Television's most important program. Really.

Just when you think no television programs could be as trenchant, as incisive, and as thought-provoking  as Real Time with Bill Maher or The Daily Show with Jon Stewart along comes Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. This is a truly astounding new show in which Oliver combines amazingly inventive humor with caustic and insightful commentary on our society, our villains, our heroes and our present and future obstacles. Oliver is incredibly knowledgeable and energetically covers stories that the lazy news media constantly ignore like the homophobia in Nigeria and the base stupidity of the Ferguson police department. His outrage at idiocy, bureaucracy and racism is hilarious and disturbing. I'm not clever enough to convey to you how beyond brilliant John Oliver is. But viewing just one weekly show will show you exactly what I mean.