Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (often abridged as Last Week Tonight) is an American late-night talk and news satire television program hosted by comedian John Oliver. The half-hour-long show premiered in April 2014 on HBO. Last Week Tonight shares some similarities with Comedy Central’s The Daily Show (where Oliver was previously featured as a correspondent and fill-in host), as the show takes a satirical look at news, politics and current events, but on a weekly basis. He’s doing this for over ten years now. And we need real satire in these times!
The Eurovision Song Contest (French: Concours Eurovision de la chanson), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU’s Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries’ songs to determine a winner.
Is is a big show? Definitely yes – but we need those peaceful comepetitions more than ever. So here we are.
If you want to be succesful, there is one key component: luck! Jelle’s Marble Run is all about… well, marbles racing through race tracks. They are from the Netherlands and were doing a pretty decent job, when they caught the attention of John Oliver from his own show. From then on things went crazy. And here they are, providing us with the finest racing sport events.
Patrick H. Willems describes himself as “pretty much the Terrence Malick of YouTube”. Whatever that means. He does video essays, but he also got into adventures. One of his adventures features a certan coconuts. But he has some clever thoughts about STAR WARS.
Suede is from New Zealand and was once with “That Guy with the Glasses”. He went onto a Pokémon Journey long ago and was very productive, before “it” happened. Unfortunately a Japanese company found a way to make trouble for YouTubers reporting on their intellectual property. Instead of Suede’s Journey, we must report this:
Shaun is a British person who disects the world and the politics going on with a sharp knife… or a scalpel. He has no particular area that he works on. Most of the time it’s pop culture, but almost always it has to do with politics. And Shaun is looking very closely.
Okay, what can we say here? Mike Jeavons, aka MikeJ, tracks down some of the craziest diet plans and infomercials in the world, along with the products they advertise, and puts them to the test, seeing if they really do work just like they tell us. SPOILER: Usually they don’t. As well as Infomercialism, Mike also hosts other shows including movie review show Shameful Sequels, A Week On which sees Mike try various diets for 7 days, as well as sketches, music videos and various randomness which doesn’t fit into any kind of category!
Let’s take a look at Maven of the Eventide – voraciously vivacious Vampire Reviews. The Maven peers into the realms of the creatures of the night for a humorous analysis of vampires in media and pop culture, focusing on how they serve as allegories and metaphors for social issues. You will see Vampire Reviews with Vampire Playthroughs and book vlogs scattered between.
Phelan Porteous, also known as Phelous, was born on September 4, 1983 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for “Phelous & the Movies” (2008), “To Boldly Flee” (2012) and “Bad Movie Beatdown” (collab, 2009). He has been married to Allison Pregler since September 2, 2021. After leaving “the website” his channel runs under his full name. Let’s take a look:
Allison Pregler was with “the Site”, but continued to review since then. She was Obsucurus Lupa. Or is she? Who knows? She might know, but as we have no time to research, let’s just move on: What’s her deal? She says: “Reviews of so-bad-it’s-good movies, crazy old TV, and various mishmash in between.”
Film Brain is located in the United Kingdom, and what does he say about himself? “Cinematic masochist Film Brain takes a look at the very worst Hollywood (and elsewhere) has to offer, with snarky but thorough and insightful commentary, including behind the scenes info! Strap in, hold on tight and embrace the SYMBOLISM!” So here we are…
Dominic Noble, formerly known as “The Dom” is a critic who’s looking at how books were turned into movies in his ongoing series “Lost in Adaptation”. And he just goes on and on:
The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it. It began with the forging of the Great Website. A group of critics was assembled. For within these website was bound the strength and the will to critic each content. But they were all of them deceived, for another story was made. Deep in the lore of TGWTG, in the Fires of Mount Blip, the Dark Lords forged a master template, and into this template they poured the outlining of the Nostalgia Critic, his shtick, his malice and his will to do the same over and over again. And so they searched for more critics. But then something happened that the Dark Lords did not anticipate. Because real people go on in life and develop…
Chapter 1: Nostalgia… Chick?
In these days the Website was searching for a female counterpart of the Nostalgia Critic, named “Nostalgia Chick”. From 2008 to 2014, while also studying for her MFA, Lindsay Ellis was selected to host The Nostalgia Chick as part of the Channel Awesome production company. She went on to create over 100 videos as part of the series before leaving in 2014. In this time there were quite some developments.
Axiom’s End is a 2020 science fiction novel by American writer Lindsay Ellis. Set in 2007, the novel is about a U.S. government coverup of contact with extraterrestrial life. It’s part one of a trilogy called “Noumena”.
Atop the Fourth Wall (AT4W for short) is a comic book review show on the site, hosted by Minnesota native Lewis “Linkara” Lovhaug. His nickname came from a character he created when he was a teen, writing amateur fantasy novels. His show is one of the tamer in tone, as Lovhaug has one of the more wholesome and light-hearted personalities.
Being one of the bigger patrons of sci-fi and fantasy shows and movies, such as Doctor Who, Star Trek, Babylon 5, etc., he is one of the strongest users of a story-line, which he features in the same videos as his reviews, where he is an important and high-ranking agent against paranormal and extraterrestrial threats. He is also a major fan of Power Rangers and Pokémon, and once featured the glitch MissingNo. as a villain on his show. He also hosts a separate show where he discusses the history of Power Rangers.1
1= From Wikipedia: “Channel Awesome” – writing credit see there. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0; additional terms may apply.
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