14 of Blaugust - L - Last Week Tonight

After Game of Thrones had wrapped up for another year there was a vacancy left in my Monday evenings. Before then it used to be a ritual. I'd get home from my Tafe class (usually an hour early because I had finished all the work) then go fetch the latest Game of Thrones from some corner of the internet (there was no way I giving a cent of my money to Foxtel after their attempt of extortion), sit back relax and watch some slaying and debauchery. Wheat was I going to do with my time after it was all over? Eventually I stumbled upon a few YouTube vids of another HBO show hosted by John Oliver (who used to appear on The Daily Show with John Stewart). The most famous one being it's roast of our Prime Minister, Tony Abbot.

It pipped my interest that this might be a show worth catching up on and I am so I grabbed every episode I could find and started watching Last Week Tonight. It's a weekly half our current events comedy programme where the host John Oliver has been allowed a free reign to cover whatever he likes. I like the approach he has taken by using comedy to highlight some really important issues that are happening in the world. He even had the guts to cover both the death penalty and poor prison conditions in the US. Here is his segment on Net Neutrality that shows exactly how deep the influence of how the government is deep in the cable internet companies pockets.

Here is his perfect summary of the climate change debate.

In the latest episode John Oliver did turned his focus on the Payday Loan system and how it exploits the vulnerable.

I highly suggest that you watch this series as it highlights many things that are wrong in our society and also doesn't treat their viewers like complete idiots. We don't need mind numbing faff to entertain us at all. It's definitely filled my Game of Thrones void. If you know how to get many US shows and don't exactly care of the legalities then go ahead and get them. If you want to take the safe route, then a huge amount of segments are on the official YouTube channel.