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| list_episodes = List of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver episodes
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Unlike ''The Daily Show'', which followed recent news, Oliver tends to explore one concept in depth. The show is taped in front of a [[studio audience]], and HBO offers a limited number of free tickets to attend each week's ''Last Week Tonight'' taping.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 29, 2020 |title=Watch Out, America: John Oliver is Officially a U.S. Citizen Now |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/watch-america-john-oliver-is-officially-a-us-citizen-now-1273984 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200129152616/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/watch-america-john-oliver-is-officially-a-us-citizen-now-1273984 |archive-date=January 29, 2020 |access-date=September 21, 2020 |website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]}}</ref>
The show's theme starts off every episode containing images relating to the world at large with satirical captions written in [[dog Latin]] (e.g., a photo of a [[Gun politics in the United States|gun]] labelled "''[[deus ex machina]]''", a picture of [[Vladimir Putin]] labelled "[[Links between Trump associates and Russian officials and spies|''POTUS Operandi'']]", a photo of Oliver himself labelled "''[[Call Me Madam|hostus mostus]]''").<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 16, 2017 |title=What You're Missing at the Start of Every John Oliver Episode |url=https://bigthink.com/what-youre-missing-at-the-start-of-every-john-oliver-episode |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807044702/https://bigthink.com/what-youre-missing-at-the-start-of-every-john-oliver-episode |archive-date=August 7, 2020 |access-date=January 6, 2021 |website=Big Think |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The 'Last Week Tonight' Intro Images Have A Fascinating Story Behind Them |url=https://www.bustle.com/p/the-last-week-tonight-intro-images-have-a-fascinating-story-behind-them-45573 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210202225018/https://www.bustle.com/p/the-last-week-tonight-intro-images-have-a-fascinating-story-behind-them-45573 |archive-date=February 2, 2021 |access-date=January 26, 2021 |website=Bustle |date=March 20, 2017 |language=en}}</ref> Each episode contains a small handful of shorter segments
Oliver injects humor into his presentation, including satirical [[analogies]]
A recurring element of the show is Oliver's use of mascots. The mascots used in the show include [[Tobacco (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver)#Jeff the Diseased Lung|Jeff the Diseased Lung in a Cowboy Hat]], Hoots the NSA Owl, Taryn the Tinder Chicken, and the Last Week Tonight puppets.<ref>{{Cite web |title=All the Mascot Costumes from Last Week Tonight, Ranked |url=https://www.ranker.com/list/john-oliver-last-week-tonight-mascots/ranker-tv |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191031202127/https://www.ranker.com/list/john-oliver-last-week-tonight-mascots/ranker-tv |archive-date=October 31, 2019 |access-date=October 31, 2019}}</ref> Oliver told [[Vulture (website)|''Vulture'']] in February 2019 that "[Executive producer] Tim Carvell and I – I think we've always seen the show as our attempt to make ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' and failing to do so. But occasionally, just occasionally, you get the kind of ''Muppet Show'' adoration in the ludicrous mascots."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Czajkowski |first=Elise |date=February 7, 2019 |title=John Oliver Really Just Wants ''Last Week Tonight'' to Be ''The Muppet Show'' |url=https://www.vulture.com/2019/02/john-oliver-last-week-tonight-hbo-interview-mascots.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191031202127/https://www.vulture.com/2019/02/john-oliver-last-week-tonight-hbo-interview-mascots.html |archive-date=October 31, 2019 |access-date=October 31, 2019 |website=[[Vulture.com]]}}</ref>
The show frequently features one or more celebrity guests in its segments to help Oliver better get his point on the week's topic across. Guests have featured in many different capacities including giving monologues directly to camera, being interviewed by Oliver, playing musical numbers, participating in comedic skits with or without Oliver, or starring in fictitious parody [[Public service announcement|PSAs]]. On the show, guests are sometimes seen in the Last Week Tonight studio itself doing their part during the show's main taping, while at other times they are seen in video clips that were pre-recorded at a different location and later included in the show. Oliver often interviews personalities who were directly involved in or impacted by the issues being discussed in the show to get their first-hand experiences and viewpoints on the issue. Some of the famous personalities Oliver has interviewed include [[Edward Snowden]], the [[14th Dalai Lama|14th]] [[Dalai Lama]], [[Anita Hill]], [[Stephen Hawking]], and [[Monica Lewinsky]].
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=== Clarence Thomas offer <span class="anchor" id="Supreme_Court"></span>===
{{See also|Clarence Thomas#Nondisclosure of finances}}
Amidst allegations that justices of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]], including Justices [[Clarence Thomas]] and [[Samuel Alito]], received gifts, meals, and vacations from right-wing billionaires, including [[Harlan Crow]], and failed to disclose them, Oliver ran a segment on his show on the Supreme Court and the scandal. The piece was highly critical of the Supreme Court's supposedly unenforceable and weak ethics code. In particular, the show was critical of Justice Thomas. At the end of the segment, Oliver offered Thomas gifts, including an [[Recreational vehicle|RV]] and $1,000,000 per year until Thomas' death, if he resigned from the Supreme Court. According to experts that Oliver has consulted before the segment's airing, the proposal was "somehow legal."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-02-20 |title=Clarence Thomas has 30 days to resign if he wants millions from John Oliver |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/clarence-thomas-has-30-days-to-resign-if-he-wants-millions-from-john-oliver/ |access-date=2024-02-21 |website=The Seattle Times |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Mastrangelo |first=Dominick |date=2024-02-19 |title=John Oliver offering Clarence Thomas $1M a year to resign from Supreme Court |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4476865-john-oliver-clarence-thomas-1-million-dollars-supreme-court/ |access-date=2024-02-21 |work=The Hill |language=en-US}}</ref> Other legal experts opined that it would be unlikely Oliver would be prosecuted for bribery because the offer was not made "corruptly" nor attempted to influence an "official act".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.newsweek.com/john-oliver-offers-clarence-thomas-million-resign-unlikely-broke-law-1871787 | title=Did John Oliver break law offering Clarence Thomas $1M to retire? | website=[[Newsweek]] | date=February 20, 2024 }}</ref> {{Clear}}
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