Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Pepe Julian Onziema, LGBT Rights in Uganda, Hobby Lobby
TV Flash files “Pepe Julian Onziema, LGBT Rights in Uganda, Hobby Lobby” as hour 9 of 371 in the TV Flash guide — Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014–present) on HBO, season 1, episode 9, aired 2014-06-29, 30 min.
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This leaf is S01E09: listed hour 9 of 371 in the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver guide, hour 9 of 24 in season 1. It aired 2014-06-29 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Steve Buscemi, Monarchies, Dr. Oz & Regulation of Dietary Supplements” (S01E08). Next is “Wealth Gap, CIA's Image, Warren G. Harding's Love Letters” (S01E10).
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John Oliver sheds light on recent Supreme Court cases and discusses gay rights in Uganda with activist Pepe Julian Onziema.
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Where does Pepe Julian Onziema, LGBT Rights in Uganda, Hobby Lobby sit in the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver guide?
S01E09 is listed hour 9 of 371 — hour 9 of 24 in season 1, season 1 episode 9.
When did Last Week Tonight with John Oliver S01E09 air?
Pepe Julian Onziema, LGBT Rights in Uganda, Hobby Lobby aired 2014-06-29 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Do I need to watch every week in order?
Each episode is a topical deep dive, not a serial plot. Jump at a subject you care about; net-neutrality-era segments are the origin myth of the civic-homework clip.
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John Oliver turned late-night into a research department with punchlines: twenty-minute deep dives on net neutrality, prisons, and whatever lobbyists hoped you would never google. Civic homework disguised as comedy — explainer satire that actually moved petitions, and a host who treats footnotes like setups.
Sunday night, and the group chat is doing homework. After *The Daily Show*, John Oliver's HBO late-night series debuted April 2014 with Tim Carvell and James Taylor in the engine room: twenty-minute deep dives on net neutrality, prisons, and whatever lobbyists hoped you would never google. Segments sparked real petitions and news cycles. Multiple Emmys for variety talk. Footnotes as setups. (Spoiler-free: the joke comes with a syllabus.) Lana can have the tuxedo. **The ship is the explainer, and the replies are…
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John Oliver’s correspondent weather on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart made a fake newscast feel like a civic classroom, then Last Week Tonight turned the same research into twenty-minute deep dives — 2000s catalog Stewart era, 2010s…
Also in season 1
- S01E01 Indian General Election, NSA's New Image, POM Wonderful LLC v. Coca-Cola Co.
- S01E02 Death Penalty, François Hollande, the Sultan of Brunei
- S01E03 Bill Nye, the U.S. Senate Election in Kentucky, Global Warming Controversy
- S01E04 Fareed Zakaria, General Motors, Right to Be Forgotten
- S01E05 Net Neutrality, Tony Abbott, 87th Scripps National Spelling Bee
- S01E06 FIFA and the World Cup, Bashar al-Assad