John Oliver

John William Oliver (born 23 April 1977) is an English comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host. ^[1]

A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents a Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo (commonly known as A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo) is a 2018 children's book written by Jill Twiss and illustrated by EG Keller (pseudonym of Gerald Kelley) about a fictional day in the life of Marlon Bundo, the real-life pet rabbit of Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence.

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A&E Networks

A&E Networks (branded as A+E Networks) is a US media company that owns a group of television channels available via cable & satellite in the U.S. and abroad.

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Absolutely Anything

Absolutely Anything is a 2015 British science fiction comedy film directed by Terry Jones, and written by Jones and Gavin Scott.

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Alun Cochrane

Alun (The Cockerel) Cochrane (born 8 February 1975) is a British comedian.

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Andy Zaltzman

Andrew Zaltzman (born 6 October 1974) is a British comedian and author who largely deals in political and sport related material.

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Anita Rani

Anita Rani Nazran (born 25 October 1977), better known as Anita Rani, is a British radio and television presenter.

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Armando Iannucci

Armando Giovanni Iannucci, (born 28 November 1963) is a Scottish satirist, writer, director, and radio producer.

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Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive

Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive is a British radio comedy programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2005 with a second series in 2006, a third in 2007 and a fourth in 2008.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC America

BBC America is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is jointly owned by BBC Studios and AMC Networks.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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BBC Radio 5 Live

BBC Radio 5 Live (also known as just 5 Live) is the BBC's national radio service that specialises in live BBC News, phone-ins, interviews and sports commentaries.

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BBC Three

BBC Three was a British television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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Bedford

Bedford is the county town of Bedfordshire, England.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Bishop of Ripon (modern diocese)

The Bishop of Ripon was a diocesan bishop's title which took its name after the city of Ripon in North Yorkshire, England.

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Bleak House (1985 TV serial)

Bleak House is BBC television drama first broadcast in 1985.

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Bob's Burgers

Bob's Burgers is an American animated sitcom created by Loren Bouchard that premiered on Fox on January 9, 2011.

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Boston Tea Party

The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.

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Cambridge University Reporter

The Cambridge University Reporter, founded in 1870, is the official journal of record of the University of Cambridge, England.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982.

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Chris Addison

Christopher David Addison (born 5 November 1971) is an English comedian, writer, actor and director from Manchester.

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Christ's College, Cambridge

Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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Civil and political rights

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.

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Closed captioning

Closed captioning (CC) and subtitling are both processes of displaying text on a television, video screen, or other visual display to provide additional or interpretive information.

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Comedy Central

Comedy Central is an American basic cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom.

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Community (TV series)

Community is an American comedy television series created by Dan Harmon that aired on NBC and Yahoo! Screen from September 17, 2009 to June 2, 2015.

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Craig Ferguson

Craig Ferguson (born 17 May 1962) is a Scottish-American television host, comedian, author and actor.

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Cringe comedy

Cringe comedy is a specific genre of comedy that derives humor from social awkwardness.

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Culture of England

The culture of England is defined by the idiosyncratic cultural norms of England and the English people.

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Danger Mouse (2015 TV series)

Danger Mouse is a British animated television series, serving as a updated version of the 1981 series with the same name.

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Daniel Kitson

Daniel Kitson (born 2 July 1977) is an English comedian.

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David Letterman

David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer.

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David Mitchell (comedian)

David James Stuart Mitchell (born 14 July 1974) is a British comedian, actor, writer and television presenter.

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David O'Doherty

David Nicholas O'Doherty (born 18 December 1975 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish comedian, author, musician, actor and playwright.

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Deadline Hollywood

Deadline Hollywood, also known as Deadline.com and previously known as news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily, is an online magazine founded by Nikki Finke in 2006.

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Donald Trump

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current President of the United States, in office since January 20, 2017.

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Donald Trump (Last Week Tonight)

"Donald Trump" is a segment of the HBO news satire television series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver that is devoted to Donald Trump, who later became the President of the United States.

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Dorian Awards

The Dorian Awards are an annual endeavor organized by GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (founded in 2009 as the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association).

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Double act

A double act, also known as a comedy duo, is a comic pairing in which humor is derived from the uneven relationship between two partners, usually of the same gender, age, ethnic origin and profession but drastically different in terms of personality or behavior.

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E! News

E! News, previously known as E! News Daily and E! News Live, is the flagship entertainment newscast of the E! network in the United States.

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Earth (The Book)

Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race is a 2010 humor book written by Jon Stewart and other writers of The Daily Show, and is a sequel to America (The Book).

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Easy Rider

Easy Rider is a 1969 American independent road drama film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda, and directed by Hopper.

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (often referred to as simply The Fringe) is the world's largest arts festival, which in 2017 spanned 25 days and featured 53,232 performances of 3,398 shows in 300 venues.

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2001

The 2001 Edinburgh Festival Fringe was the 54th Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2003

The 2003 Edinburgh Festival Fringe was the 56th Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

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Embassy of the United States, London

The Embassy of the United States of America in London is the diplomatic mission of the United States in the United Kingdom.

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Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, is an American award that recognizes excellence in the television industry, and is the equivalent of an Academy Award (for film), the Tony Award (for theater), and the Grammy Award (for music).

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American magazine, published by Meredith Corporation, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture.

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Environmental Media Awards

The Environmental Media Awards have been awarded by the Environmental Media Association since 1991 to the best television episode or film with an environmental message.

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Erdington

Erdington is a suburb and ward of Birmingham that is historically part of Warwickshire.

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Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government created by statute (and) to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable.

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Fighting Talk

Fighting Talk is a topical sports show broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live during the English football season.

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Footlights

Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, commonly referred to simply as the Footlights, is an amateur theatrical club in Cambridge, England, founded in 1883 and run by the students of Cambridge University.

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Fox Broadcasting Company

The Fox Broadcasting Company (often shortened to Fox and stylized as FOX) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox.

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FYI (U.S. TV network)

FYI (stylized as fyi) is an American digital cable and satellite channel that is owned by A&E Networks, a cable network joint venture between the Disney–ABC Television Group subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company and the Hearst Communications (each own 50%).

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Gash (TV series)

Gash is a satirical British television comedy created by Armando Iannucci that was broadcast each weeknight from Monday 28 April to Thursday 1 May 2003 on Channel 4 to coincide with the 2003 local elections.

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Grand Central Publishing

Grand Central Publishing is a division of Hachette Book Group.

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Gravity Falls

Gravity Falls is an American animated television series produced by Disney Television Animation originally for Disney Channel (and then later for Disney XD) from June 15, 2012, to February 15, 2016.

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Green Wing

Green Wing is an award-winning British sitcom set in the fictional East Hampton Hospital.

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Guam

Guam (Chamorro: Guåhån) is an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States in Micronesia in the western Pacific Ocean.

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Guest host

A guest host (or guest presenter in the United Kingdom) is a host, usually of a talk show, that substitutes for the regular host if they are, for example, ill or have other commitments.

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HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium cable and satellite television network of Home Box Office, Inc..

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Important Things with Demetri Martin

Important Things with Demetri Martin is a sketch-variety show that aired on Comedy Central starring comedian Demetri Martin.

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Iraq War

The Iraq WarThe conflict is also known as the War in Iraq, the Occupation of Iraq, the Second Gulf War, and Gulf War II.

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John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show

John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show is a stand-up comedy television series that aired on Comedy Central in the United States.

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John Olver (disambiguation)

John Olver (born 1936) is a United States Representative from Massachusetts's 1st congressional district.

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Jon Holmes

Jon Holmes (born 24 April 1969) is a British comedian, writer, presenter and broadcaster known for his work on such programmes as The Now Show, Listen Against (for BBC Radio 4), along with both music and speech radio.

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Jon Stewart

Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz; November 28, 1962) is an American comedian, writer, producer, director, political commentator, actor, and television host.

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Knotty Ash

Knotty Ash is an area of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, and a Liverpool City Council Ward.

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

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.

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Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is an American late-night talk show hosted by comedian Jimmy Fallon.

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Late-night talk show

A late-night talk show is a genre of talk show popular in the United States, where the format originated.

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List of Community characters

Community is an American television sitcom created by Dan Harmon.

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List of Mock the Week episodes

Mock the Week is a satirical panel show that airs on BBC Two.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.

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Liverpool F.C.

Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club in Liverpool, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football.

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Mark Rutherford School

Mark Rutherford School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form in Bedford, England.

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Médecins Sans Frontières

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF; pronounced), also known in English as Doctors Without Borders, is an international humanitarian medical non-governmental organisation (NGO) of French origin best known for its projects in conflict zones and in countries affected by endemic diseases.

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Media (communication)

Media are the collective communication outlets or tools used to store and deliver information or data.

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Medic

A medic is an umbrella term for a person involved in medicine.

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Miss Alabama

The Miss Alabama competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the U.S. state of Alabama in the Miss America pageant.

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Miss America

Miss America is a competition that is held annually and is open to women from the United States between the ages of 17 and 25.

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Mock the Week

Mock the Week is a British topical, satirical celebrity panel show, that was created by Dan Patterson and Mark Leveson, the same people responsible for the comedy game show Whose Line Is It Anyway?.

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Monty Python

Monty Python (also collectively known as The Pythons) were a British surreal comedy group who created their sketch comedy show Monty Python's Flying Circus, which first aired on the BBC in 1969.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.

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My Hero (UK TV series)

My Hero is a British television sitcom, written and created by Paul Mendelson, that broadcast for six series on the BBC between 2000 and 2006.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Net neutrality

Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers treat all data on the Internet equally, and not discriminate or charge differently by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or method of communication.

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New York (magazine)

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, and with a particular emphasis on New York City.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Observer

Observer is an online newspaper originating in New York City.

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News

News is information about current events.

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News satire

News satire is a type of parody presented in a format typical of mainstream journalism, and called a satire because of its content.

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Observational comedy

Observational comedy is a form of humor based on the commonplace aspects of everyday life.

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Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption

Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption was a legally recognized church in the United States, established by comedian and satirist John Oliver.

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Pay Pal (The Simpsons)

"Pay Pal" is the twenty-first episode of the 25th season of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons, and the 551st episode of the series.

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Peabody Award

The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards) program, named for American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in television, radio, and online media.

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People (magazine)

People is an American weekly magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories, published by Meredith Corporation.

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People Like Us (mockumentary)

People Like Us is a British radio and TV comedy programme, a spoof on-location documentary (or mockumentary) written by John Morton, and starring Chris Langham as Roy Mallard, an inept interviewer.

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Permanent residence (United States)

United States lawful permanent residency, informally known as having a green card, is the immigration status of a person authorized to live and work in the United States of America permanently.

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Peter Cook

Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English actor, satirist, writer and comedian.

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Peter Pan

Peter Pan is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie.

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Picketing

Picketing is a form of protest in which people (called picketers) congregate outside a place of work or location where an event is taking place.

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Podcast

A podcast, or generically netcast, is an episodic series of digital audio or video files which a user can download and listen to.

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Political Animal (radio show)

Political Animal is a performance and radio show created by British comedians John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman in which various stand-up comedians perform political material.

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Political satire

Political satire is satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics; it has also been used with subversive intent where political speech and dissent are forbidden by a regime, as a method of advancing political arguments where such arguments are expressly forbidden.

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Politics of the United States

The United States is a federal republic in which the President, Congress and federal courts share powers reserved to the national government, according to its Constitution.

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Popular culture

Popular culture (also called pop culture) is generally recognized as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time.

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Primetime Emmy Award

The Primetime Emmy Award is an American award bestowed by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) in recognition of excellence in American primetime television programming.

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Producers Guild of America Awards 2014

The Producers Guild of America Awards 2014 (also known as 26th Producers Guild of America Awards), honoring the best film and television producers of 2014, were held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles, California on January 24, 2015.

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Producers Guild of America Awards 2015

The Producers Guild of America Awards 2015 (also known as 27th Producers Guild of America Awards), honoring the best film and television producers of 2015, were held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles, California on January 23, 2016.

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Producers Guild of America Awards 2016

The Producers Guild of America Awards 2016 (also known as 28th Producers Guild of America Awards), honoring the best film and television producers of 2016, were held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on January 28, 2017.

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Producers Guild of America Awards 2017

The Producers Guild of America Awards 2017 (also known as 29th Producers Guild of America Awards), honoring the best film and television producers of 2017, were held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on January 20, 2018.

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Pundit

A pundit is a person who offers to mass media his or her opinion or commentary on a particular subject area (most typically political analysis, the social sciences, technology or sport) on which he or she is knowledgeable (or can at least appear to be knowledgeable), or considered a scholar in said area.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.

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Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear was a gathering that took place on October 30, 2010, at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The rally was led by Jon Stewart, host of the satirical news program The Daily Show, and Stephen Colbert, in-character as a conservative political pundit.

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Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja

Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja is an American-British-Irish animated television series created by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas for Disney XD.

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Ribaldry

Ribaldry, or blue comedy, is humorous entertainment that ranges from bordering on indelicacy to gross indecency.

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Richard Ayoade

Richard Ellef Ayoade (born 12 June 1977) is a British actor, comedian, writer, director and television presenter.

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Richard Pryor

Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and social critic.

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Rick and Morty

Rick and Morty is an American adult animated science fiction adventure comedy series created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon for Cartoon Network's late-night programming block Adult Swim.

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Rick and Morty (season 1)

The first season of the American animated television series, Rick and Morty originally aired in the United States on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim.

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Ricky Gervais

Ricky Dene Gervais (born 25 June 1961) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, writer, producer, director, and singer.

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Rip Torn

Elmore Rual Torn Jr. (born February 6, 1931), known within his family and professionally as Rip Torn, is an American actor, voice artist, and comedian.

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Robin Ince

Robin Ince (born 20 February 1969) is an English comedian, actor and writer.

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Robot Chicken

Robot Chicken is an American stop motion sketch comedy television series, created and executive produced for Adult Swim by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich along with co-head writers Douglas Goldstein and Tom Root.

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Rosewater (film)

Rosewater is a 2014 American political drama film written, directed and produced by Jon Stewart, based on the memoir Then They Came for Me by Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy.

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Russell Howard

Russell Joseph Howard (born 23 March 1980) is an English comedian, television presenter, radio presenter and actor, best known for his TV shows Russell Howard's Good News and The Russell Howard Hour and his appearances on the topical panel TV show Mock the Week.

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Salon (website)

Salon is an American news and opinion website, created by David Talbot in 1995 and currently owned by the Salon Media Group.

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Sarcasm

Sarcasm is "a sharp, bitter, or cutting expression or remark; a bitter gibe or taunt".

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Scouse

Scouse (also, in academic sources, called Liverpool English or Merseyside English) is an accent and dialect of English found primarily in the Metropolitan county of Merseyside, and closely associated with the city of Liverpool.

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Self-hatred

Self-hatred (also called self loathing) refers to an extreme dislike or hatred of oneself, or being angry at or even prejudiced against oneself.

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Simon Pegg

Simon John Pegg (né Beckingham; born 14 February 1970) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer.

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Sitcom

A sitcom, short for "situation comedy", is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode.

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Society of Women Engineers

The Society of Women Engineers (SWE), founded in 1950, is a not-for-profit educational and service organization in the United States.

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Statehood movement in the District of Columbia

The District of Columbia statehood movement is a political movement that advocates making the District of Columbia a U.S. state.

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Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States.

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Stephen Oliver (composer)

Stephen Michael Harding Oliver (10 March 1950 – 29 April 1992) was an English composer, best known for his operas.

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Subtitle (captioning)

Subtitles are text derived from either a transcript or screenplay of the dialog or commentary in films, television programs, video games, and the like, usually displayed at the bottom of the screen, but can also be at the top of the screen if there is already text at the bottom of the screen.

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SuicideGirls

SuicideGirls is an online community based website that revolves around pin-up photography sets of models known as the Suicide Girls.

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Terry Jones

Terence Graham Parry Jones (born 1 February 1942) is a Welsh actor, writer, comedian, screenwriter and film director.

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The Bugle

The Bugle is a satirical news podcast, created by John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman in 2007.

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The Comic Side of 7 Days

The Comic Side of 7 Days is a British television programme shown from 2005 on BBC Three.

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The Daily Show

The Daily Show is an American late-night talk and news satire television program.

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TheWrap

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United States territory

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University of Cambridge

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Variety (magazine)

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Vets For Freedom

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Washington, D.C.

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Writers Guild of America Awards 2012

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Writers Guild of America Awards 2014

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Writers Guild of America Awards 2016

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2008 Republican National Convention

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2015 Webby Awards

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2016 Webby Awards

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2017 MTV Movie & TV Awards

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2017 Webby Awards

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26th GLAAD Media Awards

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27th GLAAD Media Awards

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29th GLAAD Media Awards

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31st TCA Awards

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32nd TCA Awards

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33rd TCA Awards

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38th Daytime Emmy Awards

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5th Critics' Choice Television Awards

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60th Primetime Emmy Awards

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61st Primetime Emmy Awards

The 61st Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 20, 2009.

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62nd Primetime Emmy Awards

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63rd Primetime Emmy Awards

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64th Primetime Emmy Awards

The 64th Primetime Emmy Awards, honoring the best in prime time television programming from June 1, 2011 until May 31, 2012, were held on Sunday, September 23, 2012 at the Nokia Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles, California.

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65th Primetime Emmy Awards

The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards, honoring the best in prime time television programming from June 1, 2012 until May 31, 2013, were held on Sunday, September 22, 2013 at the Nokia Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles, California.

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66th Primetime Emmy Awards

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67th Primetime Emmy Awards

The 67th Primetime Emmy Awards honored the best in U.S. prime time television programming from June 1, 2014 until May 31, 2015, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

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68th Primetime Emmy Awards

The 68th Primetime Emmy Awards honored the best in U.S. prime time television programming from June 1, 2015 until May 31, 2016, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

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69th Primetime Emmy Awards

The 69th Primetime Emmy Awards honored the best in U.S. prime time television programming from June 1, 2016 until May 31, 2017, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

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6th Critics' Choice Television Awards

The 6th Critics' Choice Television Awards, presented by the Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA), honoring the best in primetime television programming from June 1, 2015 until December 31, 2015, were held on January 17, 2016 at the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport in Santa Monica, California.

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7th Critics' Choice Television Awards

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