I love John Oliver, but I feel like his critiques have lost a bit of bite in the last year. Maybe it's a factor of exposure to the type of jokes and running gags on the show, but I feel like most of the stories haven't fully eviscerated their subjects like they used to. Like Oliver's piece on Science. He barely even skimmed the surface of the problems in science and there were some places where I felt he even misinformed viewers to a degree. Or the segment he did on the Canadian election last October (mostly just shallowly mocked the candidates; didn't even talk about their policy).
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