Can't believe how many people I've seen mad that these seasons are being mass uploaded? Sorry your algorithm or notifications has you clogged for a day or two but I can't imagine being mad that a show I like is uploading episodes for free!

Literally America Ferreira doing exactly the same plotline from Superstore about being forced straight back to work after giving birth

lol when bob balaban walked out so utterly confused about the horrific tutu baby

Well I for one am thrilled that John Oliver’s show us being uploaded for free as I’d missed him as a comedian when he left the uk and had no idea he was doing this show . It’s unique to him and is phookin brilliantly written and performed . 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

And don't forget that the 12 weeks of unpaid leave includes any time you take for appointments or pregnancy complications. I had a horrific pregnancy, almost died multiple times, spent a total of 10 weeks hospitalized before giving birth to a premature baby so small that they literally didn't even register on the preemie percentage scale. I gave birth at 10:30 p.m. on a Thursday, which also happened to be the final day of my 12 weeks. I was told to report to the office Friday or be fired. I got a lawyer and ended up getting a few extra weeks, but it was nowhere near with time. It's been about 12 years and my kid and I both still suffer long-term health issues from it, and I decided not to have any more kids because I was terrified I'd have a similar experience, most my job and be homeless with my kids. Great work, America.

America Ferrera previewing the maternity leave episode of superstore in that skit

When children are deprived of parental attention during the first six months of life, some of them develop attachment problems and lose all capacity for compassion and empathy. This, to me, sounds like a self perpetuating problem.

6:48 "most stayed away in protest of russia's actions in Ukraine" me: *checks original air date*

I had major surgery yesterday and have to stay inactive for two months. These uploads are a wonderful gift to me. Thank you, thank you, to HBO and John Oliver!

You guys actually included the date, awesome!

A decade later nothing has changed its beyond disgusting.

Shinjo-kun!!! Adorable little easter egg

I can't believe the US has gotten this far without paid maternity leave.

I will say, as a japanese kindergarten teacher, scaring the children is an interesting but necessary part of the job.

The stories I have heard about workers rights in the US on this show are the reason I laugh when some people say the US is the greatest country in the world.

Love you uploading the full episodes, but can you please reverse the playlist order so it goes in the right way?

Loving the sudden massive selection of shows from the archives!

I've always thought it's odd people talk about only women getting paid time off after a baby. I comprehend it's extra important for a little while for a mother to recover after a stressful, painful birth, but I think fathers should have some paid time off as well. Having a brand new baby is a stressful and emotional time for both parents after all, and both parents could use the time together to figure out all the stuff they need to figure out.

Mascot song is Sirius - Toners (cover from Alan Parson Project, and used to be the Chicago Bulls' intro music)

3:27 he became a senator from 2016-2022

9:40 did he say Howard Stern and Baba Booey?

12 weeks unpaid leave, i'd say 50 weeks paid leave is the bare minimum

I wonder how many of those poor kids developed a severe, life long phobia of mascots 😂

Daym, playing Alan Parson's Sirius theme at the end while presenting the mascots is so cool, made me happy to hear it :)

FYI Carton said Daks girlfriend was a gold digger, and her being pregnant during the season and set to give birth in the early spring would be nothing but a distraction. For context Dak and His girlfriend have been together for 7 years and have since happily welcomed into the world a healthy baby. And Carton hasn’t changed a bit

25:51 The mascot of my local area/district in Tokyo is a lime green iris fairy that looks like a main character in a proper trippy fever dream.

I love America Ferrera so much xD

One of the best episodes, so far!!

yeah we can say all sorts of crazy shit do all sorts of crazy things, but at the end of the day being able to hear someone educating us and entertaining us through comedy, is pretty wonderful. better than the 755 of the crap that really goes on in the world. thank you.

Only in America does it take an Englishman immigrant to explain how fucked the country is

2 years paid maternal leave in the EU

Spanish here - In spain we have one of the shortest paid family leaves in Europe. We have mandatory maternity and paternity leave that is both paid, and tax-free. On top of that, there is additional "lactation" time that mothers can choose to shorten their work day or to take it together for I believe it's 3 additional weeks of paid leave. On top of that there are state-funded nurseries you can leave your kid in when you go back to work. These are all natality-promoting initiatives : the idea is that if the government supports parents in "derisking" having a child, then more families will choose to have them. A very different approach to, you know, forced birth.

And thus, an obsession with mascots was born

As someone who has applied to a job at hhs and is still waiting for a response weeks later, I am now considering showing up to the office like Sid from Toy Story's monstrosity

Current news? Nope. I'm listening to old news 😁

Hoots is actually an accurate mascot for at least one actual national security agency.

lol just had flashbacks to the joy of Suga meeting Kumamon

22:55 Shinjuku easter egg. Future foreshadowing! This is where the mascots for LWT started!

"Have we ever let you down before?" - John Oliver in 2015 "No, and you still haven't." - Fans in 2024

reminds me of the long time ago when i LOVED last weektonight :D

I'm Australian, and one of my best memories is going to Hooters. I'm also a sapphic bisexual woman so.... mum may very much like to go to Hooters! Not every woman is heterosexual *wink*

Cant wait to look at those agreements

Thank you not sure how many more

Precursor to “is potato”

The Truth never grows old

23:40 for some reason triggers my phones "hey google" system

16:00 I have never actually heard anyone to have such a freaking Ghoulish attitude towards someone being a father. Whoever that guy is, I hope his family actually cares for him and to not die lonely and miserable

It's so weird listening to John say "soccer" instead of "football"

We need to with the power structure. Everyone put in leadership in this country should have extensive training for strong character, empathy and quality leadership skills.

I live in and love Japan, but the mascot thing is a bit mental. Even the emergency services have mascots. In Tokyo the police mascot is Pipo-kun and Kyuta is for the fire department. It is still bizarre to me after 17 years!

JO was right to be disturbed and keep reminding me about how much of our tie was wasted by things being normalized that should not have been

Actually adore the steampunk skunk mascot

What the hell do the Americans do with the babies when they go to work???

Hoots looks like a mix of Hooty from The Owl House and the Duolingo owl.

@2:25 Unicorn Haggis!

Love all these uploads. Thank you!!

What is the music at 27:30?

I don't know how any woman in the states is willing to have a child at this point.

6:00 what happened with all those weapons? Oh yes! Putin happened!

If there's anything I get out of this one it's how freaking weird Hooters is.... That place is just creepy now I mean people take their children there and the pretense is like sexuality and lewd... It's like a Christian wanting to go to a strip club who just can't commit.

Seeing that Russian parade vs the ones they had this year, really hammers home how shit the war is going for them

The uk election is crazy!! 9 years after gosh. Scotland should have separated

The US and pro life, but we dont give a sh%t about the life itself

8:19 the fact they didn’t call one Neal McBeal the Navy Seal just shows how so against comedy Russia can be.

God years later that Patriots thing still stings

Anyone else notice Chinju?

Is Cambodia's leader actually Trump? Are we being Punk'd? Where's Ashton Kutcher?

The Russia thing was about to get so much worse 7 years later.

the song at the end is "Eye in the Sky" by the Alan Parson's Project!

RAMJAM 2024!!

and the US conservatives complain because there are less and less children born, they maybe missed this episode?

MASCOTS

Men: Women don't get paid maternity leave because we need them. Also Men; BUT we don't care enough about you to pay you as equally as us. This is why I love Canada!

Bi moms happy to go to Hooters

Trying to send y'all a pic of how we feel in Texas... Trump, Abbott and Cruz are bye. Bye

Ton of ppl agree thank uou JO you represent moving this forward and creative works being protected, important ppl protwcted and valued, and victims being made whole si they can move on not stuck in that story for othwrs benefit. Thats a lit of victims including all membersof my reql family. So disturbig.

not.

They'd need to put a lifetime limit on baby leave if they did this in the South😂 Some people would be taking 4 months off every 10 months.

Russia doesn't even have a good parade army these days.

Vote Reform

My mom would normalize a bunch of things i wouldn't bc of politics. Sam with my brother in law. Not what my purpose is nor my child. So disturbing. 🐠 Thats a salmon!

Love taking advice and judgement from people who forced me into this and somehow are able to access my info

Trying to equate paternity leave with maternity fully, led to the slippery slope of birthing partner.

Look forward to a plan for making me whole without expectations i be bound by these poor decisions abd people eho forced me into those relationships. A problem throughout.

Funny that you dropped your hottest take in season 2 and it's a luke-warm "Don't wanna call my mom rn" joke, your audience reaction was great, lmao. If you weren't funny sometimes I'd go back into time and stuff you in a locker Edit: 15:06 Aw man and now it's Sad Day Now, man I hate feelings

Yeah im owed answers and a ton of cash

Here's my stance on maternity leave. Yes we should have them, paid, longish term (3+ month). We should even get a 1 month+ paternity leave. It should be paid via a tax or insurace based system where the leave is paid by all employers of the state(or nation) and not just the employer of the person in question. It should not only cover the pay for the employee, but even the marginal cost of hiring a temp for the employer up to an extend. Marginal cost meaning the additional cost, if any, of the temp over the regular pay of the original employee. Now, I'm sure the first bits are easy to understand, but you might wonder about the last bit. That is simply due to statistics and small business. And by small business I mean the actual small ones with a dozen or less employee and not whatever the government defined things to be. Now, even those will likely be able to absorb tempoarily losing one employee. But they would have a great deal of trouble dealing with losing say 3. Which comes back to tith longer termed leave, it increases the probability of overlaps, which makes "3" more likely. When and if that happens, there is a liklihood that the small business do need to hire new workers to replace the lost labor. Given that we should offer a "job return gurantee" for those on leave, there is a chance that those new hires can only be tempoary, as the small business might not be ready for permanent increase in labor cost. As it were, depending on the top of job, there is every chance that temp worker/contractor costing more than a long term employee, given that they could not offer job security as part of the "deal". To be honest, even that might not cover the whole thing, there could be overhead for HR and training. But for small businesses, these tend to be done by the owner and might not have monetary cost and would be hard to measure. I know that some people might not care about business owner at all and as such would not care for this potential cost and coverage for them. But in reality, this too is meant to benefit/protect workers. Because without it, there would be an financial incentive to "discriminate" in hiring, to avoid the costs. The "discriminate" is in quotes in that it isn't actually discrimination if there is an obejctive, functional reason. Fundimentally, equality can only be properly enforced if the underlying value is actually equal, so we need to compensate for any potential deviations that we can think of. It will never be perfect, but we can certainly try and make it closer. Now, this isn't really a problem for big employers, in that they can effectively "self insure" against this. Statistical distribution tends toward the expected value as a matter of percentage as the sample size increase. This means that for a large enough company, their "leave" rate would be similar to that of the state or nation. In such a case, it would make little difference for them to redistribute and absorb the cost themselves or for the government to do it for them. But, small business, being on the opposite of the statistical spectrum, are much more likely to have outlier spikes that is ruinous and thus need to be accounted for.

Im DOING SOMETHING by calling this out

Sooo you can’t discriminate from hiring pregnant people but if they worked for 3 wks they should get full paid maternity leave for how long? Also let’s just say this is at 7-11 cuz why not.

If I had facts and compensation sooner i wouldnt have needed to work or id hire a nanny. Like ecery other woman whose life s generating that kind of money and who has that level of ed.

Every time there’s a C-Span clip, it might as well be titled “Republicans doing evil shit.” 😒

They need to stop depicting me without my consent altogether but fascinating how kuch i was being judged by ppl lying a getting ahead on my info

Im confused, is this the newest episode? Why does jon look so different?

Damn didn't know what would happen having a baby! I didnt know if you kill someone you go to prison shit I have a kid I have to take care of!

24:08 "genderless pear" 24:15 HE does OH MY GOD HE ASSUMED THE PEARS GENDER REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE i thought john was a ally how could he say such a awful thing about pear boy i mean oh shit *gets canceled*

Everyone wants to be paid to not work. That’s not sustainable. Stop feeling sorry for people who CAN help themselves

These women didn't prioritize being wives and stay at home Mom's; I have no sympathy and ZERO responsibility as a tax payer to fund their time off, for the choices they made.

If my comments are too wordy, sorry. H Fraud. Lies. Exploitation baaad baaad. With my fingers laced?

Anyone who knows me knows im ot a fan of lies and fraud or people waisting my existence

Spamming youtube with an entire season all at once? UNSUBSCRIBED