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“We collectively are answerable to those families who lose their loved ones because of our inaction”.

Describing mental health as a “topic we don’t like to talk about”, the host of Last Week Tonight shared clips showing the way in which we do talk about it using glib terms like “wacko, psycho, cray-cray”. The only time mental health care seems to get...

“Last Week Tonight” took on the subject of mental health Sunday (Oct. 4), but did so in a very John Oliver way.

After a lengthy hiatus, John Oliver at the team at Last Week Tonight returned on Sunday to cover the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe.

The Equality Act would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, credit, and public accommodations among other areas.

Chris Reilly, who traveled from Connecticut to see the final taping, admitted it will be hard to get through the day knowing Stewart will not be on her television telling it how it is after tonight. Colbert, ended “The Colbert Report” in December, and Letterman signed...

Jon Stewart said goodbye to “The Daily Show” on Thursday, America’s foremost satirist of politicians and the media ushered out with a reunion of the many colleagues that he worked with during 16 years as host.

One of Stewart’s amusing foes, Arby’s, also marked the occasion this week by buying two ads on Wednesday’s show. I spent three decades-plus doing network news, but if you ask me today, what do I pay more attention to, John Oliver and Jon Stewart or the evening...

In a brilliant parody of the classic tracking shot from Goodfellas, Stewart took the viewers behind the scenes of The Daily Show and introduced every single member of the team.

Out of all the famous people that Jon Stewart managed to squeeze into the first half of his final Daily Show episode, Stephen Colbert undoubtedly stole the show.

In 2009, when Springsteen received a Kennedy Center Honor, Stewart was the one who introduced him with a amusing and personal speech. “They understand satire in a new way, I think”. Former correspondents Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, Ed Helms, Steve Carell, Olivia...

The extended 50-minute finale featured a veritable who’s who’s of “Daily Show” correspondents past, including Steve Carell, Ed Helms, John Oliver, Matt Walsh, Larry Wilmore, Rob Corddry, Josh Gad and Olivia Munn.

She had been in the audience four times before, but felt that Stewart’s last week was something special. That is why “The Daily Show” for German comedians was like a free, hands-on online seminar in how to fuse hard politics with humor in a way that appeals to...

Also stopping by was John Oliver, who had just launched into a detailed recollection of his time at “The Daily Show” when Stewart suggested he wrap it up. Instead, Stewart presided over a loose, affectionate, energetic sendoff, a tribute to the man who has been the...

Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis met Stewart for Radio Times earlier this year, and said he was the man who “managed to teach me so much about my own journalistic profession, and has done it with an nearly reckless ease at his own brilliance”. WSJ senior editor Chris...