

Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption

Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption was the name of the parody church that Oliver created to mock televangelists and expose holes in the United States tax code pertaining to churches. In the typical style of televangelists, he asked for seed money so that "great things will happen to you".

The church was eventually dissolved and all money sent to the charity Médecins Sans FrontièresFile:Wikipedia's W.svg, as originally announced, attributing the dissolution to being sent massive bags of seeds, a four-foot-tall wooden dong, and five packets of semen. Really.[16]

gollark: Actually, bestest idea: make the entire *front* of the phone the *positive* terminal for charging, and the *back* the *negative* terminal, and drop the "charging port" nonsense.
gollark: Actually, better idea: beam microwaves at your phone and have it use a rectenna to extract energy from them.
gollark: With cat8 cable you can even push 40Gbps over Ethernet.
gollark: And you could finally achieve the dream of people for generations - 10-gigabit ethernet to the phone.
gollark: But you'd get that satisfying click when you plug in your phone.

References
  1. Alex Jones, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 31 July 2017.
  2. Net Neutrality, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 1 June 2014.
  3. The IRS, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 12 April 2015.
  4. Predatory Lending, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 11 August 2014.
  5. Death Penalty, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 5 May 2014.
  6. FIFA and the World Cup, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 8 June 2014.
  7. FIFA II, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 1 June 2015.
  8. Translators, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 19 October 2014.
  9. Torture, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 14 June 2015.
  10. Online harassment, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 21 June 2015.
  11. Transgender Rights, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 28 June 2015.
  12. Televangelists, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 16 August 2015.
  13. Sex Education, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 9 August 2015.
  14. Donald Trump, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), 28 February 2016.
  15. John Oliver slams Trump, a.k.a. Donald ‘Drumpf,’ for 22 brutal minutes. The Washington Post, 29 February 2016.
  16. John Oliver's Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption, September 2015.
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