Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===YouTube channel=== ''Last Week Tonight'' has a [[YouTube]] channel where videos are intermittently (depending on series) added after a show has aired.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Last Week Tonight channel |url=https://www.youtube.com/user/LastWeekTonight |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313183030/https://www.youtube.com/user/LastWeekTonight |archive-date=March 13, 2017 |access-date=March 13, 2017 |website=[[YouTube]]}}</ref> Most of the videos are of the main segment from each episode, usually posted on Mondays which follow the original Sunday airings on [[HBO]]. Some extended clips are also available on the show's YouTube channel, as are "Web Exclusives" that are produced solely for the channel, such as a July 2016 video in which Oliver responded to negative comments left on the channel itself.<ref name="Emertainment" /><ref name="Framke-2016">{{Cite web |last=Framke |first=Caroline |date=November 20, 2016 |title=John Oliver ends 2016 by confronting Last Week Tonight's role in the liberal echo chamber |url=https://www.vox.com/culture/2016/11/20/13678748/john-oliver-election-2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619163235/https://www.vox.com/culture/2016/11/20/13678748/john-oliver-election-2016 |archive-date=June 19, 2018 |access-date=June 19, 2018 |website=Vox}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Rhodan |first=Maya |date=July 11, 2016 |title=Watch John Oliver Read Mean 'Fan Mail' from YouTube |url=http://time.com/4401025/watch-john-oliver-read-mean-fan-mail-from-youtube/ |url-status=live |magazine=Time |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180501084644/http://time.com/4401025/watch-john-oliver-read-mean-fan-mail-from-youtube/ |archive-date=May 1, 2018 |access-date=June 19, 2018}}</ref> On February 19, 2024 (after the airing of the first episode of [[List of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver episodes#Season 11 (2024)|season 11)]], Oliver announced that the main segments of new episodes would only be posted on the show's YouTube channel 4 days after the original Sunday airings, usually on Thursdays.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Spangler |first=Todd |date=2024-02-19 |title=HBO Delays Posting 'Last Week Tonight With John Oliver' Clips to YouTube in Hopes of Signing Up More Max Subscribers |url=https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver-youtube-delay-hbo-max-1235916416/ |access-date=2024-02-20 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref> Six days later, on February 25, the show announced that it is uploading full episodes of the show on the same Youtube channel for free, in countries and territories where the show does not have exclusive broadcast rights from local broadcasters. The channel publishes the full episodes hours after broadcast since season 11, but it will also upload past full episode archives from the previous ten seasons, also to the same areas mentioned.<ref>{{Citation |title=Good News! Last Week Tonight with John Oliver |date=2024-02-25 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbzW9qcVBJ0 |access-date=2024-02-26 |language=en}}</ref> These changes do not affect its availability on Max. A YouTube video of a segment on the show [[Campaigning in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum|supporting the UK remaining in the EU]] was found to be the single most shared video clip on Twitter during the run-up to the [[2016 EU membership referendum]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Hänska |first1=Max |url=http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/84614/1/Hanska-Ahy__tweeting-for-brexit.pdf |title=Brexit, Trump and the Media |last2=Bauchowitz |first2=Stefan |date=2017 |publisher=Arima Publishing |isbn=9781845497095 |editor-last=Clark |editor-first=Tor |page=30 |chapter=Tweeting for Brexit: how social media influenced the referendum |access-date=June 24, 2021 |editor-last2=Mair |editor-first2=John |editor-last3=Fowler |editor-first3=Neil |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521235809/http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/84614/1/Hanska-Ahy__tweeting-for-brexit.pdf |archive-date=May 21, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[File:Real Animals, Fake Paws Footage - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO).webm|thumb|thumbtime=9|"Real Animals, Fake Paws"]] The show's production has also created content specifically for fan use. For the March 19, 2017, episode, which reported on Bolivia's growing coalition of workers clad in zebra suits to educate civilians about traffic laws, the show's production recorded 23 minutes of a person in a zebra costume dancing and gesticulating before a green screen so that viewers could edit it into other videos for humorous effect.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bradley |first=Laura |date=March 20, 2017 |title=John Oliver Slams Trump's Budget, Lightens Mood with Dancing Zebras |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/03/john-oliver-donald-trump-budget-proposal-dancing-zebras |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170608152244/http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/03/john-oliver-donald-trump-budget-proposal-dancing-zebras |archive-date=June 8, 2017 |access-date=June 19, 2018 |website=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]}}</ref> A similar video called "Real Animals, Fake Paws" for use in reenacting [[U.S. Supreme Court]] cases was released after the October 19, 2014, episode where dogs were used instead of justices to make listening to oral court cases more amusing to the general public and to increase interest in the subject.<ref>{{Cite web |last=LastWeekTonight |date=October 19, 2014 |title=Real Animals, Fake Paws Footage: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) |url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=tug71xZL7yc |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620155905/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tug71xZL7yc |archive-date=June 20, 2017 |access-date=June 20, 2017 |via=YouTube}}</ref> By April 2015, the channel had attained over a million subscribers.<ref name="Emertainment" /> That number had risen to 3.6 million by July 2016,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Durkin |first=J.D. |date=July 11, 2016 |title=Oliver Responds to Harsh YouTube Comments in Newest Last Week Tonight Segment |url=https://www.mediaite.com/online/oliver-responds-to-harsh-youtube-comments-in-newest-last-week-tonight-segment/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619163915/https://www.mediaite.com/online/oliver-responds-to-harsh-youtube-comments-in-newest-last-week-tonight-segment/ |archive-date=June 19, 2018 |access-date=June 19, 2018 |website=Mediaite}}</ref> and over 5 million by May 2017. {{As of|2023|January|df=US}}, the channel has over 9 million subscribers and more than 3.5 billion views.<ref>{{Cite web |title=LastWeekTonight's YouTube Stats (Summary Profile) – Social Blade Stats |url=https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/lastweektonight |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211114100257/https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/lastweektonight |archive-date=November 14, 2021 |access-date=November 14, 2021 |website=socialblade.com}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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