Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Confederate Monuments
TV Flash files “Confederate Monuments” as hour 115 of 371 in the TV Flash guide — Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014–present) on HBO, season 4, episode 26, aired 2017-10-08, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E26: listed hour 115 of 371 in the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver guide, hour 26 of 30 in season 4. It aired 2017-10-08 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Forensic Science” (S04E25). Next is “Equifax Breach” (S04E27).
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Where does Confederate Monuments sit in the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver guide?
S04E26 is listed hour 115 of 371 — hour 26 of 30 in season 4, season 4 episode 26.
When did Last Week Tonight with John Oliver S04E26 air?
Confederate Monuments aired 2017-10-08 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…