Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Supreme Court
TV Flash files “Supreme Court” as the first listed hour of season 11 — Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014–present) on HBO, season 11, episode 1, aired 2024-02-18, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S11E01: listed hour 291 of 371 in the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver guide, first listed hour of season 11. It aired 2024-02-18 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Elon Musk” (S10E21). Next is “Pig Butchering Scams” (S11E02).
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John Oliver discusses the Supreme Court, the ethically questionable gifts some of the justices receive, and an offer for Clarence Thomas that could ruin John's life. Genuinely. You'll see.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Supreme Court sit in the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver guide?
S11E01 is listed hour 291 of 371 — first listed hour of season 11, season 11 episode 1.
When did Last Week Tonight with John Oliver S11E01 air?
Supreme Court aired 2024-02-18 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…