Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Critical Race Theory
TV Flash files “Critical Race Theory” as the first listed hour of season 9 — Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014–present) on HBO, season 9, episode 1, aired 2022-02-20, 35 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S09E01: listed hour 240 of 371 in the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver guide, first listed hour of season 9. It aired 2022-02-20 (35 min). The listed hour before it is “Union Busting” (S08E30). Next is “Sex Work” (S09E02).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
John Oliver explains what critical race theory is, what it isn't, and why we can expect to hear more about it in the coming months.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Critical Race Theory sit in the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver guide?
S09E01 is listed hour 240 of 371 — first listed hour of season 9, season 9 episode 1.
When did Last Week Tonight with John Oliver S09E01 air?
Critical Race Theory aired 2022-02-20 and is listed at 35 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…