The Daily Show graduate makes impassioned 13-minute plea on his weekly HBO news series
Former Daily Show reporter, writer and guest host John Oliverās weekly HBO news satire series Last Week Tonight has been getting solid notices from critics and audiences alike; but heās getting some of his most enthusiastic praise yet for a soaring 13 minutes of editorial comedy on the subject of net neutrality delivered on this weekendās episode of the show.
Launching from a riff on how the āboringā details of the net neutrality issue is preventing the public from being informed of the issue, Oliver went through a detailed and brutally funny āplain englishā explanation of whatās at stake (short version: the U.S. government is on the verge of allowing internet service providers to offer superior āfast laneā connection speeds for corporations willing to pay extra, which many believe will create an anti-competitive class-division among tech companies) and some the questionable entities and players involved in the current decision making. Appropriately, the crowning moment was saved for the finale, as Oliver made an earnest (if still sarcastic) plea for the āmonstersā of internet comment forums to rise up and use their trolling for good ā by giving the Federal Communications Commissionās comment page an earful.
Launched earlier this year, Last Week Tonight is a weekly news and current-events comedy series in the vein of The Daily Show but unencumbered by the formerās basic-cable content restrictions.
Source: Last Week Tonight
Published: Jun 2, 2014 4:00 PM UTC