Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The U.S. Trade Embargo with Cuba, Miss America Pageant
TV Flash files “The U.S. Trade Embargo with Cuba, Miss America Pageant” as hour 18 of 371 in the TV Flash guide — Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014–present) on HBO, season 1, episode 18, aired 2014-09-21, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E18: listed hour 18 of 371 in the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver guide, hour 18 of 24 in season 1. It aired 2014-09-21 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Scottish Independence, Ray Rice, Corporations' Misuse of Twitter” (S01E17). Next is “Drone Strikes, Ayn Rand, Kansas State Budget Shortfall” (S01E19).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
John focuses on the Miss America 2015 pageant with special guest Kathy Griffin.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The U.S. Trade Embargo with Cuba, Miss America Pageant sit in the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver guide?
S01E18 is listed hour 18 of 371 — hour 18 of 24 in season 1, season 1 episode 18.
When did Last Week Tonight with John Oliver S01E18 air?
The U.S. Trade Embargo with Cuba, Miss America Pageant aired 2014-09-21 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.
In the series
Why this series still plays
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 as Host
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