S1 E10: The Wealth Gap, CIA Twitter & Japan: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 

I am extremely stoned and just realized that John is currently on his 3rd US president.

Income inequality? 2024 here - they don’t even bother talking about it anymore.

'Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires' - Steinbeck

Lol "whether you're buying hbo or stealing it" as they upload fully episodes. Thanks Last Week Tonight.

Then there’s the standard line “we can’t just give struggling people money because they won’t learn anything.” Unless of course a person comes from a dynasty, then they’re obviously brilliant and deserve all the money.

It is wild to watch these back 10 years later to see what changed, and what didn't. (Also "Damn Warren, you nasty!" is still an all-timer)

S1 E10 (aired July 13, 2014)

I'm glad we finally address income inequalit....what? Still? How?

Well THAT changes the concept of JERRY-MANDERING.. lol

This is the only late night show that’s still worth watching.

Income inequality......And it just keep GETTING WORSE. 😞

9:09 I genuinely love that this guy has done voice overs for LWT since day 1

Thanks for the library dump. Great seeing how the headlines of the day have morphed. Have we all aged as much as our boy Johny Olly?

Warren be harding

living for the reuploads

Love it! I’m so glad your older shows are available to watch!

Anyone else watching these first year episodes and realizing absolutely nothing haas changed? Something tells me that is exactly why they were posted.

That eyes wide shut joke💯🔝

It's gotten worse. The fire rises as the curtain falls.

Class warfare has been going on since the dawn of man. The only reason the topic is taboo is because the people doing the most of it don't want the losing side to fight back.

26:45 this is my favorite last week tonight joke ever

10 episodes in and John still is only saying welcome once. When will he evolve?

The more things change...

He is doing a phenomenal job in convincing me to never ever ever become an American.

Wealth gap in 2014 had the top 1% made 19.3% of all available income in the USA. In mid-2023, more than one-quarter of all household wealth, 26.5%, belongs to Americans who earn enough money to rank in the top percentile by income, according to Federal Reserve statistics. The top 1% holds $38.7 trillion in wealth. That’s more than the combined wealth of America’s middle class, a group many economists define as the middle 60% of households by income. Those households hold about 26% of all wealth. Low-income Americans, representing the bottom 20% by income, own about 3% of the wealth. In the third quarter of 2023, 66.9 percent of the total wealth in the United States was owned by the top 10 percent of earners. In comparison, the lowest 50 percent of earners only owned 2.5 percent of the total wealth. The United States threshold for a top 1% individual earner was $407,500.00 in 2023, median individual income was $50,000 in 2023.

Now more than ever the breach between poor and rich people is growing day by day. Unless something catrasthropic happens, we will be in this situation forever.

9:31 , i wonder where we falls under the category

Watching him talk about wealth inequality ten years later is like putting on a thick, sopping wool blanket.

Screaming in Japanese with the huskiest British accent was something I never knew I needed to hear from John Oliver.

_Au contraire,_ John. We had a candidate in 2016 who talked about wealth inequality, and he was roundly despised for it by not just Republicans, but the media, and especially establishment Democrats.

Ok I zoned out after the song and for some reason I'm holding a Tachi, and it's covered in blood... I have no idea what I did but I may need to go lay low for awhile...

Just my luck, I didn't even win the lottery when I was rich. I picked 2.

19.3% of the imcome for the top 1%? Psh! 2024, it's gone up to 30%! The top 10% has 67% of all wealth in the states. Something to think about.

Bravo!! No matter how much you were our modern day hero, you are, like others, are so out of touch with our lives.

Thank you for uploading though I, older pacifist Japanese is hurt being current militarism PLUS being called world's perv uncle, only half of the Japan is perv, I guess!

15:00 hearing those stats now in 2024 is almost dystopian

Full episodes! Cool!

John's efforts will never convince me to give a shit about FIFA.

Has anyone found the episode where the “WELCOME WELCOME WELCOME” started?

President Harding, bringing all new clarity to the word jerrymandering!

Harding was crazy yo haha

JWO has got talent.

I earned it!😂

I wonder if John Oliver has done an episode on the H1B lottery

9:25 watching the episode 10 years later on RU-vid

Consider an Oxford comma? lol otherwise there are some interesting stories mashed together. But either way thanks so much for putting these up. It’s quite disheartening or perhaps encouraging? to know we haven’t died yet but it’s all happened before.

1:13 I think one of those stills is from the OVA of Fist of the North Star, but I'm not sure

This is still as relevant then as it is now

John Oliver is the funniest human alive. He is our generation's George Carlin. ❤

"You can't spell 'colossal privacy violation' without lol." I'm a bit sad that this joke got buried in audience applause, what a gem

No one beats James Joyce's love letters.

Oh my god 😂😂too freaking funny 😂😅

9:29 I pay for HBO.

america ball deserves all the awards

was watching this when I was 11 lol. i'm in college now! crazy how much has changed over the years. john's looking better than ever these days if i do say so myself 😏

i had no idea john mentioned akb48 omg

😂 I am watching in 2024 and hilarious that the world never changes. Same issues, same weirdness, same humour needed to deal with it 😅

I wish we could go back to the days under Bill Clinton's economy. With some of 2024 fixes.

Working in a precision aerospace machine shop that was a Boeing subcontractor in the early 2000s, we knew _then_ not to fly Boeing!

28:45 It's not bad but when the second dog said the thign abotu secret prisons the first dog should have said "that sounds like something a communist would say, are you a communist?"

There's Billy and then everyone else... strongly agree

Um... As a Japanese, I'd like to point out that part of the reason why the Japanese are so pacifistic and obsessed with anti-war is the last war ended disastrous after a certain country dropped A-bombs on Japan for the first and only time in human history. But um... proud of being the pervert uncle by the way.

There's a difference between money and wealth. If .05% are holding 99% of money, imagine how much the total wealth would cost if it were purchased with money, given that the "wealth" actually doesn't exist yet.

I'm an atheist, but God damn this is the funniest rant I've ever heard!

Don’t you wish you had named your member “Jerry ” Warren…

6:36 I think they eventually caught up with the guy wearing the horse mask, and he said he did it because he reckoned it would guarantee him being on tv.

I might be out of some loop but why do i sometimes hear those little jabs against Roberto Benigni? I mostly remember him from the Life is Beautiful movie. Did he ever do anything bad?

is that buckets the drummer??

Yes

Remember when people used to say "The President" and meant Obama?

John Oliver sounds more British in these earlier seasons.

Funny that class warfare comes up whenever the rich are ever even remotely in danger of being fair.

Lol thank goodness we spend 2016 whining about Obama 😂

It's so sad this was the last episode before John's sudden suicide via being eaten by sharks in a swiming pool.

he's missing the akb48 member who was a CGI amalgamation of 7 other members!

7:19 Yikes, sounds like meeting the president would be hell for neurodivergent and disabled people. Secret service would hate stimming.

Obama just had to ask the NHS what average Americans were doing and have them say, "You don’t want to know." To which he'd say, "Yes I do. I'm the president and these are my constituents." Then the NHS would explain that he is not ready for such horrors, which would lead to a dad joke, then finally the NHS would cave and show him Tumblr.

2014.07.13

I'm trying to decide whether or not I'm looking forward to the Trump presidency episodes.

No way the CIA got some millennials running their social💀💀

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver S01E10: Income inequality and wealth inequality, aired on July 13, 2014

Around 13:01 ooohhh poor 2014 John. Definitely nothing ominous about the roaring 20s. Did he predict another world event?

You can tell this is the first season because John is still being way too nice. What he is describing as "American Optimism" is in fact American Delusion.

Here is the pilot episode from paw patrol

Classy talk about class warfare and smutty old presidents !

How about a story on the Gordie Howe bridge, and the massive corruption plot to stop it by a weird billionaire. You have some canadian writers yes?

Are these re-runs form long ago?

no government tweet will ever live up to the ones jaboukie young-white made making fun of them.

Here's one "hey cia how do us citizens become an asset, do you cash them in upon death"

This was a decade ago, what has changed? Or did I miss something.

14:20 "You would think that in a democracy..." That's the mistake people keep making. Oh, we ARE a democracy, because "constitutional republic" or whatever other label people want to use is solidly in the camp of "democracy," but the thing that people regularly ignore is "DEMOCRACY FOR WHO." Democracy is literally "rule of the people" (rule = kratos, people = demos), but "rule" is determined by "who makes the decisions." Once you figure out "who makes the decisions," you now have an inkling as to who it is a "democracy" for. Spoiler: the average citizen has to protest and/or riot in order to be heard and taken seriously, whereas the owners of capital, the onwers of land and the old-money aristocracy need only pick up the phone to get all or most of what they want, and even have their lawyers write up the bills that our "representatives" then pass with very little discussion and almost no time spent actually reading, so it's very much "democracy" for what most people appropriately call "the ruling class." That means that, while it is a "democracy," it is still little more than feudalism with the deniability of elections; even the feudal lords of the middle ages practiced some form of democracy among themselves. America Ball! Such a fun game! Next week I might be a winner! I just have to work harder so that maybe one of the people who won the rich person side of it might decide that they want to pay me more, even though statistically they won't...but they MIGHT!

Are you sure that wasn't Clinton... 🙂

The hell is up with the Homeward Bound meets CIA bs!?

Kinda quint, some of the issues, a president using complete sentences

Income is going up for the wealthy because we don't produce as much as we used to. People buy Chinese goods at Walmart and off Amazon. Globalism is a big part of that. You can tax the rich to a point, but that only really puts a cap on potential growth. We have the most progressive income tax in the world. That's a fact. Want to fix the problems, break up monopolies, start buying American goods, vote out career politicians, do something about the fed and limit or tax Blackrock, state street, and vanguard ability to buy homes. Also, make it easier to start business.

Did I just see Elyse Willems biting her own toenails?

I take offense

Hello!

Like, minutes counted up in 24 hour time the income inequality that I live with being disabled in a subtropical socialist democracy I have all the rain drops in the local sky to avoid while watching… 4:10 I shouldn’t have written this comment for this long

One Arab walks into a Saudi consulate in Turkey and disappears. #wheredidhego ?