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John Oliver’s Emmys Did Not Stop HBO From Doing Him Dirty

By Mike Redmond | Pajiba Love | February 19, 2024 |

By Mike Redmond | Pajiba Love | February 19, 2024 |


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It’s not often that we cover John Oliver twice in one day. However, an interesting/infuriating development occurred just a few hours after Andrew’s post where Oliver optimistically touted his continued success at the Emmys as a “kind of armor” against HBO canceling the show. While that assertion has held up as far as keeping the show on the air, Oliver’s Emmy armor did not hold up against a different nasty foe: Goosing streaming subs. The late-night host revealed earlier today that HBO has made the wildly short-sighted decision to no longer make the Last Week Tonight main story available on YouTube on Mondays as has been the case for years. The show routinely dominated headlines the next day, but not anymore. Going forward, Last Week Tonight clips won’t be uploaded until Thursday. As for why, HBO isn’t even hiding what it’s trying to do here: “We are now delaying that availability and hope those fans choose to watch the entire show on Max.” Good f*cking luck. (THR)

Ayo Edebiri is all of us in this photo. (Lainey Gossip)

What absolutely brain-stupid thing are MAGA truckers going to protest this time? The entire city of New York, of course. (Wonkette)

Kayleigh wrote about the quirky crime-solver genre of TV and why audiences are drawn to amateur detectives in fiction. (Primetimer)

Elon Musk has almost definitely been using a burner account where he compliments himself on being an “amazing father,” and it is as pathetic as it sounds. (Daily Dot)

As for “Liam Nissan,” the guy who exposed Elon’s burner account, he’s been going through some things thanks to Capt. Free Speech Who Would Never, Ever Censor Anybody. (Bluesky)

These nepo babies needed Navy SEAL training to survive NYC. (The Cut)

From Petr: Using gibberish to get into an apartment building is killing me. (TikTok)

Air Canada got screwed by its own AI chatbot, which made up a refund policy that the airline was legally, and hilariously, forced to honor. (Ars Technica)

Rachel Dolezal went on TV and said with a straight face that she’s Black despite being one billion percent white, so it completely tracks that she’s not sweating her OnlyFans scandal one bit. Shame went bye-bye a long time ago. (Daily Beast)

Frank Herbert always thought Star Wars was a Dune ripoff. (Polygon)

Uncoolaidman went into Rebecca Yarros’ Fourth Wing with nothing but an appreciation for a fantasy book in a school setting. “I also do kind of enjoy the callous disregard for human life this school has. It is essentially designed to “thin the herd” because there are always more students in the college than there are available dragons.” Has the buzz around Fourth Wing tempted you to read it? (Cannonball Read 16)