Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Organ & Body Donations
TV Flash files “Organ & Body Donations” as hour 288 of 371 in the TV Flash guide — Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014–present) on HBO, season 10, episode 19, aired 2023-12-03, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S10E19: listed hour 288 of 371 in the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver guide, hour 19 of 21 in season 10. It aired 2023-12-03 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Dollar Stores” (S10E18). Next is “Freight Trains” (S10E20).
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John Oliver discusses the systems in place for donating our organs and bodies, why those donations don't always go where we might think they're going, and which airline is the Greyhound bus of the sky.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Organ & Body Donations sit in the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver guide?
S10E19 is listed hour 288 of 371 — hour 19 of 21 in season 10, season 10 episode 19.
When did Last Week Tonight with John Oliver S10E19 air?
Organ & Body Donations aired 2023-12-03 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…