Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Green New Deal
TV Flash files “Green New Deal” as hour 160 of 371 in the TV Flash guide — Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014–present) on HBO, season 6, episode 11, aired 2019-05-12, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E11: listed hour 160 of 371 in the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver guide, hour 11 of 30 in season 6. It aired 2019-05-12 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Lethal Injection” (S06E10). Next is “Death Investigations” (S06E12).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
John discusses Putin's fall during a hockey game, the GOP states passing extreme anti-abortion laws, the Republican backlash against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal, and Bill Nye the Science Guy's gritty take on climate change.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Green New Deal sit in the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver guide?
S06E11 is listed hour 160 of 371 — hour 11 of 30 in season 6, season 6 episode 11.
When did Last Week Tonight with John Oliver S06E11 air?
Green New Deal aired 2019-05-12 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…