S2 E9: The IRS, Hillary Clinton & Cuba: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
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- Season 2, Episode 9, April 12th, 2015. John Oliver explains why you should feel sympathy for the IRS, Hillary Clinton announces her bid for the presidency, and the US meets with Cuba.
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Michael Bolton singing the word "anus" with such conviction was what I needed this morning thank you I forgot about this
Hearing Michael Bolton do a parody of his own songs about the IRS is just awesome! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
It's easy to forget sometimes, but John can actually sing pretty damn well. Glad he's able to remind us of that from time to time.
I mean, he was in a Disney musical. Granted, it was one of the ones everybody hated, but still.
@@DragonbIaze052 Huh, I wouldn't have guessed that. Which one?
@@OpalMonkey. Lion King remake Zazu.
@@DragonbIaze052 Ah, okay. The jokes about him looking like Zazu make more sense now.
Michael Bolton just broke the top of my respect meter. Damn dude, well done!
Oh April of 2016. What a simpler time.
This was done in April 2015. So the 2016 election cycle hadn’t even really be begun, so yes, a much simpler saner time.
Michael Bolton aced that 😂❤
This is a rare last week tonight main story where the problem is basically solved, the irs got more funding and is a lot better now
Of course it was solved, the song did it.
They always get more money, but never do anything to help the US TAXPAYER
@@jameswestergaard9793that’s not their job tho? watch the episode
@@jameswestergaard9793Please watch the show again. You missed a salient point.
@@jameswestergaard9793lol, blame your actual politicians and government for that.
I love that photo of David Cameron romancing a gold silk pillow.
Michael Bolton. What a terrific sport you were. And such an important message. John, thank you so much for getting him to perform on behalf of the IRS.
Michael Bolton obviously has an amazing voice and he was a great sport for doing this! His earned some great points with me and a million others I'm sure!!
God do you guys remember the days when politicians looked weird eating and that was the story
Remember when Dan Quayle misspelled potato and it hurt his campaign.
Or when they wore the wrong color clothes.
We still had that story about Joe Biden with two ice cream cones
@@TriforceWisdom64 Yes, but the reaction seemed to be a lot less unhinged back then, compared to the reaction today
Michael Bolton is really just up for anything, isn't he? 😂 See also: The Lonely Island's "Jack Sparrow."
Fun fact, that IRS-dude on Millionaire ended up winning it all. There's a video of him using his phone-a-friend to tell his dad he was about to win a million dollars like an absolute champion.
I bet a number of IRS employees listen to that final song once in a while, when they've been dealing with angry members of the public, and need to remind themselves that the job they do is actually necessary.
Michael Bolton's voice just didn't change one bit. Just his hair. 😊 Love this.
I can only imagine the conversation between LWT, Michael Bolton and his agent.
They want me to sing what? About the what?
Trust me MB, it'll bounce between funny and endearing. People will dig it.
Truly such a powerful episode. A great example of why this show matters too! The comedy of Michael Bolton singing about the IRS being the anus of the US drives home the message in a way that traditional news media just can’t.
Man idk why the awkward silences had me so weak 😭😭😭😭
I loved this. John really got celebrities to jump into his stories with both feet.
April 2015.
Oh boy, the calm before the storm.
Watching Bolton sing makes me want to watch the Jack Sparrow video he did with Lonely Island
I used to work as a night auditor (11pm -7am) at a hotel that had irs employees on direct bill. It was a very nice hotel on the historic registry, we also hosted television stars like Martha Stewart, and a US Vice President. Anyway ..."boring" is not how I would describe the lives of those irs employees.
I'm intrigued... Go on
pls... do tell
“Speculating on who’s going to win the 2016 election…”
Oooooooooooooooooooooooofph! Anybody want to tell him? Who wants to tell him?
Spoiler alert: it was not Hillary Clinton :D
Hillary got more votes so she won right?
@@Laszlo-Kelemen it wasn't even America lol
Especially now that Trump is a 34-time convicted felon.
And now Trump is a 34 Time convicted felon
damn, johns inclusion in the ending song couldve felt intrusive so easily, but every time he joins a musical guest, it feels right. i reckon its cause hes good at singing and timing n all that. which would make sense. but its also prolly cause of his charisma, and the chemistry he seems to have with the (musical) guests
And it's probably written for him to come in at that time, and rehearsed as such.
@@DragonbIaze052 well yeah thats the thing im complementing. if it was written for him to come in at that time, he's still good at timing. he's a writer on the show, LOL
Comedy and satire is ageless and always relevant.
So I start watching this, see John looking so young! Then realized the date...realized what the next 5 years did to this poor, poor man...
more like 10 years
@@KufLMAOthe last decade has simultaneously lasted a week and a lifetime
That’s what happens. It’s almost like a second puberty and only take a few years for your appearance to change drastically when your body decides it’s time, usually around 50. Then you look the same for years again until the third stage, then you change one last time
Covid is still not understood.
Start noticing how many people wheeze or mouthbreath now. Facial lymph node swelling.
Even the kids are aging faster.
@@juliasugarbaker9032 Then you get cremated, crammed into a firework, and mis-fired into the forest instead of over the lake causing a massive wildfire...
People thought gender reveals were bad, just wait till the firework sendoffs take off.
Fun fact : magnetic tape is pretty good for long term storage as is specially made optical disk. We actually don't have better long term storage that does not require active maintenance and data transfer. HHD's and SSD's will only last a few years in use in a server. If a HHD breaks but does not have its data corrupted you need a specially lab to repair it to good working condition and SSD's require complete replacing. Not to mention that SSD's are chips that store a current so require constant and regulated current to maintain the data on them. The only down side of magnetic tape is the equipment that is needed to read and write them which is not common. how ever it makes up for that in being a more primitive from of electronic device meaning we don't need high tech chips to use them. In fact, part of the US goverment's millitary infrastructure runs on old computers and windows version and still use floppy disks. The reason why US nukes are not being hacked is because the hacker needs to know how to work with a 20 year old windows OS and have physical access to use any acquired floppy disks. The best part about old electronic is that there is a group of hobbies working to make a digital copy of the Appollo's flight computer. using simple electronic component they have been reading are preparing old memory units that they have been managing to find from collections and museums. Turns out the programming was physically saved in the memory units and are still readable to this day. In fact they can even read the last instruction and data the parts they are finding have. This is something impossible with modern computers.
I think your description of how SSDs store data is actually closer to volatile memory such as ram but even ram doesn't require a constant current (it just needs to be refreshed frequently to top up the charge on the 1s).
SSDs use flash which maintains the data for a long period of time without any current.
Doesn't change the fact that you're right about tape being the best long-term cold storage option though
If you're talking about cassette tapes, I did find one in my basement that hasn't seen the light of day in over a decade and it still works, but the cassette player was having problems so now some of the songs sound funny after the tape got mangled.
@@inediblealex25 SSD, RAM and USB sticks all store memory via electron charges being held in silicone circuits. Calling SSD non volatile is wrong but it is less volatile then ram. With out power and a functional circuit to refresh the charge on the memory gates, you lose the data and it does not take much lost to have the data be unreadable. They are also more prone to radiation corruption then a old fashion hard drive which is a magnetic disk. TLDR SSD and RAM = different patents for trapping electrons which means they are both susceptible to power loss and fluctuations.
Thank you for typing all of this out! I learned quite a bit 😊
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Lmfao getting Michael Bolton to say Anus makes everything better!
It's such a US thing to have the host say sausage rolls but put up a pile of hotdogs on screen. :P
But they didn't, did they?
I saw Sausage Rolls! I can confirm that I'm from England. 🤭🤣
Not going to lie that duet with Michael Bolton didn't sound too bad
The magnetic tape thing is actually sensible though. Data Density and Integrity Lifespan of those tapes is nuts - plus they're cost effective
I love when acts like Michael Bolton agreed to things like this. He performed this song well! Now I have to go watch the stuff he did with The Lonely Island.
01:41 That comment about speculation was correct but feels like it was somehow wildly off given Trump's dark horse win
Rewatching my sweet sweet John start covering some foreshadowing bits of 2016 election is like watching titanic. Let’s enjoy the young hopeful jovial John before it all goes to hell😢
Michael Bolton is such a great singer
Thank you for another full episode from the back catalogue from an active HBO customer. 🧡💛🧡
I love how John brought up physical abuse by a customer to a cashier for a joke comparison. He knows how bad retail workers got it.
People prob wouldn’t hate taxes so much if we just got a check and let professionals do the difficult paperwork like in other countries.
As someone with a maths disability, taxes are terrifying. They want you to calculate this number totally right, they already have it, and if you screw up you got to jail. So messed up.
Love that final song!
Legendary voice 🥰
I just think if they hadn’t elected David Cameron, they would still be a member of the EU.
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Here in Canada, our equivalent to the IRS is the CRA (Cznada Revenue Agency). They have one of the most thankless snd misunderstood jobs out there! As a volunteer tax preparer, I've had a lot of dealings with the CRA on behalf of my clients and myself. I've always found them to be nice, knowledgeable and helpful!! I've also found them to be just as cynical about the government as a whole as any of us!! What a lot of people don't think about is that agents of the IRS or CRA are no different than the public cuz they have to do their taxes as well!! I've had some really great conversations with CRA agents over the years cuz I treat them as human beings in a very difficult job!! Treat them with respect and they're more than happy to help you and/or work with you!! Treat them like crap well thhen you're just getting what you're giving... if they don't hang up on you so you have to start all over again!
This was not the "Morning Report" I expected to hear from this video. lol
The title of these episodes always read like the setup to a weird joke. "The IRS, Hilary Clinton and Oprah walk into a bar..."
I feel for IRS employees. I work in financial aid for a university and it’s a similar level of boring and regulated and only certain kinds of people stick around and do well. There’s a lot of frustration at how federal financial aid works especially with student loans so we take the heat even though we’re just doing what we’re told and trying to keep up with changing laws and regs, much like the IRS lol.
How about them 24-25 FAFSAs? 😂🙁
Dam this is so old people still had hope for the future i mean hilary. 😂
I'm so glad that I live in the UK with a Pay As You Earn system relating to taxes and only need tax declarations when self employed or own a business or company.
I once mistakenly accepted a job that I was working as an Umbrella company and had to pay a weekly charge just to have my payroll done to receive my wages on an agency job I was doing, really p1ssed me off and would always refuse a job like this in future. 👎
The IRS is like an Anvz. We need that working properly, or everything goes to sh3t!
Its Michael frekn Bolton ❤
Why is business daddy leaking you out, John? Season 2? Are they tanking the show? Are you OKAY?? Please wink in the next episode if you are being held hostage by new business daddy
HBO removed all these episodes from their service, making it impossible to watch any episodes from the first 8 seasons legally. John Oliver and his team bought the rights to those 8 seasons and are now uploading them for free.
Epic ending
As someone who has lived without a functioning anus for nine plus months this just hits different.
It's a difficult truth, but Michael Bolton's voice does make it a bit easier to hear. Still, we should be able to audit every branch of the gov. It's our money.
Mind you, this episode was post Lonely Island. So Michael Bolton was already down for doing things like this.
Damnnnnnn Michael Bolton can SING
11:51 John Carpenter = the G.O.A.T. !
i wish we had never got the word :(
John, I have to respectfully disagree because both tax brackets and the determination of how much you pay in taxes falls under the IRS jurisdiction
John, why "strategically placed mirrors"? Wouldn't one mirror be sufficient, or do you have bad knees?😉
That comment about the changes brought on but congress needs to be expanded upon because WHAT
Why have the IRS when we have fiat currency?
The so called greatest country in the world makes it's people calculate the amount they need to pay in tax and get in trouble if you get it wrong. Most countries you pay taxes automatically with income tax and tax on the things you buy or an event you go to.
Last year they owed me 7k it took 5 months to pay me,this year I owed them 1400,took them 2 weeks to notify me they want the money with penalties and late fees,fuck the IRS Michael Bolton.
You know, you can try and get sympathy for the IRS but it isn't going to work. Mostly, because in every other freaking country it's automatic, but the government takes money from the tax preparation companies to not do it. All so we have to pay those companies ourselves. What did you expect, a 'Thank you'?!
S10 when?
If the pattern holds, 24 weeks at most.
You are remarkable in your presentations and so well informed. I wish I could spend some time in your brain; it would rattle my cage…
Which episode is this? I do not care... Thank You
The joke song went on way too long.
Not to say he didn't do it well.
Hi!
Didn't read the season number. Thought boy, Johns had some work done! Looks good though
No one likes paying taxes but most people would still be driving on dirt tracks, they would not have the internet to moan about what they think the government owes them, they d be no rail, farming, water distribution, electricity network in fact no United States. Yes we know many state and federal service provision isnt perfect or sometimes just, but that has more to do with your local and state elected officials mismanagement rather than the officers charged with carrying out the work. If you want change you need to be involved and not just content to moan. Its not good enough to just point out what you think is the problem without understanding how it arose and why it continues to be so. Only then can you direct another solution and only then can you sit back smug with a result instead of just your opinion.
In the “and now this” segment: Unless they also can’t see the person, who in their right mind stares blankly ahead instead of saying “I can’t hear you”?
Michael Bolton tho 🤩
Okay so this video is re-uploaded...
A colostomy bag Micheal is how one survives without an anus, an apt metaphor for what would be required if the IRS is finally destroyed as project 2025 is allowed to succeed.
I really wanted Michael Bolton to tell John this isn’t a duet when he started singing
😢😂 this is old news john !
👏😊💌
Kennedy
The winners of the 2016 Olympic mens and womens shot put were both American. I'm hoping for Ryan Crouser to pick up his third consecutive gold this summer.
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5:45 That is hilarious... Clearly the person who does the images saw the words "Sausage roll" and thought "Sausage roll, well he must mean a hot dog"... No "Image guy" to an English person a "Sausage roll" is sausage meat wrapped in puff pastry and eated hot!
Try googleing it next time!
Michael Bolton has had ONLY 1 Quality hit, and I will die on this hill, it is his collaboration with The Lonely Island, Jack Sparrow. If you have never experienced this piece of musical genius I strongly suggest you stop what you're doing this very minute and listen to it, NOW, your life will never be the same. Thank me later.
Republicans: We donct need new gun laws, we just need to enforce the ones we already have.
Also Republicans: Why should we give the IRS enough money to enforce already existing tax laws?
Cuban relations are important to liberals in the United States because of their fondness for communism and socialism.
Tom Sisson
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I can imagine an IRS worker sadly crying over Bolton's song 🥰 we see you, we hear you. 🫡
3rd comment
This is annoying. All your new episodes are buried under random early season posts.
I said that in another post and got called “lazy” for not wanting to scroll 😂😂
They're not very random if knowing that they're releasing one season per week off (announced in a short video on the 26th of April) and that they're off this week which can be missed but it was mentioned at the end of the episode last week unsure of if it was in the highlight of the main story
HBO removed all these episodes from their service, making it impossible to watch any episodes from the first 8 seasons legally. John Oliver and his team bought the rights to those 8 seasons and are now uploading them for free.
@@AWildSofiAppeared Should have made another channel for full uploads tbh..
@@Makrel94 Literally why? It's SUCH a minor inconvenience
Why do we want to watch a imely topic show 8 years late. why bother posting it now?
Im rewatching, You??? 🧐
It's worth realizing the parts we couldn't see before in its full capacity.
And kind of interesting when you realize just how some of the topics and jokes are...still topical.
@@ZT1ST 💯🎯
HBO removed all these episodes from their service, making it impossible to watch any episodes from the first 8 seasons legally. John Oliver and his team bought the rights to those 8 seasons and are now uploading them for free.
@@AWildSofiAppeared "HBO: Making John Oliver look good for spending large sums of money for 10 years."
This program was crap
even knowing all I know now, and how much I hate trump, I still wouldn't have voted for clinton
That orgasm joke is a bit icky. Please don't.
Mr. Oliver is the Proactive Embodiment of an Accomplished Revenue Manager ♨️✨🙏🏼🥰📍🦘
20:00 if the IRS was not there, USA had no military, police or roads….