President-Elect Trump: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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  • @justuslm
    @justuslm 8 років тому +834

    I am German, and this is the first time I ever saw the Last Week Tonight intro.
    Those are the real emotional moments.

    • @tai-cx5vj
      @tai-cx5vj 8 років тому +3

      JustusLM REGERA FTW

    • @buzzlightbeer4215
      @buzzlightbeer4215 8 років тому +2

      I never saw it. I dont even watch oliver talk. I only read the comments

    • @startrek2365
      @startrek2365 8 років тому +15

      I live in the states and this is my first time too.

    • @skenzyme81
      @skenzyme81 8 років тому +11

      You should be glad to know the war with Russia has been called off.

    • @smithjarrod3935
      @smithjarrod3935 8 років тому +19

      as a German do the world a favor. write to Chancellor Merkle and ask her to refuse to acknowledge Trump as president and refuse to meet with him. He is another Hitler. not just a bad person but a horrible one.

  • @DillonRust
    @DillonRust 4 роки тому +9562

    That “Hindsight is 2020” joke hurts pretty hard right about now

    • @jammysau
      @jammysau 4 роки тому +62

      Dillon Rust *sigh* i’m sitting here in my bedroom scared of being infected... just, *sigh*, it does hurt pretty hard

    • @wadewilson2077
      @wadewilson2077 4 роки тому +20

      Dillon Rust go register voters

    • @sz7313
      @sz7313 4 роки тому +50

      Not to mention the Joe Exotic one...

    • @elhombredeoro955
      @elhombredeoro955 4 роки тому +6

      Trump got 2020

    • @AlessandroAltosoleChannel
      @AlessandroAltosoleChannel 4 роки тому +14

      Guess its 2024 now

  • @CyclopsWasRight616
    @CyclopsWasRight616 4 роки тому +3964

    Wow, only took 4 years for that Joe Exotic joke to pay off.

    • @localcrazyrussian4511
      @localcrazyrussian4511 4 роки тому +32

      @fjf sjdnx Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness

    • @digitaldecibles
      @digitaldecibles 4 роки тому +2

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @thomaspalagyi7241
      @thomaspalagyi7241 4 роки тому

      🤣

    • @TheJaw231
      @TheJaw231 4 роки тому +27

      The crazy thing is, Joe Exotic did actually run for president in 2016

    • @CyclopsWasRight616
      @CyclopsWasRight616 4 роки тому +33

      @@TheJaw231 not that crazy, considering the other people who ran for President in 2016.

  • @wackywong
    @wackywong 10 місяців тому +372

    Who's watching this in 2024? This episode aged like fine wine.

    • @brandonshane1432
      @brandonshane1432 8 місяців тому +11

      Didn't it, though?!

    • @jimstineman638
      @jimstineman638 8 місяців тому +15

      It's not over yet, I am terrified of what's going to happen

    • @you_were_the_chosen_one
      @you_were_the_chosen_one 7 місяців тому +12

      Can't wait for this same piece to be recycled almost word for word in November. Jesus Christ, I don't understand this country sometimes.

    • @berd7366
      @berd7366 7 місяців тому +6

      Yeah i bet this year is gonna look super similar

    • @RichardMiller-tq6ut
      @RichardMiller-tq6ut 7 місяців тому +3

      I had a pretty good time in 2016...

  • @brandonkelley6500
    @brandonkelley6500 4 роки тому +2326

    I am here to say his 2020 joke is hitting even harder than it did when people made the same comment 1-2 months ago.

    • @w.kerman4439
      @w.kerman4439 4 роки тому +40

      It's hitting harder than when this comment was posted, and that was only 3 days ago :P

    • @vincentvdh9
      @vincentvdh9 4 роки тому +11

      We’re not halfway yet, hold on to your briefs.

    • @sylvanransom704
      @sylvanransom704 4 роки тому +21

      Man are you gonna look naive in a few months... I don't even want to know why yet

    • @OneTrueCat
      @OneTrueCat 4 роки тому +7

      Yeah, it's worse now. Can't wait to see what happens by the time the next commenter gets here.

    • @mubarakalnahdi7704
      @mubarakalnahdi7704 4 роки тому +4

      vincentvdh9 defintley worse

  • @LinkyMew
    @LinkyMew 4 роки тому +11236

    “The year we’re most looking forward to is 2020”
    Buddy do I got news for you

    • @nixtrostrike
      @nixtrostrike 4 роки тому +130

      @thisguy no, this year is fucked

    • @vbs4257
      @vbs4257 4 роки тому +25

      What I was gonna say.

    • @fatbean2000
      @fatbean2000 4 роки тому +92

      Ohh 2016 when I could still go out in public! The good old days!

    • @kellizafer9828
      @kellizafer9828 4 роки тому +50

      Perfect example of hindsight

    • @fridasmonkey4691
      @fridasmonkey4691 4 роки тому +30

      "Hindsight..." OMG! LOL

  • @MrFForger
    @MrFForger 4 роки тому +3333

    2020: When you're feeling nostalgic for 2016, something has gone horribly wrong.

    • @mollykalk8240
      @mollykalk8240 4 роки тому +12

      They elected Trump....

    • @PrismanSP
      @PrismanSP 4 роки тому +2

      its so true and is not about Trump

    • @BlackDawn626
      @BlackDawn626 4 роки тому +34

      @G remember how he was responsible for the deaths of 150,000 Americans *_and counting_* because he cares more about the economy than the people?

    • @BlackDawn626
      @BlackDawn626 4 роки тому +25

      @G sounds like a*thrilling*, Machiavellian society you're thinking of. Here's a little tidbit for you: Bush left office with a plan in place for a pandemic/epidemic. Obama used it during the two health scares in his two terms and left a "game plan" for the succeeding person and they failed to even read it. So, before you insult a person's intelligence, check your own.
      For example, give me your source for your "millions" dying "of heart disease under Obama" claim

    • @dozzer009
      @dozzer009 4 роки тому +5

      BlackDawn626
      Thank you for expressing everything I’m feeling but don’t have the energy to convey. Stay well 😊

  • @lashinka2574
    @lashinka2574 2 роки тому +1232

    So chilling watching this 6 years later. We actually thought that was a bad year, didn't we?? Us poor, innocent, unknowing fools! 😭😭 all those stars died that year dodging the shitshow that was just commencing.

    • @kaylea155
      @kaylea155 2 роки тому +77

      Yeah, that joke about the year we're desperately looking forward to being 2020 is hilariously ironic in retrospect

    • @AlexMourning5635
      @AlexMourning5635 2 роки тому +16

      I'm rewatching a few of these on New Years Eve, and yeah, honestly the past 6 years started with a bang and just haven't stopped.
      Thank god for the news in the past few weeks, so many people getting walloped with karma right in the face!!

    • @morrigancollins2092
      @morrigancollins2092 2 роки тому

      Yeah, it's just been this gradient sloping ever more downward since Trump won.

    • @familykaplan1341
      @familykaplan1341 2 роки тому +3

      A lot died in 2022 also

    • @cailyd
      @cailyd 2 роки тому

      Ikr

  • @psikot
    @psikot 4 роки тому +6016

    "The year we're looking forward to is 2020." Ummmmmmm...

    • @AmericanDespotism
      @AmericanDespotism 4 роки тому +60

      #coronavirus anyone?

    • @psikot
      @psikot 4 роки тому +22

      @@AmericanDespotism Kobe?

    • @ricochet4674
      @ricochet4674 4 роки тому +43

      you sure about that? I think you might want to backpedal on that one John.

    • @Deeeeer
      @Deeeeer 4 роки тому +44

      20 do be hitting like a truck tho

    • @G0DofRock
      @G0DofRock 4 роки тому +16

      Haha yeah we were all wrong and very wrong about 2020... Here I sit, in a mixed state of breathing/coughing/dying.

  • @spypsycho
    @spypsycho 4 роки тому +5355

    People in 2016: "Yeah this was definitely the worst year ever"
    People in 2020: "You sweet summer child..."

    • @topazxy5809
      @topazxy5809 4 роки тому +78

      spypsy people in 2021: You Naïve sweet child

    • @TheRedlotusblossom
      @TheRedlotusblossom 4 роки тому +32

      Lol that's what I'm really worried about. The fact that it actually can get worse is terrifying.

    • @joshuaminnich3896
      @joshuaminnich3896 4 роки тому +4

      And Trump getting reelected just to make us suffer more

    • @candelarianorig
      @candelarianorig 4 роки тому +4

      @@joshuaminnich3896 The people that suffered are from democrat states...

    • @joshuaminnich3896
      @joshuaminnich3896 4 роки тому +4

      @@candelarianorig Soo Trump getting elected would be a giant slap in the face after an auful year

  • @sabrinamcclain162
    @sabrinamcclain162 4 роки тому +678

    It is Wednesday, June 3, 2020, and I would like to formally apologize to 2016. We were too hard on you. I'm sorry.

    • @anuh4308
      @anuh4308 4 роки тому +4

      Yeah man at least 2016 had a good nba finals

    • @MichaelJ44
      @MichaelJ44 4 роки тому +2

      Sabrina McClain
      TRUMPS A FCKING NAZI WTF

    • @gg454lune
      @gg454lune 4 роки тому +2

      To be fair, it was the worst year. Yet. Of course 2020 topped it. What could save it now? I'm not even certain Trump being voted out of office and a vaccine against the coronavirus would do it.

    • @jamesturner1722
      @jamesturner1722 4 роки тому

      Honestly, since then every year has been a blur. Even though 2020 is awful, it is still going pretty quickly. 2016 was just fucking wild

    • @enlightendbel
      @enlightendbel 4 роки тому +2

      It's like how people are now reminiscing the quaint times when only 2977 people died under GW Bush's wings.

  • @smth.something
    @smth.something 2 місяці тому +49

    The Algorithm has a wicked sense of humor...

  • @ZJBorg
    @ZJBorg 4 роки тому +2167

    John Oliver at 24:04 -“2016 has been the f**cking worst!”
    2020-“Hold my beer.”

    • @zombieguy4444
      @zombieguy4444 4 роки тому +39

      2020: "Oh wait, we need to stay 6 feet apart" _throws the beer_

    • @dominikbaumgartner9221
      @dominikbaumgartner9221 4 роки тому +16

      The problem with 2020 is that it's already the worst year I can remember and it could get so much worse in the remaining three months.

    • @YourSoulDriver
      @YourSoulDriver 4 роки тому +8

      2020: Hold my Covid-19

    • @zombieguy4444
      @zombieguy4444 4 роки тому +3

      @@YourSoulDriver Can’t
      We need to social distance

    • @Hayanomie
      @Hayanomie 4 роки тому +4

      Literally a week from now this could either all be over or another 4 years 😤

  • @unlocked6352
    @unlocked6352 4 роки тому +5410

    hey, 2020 here. Just gotta say, it gets exponentially worse.

    • @kennethgoddu
      @kennethgoddu 4 роки тому +157

      man we thought 2016 was bad

    • @jerryzhou5748
      @jerryzhou5748 4 роки тому +68

      @@kennethgoddu When we just walk into 2017, we thought 2016 was bad; When we just walk into 2018, we thought 2017 was bad; When we just walk into 2019, we thought 2018 was bad; When we just walk into 2020, we thought 2019 was bad. Just want to know what are we going to think when we go to 2021, and 2022

    • @ojberrettaberretta5314
      @ojberrettaberretta5314 4 роки тому +24

      if it wasnt for corona things would be pretty good

    • @KikiT92
      @KikiT92 4 роки тому +25

      @@ojberrettaberretta5314 it's just the beginning...wait until december, then we talk again. We still have time to pile s*it on top of the corona s*it and at the end of 2020 I hame sure we will have a gigantic pile of s*it as we have never seen one. Good luck everybody.

    • @ojberrettaberretta5314
      @ojberrettaberretta5314 4 роки тому +4

      @@KikiT92 yeah cuz of corona

  • @ondrejsaska3201
    @ondrejsaska3201 4 роки тому +1553

    Random people: "2016 blew, it was just awful."
    Me on November 2020: wow, two people next to each other in an enclosed space. incredible

    • @Despondencymusic
      @Despondencymusic 4 роки тому +15

      And no masks. 😭😭😭

    • @ProjectEchoshadow
      @ProjectEchoshadow 4 роки тому +19

      I haven’t seen a human irl in some time, they still have two eyes right?

    • @RedAndBlackIDress
      @RedAndBlackIDress 3 роки тому +19

      @@ProjectEchoshadow I think so?

    • @Seldomane
      @Seldomane 3 роки тому

      Its ironic at the end John mentions doing more than sharing this video around 'your bubble'. That's true, bc people who don't have common sense or believe facts don't watch this show!

    • @InquisitorShepard
      @InquisitorShepard 3 роки тому +1

      So much different than now with all the people respecting the mask policy and the social distancing. Oh wait, I just remembered, I meant he exact opposite, like how the us completely fails at stopping the virus and THE worst country at handling the crisis, how all the anti vaxxers and the idiots deciding "fuck the quarantine this is spring break yolo" and the other jackasses doing rallies.

  • @jaylittleme
    @jaylittleme 2 роки тому +125

    I'd LOVE to see John and the team reviewing these older videos, getting reactions and updated views. SO many of the predictions and points touched in this episode just aged like a fine wine. Or like a tire-dump fire. I'm not sure anymore.

    • @WGB3019
      @WGB3019 Рік тому +3

      You watch reaction videos of people who have never seen a particular comedians bit or something. I’d really like a internet-only reaction video from John about some of these old shows…..

    • @wouldiwasshookspeared4087
      @wouldiwasshookspeared4087 Рік тому +1

      Aged like milk.

  • @ethantemple506
    @ethantemple506 4 роки тому +449

    2016: Was Terrible
    2020: Curb Your Enthusiasm theme is playing every single day

    • @dozzer009
      @dozzer009 4 роки тому +4

      Omg...thank you for that bit of humor...so badly needed right now!!!

    • @icy1182001
      @icy1182001 4 роки тому +5

      Worst of all it's copyrighted to all hell.

    • @alessandrodemarchi-blumste5024
      @alessandrodemarchi-blumste5024 4 роки тому +6

      Playing at every moment except every note is dreadfully out of key and it's being played on the world's most horrible set of bagpipes, which are filled with coronavirus.

    • @christianr1240
      @christianr1240 4 роки тому +4

      I honestly liked 2016. 2020 not so much.

  • @stillalyssa
    @stillalyssa 4 роки тому +316

    A Joe Exotic joke in 2016... Man this was ahead of its time

    • @PAWfessionalTennis
      @PAWfessionalTennis 3 роки тому +3

      Yes. I laughed and then stopped and had to Google how well known he was before the documentary

    • @eli8167
      @eli8167 2 роки тому

      yes i am literally shocked that he was known before the doc

    • @corbeau-_-
      @corbeau-_- 2 роки тому +4

      @@PAWfessionalTennis it's not that odd. The documentary was basically a result of people seeing that he turned heads... How could he not.
      You also had that humongous kid... They got documented because they were succesful freaks, basically. Like the orange.
      Even I knew the dude already, a dude from northern Europe. He stands out, somehow something that is rare is interesting to many. Again with the orange...

  • @leahsmilezzzzzzz
    @leahsmilezzzzzzz 4 роки тому +375

    Watching this in 2020 and it really feels like 2016 was just the warm-up.

    • @jamesshealy6765
      @jamesshealy6765 4 роки тому

      leahsmilezzzzzzz Kobe Bryant was the glue that held this nation together.

    • @elhombredeoro955
      @elhombredeoro955 4 роки тому

      Pack up you illegal!!!

    • @zarakikon6352
      @zarakikon6352 4 роки тому +1

      A nasty preview of things to come. I expected Drumpf* to F up on a nr of things but he's really shown the whole world how much he sucks at his job and being a human being.

    • @davidshillaker7578
      @davidshillaker7578 4 роки тому +1

      2016 isn't even the warm-up. It was the pre-show

  • @ceb4747
    @ceb4747 2 роки тому +44

    Anyone else in 2022, on a masochist binge of old John Oliver? I can’t stop.

    • @githyanki1899
      @githyanki1899 Рік тому +2

      Well, hell is still frozen (it's thawing now, don't worry) and the only channel my boss allows down here is HBO. Me and a few of my colleagues like to watch it in our free time.

    • @chrystya
      @chrystya 11 місяців тому +1

      Yep, It’s 2024. And Trump has been indited for 91 felonies.

  • @somatarr8946
    @somatarr8946 4 роки тому +698

    “The year that we are looking forward to is 2020”
    Everyone in 2020: “Your definition of a big deal is going to change”

    • @viriato219
      @viriato219 4 роки тому +1

      Indeed.

    • @mr.spaghetti
      @mr.spaghetti 4 роки тому +5

      bro this shit is unbelievably ironic

    • @Dutch3DMaster
      @Dutch3DMaster 4 роки тому +2

      You watched Julie Nolke's "Explaining the pandemic to my past self" by any chance? :P

    • @lisahenry20
      @lisahenry20 4 роки тому

      @@Dutch3DMaster thanks for mentioning the video. I've just watched them and they are so true.

    • @Dutch3DMaster
      @Dutch3DMaster 4 роки тому +1

      @@lisahenry20 Her acting at the moment about all the travelling for work she needs to do and the way she starts to laugh at her was so hard hitting (I mean, my country did reasonably well, but still a lot of people were fired due to the nature of their job making it unable to work from home, and the lack of income at the side of their employee making it unable to pay them).

  • @BusNerd-ux8tf
    @BusNerd-ux8tf 4 роки тому +412

    ‘Twas a mistake watching this again in 2020.

  • @dekar88
    @dekar88 4 роки тому +765

    If John Oliver doesn't cap 2020 off with an even bigger "2020" sign, getting blown to hell-and-back, then that will have been one of the biggest missed opportunities since GoT season 8

    • @gbaboy313
      @gbaboy313 4 роки тому +6

      Amen brother

    • @MrHistory269
      @MrHistory269 4 роки тому +1

      XD

    • @NightridewithNikki
      @NightridewithNikki 4 роки тому +3

      We may still be quarantine and we still maybe having a pandemic ripping through the world.

    • @erin1499
      @erin1499 4 роки тому +10

      The good (?) news is he won’t have trouble finding an empty stadium to use

    • @BlackMageJawa
      @BlackMageJawa 4 роки тому +8

      @@erin1499 You think the 2020 sign is going to fit in a stadium?

  • @griffinyeater8041
    @griffinyeater8041 2 роки тому +129

    That “oh shit the Supreme Court” hurts now.

  • @iammashdots
    @iammashdots 4 роки тому +1288

    "oh shit - the supreme court"
    this hits hard.

    • @avalley6421
      @avalley6421 3 роки тому +7

      Kavanaughhhhhh and RGB

    • @stoodmuffinpersonal3144
      @stoodmuffinpersonal3144 3 роки тому +9

      it was harder each time he snuck a new slime ball onto the Bench

    • @stoodmuffinpersonal3144
      @stoodmuffinpersonal3144 3 роки тому +2

      @@avalley6421 And Gorsetch or whatever his name is

    • @Seldomane
      @Seldomane 3 роки тому +13

      Why does the supreme court elect for life? Its too English... no political position should be life-long.

    • @RockSmithStudio
      @RockSmithStudio 2 роки тому

      @@Seldomane I mean, the United States is based on common law like England, not civil law. Much of our constitutional law is based on English laws since we were a British Colony prior. Lifetime positions for Supreme Court Justices maintains a stronger balance of powers between the judicial and the other two branches of government IMO

  • @maryhales4595
    @maryhales4595 4 роки тому +3183

    John: “Yes, it turns out hindsight, much like the year we’re all now desperately looking forward to, is 2020.”
    Me in September of 2020: This aged well.

    • @trypptrapp266
      @trypptrapp266 4 роки тому +18

      Getting towards the election, it feels like, to use the right wing adopted meme, 2016 2: Electric Boogaloo

    • @YTW-rw6pr
      @YTW-rw6pr 4 роки тому +21

      Not to mention he brought up tiger king nobody knew who the fuck he was talking about 😂😂😂😂

    • @trypptrapp266
      @trypptrapp266 4 роки тому +2

      @@YTW-rw6pr Yes. That was bizarre

    • @SumriseHD
      @SumriseHD 4 роки тому +2

      @thisguy lol

    • @ZT1ST
      @ZT1ST 4 роки тому +10

      2020: "Hey John! Good news - you'll be able to perform that exploding sign trick again in a stadium in 2020, and for much cheaper. You wouldn't even need to wait until the election - and you'll never believe why."

  • @ZafiroDoesGames
    @ZafiroDoesGames 4 роки тому +401

    “Hindsight, much like the year we’re now all desperately looking forward to, is 20/20”
    It’s weird hearing that line actually in 2020 where just about everything that could have gone wrong has gone wrong.

    • @1495978707
      @1495978707 4 роки тому +5

      Especially missing things that really didn’t need hindsight ironically

    • @SennaHawx
      @SennaHawx 4 роки тому +3

      Not everything. Yet.

    • @thechosenone1533
      @thechosenone1533 4 роки тому +2

      @@SennaHawx At this point the only way it could get worse is if Trump gets re-elected and the nukes start flying off.

    • @FriedrichHerschel
      @FriedrichHerschel 4 роки тому +3

      @@thechosenone1533 Well, it's not like he already suggested using nukes ... on hurricanes.

  • @rbollerman8389
    @rbollerman8389 Рік тому +14

    "Turns out hindsight, much like the year we're all now desperately looking forward to, is 20/20"
    Well that quote aged like milk

  • @wolframstahl1263
    @wolframstahl1263 4 роки тому +390

    The Joe Exotic joke aged really well there.

  • @OsvaldoChannel1
    @OsvaldoChannel1 4 роки тому +1005

    "turns out hindsight, just like the year we are all desperately looking for, is 2020"
    Well, we are in 2020, and jesus Christ we gotta go back...

    • @wingedbluj1674
      @wingedbluj1674 4 роки тому +20

      The past 4 years have been absolute HELL! Hopefully, when and if this is all over, we can just erase the entirety of 2016-2020 and just say Obama served an unofficial 3rd term

    • @PartyThrasher118
      @PartyThrasher118 4 роки тому +6

      One week later we were gifted with the plague
      What's next, a meteor?

    • @wingedbluj1674
      @wingedbluj1674 4 роки тому +4

      @@PartyThrasher118 at this rate, I wouldn't be surprised

    • @grassaf4354
      @grassaf4354 4 роки тому +3

      @@PartyThrasher118 HAHAHHAA there is a giant meteor headed our way. NASA says it'll likely miss us tho :))

    • @BEstudent
      @BEstudent 4 роки тому +4

      @@PartyThrasher118 A meteor slamming into the ocean, creating a massive tidal wave drowning all of us. Damn! That's a spectacular way to go out actually!

  • @ballisticnoodle806
    @ballisticnoodle806 4 роки тому +2505

    “Donald Trump is going to shape the Supreme Court for generations to come”
    Here after Ruth Bader Ginsburgs death, and oh boy, they had no clue how true that would be

    • @cashmoneybag4
      @cashmoneybag4 4 роки тому +40

      Toori Baba
      Jesus, now conservatives are unfeeling automatons fueled by the tears of their enemies?

    • @billybatson7852
      @billybatson7852 4 роки тому +10

      @Toori Baba Yeah... heartless losers run on the ruination of America.

    • @birdn4t0r7
      @birdn4t0r7 4 роки тому +3

      @Toori Baba rage at edgy retards is the nectar that fuels me

    • @BeepBoop173
      @BeepBoop173 4 роки тому +9

      birdn4t0r please don’t use the r-slur

    • @anjansrinivasan9554
      @anjansrinivasan9554 4 роки тому +6

      Xander Raymond here after trumps infection

  • @nuuk-uy9sk
    @nuuk-uy9sk 2 місяці тому +15

    Next week's show ought to be explosive.

  • @KayleeCee
    @KayleeCee 8 років тому +1080

    Drain the swamp, yeah fucking right. Almost all of his potential picks for his cabinet are swamp monsters.

    • @TheShiz9797
      @TheShiz9797 8 років тому +7

      +

    • @TheShiz9797
      @TheShiz9797 8 років тому +28

      GREGORY RUSSO Have you looked at his cabinet picks? Trump has just fallen in lockstep with his party's platform.

    • @KayleeCee
      @KayleeCee 8 років тому +42

      GREGORY RUSSO I did not vote for HRC or Jill Stein. Do you deny that Trump has walked back on his promise to 'drain the swamp'? It sure looks like he has. Nearly all of his potential appointees are Washington insiders.

    • @bobboboogaloo
      @bobboboogaloo 8 років тому +21

      If you didn't vote for Hillary you helped let this happen.

    • @KayleeCee
      @KayleeCee 8 років тому +22

      Bob Bigglebar I couldn't vote for someone who was so arrogant that she thought she was entitled to the presidency. I was going to vote for her until all of the evidence came to light that she was trying to steal the nomination. She was very likely going to win it anyway, but she had to pay people off to undermine her opponent in every way possible. I always thought that the email controversy was bogus, especially compared to all of Trump's skeletons. The whole Bengazi thing was garbage too. More diplomats had been killed under previous administrations. If you're looking to place blame for HRC loosing the election, blame HRC. She alienated her own party by making sure that her opponent didn't get a fair shake.

  • @alishafiq437
    @alishafiq437 4 роки тому +651

    2016: Im the worst year ever!
    2020: lol

  • @Charlotte-it4rq
    @Charlotte-it4rq 4 роки тому +443

    He made so many 2020 jokes and he doesn't even know it.

    • @dillonlarson1923
      @dillonlarson1923 4 роки тому +32

      Even got Joe Exotic in there!

    • @avedic
      @avedic 4 роки тому +5

      I like when he said, *_"And one last thing.....it's going to be all too easy for things to start feeling normal again...."_*
      Hi there, I'm from 2021. And....I just want to let you know, don't worry.
      That feeling you speak of...never happens. In fact, I'm pretty sure this "normal feeling" you speak of....is objectively over, for good.

  • @deshbeta
    @deshbeta 2 роки тому +430

    People in 2016: "Yeah this was definitely the worst year ever"
    People in 2020: "You sweet summer child..."
    People in 2021: "You naive sweet child"
    People in 2022: "Hold my Russia"

    • @CaptianTwug
      @CaptianTwug 2 роки тому +11

      I’m pretty sure I said all of that. Out loud. As I was watching and rewatching this video

    • @shio_w_o
      @shio_w_o 2 роки тому +2

      welcome to the 4 month anercersery of uktrain war

    • @shio_w_o
      @shio_w_o 2 роки тому +1

      2

    • @JRDShamrock
      @JRDShamrock 2 роки тому +7

      2020 definetly still takes the cake compared to everything else.

    • @beepboop663
      @beepboop663 2 роки тому +11

      2023: brace for impact we're in for a doozy 😭

  • @alangriffin8146
    @alangriffin8146 4 роки тому +663

    I can’t decide whether it’s wonderfully cathartic or incredibly painful to watch this in 2020.

    • @mndlessdrwer
      @mndlessdrwer 3 роки тому +8

      Yes.

    • @edwardcollins8102
      @edwardcollins8102 3 роки тому +12

      How about painfully cathartic?

    • @JohnMoseley
      @JohnMoseley 3 роки тому +12

      It's resensitizing. It helps to remind us of just what an unthinkably grotesque shock it was when this went down.
      I guess that leans to 'incredibly painful,' sadly.

    • @broken12smiles
      @broken12smiles 3 роки тому +2

      Well that's your answer.

    • @corbeau-_-
      @corbeau-_- 2 роки тому +3

      meh. 2022 and already dreading 2024....

  • @ricochet4674
    @ricochet4674 4 роки тому +2838

    Watching this on November 7th, 2020 is _very_ satisfying .

    • @arturo0727
      @arturo0727 4 роки тому +16

      It sure is

    • @IrishKack
      @IrishKack 4 роки тому +7

      Indeed!

    • @chrishanlon02
      @chrishanlon02 4 роки тому +3

      Oh yeah

    • @bkstudio1990
      @bkstudio1990 4 роки тому +14

      Is it though? Everything is sooooo much worse this year

    • @capisenior
      @capisenior 4 роки тому +22

      Is it? I mean, Trump and Corona are still there.
      I guess watching this from 2021 will feel better.

  • @juggos205622
    @juggos205622 8 років тому +130

    This is exactly what I wanted to see from John Oliver. It's hilarious.

    • @IDrawToothpicks
      @IDrawToothpicks 8 років тому +3

      juggos205622 right! everyone's still getting political in the comments and I'm just dying over here 😭

    • @ssmith6870
      @ssmith6870 8 років тому

      Why be on here if this is how you feel? You are one nasty f*****.

    • @Sprinkle_the_7th
      @Sprinkle_the_7th 8 років тому +6

      James Russells don't even joke about that.

    • @RedLipClassicKara
      @RedLipClassicKara 8 років тому +1

      HBO is just the best

  • @gabriellecrichlow7017
    @gabriellecrichlow7017 2 роки тому +143

    The Supreme Court? This episode was everything I feared in 2022

    • @alkazar625
      @alkazar625 2 роки тому +1

      The Supreme Court is what it always should have been: conservative. I don't believe in a free-wheeling, flexible constitution. The constitution's meaning changes when Congress amends the constitution, not when liberal justices with an agenda decide to make changes that they feel are virtuous

    • @wmeuse2375
      @wmeuse2375 2 роки тому +10

      @@alkazar625 ya like when we wrote an amendment that say all men are equal regardless of race and then the supreme court actively worked to undo it for over 50 years, wait no.....

    • @alkazar625
      @alkazar625 2 роки тому

      @@wmeuse2375 First, which amendment are you talking about, and what cases are an example that actively worked for over fifty years to overturn it?

    • @wmeuse2375
      @wmeuse2375 2 роки тому +5

      @@alkazar625 given there is only one amendment that talks about race explicitly, I might be talking about that one. Plessy v. Ferguson is probably the simplest case to talk about over the internet. Although there are others.

    • @emilwillforss6160
      @emilwillforss6160 2 роки тому

      @@alkazar625 So the Supreme Court should be what the world isn't? The world is progressive, that's how change is made. But I guess you still live in a house with no electricity and farming your own vegetables?

  • @thepeacefulbuddah
    @thepeacefulbuddah 4 роки тому +224

    John Oliver 2016: "optimism is nice, if you can swing it. but you've got to be careful, because it could lead to the normalization of Donald Trump. He is abnormal"
    Me 2020: ...A little to late now...

  • @jeannemcverry137
    @jeannemcverry137 8 років тому +249

    Oh, John Oliver... thank you for bringing me sanity, fact-checked reporting, passionate engagement in civil life, and above all, a funny tickle in my tummy that never ceases to end in a guffaw... it must be unsettling, at times, to be such a magnet to so much dredge... please know you are also a magnet for those who seek clarity. While we may be less vocal (due to our natural inclination to ignore hyperbolic chatter) we are nonetheless strident in our support.. in quiet ways that count... spending our dollars, casting our votes, and tuning our channels. These actions speak louder than any vitriol so let them have it. Action is all that matters.

    • @iamnotacrook292
      @iamnotacrook292 8 років тому +32

      HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ''FACT CHECKED REPORTING'' HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    • @Real_Question_Marked
      @Real_Question_Marked 8 років тому +7

      Jeanne McVerry I read this as a joke, you're being sarcastic right? Right??

    • @jeannemcverry137
      @jeannemcverry137 8 років тому +13

      Nope...meant every heartfelt and thoughtful sentiment... thanks for asking!

    • @Listman11
      @Listman11 8 років тому +3

      nice sarcasm. I agree, he is a fucking douche.

    • @danielallred780
      @danielallred780 8 років тому +3

      Standing Trump next to Hillary is like Super man next to the Wicked Witch of the West.

  • @breynolds3321
    @breynolds3321 4 роки тому +444

    “2016 has been the very worst” Anyone else here in 2020 just laughing and laughing in horrific irony?! 🤪

    • @fatnlazychinc
      @fatnlazychinc 4 роки тому +3

      Me

    • @runenorderhaug7646
      @runenorderhaug7646 4 роки тому +6

      well considering at the fact that these last four years have all felt like the same year just because of how crazy it has been yes, yes it has.

    • @teddygossink4122
      @teddygossink4122 4 роки тому +2

      2016 was a good year in comparison

    • @mollykalk8240
      @mollykalk8240 4 роки тому +4

      Not I cuz everything that happened that year shaped the next 4 maybe 10 years....we gave em a chance and he governed just like we thought, I mentally ill hospital patient who escaped and now people listen to him.. ranting and raving like a lunatic and about 80-90% of what he says isn't real.

    • @sagnikbhattacharya1202
      @sagnikbhattacharya1202 4 роки тому +1

      2016 was SUCH a good year omfg

  • @Zman9042
    @Zman9042 2 роки тому +1598

    “Trump will define the Supreme Court for decades to come” hits so much harder coming back after Roe v Wade was overturned 💔

  • @MorganThaGorgan
    @MorganThaGorgan 4 роки тому +330

    When RBG died John Oliver's words rung out in my head for weeks.
    "Donald Trump is going to shape the Supreme Court for generations to come."

    • @bananian
      @bananian 4 роки тому +2

      God damn it why didn't she step down when Obama was in power?!

    • @diyagore1784
      @diyagore1784 4 роки тому +10

      @@bananian It's RBG. She was always going to retire when she died. But it's awful that she had to go.

    • @mlpfanboy1701
      @mlpfanboy1701 3 роки тому +2

      So far the supreme court hasn’t been too awful, yet. But do not let your guard down for even a moment

    • @Digimonisbetterthanpokemon
      @Digimonisbetterthanpokemon 2 роки тому

      Was that why the Democrats floated the idea of expanding the Supreme Court? Something Trump never actually tried to do.

    • @tinyfroghag
      @tinyfroghag 2 роки тому +10

      @@mlpfanboy1701 this comment unfortunately did not age well considering by June of this year there’s a near definite chance that we’re going to lose our reproductive rights😞

  • @williehornung
    @williehornung 3 роки тому +270

    The fact that he mentions Joe Exotic in this video where he says that 2020 is the year we’re all looking forward to is frankly chilling

  • @murpaderp8461
    @murpaderp8461 8 років тому +982

    Scroll back up.
    You know what, don't do this to yourself.
    You deserve better, just stop scrolling down.

    • @FINETUNEDGAMING
      @FINETUNEDGAMING 8 років тому +12

      Thank you making me fight the impluse.

    • @kaixokkiten
      @kaixokkiten 8 років тому +4

      thanks for the warning bby.

    • @K_patts8370
      @K_patts8370 8 років тому

      Murpaderp k, good looking out! #peace

    • @MsGrapeNehi
      @MsGrapeNehi 8 років тому +1

      I love you, and your username.

    • @qiaoerye
      @qiaoerye 8 років тому

      I'm here to see the comments...it's entertaining

  • @tommyvercetti5112
    @tommyvercetti5112 Рік тому +19

    This has aged like the finest wine 🍷 The mugshot is in!!
    🥂 Cheers everybody!!🥂

    • @crystalkarma2015
      @crystalkarma2015 8 місяців тому +1

      I wonder how the diehard trumpers in this comment section are feeling right about now? 😊

    • @tommyvercetti5112
      @tommyvercetti5112 8 місяців тому +1

      @@crystalkarma2015 grief comes in many stages, first and foremost is denial

  • @Wandery
    @Wandery 8 років тому +645

    As long as John Oliver exists I'll be ok for the next four years.

    • @undeadrocket101
      @undeadrocket101 8 років тому +1

      Khaleesi Same!

    • @dragonlilly
      @dragonlilly 8 років тому +5

      2016 isn't over yet. You jinxed it.

    • @XplicitNation
      @XplicitNation 8 років тому +16

      Khaleesi he's a Clinton shill. He's in the Wikileaks emails. Fuck this fraud.

    • @samlane8674
      @samlane8674 8 років тому +3

      Khaleesi Idk he might be arrested

    • @DLCStudio25
      @DLCStudio25 8 років тому

      O-O Really? NO WAY!?

  • @sariahmoody552
    @sariahmoody552 8 років тому +871

    Its weird. trump supporters seem to get so mad when information challenges their reasons for voting for him. I find it completely hysterical.

    • @bigpun1726
      @bigpun1726 8 років тому +54

      sariah moody this information is complete bullshit...find real facts...not your "feelings" based headlines in your cnn newsfeed.

    • @martianmanfrommars8428
      @martianmanfrommars8428 8 років тому +39

      I just don't want to go to war with Russia, sorry honey.

    • @KaijuKitty
      @KaijuKitty 8 років тому +45

      Funny because Hillary supporters are the exact same way. I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying that Dems and Reps are basically the same.

    • @mikew9138
      @mikew9138 8 років тому +22

      You are very correct. I've shown my co-workers his videos and quotes from his website and they still refuse to believe. "He was saying that for the election! He's not going to really do that." is all I hear.

    • @TheSuperchinc
      @TheSuperchinc 8 років тому +7

      cognitive dissonance

  • @charlescrowe9565
    @charlescrowe9565 8 років тому +202

    All thanks to people like you John.
    We will never have a salt shortage here

  • @cr9842
    @cr9842 2 роки тому +92

    I am from the future...i have come to tell you that you MUST enjoy 2016. 2016 was not even shitty compared to what we experience from 2020 onwards

    • @xardas149
      @xardas149 2 роки тому +2

      Nothing ever aged as badly in this show then the end of this episode xD

    • @just-give-me-a-handle-you
      @just-give-me-a-handle-you Рік тому +2

      XD it’s almost a saying in my school that 2016 was the last good year

    • @cr9842
      @cr9842 Рік тому +2

      @@just-give-me-a-handle-you and i agree with your school😂

    • @PurooRoy
      @PurooRoy 11 місяців тому

      Are you kidding? 2016 was much worse than 2020 and 2021. 2022 and 2023, on the other hand...

    • @cr9842
      @cr9842 11 місяців тому

      @@PurooRoy 2021 had the most lethal wave of covid.

  • @shelbybrown3041
    @shelbybrown3041 3 роки тому +213

    Rewatching this in 2021. I can barely remember most of the shit that happened in 2016.

  • @aaronweaver8099
    @aaronweaver8099 8 років тому +329

    Who's going to be president number 46? Fucking Larry the cable guy?

    • @duder24567
      @duder24567 8 років тому +25

      no its gonna be jake from state farm

    • @skalt10109
      @skalt10109 8 років тому +1

      I don't know who will come next. I do know they will be elected according to our system of government.

    • @Beanserific
      @Beanserific 8 років тому +5

      You sure about that? Tell that to Russian citizens, haha.

    • @romanmax8561
      @romanmax8561 8 років тому +1

      Trumps been thinking for over 30 years about getting into politics. He has more experience then obama that basically got the job because of a mistake made by Bill Clinton.

    • @jujuandjesus
      @jujuandjesus 8 років тому +5

      Everyone knows that Trump fulfills the prophecy and soon Camacho will ascend on high, brought to you by Carl's Jr.

  • @JohnJGillick
    @JohnJGillick 7 років тому +1323

    "This has been a shitty year." - John Oliver
    "Hold my beer." -2017

    • @breakingbacon658
      @breakingbacon658 7 років тому +112

      “You haven’t seen anything yet”. -2018

    • @mechanicpluto2430
      @mechanicpluto2430 6 років тому +79

      “It’s not over yet, kid.” - 2020
      “And fuck you 2019.”

    • @S7sparrows
      @S7sparrows 6 років тому +22

      2021 - ok kids... sit down the grown up has arived

    • @bella-tt9hk
      @bella-tt9hk 6 років тому +1

      John J. Gillick TRUE

    • @ThelastArchdemon47
      @ThelastArchdemon47 6 років тому +4

      Ha come to 2020 Trump got elected again.

  • @TheBaggadonuts
    @TheBaggadonuts Рік тому +40

    The fact that this not only references 2020 as the year to look forward to, but also mentions Joe exotic is such insane foreshadowing

  • @satyamjha3268
    @satyamjha3268 4 роки тому +263

    2016: I am the worst Year
    2020: A R E Y O U S U R E A B OU T T H A T

    • @pepitka1234
      @pepitka1234 4 роки тому +1

      20?? : I will surprise you all 😈

    • @A.Mayflower127
      @A.Mayflower127 4 роки тому +1

      Wait till 2027 comes around... anyone ready for Hitler 2 or Zombie Beatles?

    • @thomaspalagyi7241
      @thomaspalagyi7241 4 роки тому

      Hold my life changing event
      -2020

    • @nintendofan1749
      @nintendofan1749 4 роки тому

      Blondie Wise
      If the Beatles can still sing words other than brains it might not be so bad

  • @mellonlord4616
    @mellonlord4616 8 років тому +415

    People don't seem to know what biased means, what unbiased media would look like, or what a comedy show is.
    "This shit is biased, now I'll just go want Breitbart and Alex Jones till my uneducated ass feels inflated with self worth again."

    • @mellonlord4616
      @mellonlord4616 8 років тому +27

      And right after I watched this I see that Gwen Ifill died. Eff 2016. 😖

    • @lolocaustsupplier1065
      @lolocaustsupplier1065 8 років тому +45

      When he started taking money from the Dems in exchange for insulting conservatives it stopped being comedy and became propaganda.

    • @chanrevo3841
      @chanrevo3841 8 років тому +12

      Yeah, they get *paid* to slam conservatives, m8 XD

    • @Blxzers
      @Blxzers 8 років тому +5

      Libby DVR not Alex Jones. Wikileaks is the truth

    • @HarryBuddhaPalm
      @HarryBuddhaPalm 8 років тому +45

      John Oliver's show is on HBO. HBO is owned by Time Warner. Time Warner was Hillary Clinton's seventh largest campaign contributor. Oliver's slams of Trump, Johnson and Stein and propping up of Clinton was the textbook definition of "biased media".

  • @baufabio
    @baufabio 4 роки тому +129

    Me in 2020: "I'm sorry, 2016. I was wrong. Can we still be friends?"

  • @naomihopeopheliajasirineve7751
    @naomihopeopheliajasirineve7751 2 місяці тому +15

    November 6th 2024 I’m back here and I’m crying

  • @maxgorden499
    @maxgorden499 8 років тому +261

    How is it a mistake to play his rallies and his exact words? The media's job is not to tell us what to think it is to give us the raw information.

    • @markt5619
      @markt5619 8 років тому +60

      Its because they were playing his entire rallies while not playing anyone else's.
      There were tons of times during the primary's where state results were coming in and Cruz or Rubio were giving live press conferences, which the media cut from to watch an empty podium for trump waiting for him to come out.
      It was the media going for ratings and not news.

    • @BishtrainerTai16
      @BishtrainerTai16 8 років тому +61

      Instead of airing a live speech from Bernie sanders, they aired an empty podium for 20 minutes to wait for trump.

    • @homestar9
      @homestar9 8 років тому +4

      Mark T What are you talking about? They showed Bernie Sanders Rallies and would have shown Hillaries if she did any.

    • @gunandbomb4637
      @gunandbomb4637 8 років тому +6

      +GucciBalboa wrong.

    • @PwnerifficOne
      @PwnerifficOne 8 років тому +16

      Instead of Raw information, they gave us Trump 24/7.

  • @sculptureofsound2
    @sculptureofsound2 8 років тому +1437

    that ending was so therapeutic

    • @MrBl8245
      @MrBl8245 8 років тому

      sculptureofsound2

    • @LynnNexus
      @LynnNexus 8 років тому +8

      OMG yes. So cathartic

    • @TheAndrewj96
      @TheAndrewj96 8 років тому +15

      Damn straight.
      Fuck 2016 right in the fucking ass.

    • @soscobra
      @soscobra 8 років тому +1

      Michael bay approves

    • @ryu3180
      @ryu3180 8 років тому +3

      Hit media... go be 2016.

  • @TheLarsUrlich
    @TheLarsUrlich 2 роки тому +1041

    You know, watching this in retrospect, it truly feels like 2016 was the beginning of a horrible timeline that culminated with 2020

    • @corbeau-_-
      @corbeau-_- 2 роки тому +48

      the timeline is still going on, horribly... I won't sleep well until 2024 - at least.

    • @harundoener
      @harundoener 2 роки тому +21

      @@corbeau-_- yeah 2y into 2020 and its kinda getting worse

    • @lpchambers3681
      @lpchambers3681 2 роки тому +12

      ‘Twas the beginning of the end

    • @danbsports6760
      @danbsports6760 2 роки тому +6

      Like some sort of time travel movie where they went back to prevent something bad but instead made things worse, way worse. Let's hope they go back again in the future and somehow undo whatever they did.

    • @annachase6036
      @annachase6036 2 роки тому +3

      @@danbsports6760 like back to the future 2

  • @Resi1ience
    @Resi1ience 2 роки тому +44

    This video is proof that no matter how bad you think a year is, the next one can always get worse.

    • @PurooRoy
      @PurooRoy 11 місяців тому

      Not really. 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 were all better than 2016. 2022 and 2023 were worse than it.

    • @kyletan4063
      @kyletan4063 11 місяців тому +1

      Let’s hope for a better 2024! That was a joke, haha, fat chance.

  • @themedicinepeddler9092
    @themedicinepeddler9092 8 років тому +1174

    You know what I find interesting about Trump supporters? All they seem to care about is "we won, we won." If you tell them about something horrible Trump has already done, they'll just say "he won, get over it." "Winning" is all that matters to them. They think it's over now, roll credits. They have no idea what happens in the next four years and they aren't thinking of it anyway.

    • @themedicinepeddler9092
      @themedicinepeddler9092 8 років тому +35

      Evan Harris I think he's going to get shot. Not by an enraged liberal, but by someone who voted for him. Someone who felt lied to for years and put all their faith in him only to have him ignore them like everyone else. The wall is never happening and the coal industry isn't coming back. His base will come to hate him.

    • @basil5324
      @basil5324 8 років тому +7

      I am a Trump supporter. I look forward to having a respectful and mature debate with you regarding Trump's policies and stance. Just a little background information here: I am a college student in New England. I am 21 years old and Asian. I have a girlfriend who also supports Trump. I am an immigrant but I will be a citizen after I marry my love.
      The Trump supporters in my university(which is more scarce than gold in the Earth's crust) numbers few. And after the victory we were all celebrating. For I believe in traditional values and a free market. I am a conservative, also a classical liberal if you know what I mean.
      I wonder what your views are, so we could construct a discussion regarding Trump and his policies.

    • @basil5324
      @basil5324 8 років тому +7

      I see that you have certain concerns regarding an incoming Trump administration and its unpredictabilities. But I assure you that it will last for 4 or 8 years, then you get someone else. So live through and prosper, and better luck next time.
      But in reality Trump didn't win because of "racism" or "whitewash", Trump won because Hillary lost. What I mean by that is Hillary Clinton failed to perform on her bases(minorities and poor) in key battleground states. Thus the victory of Trump is not solely because of Trump, more because of the democrats failures to address the issues people actually want to hear.
      Furthermore, the Obama administration did not satisfy some Americans, especially in the rust belt. Their lives were changed radically, for the worse. Thus they invested their faith into someone else. Trump could be good, or bad. But they know four more years of democrats will only make their situation worse. So it was a gamble, almost. I just think calling these working class people, who are mostly white, demeaning names and titles is unbefitting and unbecoming of a political party. So were Trump's remarks of minorities, but at least they did have some factual bases.
      In short. America doesn't need a female president, nor an African American president. America needs a good president. And let us hope Trump is as good as he could be.

    • @flypurplecat4774
      @flypurplecat4774 8 років тому +9

      Basil So you are a 21 year old , in college, not a graduate which means....you've never voted before this election and as is true of most Trump supporters, you know nothing about how government works. Trump threatened to do all kind of things that no president can do. Your opinion means zip, zilch, nothing. He will either be impeached or some government agency will willingly and jump in and have him charged with all the crimes currently pending. So, don't hold your breath. He didn't win so quit saying that. The vote simply separated smart ppl from ignorant illiterates.

    • @basil5324
      @basil5324 8 років тому +4

      Flypurplecat Interesting argument. I have not voted before, nor did I vote this time. I am an immigrant with a student visa, I can't vote. I wonder why you say that most Trump supporters haven't voted before either. Compare the amount of whites that voted for Trump and for Romney in 2016, there is a 1% increase(I quote the NYT). The people that voted for Romney pretty much all voted for Trump, but that didn't win Trump the election. The minorities and women were the key to the race. They did not vote Hillary in a landslide, rather Hillary lost ground in all minority votes to trump. Which could point out that her campaign is mainly based on "I'm a woman" and "I'm protector of minorities", this bullshit doesn't work anymore. More whites with a college degree voted for Trump than Hillary, so I suppose the education system must be failing if all these "ignorant illiterate" people are going to college.
      Trump will be the president, my president, and your president. While pointing out that my opinions are worth nothing, so are yours. All your arguments are based on opinions and speculations. Trump won fair and square, rather than trying to deny the results, suck it up. I did not like the results of the two previous elections, but my life went on. And so will yours for the next four or eight years.

  • @YarrBr0
    @YarrBr0 8 років тому +73

    They should do a "Why is this still a thing?" segment on the electoral college.

    • @heywhatsup2466
      @heywhatsup2466 8 років тому +17

      YarrBr0 it's caused so many wins for democrats but now because you lose by it you think it's stupid and outdated and should be abolished

    • @montgoss
      @montgoss 8 років тому +16

      @Nautulis Yet another easily disproved lie. Since the Republican and Democrat parties have been a thing, there have been 4 elections in which the winner via the electoral college lost the popular vote. Every one of those was a Republican becoming president despite a Democrat winning the popular vote.

    • @Monochromicornicopia
      @Monochromicornicopia 8 років тому +3

      He already did

    • @juanroman71
      @juanroman71 8 років тому +4

      Please provide proof of these "many wins", because I can tell you now, it has only happened 4 other times... and none of them involved democrats winning the electoral college. Quite the opposite in fact, republicans won 3 of the 4 with the electoral college but lost the popular vote. Did you get your information from a facebook post?

    • @nickv1212
      @nickv1212 8 років тому +2

      Stereo Balilla
      The rest of the nation? It makes the votes of a few states matter more than any other. It's also all or nothing which doesn't make sense. You could get 49% of the votes in a state but still lose, and because you lost, you get no electoral votes from the state. So a small percentage of people voted more in favor of one than the other and therefore they get to decide for the entire state? What was that about votes being valid?

  • @calebdoty9090
    @calebdoty9090 4 роки тому +254

    Fun Fact: In the next 4 years after this, it never started feeling remotely normal. Felt new and horrible every morning! No post-it notes needed.

    • @FriedrichHerschel
      @FriedrichHerschel 4 роки тому +19

      If anything, starting your day with "what stupid shit has the president tweeted this morning while I was asleep" was the new normal.

    • @menacetosociety1471
      @menacetosociety1471 4 роки тому +5

      How boring is your life that you have Trump in your head rent free?

    • @Shepfax
      @Shepfax 4 роки тому +16

      @@menacetosociety1471 He's the president of the fucking country with a massive, lie-shitting mouth and more active Twitter fingers than some teens I know. How are you able to ignore him?

  • @jyapp4489
    @jyapp4489 2 місяці тому +21

    This episode didn't just age like fine wine, it turned the entire Atlantic Ocean into pure alcohol.

    • @Marie-Annelise
      @Marie-Annelise 2 місяці тому +1

      Apart from the bit about 2020 being a year we would all look forward to.

  • @alishahzad9141
    @alishahzad9141 4 роки тому +378

    John Oliver: "2016 was the worst year"
    2020: Hold my coronavirus

    • @mweskamppp
      @mweskamppp 4 роки тому +8

      Hold my corona would have been better.

    • @shadygoat9146
      @shadygoat9146 4 роки тому +6

      Ah how cute... this comment was made before the alien invasion

    • @sethrawlings6237
      @sethrawlings6237 4 роки тому +2

      This comment was before the murder hornets began killing for sport.

    • @davidbrown8546
      @davidbrown8546 4 роки тому +1

      Guys! No spoilers!

  • @atticusv668
    @atticusv668 4 роки тому +445

    "Donald Trump is going to shape the supreme court for decades to come"
    Aged... well... again...

    • @OdinsVikingr
      @OdinsVikingr 4 роки тому

      Seat number 3 won't be confirmed until after the election though

    • @birdn4t0r7
      @birdn4t0r7 4 роки тому +2

      ​@@OdinsVikingr they better fucking not. hopefully, the democrats can gridlock this shit until the end of 2020. i really hope people vote for the least-worst option, but given everything that's happened this year, we'd be lucky if the US doesn't make the fragile states index by the end of it. we've went from oligarchy straight to tyranny, and skipped "dictatorship" entirely, in the "life cycle of countries".

    • @OdinsVikingr
      @OdinsVikingr 4 роки тому

      @@birdn4t0r7 oh I have no doubt they'll gridlock everything to the extent they can because that's all politics is in this country anymore. Both sides are to blame for the devisiveness in this country and the media just pours even more gas on the fire by creating and recreating problems that otherwise would not exist. I hope people will choose the least worst candidate as well and in my eyes it is Trump right now because if Biden gets elected all he will be is a puppet and then after a couple years I see him stepping down due to health issues and just age and then Harris will ascend to the presidency. Honestly I don't see a way at this point that the division in this country can be healed because both sides and the media feed off of the constant unrest and pain of others. All they do is spread propaganda for which ever side they support and feed off of people's anger and fears. It is sad and honestly scary and I'm ashamed this is what our country has come to..... One of the greatest countries in the history of the world destroyed from the inside by its own people. It truly is a shame

    • @Abejaved
      @Abejaved 4 роки тому

      RIP R.B.G.

    • @jamesgors6650
      @jamesgors6650 4 роки тому

      @@OdinsVikingr oof

  • @gedrictudio
    @gedrictudio 4 роки тому +168

    It's been only a third of 2020, and it's already considerably worse than 2016.

    • @drummondhammond4040
      @drummondhammond4040 4 роки тому

      Huh?!?... 1945?!?

    • @TheCatWrangler
      @TheCatWrangler 4 роки тому +9

      2020 is actually a better year for me, but my case is definitely an outlier. It might have something to do with the fact that I was going through horrific drug addiction and lost everything that year. Trump was elected president while I was in rehab. When I came out I thought I had drempt that he had been elected. I was sorely disappointed. (Im recovered now and doing great).

    • @gedrictudio
      @gedrictudio 4 роки тому +6

      @@TheCatWrangler Great to read you're doing better, dude! Hopefully 2020 continues to show something better for you and everyone, like Trump not getting reelected.

    • @TheCatWrangler
      @TheCatWrangler 4 роки тому +4

      @@gedrictudio thanks!! Yep I agree. Maybe it'll turn around, who knows. I have seen lots of people being the best of humanity during these dark times, so that gives me some hope for us. Maybe not all is lost quite yet.

    • @sandramacey7352
      @sandramacey7352 4 роки тому

      The planned pandemic (released for a very specific reason (election year) has knocked the country, but if you just wait a little longer Trump will prove to you all what a good guy he is. Don't slag that comment yet - just wait a little longer.... you will all be proved wrong about him.

  • @TheKyubiisaan
    @TheKyubiisaan 2 місяці тому +12

    Their next episode is this Sunday. It’s gonna be brutal

  • @FloatingSpaceKitten
    @FloatingSpaceKitten 8 років тому +129

    2016, Lost my College, Dad lost his job, My best friend died, My cat died.
    Edit: So thank you John Oliver, for fucking 2016 for me. I appreciate it.

    • @eltoroluckypatientzero1355
      @eltoroluckypatientzero1355 8 років тому +6

      FloatingSpaceKitten Sorry to hear that man...

    • @FloatingSpaceKitten
      @FloatingSpaceKitten 8 років тому

    • @erenner95
      @erenner95 8 років тому

      FloatingSpaceKitten I know how you feel man. My grandmother had a stroke a few of my friends have died and so many other things. I hope 2017 will be better.

    • @leahpatts6007
      @leahpatts6007 8 років тому

      Sorry to hear that. :( Praying for the best for you

    • @parsont.689
      @parsont.689 8 років тому +22

      I hope you find your College. Did you look under the couch?

  • @quintonbailey9861
    @quintonbailey9861 8 років тому +613

    The salt from this show is what weve been waiting for

    • @quintonbailey9861
      @quintonbailey9861 8 років тому +27

      Especially when they talk about fact checking

    • @seabass7496
      @seabass7496 8 років тому +14

      I don't know about you but I bought Morton Salt stocks. Hefty profits will be made from this loser and Colbert

    • @Emily-eh5bq
      @Emily-eh5bq 8 років тому +9

      If you bought salt stocks, your stocks would drop dramatically due to oversupply..

    • @lianghueyleu6894
      @lianghueyleu6894 8 років тому

      Duck

    • @DiscountCyberTruck
      @DiscountCyberTruck 8 років тому +3

      look at all the salt on those liberal tears

  • @finnbazz6315
    @finnbazz6315 8 років тому +3555

    With Trump to the left of me, Brexit to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you.
    ~Ireland.

    • @cabbymatty87
      @cabbymatty87 8 років тому +17

      Preston Garvey I feel for IRL

    • @stewartlaird4571
      @stewartlaird4571 8 років тому +132

      Preston Garvey
      Hello, Ireland. We're all fucked.
      Sincerely, Scotland

    • @finnbazz6315
      @finnbazz6315 8 років тому +57

      Stewart Laird Nah, you'll be grand if you get independence, then Ireland and Scotland can trade easily.

    • @stewartlaird4571
      @stewartlaird4571 8 років тому +13

      Preston Garvey
      We can only hope

    • @finnbazz6315
      @finnbazz6315 8 років тому +18

      Stewart Laird We'll just have to hope and wait, the vote for Scottish independence was close last time so it should be a win now because of Brexit.

  • @chadsun7647
    @chadsun7647 2 роки тому +30

    Now that roe vs wade was overturned, this just hits harder and on a completely different tune

  • @kateb1761
    @kateb1761 6 років тому +522

    john oliver: 2016 was bad
    2017: hold my beer
    2018: hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
    2019: *rubbing hands evilly in the distance*

    • @jennifergriel861
      @jennifergriel861 5 років тому +22

      2019: were you saying something? I was busy destroying everything.

    • @elgordo2162
      @elgordo2162 5 років тому +30

      Lets hope 2020 is: Okay... get the mop

    • @benoittassin1379
      @benoittassin1379 5 років тому +2

      2021: .........................................................

    • @ColoredJack
      @ColoredJack 5 років тому +11

      2022: I give you, Earth 2.0, where cephalopods are the new dominant species.

    • @sugarm1860
      @sugarm1860 5 років тому +1

      2019: What’s that? I can’t hear you over the sound of fires burning our forests!

  • @jessicametal7796
    @jessicametal7796 4 роки тому +204

    Me from 2020 just after the 2020 election: We have some good news, not great, but good news...

    • @rhunter42dragon
      @rhunter42dragon 3 роки тому +9

      2020 gave us what we wanted, but it sure as hell didn't do it for free!

  • @raulpardo4210
    @raulpardo4210 6 років тому +545

    So that's how the show starts...

    • @cgibson3408
      @cgibson3408 5 років тому +22

      When it played, i thought it was because he was doing a piece on President DT & he was setting a GoT sort of opening theme 😂

    • @JonasDAtlas
      @JonasDAtlas 4 роки тому +2

      I would like this, but it currently has 451 likes and that feels oddly appropriate for the world we've found ourselves in.

  • @StriderStryker
    @StriderStryker 2 роки тому +15

    That look from Obama will never get old.

  • @NSIII
    @NSIII 4 роки тому +335

    Who’s here after Biden got elected

    • @hansohatori4814
      @hansohatori4814 4 роки тому +9

      Me bro ✌✌✌✌✌😉

    • @911towerzfell
      @911towerzfell 4 роки тому +13

      The only positive thing to come out of 2020 lol

    • @jonathancunningham8739
      @jonathancunningham8739 4 роки тому +7

      @@911towerzfell me three and ye the only positive thing out of this cesspool of a year.

    • @bruhboi4692
      @bruhboi4692 4 роки тому +2

      @@911towerzfell Heh something else is positive

    • @melanatedqueen6662
      @melanatedqueen6662 4 роки тому +2

      Me 🙌🏾

  • @tinman3586
    @tinman3586 8 років тому +388

    Hey, thanks for encouraging Trump to run for president, John!

    • @raw7504
      @raw7504 8 років тому +10

      Tin Man I know, but no one thought he would win this is insane

    • @TrickyMMA
      @TrickyMMA 8 років тому +2

      is anyone smart anymore? A lot of people wanted him to run.

    • @Brantheman010
      @Brantheman010 8 років тому +1

      Tin Man

    • @ttttttttttttttt515
      @ttttttttttttttt515 8 років тому +8

      Well, doing it as a joke isn't nearly the same as "hey, this Trump guy really seems fit to be the man in charge".

    • @user-rc8ff9dw7o
      @user-rc8ff9dw7o 8 років тому +1

      Because what John Oliver says is law!

  • @Leo-pw3kf
    @Leo-pw3kf 8 років тому +2433

    BUZZFEED DID RESEARCH ON CLICKBAIT?
    The universe is going to implode with hypocrisy.

    • @ChrisCapretto
      @ChrisCapretto 8 років тому +93

      Buzzfeed has just posted: "30 Websites That You Had NO IDEA Were Just Posting Clickbait!"
      (A slideshow format with only 1 website per page, and each page takes damn near 2 full minutes to load due to the ads...)

    • @jordankohring8723
      @jordankohring8723 8 років тому +28

      Literally every news source (yes, including the ones you use) is based on clickbait. Viewership is how revenue is generated, little one.

    • @touristguy87
      @touristguy87 8 років тому +10

      indeed the hypocrisy is strong here
      it is as if John Oliver had no intention of ever having this video posted on the Internet

    • @wmp3346
      @wmp3346 8 років тому +17

      Right wing, religious right has hypocrisy everywhere. They don't seem to mind.

    • @cameosisj6007
      @cameosisj6007 8 років тому +17

      Buzzfeed News is actually reputable compared to regular Buzzfeed.

  • @vincegiangiulio1160
    @vincegiangiulio1160 2 місяці тому +5

    This episode is officially the most prescient and most relevant 8 years later.

  • @user-zp8ei6pi7p
    @user-zp8ei6pi7p 8 років тому +375

    What's Donald Trump's life insurance pay?
    Just one Pence.

    • @c5shredder
      @c5shredder 8 років тому +4

      Pence would be much better than Trump, but the left's likely turned him into a boogieman as well. Really it doesn't matter who the candidate is on the right, the media will call whoever it is "literally Hitler" and their sheep will bleat along Animal Farm-like.

    • @ManticorePinion
      @ManticorePinion 8 років тому +16

      Pence wants Christian-flavored Sharia law. I'd much rather Trump stay president, even if I don't really like it.

    • @firstnamenotfirstname8190
      @firstnamenotfirstname8190 8 років тому +9

      AnImagistAtWar lmao pence is way worse xD

    • @meeks6798
      @meeks6798 8 років тому +4

      Ha, nice one

    • @ericailport2503
      @ericailport2503 8 років тому +7

      Bren K nothing like copy and pasting from Reddit. you kids today and your lack of originally.

  • @Turtle_Shell
    @Turtle_Shell 8 років тому +629

    13:24-13:52 You warn of unreliable news sources and then use BuzzFeed as a source. I mean seriously.

    • @traveel9409
      @traveel9409 8 років тому +91

      Turtle Shell they fact check

    • @kingjamestres
      @kingjamestres 8 років тому +130

      Just because buzzfeed makes you cringe doesn't mean they can't actually do investigative reporting. Sheesh i'm a guy who actually hates buzzfeed I can't believe you've made me defend them.

    • @scorpionjs
      @scorpionjs 8 років тому +2

      you're worried about anything a comedy news show says...

    • @TheColorfulPube
      @TheColorfulPube 8 років тому +33

      Buzzfeed isn't classic buzzfeed anymore, they do occasionally put out very well done articles.

    • @CynicalTake
      @CynicalTake 8 років тому +16

      buzzfeed... investigative reporting... LOLOLOL

  • @Kehvan
    @Kehvan 8 років тому +687

    Didn't John Oliver tell Trump to run?

    • @shudowwolf3256
      @shudowwolf3256 8 років тому +59

      Yeah, he's apologizing for that apparently.

    • @larrydawson1445
      @larrydawson1445 8 років тому +74

      he also said he would write Trump a check if he would run

    • @TheMechanic4games
      @TheMechanic4games 8 років тому +68

      he told trump to run as a joke, saying "Go ahead trump, run, do it, you are the person we all want to see run for president but not actually be president", he didnt think trump would actually run for president at that :/

    • @jacobveryberry
      @jacobveryberry 8 років тому +42

      he "didn't think" no surprise a comedian with a platform for idiocy didn't think.

    • @andrewrowzee5411
      @andrewrowzee5411 8 років тому +45

      John Oliver=arrogant ass

  • @ichiro.g
    @ichiro.g 2 місяці тому +9

    This is basically a 2024 rerun of this episode.

  • @malcolm1732
    @malcolm1732 8 років тому +233

    The best part of 2016 was when nobody cheered for Amy Schumer in this video.

    • @ByeOrDie
      @ByeOrDie 8 років тому +1

      We have hope!

    • @satsujin2294
      @satsujin2294 8 років тому +17

      Girls are smart AND funny Malcolm, get over it. When amy schumer talks about her vagina I seriously lose my shit.

    • @xboxmanic2k
      @xboxmanic2k 8 років тому +1

      Md Device 26:27

    • @whynotbrosay
      @whynotbrosay 8 років тому

      Md Device 26:27 (her face is so digusting, only thing worse than it is Lena Dunham)

    • @rachelchilds1997
      @rachelchilds1997 8 років тому +10

      You are why people are forced to sit through sensitivity trainings at office jobs.

  • @emiliemanes5392
    @emiliemanes5392 3 роки тому +1160

    The world: "2016 was the worst year ever"
    2020: "Hold my Lysol"

    • @mndlessdrwer
      @mndlessdrwer 3 роки тому +2

      Hold my 3M TB-Quat bactericidal, viricidal, fungicidal, tuberculocidal cleaner. It kills all the things in only 10 minutes of dwell time. Truly one of my favorite home cleaning products in these trying times.

    • @MidwesternFilthMixes
      @MidwesternFilthMixes 3 роки тому

      2021 , Biden allowed 13 soldiers to be murdered by terrorists , and surrendered 80 BILLION dollars worth of the greatest military equipment ever created to the terrorists . He also drone striked an Afghan ally and a car full of children . Are you seriously okay with that ?!?

    • @mndlessdrwer
      @mndlessdrwer 3 роки тому +3

      @@MidwesternFilthMixes I fail to see how this is at all related to the parent comment. Stop trolling.

    • @Ellerwind
      @Ellerwind 3 роки тому +2

      😂

    • @slavexcalledxshiver
      @slavexcalledxshiver 3 роки тому +1

      HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

  • @sampsunmartenson7818
    @sampsunmartenson7818 4 роки тому +2244

    Anybody here after Biden beat Trump

    • @chayimweinstock443
      @chayimweinstock443 4 роки тому +25

      Yup

    • @farisabuain6832
      @farisabuain6832 4 роки тому +88

      Right here. At least we got *one* good thing in 2020. Otherwise has been a complete shitstorm ...

    • @dotapark
      @dotapark 4 роки тому +6

      @@farisabuain6832 2016 still holds worst year title I guess

    • @bobbys2643
      @bobbys2643 4 роки тому +9

      @@dotapark there's still 70 days.. don't jinx it lol

    • @2010josem
      @2010josem 4 роки тому +4

      As of right now. Biden still hasnt beat trump

  • @sammo26
    @sammo26 2 місяці тому +10

    Who's there right before the sequel?

  • @chadamonkey5641
    @chadamonkey5641 8 років тому +463

    Man, if someone told me a year ago that the Cubs would win the world series this year, but it would be overshadowed by another news story, I would have asked them if they had gone off their meds recently.

    • @derekinfinite8859
      @derekinfinite8859 8 років тому +4

      i think you forget how little most people actually care about baseball =/ this would of been overshadowed by a lot of things. gaming sports are bigger than baseball atm

    • @mrbiggleswurth69
      @mrbiggleswurth69 8 років тому +26

      The Devil allowed the Cubs to win in exchange for Trump winning

    • @alvarojneto
      @alvarojneto 8 років тому +7

      ChadaMonkey An American presidential election will always overshadow whatever else is going on

    • @kaseymay3828
      @kaseymay3828 8 років тому +4

      ChadaMonkey go cubbies!

    • @MrGameWithFame
      @MrGameWithFame 8 років тому +1

      +Derek infinite E-Sports*

  • @noahconway5570
    @noahconway5570 4 роки тому +176

    “Turns out hindsight is, much like the year we’re now all waiting for, is 2020” Oh god if only he knew. If only

    • @rhunter42dragon
      @rhunter42dragon 3 роки тому +2

      2020: It seems you folks want something from me. I'll get it for you... but it's gonna cost you, big time!

  • @ratty3985
    @ratty3985 8 років тому +283

    seriously why can't anyone just discuss their political views without insulting the other person in the conversation

    • @Manonfire310
      @Manonfire310 8 років тому

      Views.

    • @TedGoranson69
      @TedGoranson69 8 років тому +19

      John Oliver doesn't have conversations with anyone, he just preaches to his audience for 30 minutes straight.

    • @IFalled
      @IFalled 8 років тому +15

      TedGoranson69 Well yea. It's not a debate show, it's a news show parody.

    • @TedGoranson69
      @TedGoranson69 8 років тому +6

      Eiffal.B Oh, is that like how those Christian retreats for curing kids from being gay are just 'summer camps'?

    • @karu0212
      @karu0212 8 років тому +2

      Because it would herald the end of the world as we know it.

  • @Garden-of-Scarlett-Eden
    @Garden-of-Scarlett-Eden 6 місяців тому +6

    Me sitting here in 2024 like 'my sweet summer children, that was just the entree' 🫠

  • @KTdesign1
    @KTdesign1 8 років тому +586

    IVE BEEN WAITING ALL FREAKIN WEEK FOR THIS. IN B4 VIRAL!!

  • @insolentnihilist2264
    @insolentnihilist2264 7 років тому +821

    *2110. A 7th grade history class are listening to the teacher explain the events that happened in the 2010s*
    Teacher: And so, there was a lot of historical events in the year 2015. So we've covered 2015, onto 2017!
    Kid: What about 2016-
    Teacher: We don't talk about 2016.

    • @Gatorfan_Cavon
      @Gatorfan_Cavon 6 років тому

      Insolent Nihilist 2 lmao!!!!

    • @pineapple_kid2570
      @pineapple_kid2570 6 років тому +8

      I'm waiting for 2112
      If you know rush you would understand

    • @antonslavik4907
      @antonslavik4907 6 років тому +7

      Yeah, hiding truth and rewriting history - very liberal

    • @swamivardana9911
      @swamivardana9911 6 років тому +2

      Close your eyes and it will go away.

    • @BailesSauce2
      @BailesSauce2 6 років тому +6

      Teacher: Actually, you know what, let's skip to 2018. 2017 sucked more than 2016.

  • @CatThatLostHisHat
    @CatThatLostHisHat 4 роки тому +227

    Somehow, every single year since then has been progressively worse.

    • @calrose
      @calrose 4 роки тому +6

      CatThatLostHisHat just bc Iroh is your pic. +10

    • @elhombredeoro955
      @elhombredeoro955 4 роки тому

      And the President is still popular.

    • @ZVlog1120
      @ZVlog1120 4 роки тому +5

      @@elhombredeoro955 according to whom?

    • @luigi369
      @luigi369 4 роки тому +1

      Yeah PROGRESSIVEly worse. I wonder why

    • @zentralratderfliesentischb660
      @zentralratderfliesentischb660 4 роки тому

      @@luigi369 That is..... somewhat interesting
      WTF is it that there are those big-ass street fights etc between BLM,Antifa,SJW etc and normal people, I mean we have Antifa too (invented it) but
      the politicisation of campuses etc. is crazy. What is that dumpsterfire about, tell me first hand, MR/MRS US citizen

  • @richomatic
    @richomatic Рік тому +9

    I come from the year 2024.... if you thought 2016 was bad you better hold on.....