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Aces High posted:how much money are they sinking into these catheter ads anyway? who knows, but they have HBO money to play with
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And as they pointed out, ad space during The O'Reilly Factor is suddenly a lot cheaper than it used to be.
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Apr 13, 2017 07:25
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I don't know where the previous goon is from, but when they introduced these ads they said they were only airing in the DC area, so it's probably a regional ad purchased through RCN and costs no more than Bob's Chevrolet of Arlington or whatever spends on an advertisement.
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Apr 13, 2017 09:26
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Oliver said they'd also be airing them in NYC. I can't imagine either market is cheap to advertise in, but maybe this particular show is cheap right now.
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Apr 13, 2017 12:25
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Didn't John Oliver and LWT make a SuperPAC or something a long time ago? Probably using the money from donations to that for the show's sillier stuff, like FoxNews ad buys of a catheter cowboy lecturing Trump. :P
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Apr 13, 2017 13:59
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Apoplexy posted:Didn't John Oliver and LWT make a SuperPAC or something a long time ago? Probably using the money from donations to that for the show's sillier stuff, like FoxNews ad buys of a catheter cowboy lecturing Trump. :P It was Our Lady of the Perpetual Exemption, which was a legal tax-exempt church. They already gave away the donations to Doctors Without Borders.
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Apoplexy posted:Didn't John Oliver and LWT make a SuperPAC or something a long time ago? Probably using the money from donations to that for the show's sillier stuff, like FoxNews ad buys of a catheter cowboy lecturing Trump. :P Colbert was the one that did a superpac back when he had a good show.
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Ah, gotcha, it was, indeed, the church that I was thinking of. And you'd be surprised, but Colbert turned his show around a full 180 from the shitstorm it was before Trump was elected. It's now The Colbert Report in an hour-long slot.
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Apr 13, 2017 15:44
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They've always had a bit of a budget, and they haven't actually done too many stunts this season aside from the ads and one Zebra suit.
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Apoplexy posted:Ah, gotcha, it was, indeed, the church that I was thinking of. And you'd be surprised, but Colbert turned his show around a full 180 from the shitstorm it was before Trump was elected. It's now The Colbert Report in an hour-long slot.
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Apr 13, 2017 16:28
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SlothfulCobra posted:They've always had a bit of a budget, and they haven't actually done too many stunts this season aside from the ads and one Zebra suit. Most of that budget goes to the investigation team though.
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Apr 13, 2017 16:37
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M_Gargantua posted:Most of that budget goes to the investigation team though. It's really something that their investigative work is basically justified by the silly poo poo stunts.
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Apr 13, 2017 19:17
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I assume that LWT has a standing mascot budget separate from everything else. Considering how comparatively few mascots they've had this season that means that we are coming due for a deluge of new mascots.
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Apr 13, 2017 19:21
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Gyges posted:I assume that LWT has a standing mascot budget separate from everything else. Considering how comparatively few mascots they've had this season that means that we are coming due for a deluge of new mascots. Did we ever need anything but frozen gently caress lizards?
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notthegoatseguy posted:Oliver said they'd also be airing them in NYC. I can't imagine either market is cheap to advertise in, but maybe this particular show is cheap right now. Yeah, I'm in a NYC market.
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Apr 13, 2017 21:17
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I wonder how much practice it took for him to get that down.
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Apr 17, 2017 07:44
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Mélenchon would have won.
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I laughed far far to hard at Larry Skywalker and his weird bear.
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That guy seems like the french version of Herman Cain. It also seems unfair to bring in one of the candidates' romantic life into things, because if we're going to start talking about the weird sex lives of french presidents, we'll be here all day. There was a missed opportunity of not mentioning one of the last big French exits: Vietnam. I've known for a while that France had a lot of issues with nationalism and islamophobia and whatnot, and I've been hearing rumors that they'll try leaving the EU, so I guess most of this wasn't that surprising. It's bizarre to see all the news people in France pulling the same ol' everything's fine in a burning building routine after this has already happened multiple times with major countries in the world. The fact that there is a crazy harmful party holding seats with a candidate actually in the running in the first place is a major sign that there are major things wrong and even if she doesn't take the election, that doesn't mean you don't have major problems. It was already a horror show when Trump got past the primaries.
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If nothing else at least it's going to be an amusing bit of historical irony that WW3 will be democratic Germany against a fascist France, UK, and US.
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Gyges posted:I assume that LWT has a standing mascot budget separate from everything else. Considering how comparatively few mascots they've had this season that means that we are coming due for a deluge of new mascots. You know it's an HBO show when they've got a budget line for lobster.
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I still love his longer pieces, but the news of the week part at the beginning is getting more and more tedious. I don't even watch much other TV, but I feel like I've heard/seen a millions comments/jokes on the Holocaust centers and chocolate cake thing already. Surely our President and his press secretary have said something else dumb, but less well known this week.
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Undeclared Eggplant posted:I still love his longer pieces, but the news of the week part at the beginning is getting more and more tedious. I don't even watch much other TV, but I feel like I've heard/seen a millions comments/jokes on the Holocaust centers and chocolate cake thing already. Surely our President and his press secretary have said something else dumb, but less well known this week.
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LividLiquid posted:The show is literally called Last Week Tonight. If only politics in America involved more than one man and his fuckstick press secretary.
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Baronash posted:If only politics in America involved more than one man and his fuckstick press secretary. Considering most of the governmental agencies still don't even have nominations proposed yet, it basically is just a doddering old fat guy and his stammering mess of a press secretary.
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Apr 18, 2017 10:38
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Mr. Fowl posted:You know it's an HBO show when they've got a budget line for lobster. I know the host is English, but don't refer to people like that. It's the 21st century.
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Potato Salad posted:I know the host is English, but don't refer to people like that. It's the 21st century. Yeah, you should call him by his preferred "rat-faced bastard".
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Neeksy posted:Considering most of the governmental agencies still don't even have nominations proposed yet, it basically is just a doddering old fat guy and his stammering mess of a press secretary. Iowa is trying to roll back minimum wage increases, ban abortion, destroy worker's comp, and cut research for sustainable agriculture at the best ag school in the country, and they've only been in session for 3 months. But you're right, the real news is the press secretary calling concentration camps "holocaust centers."
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Baronash posted:Iowa is trying to roll back minimum wage increases, ban abortion, destroy worker's comp, and cut research for sustainable agriculture at the best ag school in the country, and they've only been in session for 3 months. But you're right, the real news is the press secretary calling concentration camps "holocaust centers." Maybe they would talk about it if Iowa had more than 7 viewers.
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Gyges posted:Sounds like Iowa is just being Iowa. Or do we need to complain that nobody is talking about what some idiot did in Florida last hour? This isn't some PTA president embezzling money. It's the state legislature taking an axe to any hint of progressivism purely out of spite, actions which will have long lasting impacts on the lives of millions of people. And they're getting away with it because everyone wants to laugh at Melania nudging Trump to put his hand over his heart. I personally would love to see John drop the weekly recap. But if people are committed to the idea of "hurr durr it's called LAST WEEK Tonight," then maybe he should get into the heinous poo poo that is actually happening right now.
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Baronash posted:Iowa is trying to roll back minimum wage increases, ban abortion, destroy worker's comp, and cut research for sustainable agriculture at the best ag school in the country, and they've only been in session for 3 months. But you're right, the real news is the press secretary calling concentration camps "holocaust centers." You could have posted this from 1983 and I'd believe it. Iowa sucking dicks is nothing new, Trump is a relatively recent development.
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If you live in Iowa are you campaigning against these awful regressive policies? Are you donating to youre local party? Calling youre state representitives? Town Halls? Because if Iowans as a whole are lazy or dumb enough to be ok with this well Last Week Tonight isn't going to change their mind.
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Baronash posted:Iowa is trying to roll back minimum wage increases, ban abortion, destroy worker's comp, and cut research for sustainable agriculture at the best ag school in the country, and they've only been in session for 3 months. But you're right, the real news is the press secretary calling concentration camps "holocaust centers." "Holocaust centers" is funnier than "cutting research for sustainable agriculture". LWT is primarily a comedy show and they can only cover a few things in the opening monologue so they pick the most egregiously ridiculous events from the previous week, slap together a few quick jokes about them, air a brief clip montage of morning hosts awkwardly hitting each other or making Easter puns and then they dive into the main segment which leads up to their stunt/dance routine of the week.
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Apr 18, 2017 18:48
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Basically everything is terrible right now and he only gets half an hour a week to cover it so he has to pick. That said if you're concerned about it, have you thought about getting in contact with the show? It is the sort of thing they tend to cover and they might be more likely to mention it if someone brings it to their attention.
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Apr 18, 2017 19:37
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The UK clearly saw John's main piece this week and were feeling sad about the lack of attention
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Apr 18, 2017 19:56
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Is there a reason why LWT has been so stingy on uploading stories to YouTube this season?
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Apr 18, 2017 20:22
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Arcsquad12 posted:Is there a reason why LWT has been so stingy on uploading stories to YouTube this season? Maybe they want to pump up the HBO numbers and encourage people to pay for the show.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Is there a reason why LWT has been so stingy on uploading stories to YouTube this season? I believe they've only ever uploaded the final segments on the official channel, though it's pretty easy to find the other portions on non-official channels.
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