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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Primaries and Caucuses

TV Flash files “Primaries and Caucuses” as hour 72 of 371 in the TV Flash guide — Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014–present) on HBO, season 3, episode 13, aired 2016-05-22, 30 min.

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This leaf is S03E13: listed hour 72 of 371 in the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver guide, hour 13 of 30 in season 3. It aired 2016-05-22 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “911” (S03E12). Next is “Debt Buyers” (S03E14).

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver — Primaries and Caucuses (S03E13)

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John talks about the ongoing Venezuelan protests, elbowgate in the canadian parliamant and the obscurities and oddities in the democratic and republican presidential primaries and the primary process. Additionaly Ramzan Kadyrov's instagram is discussed. And of course Trump is in there somewhere making John facepalm.

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Where does Primaries and Caucuses sit in the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver guide?

S03E13 is listed hour 72 of 371 — hour 13 of 30 in season 3, season 3 episode 13.

When did Last Week Tonight with John Oliver S03E13 air?

Primaries and Caucuses aired 2016-05-22 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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