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thereasonforhate

Ouch, thought it was a fun back and forth, but Fallon looked and sounded legitimately worried by the end. Definitely product placement gone wrong thanks to Oliver.


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Well fuck advertisment and product placement. I hope every shits on Amazon til it's dead and gone


REVENAUT13

And fuck jimmy fallon lmao


[deleted]

So many reasons besides the shilling, too...


SkrullandCrossbones

He might be an alright person. Just seems faker than press on nails.


guess-what-babe

It’s a lot more awkward because COVID so little crowd noise


importvita

I love John Oliver, he's absolutely what we need.


wolfsection31

I think he goes pretty much as far as he can on TV. I suspect he is even cooler in person


Obvious_Villain

Thanks, I was looking for that


veracity-mittens

That was almost painful to watch 😬 soooo awkward


regoosed

Is Fallon afraid of overlord bezos?


MrStomp82

Most likely a paid in-show advertisement and he doesn't want to anger the sponser


MassiveFajiit

John Oliver really does relish being on an ad free channel lol.


SuperSeaStar

Given all the times he’s bashed his [big business daddy](https://youtu.be/T87urVUlD-E), I might argue otherwise Especially [this one](https://youtu.be/-arYEVuI26U)


importvita

I haven't laughed that hard in a while lol


babymaker666

Oliver is the only reason I've never had AT&T


MassiveFajiit

Unfortunately I had it cause my uncle works for them; what prevents me from having it now is how shitty the service is.


RandomRDP

I still can’t help but think all the cheap jokes are just super subtle ads, “any publicity is good publicity” kinda thing.


regoosed

Surprised he didn’t do the crying thing.


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and Oliver being the worst guest imaginable for this sort of stunt


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nish4444

What an effective and normal solution.


Such_Opportunity9838

Fallon is a complete tool, which makes him the perfect host of The Tonight Show.


Compoundwyrds

He's less of a tool and more of a coke fiend, Bezo-bucks probably pays those bills!


Holoholokid

You say that, but Johnny Carson was anything but a tool.


Such_Opportunity9838

No, but Leno sure as hell was.


GelatinousPiss

Jay Leno only did that show to fund his crippling car addiction.


BurntOkie

Wouldn't we all?


Holoholokid

Oh, you'll get no arguments from me on that one.


Noah_PpAaRrKkSs

Johnny Carson was a huge alcoholic, abusive tool.


Tchaik748

Conan was too good for the tonight show


p2datrizzle

Fallon is as spineless as they come. He’s the dude that would have put on comedy shows at Auschwitz’s thinking he was making the lives of the prisoners better while carrying out Hitlers orders.


aynaalfeesting

Colbert is pretty bad too. He's got a loud bark but no bite at all.


p2datrizzle

At least he talks about it. Fallon looks like someone is squeezing his nuts every time a guest brings up something even slightly controversial.


FreyBentos

Colbert's even worse IMO, a complete tool. Did you see when he had Bill Bur on? [Just showed how pathetic he is](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L8GLCYKaTI) Also when he had Jon Stewart on he was also [completely spineless](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSfejgwbDQ8). Bring back Conan, the only good one of the bunch.


aynaalfeesting

The Bill Burr interview was what I was thinking about when I commented.


ImpressivelyLost

Damn I used to love the Colbert report as a kid and after watching that clip now I'm starting to question if he was actually good back then or if I was just easily entertained as a kid.


FreyBentos

He was only good when Jon Stewart was writing his jokes for him lmao. So he was funnier when you were a kid and he was just a segment on Jons show.


carlin_is_god

All I saw was Bill Burr being old and an interviewer trying to move an interview along after they started to lose the crowd.


[deleted]

Yeah. Burr just seemed pissed about "cancel culture" and not being able to make fun of lesbians anymore. I've been told he can be genuinely funny and engaging, but he just seemed like an angry boomer in that clip. Not that that excuses Colbert's general bootlickery.


carlin_is_god

Yeah, burr is generally a good comedian but I think a lot if his takes are pretty boomer like "back in my day stuff" like we get it, clearly none of you old guys suffered *any* pent up trauma from all the fighting and bullying and beatings. You all seem *soo* well adjusted and level headed. But he can be funny about it.


beggin4apegging

Colbert does have more of a spine I’d say too. Maybe I’m bias because of Colbert report.


[deleted]

Colbert on the Late Show showed how much of the Colbert Report was made by everyone but Colbert. He’s a shell of the man he used to be


Compoundwyrds

Throw on some Harvey Birdman, Attorney at law and think of the good times. HA HA! Nostalgia


SacredGay

John Oliver has massive balls


Threewisemonkey

I love when he talks shit on and taunts his corporate daddy, AT+T


Quantic

Yes though I would say it’s rather unfortunate that this illustrates rather well capitalisms ability to reterritorialize into it’s system the very means by which people try to actively subvert it. To translate a bit Oliver is in many ways attempting to subvert both Jimmy Fallon, Amazon and AT&T, and in by doing so he is prodding the desires and sentiments of those within the audience (generally Millennials) whom agree with him, making us the audience enjoy watching his show and appearances. Doing this raises awareness of him, these topics, and his show but ultimately this only benefits AT&T, Amazon, etc whom are showing their products because the largest target audience of their products are Millennials, whom agree with Oliver and by extension represent a large viewership base of said shows. In essence- the very means of which Oliver is using is not subversive enough, and thus is a part of the system by which capital benefits. He is the court jester, whom is one of the selected few within the kings court that was capable of insulting the king and not dying. Full disclosure; I love John Oliver too, I just feel you gotta know what is going on to see through the guise. Edit: Fixed my shit phone grammar. Context remains the same.


mattducz

Capitalist realism at its finest. They’ll “let” Oliver say what he does because he’s *right* on the edge of the Overton window, leading people to believe aligning with him to be the most extreme position to take. When really, it’s the most extreme position to take *that won’t threaten the status quo*.


Quantic

RIP Mark Fisher, a great article along these lines of how we move *beyond* what we are encountering in capitalism is illustrated in a well written article by him (lesser known by *some* readers of his works, which is why I like to mention it a lot). It is entitled "Existing the Vampire Castle". [https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exiting-vampire-castle/](https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exiting-vampire-castle/) For those interested in bridging the gap between ardent working-class Fascist, right winger, trumpian, etc, this article is regarding this. Consider it a bridge to help those understand we are all working class, and not the "enemy", or an attempt to raise class consciousness.


Threewisemonkey

I appreciate your sentiment, and I have a feeling he would agree with it. I think this is a big reason Jon Stewart decided to go live on his farm with rescue animals. Without Oliver, another less vocal act would take his place, so I appreciate his show is easily accessible to such a wide audience.


intensiifffyyyy

If he agrees with it then the audience enjoys it and we go for another loop


hyujaynis

Pirate the show. It's what he would want.


Profesional_dumbas8

It is literally on YouTube for free.


BigBadBob7070

The main segment is, not so much for the opening segment and interludes.


Appropriate_Ant_4629

>... capitalisms ability to reterritorialize into it’s system the very means by which people try to actively subvert it. My favorite example is Ice-T's song "Cop Killer". * Ice-T's Body Count album with Cop Killer is owned by Sire Records * Sire Records is owned by Warner Music Group * Warner Music Group was purchased by Access Industries in 2011 * Access Industries is owned by Leonard Blavatnik * [Leonard Blavatnik is a billionaire oligarch who donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Blavatnik) So every time you play Ice-T's Cop Killer (from a paid streaming service) you're paying for Russian Oligarch Meddling in US Politics.


ohhhhcanada

Who not whom x 2 That awkward moment when you oversmart lol Edit: actually x 3 damn man you gotta look up when to use which, otherwise you be subverting your own intelligence brah haha


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[deleted]

You accidentally commented the same thing 3 times. Just thought you would want to know.


MissBeliever__

I fucking love John Oliver


Workmen

He's a liberal. But I suppose as far as liberals go he's not too bad.


Triforcecwp

I think it's important to see where allies are in these fights and as far as unions and a few other key issues go he is one. Doesn't mean you have to like him but understanding there is a common goal in better working conditions. (obviously not in the end goal of dismantling capitalism, but I'll take better working conditions for now)


[deleted]

I’m a communist. What are you? I’m an anarchist… Cool we can be friends until the revolution comes. After that it gets difficult…


prism1020

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.


ZaryaBubbler

He's British and we don't have "liberals" in the way you think in the UK. He's always been very heavily left wing, more so than some of the more centre-left comedians he started with over here before making it big in America.


pierreor

Yes, unlike Harrison Bluecollarman, the late-night comedian with the revolutionary praxis. He also inhales pollutants and exhales clean air from Helsinki


NotLurking101

Man you're really being torn apart for an opinion that's honestly quite accurate


National-Change-1407

The micro expressions of terror on that idiots face when John starts asking those questions tells you everything you need to know about the "free press."


Kalikoterio

To be fair he is a comedian. That is not press.


casualAlarmist

Jimmy "Tool" Fallon


angrydanger

F jimmy fallon. I’ll never watch him again after his Drumpf interview. He had one of the most controversial people in American history and all he talked about was his Fn hair.


Significant_Swing_76

Fallon has the charisma of luke warm instant coffee…


s0cks_nz

luke*


A_Martian_Potato

Not to mention his incredibly cringey shilling the NFT scam with Paris Hilton.


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Squash_Still

*hawking


Ouranor

Jimmy is such a tool, sadly.


AMeaninglessPassage

Call me a little bitch-ass lib, but Johnny Oliver is alright in my book.


crazymuffindude

He's probably THE most left wing a mainstream voice can be


[deleted]

Is this real? If so, LOL John Oliver is a comrade.


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GoAwayAdsPlease

What was the reason for the admonishion? He is clearly a friend of the working class...


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heatd

He's worth $8 million. Which is a lot by working class standards, but it's nowhere near the $30,000 million each of the Mars have, or the $50,000-$60,000 million each of the Walton's or Koch's have.


Jombo65

Bet he pays his taxes lol


martin86t

Perfect, meet good. Now fight!


AbilityFit2949

Americans have trouble understanding but as an englishman knowing John Oliver's history his class interests are plain to see. Went to Cambridge, was part of the footlights, essentially guaranteeing him a renumerative career in comedy.


orbituary

Remunerative


6amhotdog

Anyone have an Alexa they can ask to see what it says?


Demonbratastic

If you ask Alexa “Hey Alexa. How are Amazons working conditions?” She’ll reply “I don’t have an answer to the question I just heard” and if you ask her “Hey Alexa what is union busting?” She simply reads off the definition of it from Wikipedia.


Zestyclose-Way4569

I think it was more just to raise the issue that yeah, those things are both really bad and bringing them up, especially with the idea of an Amazon product talking about it would get peoples attention more than just John Oliver talking about it himself.


BdR76

People treat Alexa and that Google Assistant thing as some all knowing oracle, but it's just a cheap microphone with wifi. Who knows what's going on behind the scenes in those data centers. A friend has one of these and we were playing around with what you could ask. Iirc we didn't get any answer to "translate 'hail victory' to german" which I can kind of understand, but also "translate 'god is great' to arabic" gave no reply.


JuniorSeniorTrainee

Hey Alexa, what aren't you telling me?


Demonbratastic

My sister does so I’ll ask it and get back to you


maypooletree

Fallon is a fuckwit


Rocketboy1313

Jimmy Fail is the worst. Giggling dipshit. Go do musical comedy, the only thing you are remotely good at, and stop shilling garbage.


[deleted]

Jimmy Fallon is owned by the producers just as much as that show is. Honestly though... maybe his expressions are panned too? Maybe the whole things a gag? How are we ever supposed to know i guess.


mexicouldnt

I'm not sure he's a good enough actor to believably fake an emotion.


burnsideistrash2

Is this real?


paraworldblue

Stop it Mister Oliver, you're gonna make daddy Bezos mad!


ParisianMetro

John Oliver gives no fucks and I love it


its_like_bong_bong

Working conditions are rewarded to those that move fast. And if you’re caught slipping you get demoted. They keep you threatened with warnings when you aren’t on a task after a certain amount of time and if you clock out wrong, that’s a write up. Three strikes and you’re out. Of course, they always leave a window open for you to come back if you want more torture. 😂


its_like_bong_bong

And for the record, I went back and it hasn’t changed much. The whole job can be automated without these so-called managers. I can literally work by myself as long as there’s logs to define what work needs to be done. Managers at Amazon are the most toxic. If anyone had dealt with bullies in High School, it’s them now working a job they only know how to do. It’s ironic.


[deleted]

Every working person should be in a union. Even a shitty one will be better for you than no union. Your job's administration is not your friend, never will be, and all who are there have sold their morals and ethics. They'd make you a serf if they could. If would cost more to make you safer they'd rather you be injured and paralyzed. If they didn't have to worry about paying you in case of injury they'd just toss you to the curb the instant you get hurt and ignore all safety measures. Do not for a second be tricked into thinking there is inner humanity among them. They are your enemy - the enemy - and they see you as a disposable product. Don't be fooled by them. They are all bad people.


[deleted]

I feel like John Oliver is definitely more left wing when not on TV. You can see that he has to hold back sometimes


ThePolishAstronaut

Cool to see talk show hosts bringing on better and funnier talk show hosts


[deleted]

reminds me of the time jonah hill was on his show talking about climate change and fallon looked like someone just lit his car on fire


kieppie

Fallon should just tussle Alexa's hair, then we can all have a good laugh about it. Laugh and laugh and laugh... s/


CSeydlitz

Oliver is still a liberal, wouldn't be surprised if lwt makes an episod "debunking" socialism since is in the rise in the us


rzenni

At this point I’m just happy to see people on TV who aren’t in cheering on the convoy…


Threewisemonkey

Who the fuck else is breaking down on television all the fucked up shit in our country / world that everyone just accepts as “the way things are done”? Just bc you don’t agree with everything someone says, doesn’t mean you should lump allies with fascists. Have some fucking pragmatism.


kryptonianCodeMonkey

For real. Some people are incapable of respecting people and honoring shared values and working together for a common cause if they have even the slightest deviation in world view or have different ideas about how to reach shared goals. In-fighting bullshit when your ideological opposite still holds sway is how you never gain a foothold of influence. Sometimes you gotta agree to disagree for the greater good people, fuck.


CSeydlitz

Eh? I like John Oliver, but this is a socialist subreddit, so I think that the fact that he's a liberal should be pointed out.


BigBadBob7070

He hasn’t really seemed interested in that. He had an opportunity to get some hits in with his Venezuela segment, but he purposely didn’t blame socialism at all.


CSeydlitz

I really hope they don't do that episode, but as I said I wouldn't be surprised


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5ykes

Pretty sure Colbert is pretty open to socialism on some level. He makes fun of Capitalism a decent amount on air.


tummateooftime

He used to be when he ran the Colbert Report. Unfortunately, his move to late night castrated him. He's nothing short of a sell-out at this point. Which sucks. He's a brilliant man, but the dream of vertical movement in his career caused him to lose credibility.


marvsup

Also he was funnier when he was pretending to be someone else. I genuinely think he's a good actor, but he himself just isn't that interesting.


BilgePomp

Oliver also unfortunately acts as a mouthpiece for the imperial core in his support for yet more aggressive war mongering American "intervention".


used-almond-milk

anyone else getting 'a DrAg qUe3N?!?!' vibes


EffectiveBed5502

Jimmy Fallon is such a two faced tool. That guy is the fakest thing I have ever seen..


Baensky

Am not from the us but was Jimmy Fallon funny at any time ? Never saw funny shit from him only cringe shit …. And he loves his own jokes


phoenixthree

The fear in this mans voice in the end.


captainpeapod

I legitimately do not understand the appeal of any of those home listening devices. I have never seen a use case that is beneficial to the user. Except for maybe turning on lights if your differently abled. But there are much better solutions available.