Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Alex Jones
TV Flash files “Alex Jones” as hour 108 of 371 in the TV Flash guide — Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014–present) on HBO, season 4, episode 19, aired 2017-07-30, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E19: listed hour 108 of 371 in the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver guide, hour 19 of 30 in season 4. It aired 2017-07-30 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Local News” (S04E18). Next is “United States Border Patrol” (S04E20).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In response to Alex Jones' claims that the media cherry picks negatives from his "Info Wars" program, Oliver devotes a full show to Jones' popular right wing rant show.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Alex Jones sit in the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver guide?
S04E19 is listed hour 108 of 371 — hour 19 of 30 in season 4, season 4 episode 19.
When did Last Week Tonight with John Oliver S04E19 air?
Alex Jones aired 2017-07-30 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…