Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Coronavirus: Conspiracy Theories
TV Flash files “Coronavirus: Conspiracy Theories” as hour 197 of 371 in the TV Flash guide — Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014–present) on HBO, season 7, episode 18, aired 2020-07-19, 30 min.
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This leaf is S07E18: listed hour 197 of 371 in the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver guide, hour 18 of 30 in season 7. It aired 2020-07-19 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Coronavirus IX: Evictions” (S07E17). Next is “China & Uighurs” (S07E19).
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Conspiracy theories are the hotcakes of the internet. John talks about why people like these conspiracy theories and why in the age of internet it spreads so quickly. He also explains the detrimental effect can have on people's life. Finally celebrities urges people to be more vigilant and inquisitive about these theories as majority of these theories are baseless and created to create unrest among people.
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Where does Coronavirus: Conspiracy Theories sit in the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver guide?
S07E18 is listed hour 197 of 371 — hour 18 of 30 in season 7, season 7 episode 18.
When did Last Week Tonight with John Oliver S07E18 air?
Coronavirus: Conspiracy Theories aired 2020-07-19 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 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…