Xi Jinping: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) 

Stop saying I look like Winnie the Pooh smh

I asked my friend what it’s like living in China, he said ‘Can’t complain’

For some strange reason, HBO is no longer available in China.

The laughter of the woman in the crowd that you can hear throughout the episode is something that brings me a smile.

Do you think John Oliver sits in a room sometimes and asks himself, "What country do I never want to visit the rest of my life this week?"

*I guess China won't tolerate any That's What Xi Said jokes*

To the girl that got to say the uncensored f word on national tv and get paid for it this was probably the greatest moment of her life lol

I worked with some exchange students from China, and I brought up the Winnie The Pooh vs Xi situation and they had obviously absolutely no idea what I was talking about, so I showed them multiple examples and they thought it was the best thing they’ve ever seen about him

Am I the only one who was patiently waiting for a “That’s what Xi said” joke? :(

Reasons kids know bad words 4.Classmates 3. older Siblings 2. The weird uncle 1. Singing for JOHN OLIVER

12:48 I love how John added a roast for AT&T in there. 😂

Fun fact: this zazu bit was done WAY before The Lion King reboot was announced so while it's fair to assume that was already in the works, it's also fair to figure he just threaded the joke needle

AT&T literally did become their parent company and John Oliver kept shit talking and criticising them. So good!

The last time I heard “we’ll share our prosperity with the world” the fire nation invaded soon after

Jesus, Liu Xiaobo was already my hero before I even knew about the mug thing. Imagine now.

-999 Social Credits 👎😡

That last picture with the Winnie the pooh mugs was some classy last defiance

Xi Jinping seems like the type to pretend to dislike comparisons to Winnie the Pooh so his opponents start to unconsciously associate him with a cuddly, harmless cartoon animal.

that belt and road song is stuck in my head now...

That lady's high laugh at 10:57 brightens my day.

... Sales of Winnie the Poo Tshirts have since skyrocketed in Hong Kong and Macau

Can't believe you didn't use the *"That's what Xi said"* joke

我是台灣人 謝謝

revisiting this episode in the present day, I can safely say even John Oliver understated how bad Xi truly is.

I love how ballsy that AT&T joke was.

Right back to this after blizzard and NBA incident Edit: back again boys after red candle games incident (Dec 2020)

i had autoplay on and I wasnt paying attention, i heard the crowd laughing after oliver said something and i got scared lmao

That Winnie the Pooh really tied the room together.

That social credit score is like that episode of black mirror

Winnie the Pooh 50% Beloved character 50% Anti-PRC symbol

anyone want to send a Winnie the Pooh plush to a chinese embassy?

Wow, insults the most powerful man on earth on camera, legendary.

I'm actually in China at this very moment, streaming this over a VPN, pissing myself laughing, and sharing it with my Chinese friends, who are also laughing, albeit slightly nervously. Well done, sir. Well done indeed!

I love how John leaned so much into the Zazu resemblance that he ended up dubbing him in the Lion King remake lol

I love the one lady in the background whose laughter lingers just a little longer than everyone else

_Just keep in mind that _*_China_*_ is trying to keep a lot of dark secrets hidden, but if I went there, my social credit score would plummet out of nowhere._

Never heard of the Winnie the Pooh reference, which means the government’s censorship works pretty well.

When covid pandemic is over. I want another episode on China, please.

I'm from the future! That Chinese woman saying she's optimistic about the future, really didn't see post-2020 China coming

That song at the end deserves a Grammy.

Pls, do another episode about China and the current events

Xi Jinping the type of dude to eat KitKat bars together unsnapped

I forgot what late night show had Andy Serkis reading Trumps tweets in Gollum’s voice but we need Jim Cummings to read things from Xi in Winnie the Pooh’s voice.

this show is so good i discovered it when i was searching about the Uighurs.

I love how bored all the kids in that propaganda song look while the kids in the parody are having the time of their lives

Gonna go on a whim and say this video is blocked from all social media in china hhh

The Reese’s mug joke was absolute fucking gold and the audience just missed it

Dude if you keep making awesome content like this you'll end up like Patriot Act.

I'm in China right now, and the moment he said "and even: high speed Internet" the video stopped and started buffering. Should I be worried

What makes this episode remarkable is that John was able to make subtle digs to BOTH the net neutrality ruling and the AT&T-Time Warner merger in a deep dive segment that we all know can take weeks and months to produce 🤯

I lived in the west of China where the Uyghur people are in 2008....I saw people being thrown out their houses at gunpoint and having them bulldozed in front of them. I hung about with some Uyghur people and was constantly being followed and pulled into police stations for questioning. I once googled Tibet and the internet went down and the police arrived at the door. Very scary place

Over 3,000 to 2 votes on abolishing term limits Breaking news: those two people who voted against it have seemingly disappeared and no one can track them how weird..

After this aired the words "John Oliver" have been censored on Chinese internet

I love that of the photos of US Presidents eating ice cream, Eisenhower looks like the ice cream bar fought against him in the Second World War and he's finally getting revenge, yet now without that hatred fueling his drive and ambition, he experiences an existential crisis mid-bite.

8:32 don't think you've thought that abbreviation through enough...

I love how he made a reference to him being Zazu from the lion king before playing him in the remake lol

11:27 "lean in" One Year Later we got the remade Lion King featuring John Oliver as Zazu

I think John Oliver more closely resembles Milhouse.

I'm here from five years in the future watching this... You had no idea what was coming. OMG, lol

John think you may need to revisit this now.

"Who stays up until 1:30 in the morning to watch John Oliver" Me: "Oh boy 1:30 A.M.!"

3000 and only 2. Really want to know what happen to those 2.

Have to point out that tho ‘Xi Da Da’ actually means ‘Father Xi’

Well if AT&T decides to pull John I'm sure Netflix is dying to snatch him up.

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It's curious that Disney cast John as the cartoon character he self-professes to resemble the most XD

Hi Last Week Tonight. I'm a social studies teacher, and I absolutely love your videos and would love to show them to my students. Would you ever consider putting out a school appropriate version of your videos, with the swear words bleeped out and some more appropriate jokes? Because this is awesome information that students need to know!!

“Hide your strength and Bid your time” is wise and intelligent quote that can be useful for victory in all walks of life.

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More stories about New Zealand please!! 🥺

Time for another episode on Xi

So someone in China saw the episode Nosedive on Black Mirror and said that’s a great way to run a society........ Neat

currently living in China and just wanted to remind people that in general Chinese people are very nice, warm people that have a lot more in common with us than they have differences. unfortunately their sources of information are heavily filtered and they don't exist in the same political climate (I.e. in America we have well defined rights to assembly, protest, etc).. just keep any animosity or anger you have aimed towards greedy politicians and well removed from the lovely people of this country.

I know this isn’t the main take-away, but now we can add Biden to photos of the Ice Cream eating presidents. 🍦

"List of untrustworthy people" Well would you look at that

This is blocked in China with a VPN to HK. HAHAHA

That social score thing reminds me of the Nosedive episode in Black Mirror

Belt and Road is looking like it's found its belt and is now hanging off a bridge over a road 😂

Protect Taiwan, Free Hong Kong, down with the CCP

As a Chinese international student currently studying in U.S, I have to say the evidence shown in this video is really accurate and, subjectively saying, haunting, because even I know all of these facts from different sources, subconsciously I am just paralyzed to feel anxious enough of the changes happening in China. I’d like to discuss some of the positive social changes not mentioned in this video before jumping into my concern of current state of China. Firstly, the infrastructure development in China is skyrocketing. Citizens of china have their style of transportation completely changed in the past several years. When I went back to China during vacations, I was stunned of how convenient living has become in China. It is objectively true that you can live in a Chinese city with no cards, no wallets, but only your phone… Ok, the more important part…Every time in the history of China when our country becomes the strongest in the world, there would always be a wise yet powerful, authoritarian leader…no exceptions…The very idea of personality cult is rooted in our tradition, culture and, frankly saying, everything. Due to the ancient and influential filial system, Chinese are bonded together in the form of family. Every family in a tightly bonded community and most Chinese carry the duties of maintaining this community their entire lives. Personally saying, I found this iconic nature of Chinese people separates us from the western culture. Why do I want to discuss about Chinese families…well…since most Chinese are deeply concerned with their family community, living conveniently and happily is all that matters. If the leader of China can grant substantial positive changes to Chinese family communities, almost all Chinese won’t ever, ever, ever care of totalitarianism whatsoever. It is a bit of exaggeration, but in the majority cases, what I mentioned above can be applied to Chinese people’s reasoning. Even myself is considering how to payback my parents after I finished my education, and I am 100% fine with it. This leads to my concern: what will happen next to my own country? I don’t know the answer… Chinese people won’t stop our president as long as the family communities prosper. Our president is totally determined to push the influence of China to global scale. And with it, I could only say: absolute power corrupts absolutely…This corruption of power has fallen unto all powerful Chinese leaders throughout the history. We can still pointlessly hope that our president is not traditionally powerful leader, because what else can we do? What will diverge our Chinese people’s fate to another direction instead of repeating the Chinese history repeatedly…I truly don’t know…

Did you know an Indian news reporter was fired after calling him 11 jinping!😂

This needs a part 2

This must be MA 16+ tv show.

All the dystopian novels are coming true one at a time

Well done, as I read the Chinese news, your show and HBO is banned in China now, so fragile Xi is.

I can't stop laughing every time John shits on AT&T

Three years later and this is still brilliant

I have a friend who moved to America from a China and my history teacher was talking about censorship when she made a comparison to Tiananmen Square and asked my friend about it to make a point. My friend admitted she’d never known anything at all had happened in Tiananmen Square. This was just four years ago

A pretty balanced video. I've lived in China for four years now, and a lot of media reporting on the country misses the key issues. In my opinion, Xi is very concerned about keeping the middle class happy. Thankfully John doesn't overplay the "he's turning China into a police state" card which so many people in the western media often do. If he tightens the grip too much, he's going to run into trouble. The Chinese elite have always viewed the masses with fear. The analogy goes: the people are the ocean, the government is a boat. The ocean can support the boat, but if it gets riled up, it is the ocean that sinks it. TLDR: This is pretty complicated stuff; no one knows where China is headed; John does a good job with that.

And the ending song gonna stuck in my head for at least a week

"4000 different stories on new zealand" 😂 yeah cause were awesome

"I'm going to stay on top indefinitely" . . . . That's what Xi said😁

Banned in China hahaha. Damn man you guys hit a soft spot.

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The productionvalue:)! Best report i have ever seen.

Two years on and I finally connected the dots on that Zazu joke. He leaned so far into it that he voiced Zazu in the live action.

Seeing John Oliver predict his role in the lion king is amazing

This is the best show, great job.

This has 11k dislikes and I can't help but think that's Chinese bots trying to tank the algorithm...

None of those kids can go to China now lol