Towards the end of last week, many of the late night shows taped without an audience in an effort to combat the spread of the coronavirus. On Sunday, John Oliver joined them.
“Both the place we normally tape on Sundays and our office building both had confirmed cases of coronavirus this week,” Oliver says at the start his monologue. “So our staff has been working from home, and we’re currently taping this somewhere else, with a very limited crew.”
The focus of the last Last Week Tonight episode for a while? COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. Oliver already did a segment on the virus a couple of weeks back, but this time his focus is on the escalation, the reaction, and — crucially — what we can do about it. Read more…
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