Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Filibuster
TV Flash files “Filibuster” as hour 171 of 371 in the TV Flash guide — Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014–present) on HBO, season 6, episode 22, aired 2019-09-08, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E22: listed hour 171 of 371 in the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver guide, hour 22 of 30 in season 6. It aired 2019-09-08 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Bias in Medicine” (S06E21). Next is “Legal Immigration” (S06E23).
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In theory, the filibuster was created to ensure bipartisanship in the US Senate. In practice, it has become a way to kill bills with only 41 Senate votes. John explains the strange origin of the filibuster, how its overuse made the Senate a place where even bipartisan bills go to die, and why filibustering should be abolished altogether. Also, Trump's Hurricane Dorian Sharpie Scandal, the UK PM Johnson's clash with the Parliament over his No-deal Brexit strategy, and Fox News' Stu Varney fanboys over Trump.
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Where does Filibuster sit in the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver guide?
S06E22 is listed hour 171 of 371 — hour 22 of 30 in season 6, season 6 episode 22.
When did Last Week Tonight with John Oliver S06E22 air?
Filibuster aired 2019-09-08 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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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…