Push Notifications: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Web Exclusive) 

I know I was like: they're labeling them as push notifications?

Right?!?!

and it was there last week and was removed

IKR

Come back, you sweet British parrot!

🤯🤯

Zazu, is that you?

Ham Grenade +

It's a ruse! The irony is he's actually a 100k year old lizard. Close enough.

John Oliver: beautifully British!

Well he's on HBO who publishes this video so.... doesnt really need the $10k fron adsense

There is an ad in this video

@@TheCheelik The Shrek's lover tell all doesn't count as an ad.

He needs to come back and Replace Bill Maher

Joe Rogan doesn't need 3 months off........

Not a native speaker and I didn't get it... What did he mean by Charlotte?

Kinda famous spider cartoon?

@@osviiii There is an old Cartoon Movie called Charlotte's Web. It's about a spider that rights messages to a little boy on her spiderweb to save the family farm. He used a play on the word web, as it is also used to describe the internet.

The one rapper Eminem was afraid to diss...

@@cypressplumbing9377 ... before it was a cartoon movie, it was a CLASSIC children's book. --Dave, and books are always better than their movie. fite me on thhis

Such as a video uploading without the audio

@@pozzowon Not if they later upload a video with only audio. Then it would become a challenge to play the audio and video in line.

Leonardo Pozzobon Someone actually recorded the no audio and added those old timey videos it was pretty amusing not gonna lie

John is so fucking lazy. They barely do any shows throughout the year and yet they get long multiple months vacations.

Last week tonight isn't a vlog. It has a team of writers.

psyche push notification gang 🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼

I had 2, first one was 2 days ago when they uploaded it as public before quickly making it private.

Is there something you should be doing differently? Watching Last Week Tonight. Is this something I need to know NOW? You be the judge.

So many people are missing the point. You sign up to RU-vid and choose to get push notifications from entertainers you don't want to miss. It's like a reminder on your DVR. Its not bombarding your phone with trivial nonsense that you really don't need to know, usually with some baity AF title to try garner clicks, from a "reputable" news source. If Sky News sends me one more notification about Prince Harry deciding not to spend tax payers money anymore like the rest of his useless sponging family - I will donkey punch Rupert Murdouch and everyone he loves.

@@Dave_ja_vu I think YOU have missed the point. My decision to sign up for RU-vid, Bejeweled, porn-hub and natgeo are not, in and of themselves, an engraved invitation to be constantly harassed by corporate interests, regardless of what they are selling or whether or not 9bajillion bejeweled points on sale for 4.00 is "actually a good deal." It doesn't matter whether I like John Oliver, or RU-vid. The fact is that, unless I am actively USING the RU-vid app, they are violating my trust by attempting to hijack my personal device and use it for free ad space.

Right, it's amazing how quickly we adapt to things and how weird the former can seem. I honestly don't miss the audience, his sarcasm game has gotten stronger

Thank god, I thought it was just me. I prefer his ‘audience free’ episodes now. They are tighter and flow far better.

@@uremawifenowdave Agreed, but at the same time he seems so much happier in this video!

Same

Watching this after both my mom and my step mom have died.

Me too. 🤣

Yup

Yup yup

Like a ticking timebomb ...

And Jon Stewart will walk out from it :)

Eric will break it first

He'll end up exploding through the table

badfoo damnit you beat me to it

Its an HBO show. RU-vid gives them the full amenities. Everyone else has to get by via patreon. If they're lucky.

It's easy when you got that HBO money!

Ferrari doesn't need to advertize.

@@toshir0m1 yet they do lol

@@Fetidaf Advertisement will be banned some day in the future ^^ Fuck I'm born too soon :-p

I doubt John has AT&T.

😂

Everytime John tries to fill out a contract with AT&T, it gets rejected. They usually put some version of: "Im sorry, i guess your paperwork couldnt get through." John reapplies every so often just for a laugh.

Lmao i thought my headphones stopped working, then i thought i was deaf for a moment.

See, by the time I had a chance to tap the last push notification they'd pulled the video down, so I almost assumed they were trolling and ignored it this time lol

rgderen88 I happened to be on my phone when I got mine. Almost all of the comments were in good humor just laughing about it.

I still like my idea of people adding in their own captions/audio on the broken one.

@@Pungiish SAMEEE

Why don't I get push notification for this show about push notification? I got this via youtube home.

The ONLY 'Dear John' letter I love to get...

and here we go again...

Yes yes yes

mugflub always

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Reading? I ain't got time for that! I'm waiting for the audio book as read by Morgan Freeman.

It's on my reading list after "When Spring Meets Summer".

@@HavenBandz Jesus, ya know, I could tolerate one or two of these, but you're in every godamn thread with your spam bullshit that I promise nobody cares about. Annoying AF... And reported.

WHAT? HOW IS THAT HAPPENED?

Oh, that's why the video disappeared by the time i clicked it

Lol

i thought it was a joke like, “Push notifications: you probably have them, otherwise you wouldn’t be seeing this”

On a side note: Thanks for the 200 or so notifications after liking this comment into oblivion!

@@Pandalius big oof XD your phone must be buzzing like a bee

1. Is it time sensitive? no. off air till whenever. 2.Should I change my behavior? Are you trying to piss me off?

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Me too lol

Same lol

That's not push though you chose to get it

Omg right!? FB is the most annoying

But you'll check my reply. And when you got the notification you were so excited :)

Be like me... Facebook: exists Me: does not exist on Facebook. Problem solved.

You can turn those off.

unsubscribe

Brooke McLymond : Ha! I'd missed that the first time through! 😂

I was more happy that the battery was at a 100 lol

Extra allowance from Business Daddy

Corporate Daddy is very proud right now 🤣🤣🤣

but how did he receive these notifications? :-D

Anthropophagus is a very good word

That's the whole reason for it, besides collecting our data.

*App developers implement push notifications because the marketing team wants to "increase user engagement"

I get instantly engaged to block notifications for that app. Or if the notification reminds me that I have some app on my phone I've not used in months, maybe solve the notification problem with "extreme prejudice" and uninstall the app.

I find that excessive notifications cause a definite decrease in an app's popularity (I'm looking at you, NY Times and Amazon!).

You mistake developers with management. I'm a developer myself (not currently working for mobile apps) and I agree that push notifications shouldn't be so accessible as they are. Android could easily fix this and punish abusers. Apple will never change unless there's a law they've been sued over already. And just think for every sensible person turning notifications off or limiting them per app, there's a million who don't. Easiest way to get rid of it is to keep pressing the pop-up, it'll show you the settings for the specific app.

It was even wilder getting the push notification a week ago when it was uploaded without sound. Felt like some strange meta prank.

@@Emily-ce7hd I still don't know if it was intentional or a meta joke or not, because despite immediate outcry, it stayed up for nearly half a day! Lol

@@rjgraylight I'm just surprised that they didn't add in a bit to the reupload to make fun of the whole thing

@@Emily-ce7hd right?! They missed a prime opportunity! Lol

if he and the show are on vacation... WHY is there an AUDIENCE in this video? (Or is that canned laughter? Seems real.) That's a HUGE endeavor... and you're not going to bring them in for a FIVE MINUTE clip.

Dumpy Goodness this was very likely recorded on the same night he recorded a previous show. I bet you can find when he was wearing the same suit/shirt/tie (would also be he’s wearing no pants lol) in one of the shows from the previous season.

@@dumpygoodness4086 Before the break they recorded stuff like this to air during their break while taping their shows. That's usually when they record straight to internet only content as well.

@@Sindollx666x Patriot act is a bit more obvious about it, their "in between seasons" stuff is from the "warm up" stand up routines Hasan does before each recording to get the audience in the mood :D but yeah, I'm pretty sure they do fillers for the "interregnum" when recording the last couple of episodes.

@@Sindollx666x Ah! THANK you for the info. (But now I think Team John should then film a few more BITS and post them every week DURING breaks. He's NOT an entertainer: he gives us more REAL news than the NYTimes / NYPost ever would. The world NEEDS JO. Plus, unlike Trevor, Colbert, and the rest, JO actually uses his show and power to DO ACTUAL STUFF in the real world!)

Trump saying “something” probably incoherent and that being on the news and getting a push notification “get with the times man”

Just posted almost the exact same comment.

@@Bebopopotamus this video was posted days ago but was without sound, they take down and now uploaded a version with sound.

Dinosaurs are related to birds! This making him reptilian!lol

There are a few points in this video I'm guessing his writers surprised him with jokes and that one challenged him. He almost breaks later in the video

Tongue deep in sweet green

No, Zazu will live forever!

@@bwsupyours4479 only some, mostly the smaller ones. Think raptors. Not Tyrannosaurus Rex, Stegosaurus, Brontosaurus

High!

maybe she just wants to breathe

e maybe she just don’t believe

People will see her and cry.

Fame!

Arial + Basic Red + All Caps + 4 Exclamation Marks. They went for "as crappy and low-effort as possible", and they nailed it.

Agree

Hi I’m Myles432 and I HATE JOKES

Riyuji Takada ....

Maybe, but why not just block them?

I tend do delete apps when they do this. Problem is I pretty much end up deleting every app. Some of them can actually be useful.

Wouldn't blame him if one episode is him just screaming, uninterrupted, for 30 minutes

Better use that in an actual episode. That *is* a serious subject.

Sadly its really hard for someone to understand an issue like that without being involved in the hobby, both him and his staff probably don't have the frame of reference to write on such a thing or desire.

It's because he got distracted by a SCANDELOUS Lilys Garden ad. Lily's mom tried to abort her 25 years ago?? [PLAY NOW]

Tinder does this shit to hype up lonely people that someone finds them attractive, only for the person to check the app to find no one swiped right on them, it's mildly fucked up.

Ironically, the push notifications games put out, as inane and annoying as they are, DO in fact meet the two criteria he set for something being a valid push notification. ... Kinda. Still annoying as hell though. Still, it beats the notification system that older versions of windows have. Why am I getting a popup notification for random nonsense? One that actually forces me to stop doing what I'm doing and close the message, otherwise my whole computer is unusable? Yeah... Worst one was in the days of dial-up when programs would incessantly complain about not being able to connect to the internet... As if the internet was something that was always there... Which was an assumption that was a decade or two early compared to when they started just randomly trying to get online and complaining when it didn't work...

It follows the criteria. It is both time sensitive, and actionable.

You subscribed bro 🤷‍♂️

Please tell your birds I love them

Chetan Naik : Oh, I know. I've been fascinated by how flexible his desk is for a couple of seasons, now. 😂😂

He will live forever. The same cannot be said for Greg.

Mese Ktet he’s already lived 100,000 years I think he can withstand 100 thousand more

Haha I got that one too!

It's horrifying that people are either confused or think it's a farce

@@ghormax Democrats: "We're gonna impeach Trump!" Public: "Yay!" Democrats: "But he will still be president" Public: "NANI!?"

Your comment only got as far as "I'm confused" before I had to click on "read more," which was too perfect.

@Arcanine-Espeon Haha! Also unintentional.

*cocks gun*

Howie Thao O_O

barry fraser *_with religious intent_*

Well, seeing how he's about 100,000 years old, one might suspect that the bird man John Oliver might, in fact, be immortal.

There are children under the age of 75 named Suzy?

It was more a liquid 1% joke if you ask me.

Could have been a lot ruder

That’s when you are drunk enough to do a vegan

@Hakageryuu om nom nom Donkey

Each day we stray further from God's light.

I know why the Green Giant is Jolly now.

A giant parrot bird.

@@unusveritas4122 Parrots are birds, kinda redundant.

Can't we just have children?

Have the publisher of the video be a company owned by a large corporation.

@@jbird4478 Lord Vader is talking about how usually videos that are not family friendly get demonetized.

@@jbird4478 You must not be following what has happened to RU-vid in the past couple of years. Normal videos get demonetized all the time, just because they have cuss words.

Fred Gamble. Bravo very well written!

U from nz?

FOMO is a bitch.

It was the same exact video but with no sound

Hold up... Are we all living the same life?? 🤨

So... the video you could have watched Last Week, you watched Tonight?

@@nejitentenlee21 pretty sure RU-vid lost all sound for like 10min right when this video aired. I tried watching several other videos and they didn't have sound either. Then after about 10 min it came back, but the video had already been pulled.

Just like the iceberg, literally no one could have seen that one coming ;)

@M Abdelati sweet leaf maaan. Dope, kush, hash, mary-j, cannabis, shit, piece, weed, pot, grass, some like that uno

@M Abdelati Sweet Green is a salad restaurant

@M Abdelati you don't French your edibles? But it really brings out the flavors

You could also say that he was tongue-deep into tossing the salad.

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!

We break the sound barrier! That's one explanation.

Now I am baby. Was good sugar?

Lol same, it seemed like a sort of meta joke..just not a very good one. Was surprised they didn't take the time to add in a joke about it for the reupload.

or are they? hmmm

victims

Clones.

All three of the above answers are perfect

@@toshir0m1 XD yesssssss

@@amirnevis that made me laugh so much harder than it should have.

Yes. And he eats children.

Maybe a close relative. That man don’t meal prep

I mean, when they say the *Zodiac* killer...

More importantly, does this mean he's Polish?

@@Olhado256 No, but he still wasn't born in the US.

I would argue that robocalls have done more to kill the phone call as a concept than anything else. No one in the Gen X, Millennial and Zoomer generations will ever own a landline, for one thing, because they are just a vehicle for robocalls. And everyone these days has their phone on Do Not Disturb all the time, because who wants to hear the phone ring for robocalls? Not I, said literally every person who knows how to turn off a phone.

The fact that you're getting paid doesn't make you a "professional".

@@Reskamo314 AFAIK that is the exact definition of "professional".

@@ZesPak True, but the standards for some of these professions seem to have declined. I'm no college professor of English, but there's something wrong when I can read an article from a major news outlet and find grammatical errors left and right.

@@DragoonWarrior790 That's the point.

@@DragoonWarrior790 they don't care about grammar it's all about clicks and site visits now. So speed is their main concern.

Yeah! that was a missed joke opportunity.

It literally was the joke to him.

*blasts air horns*

Does it have all the properties of a joke?

Yami D-Life Yes

Effective

A better jab would be a vaccine

Sababugs112 Honestly that was the best retort. Loved it.

That’s hilarious

@YourCasualGamer please spread, bless you

but seriously what if making people dumb to facts is a super virus way of killing us

@Jdsman 31899 MMMM yummy. Right wing tears. Yum yum yum.

Jdsman 31899 why did you specify that it was ascii

JO is not intelligent. He's British and uses words not commonly used in American English conversation. That makes everyone think he's smart.

Wilma FistFit. Truth!!

I'd say the one thing missing is the Constitutional requirement of impartial jurors, but yeah, John's commentary would be good too.

Stacey Louise same both aren’t working for me in Britain going to try again