{"id":6730,"date":"2015-11-24T13:08:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T18:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=6730"},"modified":"2016-10-06T16:09:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T20:09:16","slug":"last-week-tonight-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/last-week-tonight-season-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Week Tonight (season 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;FIFA&#8230; An international crime syndicate that occasionally organizes soccer matches.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Last Week Tonight<\/strong> season 2, aired in 2015<\/p>\n<p>John Oliver, formerly of <strong>The Daily Show with Jon Stewart<\/strong>, tackles all the issues of the day. He discusses important issues in a way that probably no other show does. He shows his outrage at things that are outrageous, and he also uses his great sense of humour. His frankness is refreshing.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some topics covered this year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>municipal violations<\/li>\n<li>government surveillance<\/li>\n<li>standardized testing<\/li>\n<li>food waste<\/li>\n<li>mandatory sentencing<\/li>\n<li>prisoner reentry<\/li>\n<li>judicial elections<\/li>\n<li>infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>refugees<\/li>\n<li>Canadian federal election<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of these topics are well worth talking about, and something needs to be done about all of them.<\/p>\n<p>John also sometimes does the type of absurd thing that Stephen Colbert would do &#8212; like creating a new mascot for cigarettes and starting a church.<\/p>\n<p>A third season is forthcoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;FIFA&#8230; An international crime syndicate that occasionally organizes soccer matches.&#8221; Last Week Tonight season 2, aired in 2015 John Oliver, formerly of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, tackles all the issues of the day. He discusses important issues in a way that probably no other show does. He shows his outrage at things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[71,5,11],"class_list":["post-6730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-comedy-news","tag-review","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6730"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9347,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions\/9347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}