In which John Oliver is a genius

[yendi]

"You don't need people's opinions on a fact."

Beautiful takedown of both the morons who refuse to accept facts, and the pandering and genuinely incompetent media that enable them.

Comments

[aiela.livejournal.com]

Sunday's episode was amazing start to finish, but that segment was amazing.

[silme.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks for this, and thanks to HBO for making it available for people outside of the US. We don't get this show in Oliver's home country (yet -- or at least, I'm not aware of it -- will check) and I'd not realised that it was on the air already.

Edit: I lied. It's on Sky Atlantic -- there's an episode tonight at 10pm. Damn, I've been so busy with work I missed it. I don't remember seeing any ads for it neither. Thankfully, we get Sky Atlantic, so we'll be watching tonight. And 10pm is a better time than when Comedy Central Xtra in the UK airs The Daily Show -- anywhere between 11pm to midnight, changing nightly sometimes.

[yendi]

Yay! I'm glad it made it over there (unlike shows like, say, Orphan Black, Oliver's show isn't one that'll work as well in six months).

[silme.livejournal.com]

We're only about two weeks behind the US on Orphan Black this time around.

[yendi]

I always figured that if any US channel had day-and-date release with the UK, it would be BBCAmerica.

[silme.livejournal.com]

It's a Canadian production, and BBC America has US rights. BBC Worldwide distributes it elsewhere.