John Oliver doesn’t want his talk show title “Last Week Tonight” to be too literal. The late night host said during The New York Times ‘ “The Interview” podcast that HBO delaying the release of his episode clips online makes “Last Week Tonight” stale. In fact, with the four-day delay that HBO rolled out starting with the Season 11 premiere, it’s almost like “Last Last Week Tonight” for audiences watching on YouTube.
The show airs on HBO Sunday nights, with clips going online the following Thursday. “It’s massively frustrating to me,” Oliver said. “I was not happy with it at all.
” Warner Bros. Discovery opted for HBO to delay Oliver’s segments online to get more people to sign up for streaming platform Max. Oliver is just thankful HBO can still share content on YouTube, too.
“What I love about having the show on YouTube is that we can reach beyond HBO subscribers. That feels really important to me,” he said. “I really, really appreciate the fact that they do that.
I would rather they did it straight after the show the way we’ve always done it, but I’m very grateful that they are willing to still do it at all.” Oliver added as to why “Last Week Tonight” will not be covering the 2024 election debates that “it feels like to a certain extent, our show has moved into an area where we are very much slow cooking.” HBO issued a statement upon the announcement in early 2024, saying, “When ‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver‘ p.