top of page

Last Week Tonight the Other Night

Jul 27, 2021
1 min read

If you didn't see Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, his Main Story was on housing discrimination, mostly from the perspective of the government over many decades.  It's a longer piece than usual, over half-an-hour, but very good.  Infuriating for the most part, but he's able to get some good humor in.  Along with a nice moment with old film footage of two women, Rose and Angie.  My only quibble is when he gives his "solution" to all the problems -- he presents it with such certainty, but in the end he doesn't really offer a solution, only a suggestion on how to start a discussion for a solution.  It reminded me a little of Steve Martin's joke on how to make two million dollars.  "First," he says, "get a million dollars..."



Recent Posts

See All
The Return of Cunk:  The Finale

The past two weeks, I wrote about the wonderfully funny Cunk on... fake-documentaries that Diane Morgan stars in as 'Philomena Cunk' on the BBC. And I posted the first two, 30-minute episodes of the C

 
 
 

Comments


bottom of page