Last Week Tonight

This past weekend, John Oliver called out the exploitation of farmworkers on his show, "Last Week Tonight" and mentioned a West Michigan farm worker that yelled at a migrant worker.

John Oliver’s HBO Last Week Tonight has been on a brief hiatus since we said goodbye to Game of Thrones, and while the intervening weeks have surely wrought plenty to discuss upon his return, there’s time to take stock meanwhile. Cue a new web-only exclusive for Last Week Tonight, as the comedian delves into “fan mail” to read some of the nicer (and nastier) comments about the series.

Considering Netflix has pushed it to the point of debuting near of a new season or series every week, the premium providers of old seem almost deprived of new content. HBO won’t take that lying down, planning to up its original series haul by at least 50% of its current stable, but will it affect subscription fees?

Now that we’ve finally arrived in 2016, TV talk can safely shift to from the shows closing up shop in December, to the onslaught of premieres and returns on deck. We’ll have to wait until February the latest Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, but thankfully, the prolific host has a short segment to tide us over, and remind us it’s okay to fail New Years’ resolutions miserably.

Sunday night, John Oliver addressed the scandal on HBO's Last Week Tonight.

At first I was all, "Oh, Wednesday is April 1st. Cool. That means we're getting even closer to summer!" Then I remembered, "Crap. It's April Fools' Day. The day everyone thinks they're super funny and the best pranksters on the planet. No thank you." John Oliver is with me.