John Oliver and Donald Grover Working Again

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Puppeteers on the prepare of the May 2022 appearance.

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is a comedy news program that airs on HBO. The half-60 minutes show premiered on Apr 27, 2014, and is hosted by comedian John Oliver. Concluding Calendar week This night shares some similarities with One-act Key's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, where Oliver was previously featured as a correspondent and backup host, as information technology takes a satirical look at news, politics and electric current events, but on a weekly basis.

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In a segment of The Muppets Accept the Bowl, Kermit the Frog presents a series of "Mupfront" demos of series they've been working on, presented equally a Netflix queue. One of the titles passed by is a Beaker vehicle, entitled "Last Meep This evening."

In episode 111 of The Not-Too-Late Testify with Elmo, Grover tries finding his style to the phase. He instead winds up on the Last Week This evening set and briefly interacts with Oliver. In episode 113, Grover again mistakenly returns to Oliver'southward set, this time as an usher trying to bring Mr. Johnson to his seat.

Muppet Appearances

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	September 2, 2014 A web-exclusive video was produced and released on the show'due south official YouTube aqueduct to promote "West-ORD Channel 7 News With John Oliver & Cookie Monster," a video distributed by Mashable in support of Sesame Workshop'due south "Words Are Here, There, and Everywhere" initiative. (YouTube) (YouTube)
	April 17, 2016 Elmo, Rosita and Oscar the Grouch (performed by Eric Jacobson) appeared in a piece about lead, wherein the 1996 resource video Atomic number 82 Away! was referenced. (YouTube)
	May 21, 2017 The episode concludes with an advent by 4 Sesame Street penguins (performed by Pam Arciero, John Kennedy, Stephanie D'Abruzzo and Tyler Bunch). A prune of them from Leslie Feist's "1234" parody is used before in an abridged 3 minute segment on the TSA, which John Oliver assures would have been funny in context.
	November 12, 2017 The Sesame Street penguins return for the season finale (performed by Ryan Dillon, Frankie Cordero, Peter Linz and Carmen Osbahr).
	August 1, 2021 Kermit the Frog makes a brief appearance, after George Clooney (accidentally summoned past John Oliver in a running gag of the flavor) claims in a disgruntled way "Y'all know, I got the power to just clap my hands and summon Kermit the Frog, anytime I desire. Practice you retrieve I use it? No, I do not. Because I respect Kermit!" Pressed by Oliver to "Exercise it now, delight!" the frog appears among a banjo-strum. Kermit exclaims "This meliorate be good, George!" and Clooney replies "It's not!", to which Kermit claps his easily and disappears once more. Notable for the advent, since Kermit is Disney-endemic, and his advent would've been greenlit by the company, is the fact that Oliver showed a Last Week Tonight-produced blitheness of Mickey Mouse having sexual intercourse with Goofy but a bit earlier in the very same segment, and once again at the very cease. (YouTube)

Muppet Mentions

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June xx, 2014
A segment on the United States prison system included a prune of Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration. Oliver commented on the initiative stating: "Only think about that, nosotros now need adorable singing puppets to explain prison house to children, in the same way that they explain the number vii, or what the moon is." (YouTube)

The segment culminated with a Sesame Street parody featuring a song about the prison house system's flaws. The puppeteers featured included Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Noel MacNeal, and James Wojtal. On the show'due south offset season finale, Oliver looked dorsum on the best moments of the season, including the "Prisons" segment. The characters from that segment returned to say adieu, while also challenge that Jimmy Fallon works harder. The original three puppeteers were credited, as well as Haley Jenkins, Paul McGinnis and Michael Schupbach.

June 29, 2014
In a segment near LGBT rights in Uganda, Oliver plays a song written by a religious grouping in an attempt to "have back" the symbol of the rainbow from the LGBT community. After playing the song, Oliver commented that "if Kermit always heard that song, he would immediately insist on one fewer 'songs almost rainbows'." (YouTube)

November ix, 2014
Oliver presented a segment nigh state lotteries, calling them "the second best use of magic marker on ping-pong balls after Kermit the Frog's eyes." (YouTube)

July 26, 2015
In a segment on mandatory minimums, Oliver showed a clip of Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue featuring the Muppet Babies; Oliver commented on the clip calling information technology a "loud and clear message to kids" that "if you practise drugs, all of your favorite drawing characters will testify up and talk to y'all." (YouTube)

September xiii, 2015
In a segment on public defenders, Oliver stated: "A study in New Orleans, a few years dorsum, establish that the metropolis had some function-fourth dimension defenders who could only spend an boilerplate of seven minutes per case. And that is not long plenty to prepare anything. If I only had seven minutes to prepare this bear witness, I definitely would not be talking almost public defenders right now. I'd be desperately trying to make full time by listing the Muppets in order of fuckability. And I'll exercise it now: Fozzie showtime, obviously. Obviously, yous go Fozzie first; nearly bonny thing is a sense of humor. Then you got to go Rowlf, you've got to go Rowlf. Then, you lot know what? I'g going Swedish Chef. And I'g finishing upwards with Sam the Hawkeye, 'crusade you know, he's into some freaky business. Freaky." (YouTube)

November 22, 2015
In a segment on pennies, Oliver commented: "pennies don't circulate, and notwithstanding the penny hangs effectually for no reason like the appendix or the new Muppets Television receiver show. How is this nevertheless on? And how did someone somewhere call up 'you know what the trouble with the Muppets is? Kermit doesn't fuck enough pigs. Let'due south have him fuck a different grunter! Lets do that.'" A picture of Kermit, Miss Piggy and Denise is shown. (YouTube)

May 10, 2016
In a segment on scientific studies, Oliver mentions Al Pacino while showing an image of Chalice. (YouTube)

June xix, 2016
In a segment on the NRA, Oliver compared the 96% drop in funding towards gun control research to Lycos and Tickle Me Elmo stampedes. (YouTube)

August half dozen, 2016
Oliver introduced a segment on journalism by saying "Journalists: the heroes that we root for in movies like All The President's Men, The Bang-up Muppet Caper, and—nearly recently—Spotlight. (YouTube)

September 25, 2017
In a segment on Corporate Consolidation, Oliver referred to JetBlue's Terra Dejection potato fries every bit existence made out of Grover'southward arms. This claim was later retracted in a web-exclusive clip that was uploaded on August 26, 2018. (YouTube)

October 15, 2017
Oliver criticized Equifax for not being concerned when hundreds of credit reports were being mailed to the same accost stating "what exactly did you recall had happened there? That every single Fraggle checked their credit at once down at Fraggle Rock (clap clap) down at Fraggle Rock?" (YouTube)

Apr i, 2018
Oliver reported on an immigration judge who claimed to be able to explain immigration law to 3-year-olds who lack legal representation: "You can't teach immigration police to a three-yr-old. Yous tin't even explain to child that age that Elmo isn't his best friend. Elmo's not only a puppet, he's a celebrity. He's never fifty-fifty heard of you. Your relationship is completely asymmetrical." (YouTube)

August 5, 2018
In a segment on prosecutors, a clip of a 1993 episode of Sesame Street with Count von Count as a judge and a penguin jury is shown. Oliver notes disbelief that the penguin jury wrongly bedevilled the Cardinal Park 5. (YouTube)

August 12, 2018
Oliver says Trump'due south racism is a brand in the same way Kermit being a frog is.

April 14, 2019
In a segment on opiods, Oliver says the town Kermit, West Virginia, is named that because Kermit lives there with his "secret second family unit," a pair of salamanders named Francois and Gary. "It was never you lot, Miss Piggy. Information technology was him."(YouTube)

November 17, 2019
In a pre-filmed segment, Shinjo-kun and Chiijohn (two Japanese otter mascots) travel to New York to find Oliver. Their New York escapades include a montage of them in Times Foursquare holding up photos of Oliver to various people, including a costumed Elmo who shrugs. (YouTube)

February 23, 2020
In a segment on Narendra Modi, Oliver says Modi not disavowing Mit Shah'south statements is like Jim Henson not disavowing Kermit's statement on Charles Lindbergh losing his kid. (YouTube)

March 1, 2020
In a segment on the novel coronavirus, Oliver says Vietnam's pop vocal promoting handwashing makes all other songs about cleaning yourself look like trash... "and I'one thousand talkin' to you lot, hither, Ernie. ... [W]hile other artists were out there innovating, you kept singing the same one-time duckie song. Yous lost the hunger, son!" (YouTube)

June xiv, 2020
In a segment on the worldwide protests confronting systemic racism, Oliver brings up Meeting: Standing Up to Racism every bit one of the responses confronting systemic racism.

October 25, 2020
In a segment on aviary seekers, Oliver says a Trump official said that his actions have nothing to do with immigration is about as believable as Cookie Monster saying his deportment have nada to do with cookies. (YouTube)

February 14, 2021
In a segment on the second Impeachment trial of Donald Trump, Oliver compared the way one rioter talked to an alt-right Elmo.

February 21, 2021
In a segment on the Meat Packing manufacture, Oliver notes a mix of pork and urine is just equally icky every bit Miss Piggy'south sex activity tape which shows Miss Piggy having sexual activity with Pepe the Rex Prawn. The title on the sex tape is a reference to The Muppets Take Manhattan. (YouTube)

March 7, 2021
In a segment on unemployment, Oliver shows a clip from Families Stand Together where Elmo'southward female parent Mae loses her job. Oliver blaming Elmo on unemployment is a running gag throughout the segment. (YouTube)

June 20, 2021
In a segment on Step, Oliver states that the proper noun of green-home-improvement financing company Ygrene is "considerately a stupid name. It sounds like a contemplative jazz album from Kermit the Frog." (YouTube)

October 3, 2021
In a segment on PFAS, Oliver shows examples of leather. I of them is Elmo in a gimp suit. Oliver later mentions and shows an image of the Cookie Monster rock. (YouTube)

Oct 17, 2021
In an online-sectional segment on local car commercials, Oliver, at ane betoken, says "if I may quote my favorite pig fucker, information technology's non easy being green," while briefly showing a promotional image of Kermit from The Muppets. (YouTube)