Last season, HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver kicked off with business as usual: recording in a studio with an audience, unpacking the news for the week with delightful aplomb and irreverence while providing us with jokes and jabs (mostly directed at Trump’s incompetence) in a way that only Oliver can.
Then, Covid-19 happened and the world changed immensely causing the talk show to change the way it did things.For one, Oliver relocated from his lively studio to an at-home studio which he lovingly referred to as “the white void”.
Then there was all the news about the pandemic, the Trump administration, and the Black Lives Matter movement that was sparking a revolutionary racial reckoning across the globe.
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