The opposite of a scab

The US doesn't deserve John Oliver. Thank you GB!

He's on loan, please don't get scratches on him that won't buff out.
- Yep, in exchange for returning him, we’ll let you keep James Corden. No need to thank us.
- I dunno, he’s a citizen now. Feels more permanent than just a loan. Sorry think we get to keep him and play with him as we see fit.
To be fair, neither do we
They also brought us Piers Morgan though.

”Without these people, it would be painfully obvious how unfunny I really am.” - John Oliver, probably

Whatever. I've seen him do stand-up and I think he's funny, but it's not like Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert or Conan O'Brien write/wrote all or even most of their own material.
- It’s not meant as an insult - this kind of self-deprecation sounds exactly like something he would say.
- Pretty sure Jon Stewart was funny because of John Oliver!
Are you sure that's not a quote? I can hear him say it.
HIGNFY aren't returning my calls.
- What a convoluted way to say "he's mocking me and I don't like it"
- I agree the show has mastered this technique. But counterpoint, empathize with an audience that isn't liberal. As a leftist, I'm rarely learning from this show. But this method helps me laugh at, rather than get angry at, our enemy. Leftists need to have fun.
- Care to provide an example of a "non-sequitur or otherwise absurd metaphor"?

He seems to actually care. He and Conan are the best.

Go listen to Strike Force 5, the podcast with all the late night hosts! Any profits they make from it (and their sponsors, mostly Ryan Reynold's businesses) also go to helping their staff!

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/867-strike-force-five-122135023/

Can't movie studios theoretically hold forever, because they still receive money from sources like streaming subscriptions.
Maybe we should start canceling these until the strike is over.
- Sounds like a good time to 🦜🏴‍☠️
- Cancel as many as you can. An actor I know said cancelling Netflix would have the biggest impact, so I've done that for now.
- Strongly recommend fmovies.to
Thanks for this!

John Oliver is a national treasure.

Proof we are better with immigrants.

Somebody show this to Bill Maher.

He is too busy preparing to prove how insultingly unfunny he is. He won't be doing all the parts of the show that require writers so he is just going to be profoundly wrong and shite for 60 minutes.
I heard he pays writers better than all the other late night shows because as a writer you have to deal with working with Bill Maher.
- The worst thing about Maher as a performer is that he berates his audience when they don't like his joke. I did professional stand-up for a few years and that's like breaking unspoken rule #1. Even if the room is a shit room, you don't act like they're a shit room.

Almost makes up for being a Liverpool fan

What if he jumped to Wrexham?

We need more pictures of him looking spiffy.

What do you mean? That is one sexy beast right there if I’ve ever seen one.

Damn straight.

YNWA John!

He is such a great man, glad he made it somewhere where he can do the right thing and be an example that the rest of them will ignore.

Thats just a fundraiser with extra steps. Just checked and John Olivers annual salary is $8M a year for his current HBO show. Thats about 80-150 peoples worth of funding he could do but he would prefer you guys do it.

Get on your hands and knees guys

Yes, money he would not make without a team of people behind him; however, him making money does not exclude him from supporting others. If anything, his actions could help support more than his money could. Fixing a broken system is also better than just slapping a quick fix in the form of a check.
- He is supporting others, but he is supporting the others who support him, with himself being the disproportionate beneficiary of the shared effort.
  Oliver's actions may not be wrong, but the admiration he is afforded through the post exceeds the degree that it is genuinely warranted.
Yea he is fundraising and giving his weight to an issue rather than donating his own wages. John does deserve to keep the money he earns after working as a writer for like twenty years.