S11 E11: Opioid Settlements, Rishi Sunak & Eurovision: 5/12/24: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 

HBO, what's that? - Max CEO

I legit thought this was one of their S1 uploads, until I noticed that the cityscape background behind John was the latest one. I'm non-American so I sometimes just forget when they air their shows.

I actually have Max, but episodes of Last Week Tonight take like a full week to show up maybe because they need to subtitle them or something. Either way, I love getting to see these in full, just as they come out and LEGALLY.

Ain't your friend, pal

Never HBO max!!!

He was the absolute best. He should have won. Never have lauged so hard at eurovision

Fun fact, the pyros were done by Finnish company. Coincidence, or revenge?

@@happosade we (the finns) hate sweden, so i would say it was coincidence but seeing what it did... they doubled their efforts to make it "accidental"

@@netter11But we love you? 😢

@@Auroth_DI we love you too as one loves a brother they hate/love, but dont tell anyone i said that or my finnish citizenship is revoked

or giant check ;)

@@enanefy latter would still require the former

@@emmettbrown3463for such song and perfomance, yes

Hey! I still remember Lordi, they were unbelievable!

I't reminded me the Sabbaton singer, he had to fill up the singer role until they find new singer, he was on keyboard at first. But they never found new singer.

I looked it up and was disappointed to see how much he "didn't win" 😭😭

Yeah, Sara Siipola could have won, but Windows95Man was simply more fun

​@@SongfugelShe may have not even made it into the final. Good song but boring and way too similar to like half the other entries.

@@Songfugel I think the show has evolved into something where winning actually doesn't really matter, it's all about embracing the silliness. USA tried to replicate Eurovision a few years ago but they didn't understand that the geniusness of it all is on how stupid it all is. It's three hours of barely listenable songs each country is forcing the rest to listen. Full of local quirks. And in the end someone wins and gets to host this spectacle next year. Once in a blue moon someone comes there with a song that survives past the event. Usually they don't, not even if they win.

He made me the opposite of proud.

They couldn't, at least before (it is banned in Eurovision), also Windows95 isn't a MS trademark anymore. That being said, Microsoft has given its ok and full support on their official channel to him, ever since the UMK (first qualification) started. Too bad the dum-dums at Eurovision forced the Windows95Man to censor the windows95 logo, even though it is a discontinued product and has no copyright/trademark issues anymore

people were actually asking if its even ok for them to use microsofts name like that before they qualified but then microsoft finland came with the statement basically saying "go ahead". Like its literally free advertising =D

@@Rosterized Not only that, but EBU doesn't allow trade marks. So it wasn't only about if Windows would be allowing it, but also if he could even use the name in the contest. EBU decided the name can stay since he's been performing as a DJ with the artist name for years. But the branding had to be removed, so the logos were printed with a blurr to the final state clothing and such.

Microsoft Finland has had parties for their staff where Windows95Man had done DJ gigs.

they'll do that to try make people forget about the hideous layouts they can't stop doing

🤣 We have plans for the next year

Their only win was a metal band who were in monster costumes in 2006, you could argue they haven't outdone that since

@@fjooyou ah, Lordi was great, but you could argue that Käärijä's 2nd place success was even greater. (And yes, I'm still salty about that jury vote)

@@zeizei8475having fun with that yle-app are we 😂

Why the Windows logo had to be blurred is beyond me. Oh, wait. Freaking archaic copyright laws, right? 🙄

They got money big enough to -bribe- lobby Clarence Thomas.

It's easier to jail the poor whether guilty or innocent than the rich no matter how guilty.

Not to be sarcastic And not to be a jerk But come on Do I really need to say more than Amazing lawyers and billionaires Come on haven't you learned by now Jail is for the poor Remember I'm not Remember I'm not criticizing you I'm not criticizing poor people I'm just giving my opinion from what I've seen the past 50 years

Do you really want to put bunch of rich Karen's in jail? The lawsuit legal proceedings alone will outweigh the settlement

Rich addicts don't go to jail.

Cheers, from Finland 😂🙈

Thanks! Our serious contenders would have lost anyway, so might as well lose in a hilarious way. Windows95man understood the assignment: it's not about winning, it's about being entertaining.

@@suakeli 😂👍

shame we can talk about Eurovision, but John Oliver would never talk about Muslims demanding Germany be transformed into a Caliphate every day in public protests now, i guess that's not interesting topic

For me John was a year too late tho lol would love to see him chant "Cha cha cha cha cha cha cha"

I am from Finland and I approve your approval.

@@Qloke I am fm Greece and i approve that you approve the other Fin approval. Guys there is no way to explain Eurovision to Americans Its like explain that Africa is a continent not a country

Same

Along with Cruella and Priti

Yes!!!👏🏻 I was just thinking they all immigrated and yet they’re trying to block other people who are in far more dire situations!??!? Mind blowing!!

​@@dreaminginjapanthe difference is people that are illegally entering!

Yeah some people care about the law and some people think it's more a suggestion than a rule. That's why America is on the verge of a civil war​@@TheBurrito4321

Modern politics is a puppet show, he's not the one making decisions

Back when Beatles was together.

and Im sorry if Im wrong, but those politicians in the clip, look like children of those Pakistanis and Indians

Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech and the National Front

It's painful to look at.

me too

This is what hides behind the shell of an introvert.

just like with Käärijä last year! it seems that Finland is finally hatching out of its (denim) shell and showing that being a Finn is not just brooding around and having depression. while a Finn might be reserved and introverted at first, once you get to know them, you'll have a good time :D

Torille! ❤

To be fair Eurovision this year wasn’t very fun to talk about either

I thought he was gonna say that UK got zero points from public yet again

@@justinakilik what do you mean, its always fun seeing the UK get zero points every year

@@wangsengsin2527 lol XD this year was my first time watching. do they always get 0 points from the audience, or has it just been ever since brexit?

@@Phoca_Vitulina Brexit played a part, but usually it’s because they send uninspired garbage

I know what you mean-comedians such as Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, etc. certainly bolster your point-and the context in which you made your statement. But as fun as it is to mock the so-called "journalists" in the mold of Piers Morgan, Tucker Carlson, or any of the talking heads/panelists at Fox (a propaganda network, tbh), it's important to make a distinction and remember the many who've made the ultimate sacrifice trying to bring truth to light with their reporting: Anna Politkovskaya, Jamal Khashoggi, Dalia Marko, etc. Putin infamously has murdered Russian journalists who dare investigate his actions. Add to that list the many more who have died covering war zones. You might not consider them "the heart and soul of our society" because, hey, I'll admit they don't bring as much joy as the entertainers, whom I truly appreciate for what their wit and humor brings into my life, but I cherish a dry but straight, incorruptible, brave journalist doing their job well, too.

out of curiosity - I am neither from america nor am I a lawyer so I prolly got the wrong impression, but - does the lawsuits saying that the defendants can no longer get sued for those past things they just got sued for mean that non-government parties can't sue them either? Such as private persons who wants their _own_ reparations. Or class-actions for many private persons? And if so, I assume that means the government has explicitly made it such that they have taken over the responsibility for those things? So if a private person or a class action wants reparations, then it is now the government they should sue instead? Because I think that's the only way one can handle absolution of responsibility - transfer it through a transitive property to the one absolving said responsibility from the first owner.

source? lmao that's too funny.

source

Citation needed.

Dude, if it is a joke, maybe let it clear

Or they could just make an international group effort to start fixing the problems in these countries so people wouldn't need to emigrate away from there as refugees to begin with! It would be way more humanitarian and cheaper alternative

As a Swede I always appreciate Finland adding a bit of spice to Eurovision.

A year late...

Suomi mainittu, Torilla tavataan! (And that's 80% of the Finnish I know. The other 20% is 'Perkele')

I am not bothered that we didn't win, we shoulda won last year but looking at the mess that was this year I am glad we didn't. Windows95man was great though, true master of the stage, also the singer with him was very good. Many other artists did a 90s to early 2000s retro thing too, and SO many good artists this year, so many artists to listen to afterwards.

Torille

I'm gonna hide in my sauna until it's safe 😅

If I'd have had to guess how Finland would be mentioned in LWT it would have been along the lines of "Finland, a country you think of so rarely you didn't even realise that's not Finland, THIS is Finland" with corresponding maps of the Baltic Sea with first Sweden and then Estonia highlighted.

@@Oliolli3 We did get mentioned once before, I think it was like "best overseas destinations to host your lesbian wedding" or something like that?

We know a fking star when we see one!!! 😀

Snake oil salesmen

M o n o r a i l !!!🎶🎵

Yes!

Finland has rules !

fuck finland

Torille! 🇫🇮

As a recent first time visitor to Finland, what an experience- helps understand your Eurovision entries better too!! I'll be visiting again, armed with my useful vocabulary: laktoositon, kiitos!

@@charleediaven6278 and the one rule is:

We actually did learn about it pretty quick... Then forgot or were forced into circumstances where there was no other choice, then we remembered..... Then we forgot, then we remembered and now we have toilets

It's better this was they will even reach a higher audience

Plus those other channels were always some weird Vietnamese ones that had crappy quality. I am very glad LWT decided to go...nuh uh.

Heard in an interview that John Oliver sort of bought the rights of doing whatever he wants with his own stuff. At least his old stuff.

No, it's because it's only released in its entirety in areas where it's not available to buy or stream.

​@@primalconvoy not true. Here in Brazil we could watch him on HBO but also now on RU-vid Maybe they were thinking on the countries without access, but they left it for the whole world

Although he got as much "rizz" as a molded lunchbox, thus not qualifying to be a snack 😂

In Japan are laws againts imigrants much harsher. Same for Australia...

They've got great researchers on Last Week Tonight, but all the key criticisms of the Sunak policy don't hold up. * That it won't work (9:30) - In Australia, it did work. The conservative Liberal party there had a sudden surge of migrants in boats in the 00s, so they made a deal to deport them to another country. The numbers dropped to almost 0 within weeks. The more left leaning Labor party then dropped the deal, and immediately the boat arrivals returned. Thousands again. Many dead by drowning. The old policy returned and immediately numbers back to near 0 and hasn't been a significant issue for over a decade as it became bipartisan. (source: BBC "How Australia wrote the 'stop the boats' playbook") * That it's too expensive - Based on the above, the reply here (8:30) was valid. While per person its expensive, if like Australia the deterrent works, it should go down to near 0 and save millions of dollars and lives from drowning. Additionally, for every refugee that arrives, on average it takes 3 generations for them to not be an economic burden to their new nations (Economic Assimilation of the “Third Generation”: An Intergenerational Mobility Perspective, Sage Journals). So there is a cost to taking refugees (although personally I feel it's more humane to take them, that is the economic reality and the politicians arguing that are not wrong) * Rwanda not being safe (5:43) - It's actually ranked one of the safest countries in the world. - 37th safest in the world (one place HIGHER than the UK in 38th) (source: Global Finance Magazine "The aftermath of a global pandemic re-shuffles Global Finance’s ranking of the world’s safest countries.") - 6th safest for solo travellers (source: "Rwanda the 6th safest country for solo travellers, new survey finds" Euro News) - Safest country in Africa (source: Statista "Safest countries in Africa 2024") * Lastly, that they are desperate and fleeing to the UK 'out of necessity' (9:30) - the vast majority come from the middle east and Africa. To get tot he UK, they are passing through many safe nations and regions they could take shelter and file the same refugee claim. But they choose to go to the UK. If they were desperate they would stop off at any one of those other european nations - in fact the UK would be one of the furthest options from both those regions, which is why the UK government are right to have some suspicion. I'm very much pro-refugees, but Last Week Tonight mislead the facts here.

How surreal to think that the people of the UK should be all cheery and happy with illegals coming to their shores and using their country as an ATM...

@@AZ2PM Wonder why you don't go into details on the criticism of Australia's human rights abuses concerning 'boats'. Or why you suddenly say 'refugees' instead of 'migrants' when you talk about the economic productivity. Or why you insinuate this is the only possible way to prevent people from drowning in the Channel. Or why you simple just leave out the fact that the UK themselves didn't consider Rwanda safe until it got convenient - and funnily enough will force people to stay in Rwanda WHETHER their asylum claim gets accepted or not. After all someone 'very much pro-refugees' would never deliberately manipulate facts like that right? Afraid I can't call you out without the comment being banned :(

@@AZ2PM There is literally no way you can say you are pro-refugee and write what you wrote. The Australian policy you reference in its first iteration sent refugees and folks seeking asylum to detention centers they built in other countries like Papua New Guinea and the island of Nauru, detention centers that have since faced international condemnation for their harsh treatment of detainees, many of whom were/are children, and for violations of international law. Furthermore, there have been decreases in boats more recently because of how the Australian navy has intervened and threatened violence against boats coming in or even cases of the government paying boats to turn around - both pieces illegal under international law regarding asylum seekers. Is this what you call “success?” People seeking safety being imprisoned, threatened, or paid off? There are also flaws with your argument against the show. You name that the show claimed that Rwanda was not safe. The show said that the UK government declared it unsafe and then Sunak’s admin pushed a new policy to declare it a safe haven. How is that the show claiming anything about Rwanda’s level of safety? Despite you claiming to be pro-refugee, this really feels like you critiquing the show’s research to justify anti-asylee and anti-refugee viewpoints. I’m truly not sure what you are trying to do here with this argument.

If people had listened back then to people asking to stop indian immigration, he wouldn't be in power. Strong argument in favour of stopping islamic refugees entering your lands

i c a n t 😭

unless you're planning to do some vendettas... right?

No wonder those lobbies are supporting and pushing for Trump’s reelection…

Opioids are not even the villain here, capitalism is. Opioids has its legit uses. And that wouldn't be a problem, hadn't it been for the extreme greed.

Name one country that does that (not as a one time thing but as legal practice)

@@gordielaforge42 Actually, it's even more strict in US. It's just the Sacklers and Purdue are a bunch of slippery salesman. Don't blame the doctors, blame the sales.

​@@MrMartinNeumann here in Brazil doctors always go for the alternatives. We don't need to threaten them with crime tough, since the farma industry is reigned in

In that context, it sounds like sour grapes.

What he do?

@@Stuff857 He's a second gen Japanese immigrant who's doing his damndest to prevent other immigrants from getting into the country. Ironically, nobody would give a damn about his ethnicity if he weren't such a xenophobic pos.

@@Stuff857 Japanese guy, who grifts on scaremongering with immigrants. Also used to love immigrants but the liberal schtick didn't actually make him money. (This mf literally steals his party's donations for personal use.)

Okamura addressing his audience: Ja nejsem racista! His audience: Tomio! Tomio!

That sounds like a Japanese name 😀

So people would think he was naked on the scene. I suppose. Also, weird rules about censoring in some countries.

i mean, you pooped out medicine too

@@hanifarroisimukhlis5989 I suppose technically it has been properly handled and disposed off

@@Phonixrmf not really, many drugs pass out unchanged, while others got activated with metabolism. Remember back then we used to recover penicilin from urine because it's so expensive?

I'm American and I flew to Mexico to watch this :)

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Is this how it always is? I typically watch from Korea, but I'm back in The States for a couple weeks. Jumped on the VPN and it worked. Does it typically unlock after a day, or so, Stateside?

@@XaeroDegreaz It is region locked for the US until Thursday

I can’t believe we went from “you’re never getting another clip on here again” to “here, have literally everything” in the span of like a week. i love this show lol