So true.

It helps the show isn't that funny either. I don't think that is John's fault either.

i must have missed it, what did he say that hasnt been said already? i thought this was a comedy show.

@@pcrizz b but the audience was there to tell me when to laugh...

I don't know man, to me it's all the new cases every hour, people dying and countries literally closing down did the convincing, not the lack of audience laughter.

@John Oliver, take notes from that /\!!

Or just resistent.

??????

@@Phoenix_VR ????????

@@yannick245 ???????

This comment could easily sum up the entire pandemic and all the issues highlighted or stemming from it.

Happy Anniversary? Apologies, I've forgotten how holidays work. Yay.

*Laughs and cries in almost 2 years later*

We're still in it lmao

Oh me too, shoutout from almost two years after the 1st diagnosed case

It used to sound so weird and I had to hear it a bunch of times to remember it.

@Asim Malik dear lord is that so many emojis! why do you need that many?

@@cornblaster7003 i think its a bot dude

@@decentlysmartforanidiot8284 that would explain a few things huh, well thanks for telling me, I don't really want to embarrass myself further here

@@cornblaster7003 hey, you're good man. thanks for being so cool about it haha

It's like the beginning of a post-apocalyptic movie/nightmare/reality 🤔

Did you ever see his audience?

post-apocalyptic?

Well.. I mean... *gestures to everywhere* 🤷🏽‍♂️

@@MatejBosansky ye

lets be real we alrealy laugh enough with this alone

I know that had to be so hard for him. All of the late night shows are canceling obviously not just because of no audience, but that's a big factor. It's just dry trying to tell jokes without a response and I'm sure it was nerve wracking for John to do this. But I'm glad he did!

Unlike some people...

He's like a regular youtuber now

You know how he does it, though, right? He's part TikTok hamster.

I regret to inform you that 2 months in the future it only gets worse.

@@1Arrowkill1 I regret to inform you that 2 weeks later it is very more prophetic

@@boredproduction even further sorry. 1 week later it has nosed dived into shite county

@@AaronScottLawford Yare Yare

7:09, that was a prophetic line!!

I actually kind of like the noises

to americans it feels strange. I do what the english do but... man it feels weird seeing as its been years of there being laughter.

Oh nonsense. It works for John Oliver in the US but really...we own having a laugh. We're not uptight America.

Katie Anne indeed it is 😂

I legit prefer this.

Its cringey propaganda.

the jokes are always the worst part of Last Week Tonight, they're the same bits over and over

Salvador...stop iiittt😥😫

@@nayrtnartsipacify yep virus is very low mortality but we gotta surrender our freedoms....

@@nayrtnartsipacify please explain? Nothing in this is untrue. In fact it is much more true and serious than anything else I have seen out there.

Made me think he was the Creator of the Matrix for a moment, and this was all a simulation!

Mondo Mendez the British accent and half smug face helped too.

I wish he'd come on nightly in 5-10min vids to dispel the days bullshit and keep attitudes in a good place.

@@williamwang3729 Yeah.....LOL, not so much a British accent anymore !!

He just seems like a comedian without an audience.

Same, it’s bonkers

same!

Hello from 6 months from now! I think we've caught up to 2020s a lot.

Hello from December 2021, aaaand this year surpassed 2020 re craziness lol (not lol)

2022 Things seem better, vaccines are available but people don’t want them because… conspiracy theories I guess🤷‍♂️ It’s been a lot but there’s still A LOT to get through going forward

Mrs. Bir is that you? Don’t worry I’m going to turn in my research paper I just need a few more days.

If you absolutely insist on posting check your facts first. Factcheck.org is just of many sites.

So I don’t retweet the _president_ ?🙄😂

You DEFINITELY _never_ retweet the President. Not the current one, anyway. Retweet Obama all you want. Check Biden before retweeting. Do not taunt happy fun Nixon. --Dave, Trump has never once cared, his whole life, whether what's coming out of his fingers, or his burger-hole, is true or not. That's just not the standard he goes by. At all.

I know! I watched this on HBO and thought “shit this really is a UKposts news video”

It feels so awkward XD

Nubbie Wubbie Erin-Leigh Hoffman my late night show has had zero audience since 2004. Then again, had almost zero viewers. But I don’t quit. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/ppNnfI6lpIt5tJs.html

He needs Spongebob or Wii shop music in the background. Actually seeing a human face without jumpcuts or hearing the shows normal audience feels weird.

Nah! He's just spewing SOME MORE NEWS!!!

Oh good, someone else noticed and put it in better words then I ever could

Going to school with no teachers and only a couple of people at any time was weird. We had to collect our books and every single teacher was in a meeting so we kinda just went in there and grabbed it.

@law law People actually watch her show? lol

Arigadatred If you thought that was bad, go and watch the last WWE wresting hour. Jesus Chris it's bad.

Robots or maybe NPCs?

He was probably grey all along but stylists were shut down and he couldn’t get it done. If you watch later episodes his haircuts were mishappened, he or his wife were probably cutting it.

2020 aged everyone.

It's still weird.

Tyler F but is that so bad?

I like it better.

Very that..

kinda like we've all already died and this is our afterlife, right?

I think that's just reality.

Glad I wasn't the only one who felt this way...it's just weird

It sounds weird really not to hear laugh track after the jokes

John's an amateur. I would've had the GRIM REAPER standing over me to my left, the entire time. WIth his sickle / scythe.

@Asim Malik wut

One year later and it ACTUALLY represents his ENTIRE presidency. . .

@Asim Malik shut the fuck up, please, shut the fuck up

@Asim Malik, Shut the fuck up, you internet toilet. But at least toilet's make shit go away, unlike you.

If you get your health advice from Faux News pundits, don't be surprised when you die.

@@kevinmoore4470 Perfect response!

What can I say? The pandemic makes me horny!

@Cassandra Tafoya i didn't even notice a beastiality joke. Must rewatch.

if you're having anxiety, please listen to this: victorianoll.bandcamp.com/track/ocean

his performance was good, the talking points were just bad, but i guess that happens when you just become a media puppet.

@@dinozorman what sort of talking points do you think he should have hit?

@@dinozorman please enlighten us what points he should've made instead.

He just adjusted his timing to compensate for the lack of live audience. I though they'd have prepared for this, but it was still impressive how he did it on the fly.

@@DangerousTempest don't feed the comedy racist troll

Tough crowd

It’s really weird not to hear the audience.

@@poutou1789 It's creepy as all get out is what it is.

Am I the only one who got molested by an uncle?

He could’ve add the fake laughs like he does in the og show

mm yis

I want them to keep this format forever!

It's like watching Mr. Rogers minus the music.

It makes it harder to tell when his orange man bad jokes are supposed to be funny

JGV Illustrations want***, not need

Yeah it's crazy. I'm here in July 2020. I'm wondering how September is gonna be?!

Let's send the kids back to school. I wouldn't send kids back if I had kids.

@@cmorris9494 in my district there will be remote learning Me and his baby brother usually walk my 10 year old to the bus stop so this helps keep all of us safe. I wish everyone could do the same for their children.

And Florida is about to reopen schools

@@shanez1215 I live in Florida and they have already opened schools. Got a few teacher friends who aren't happy but still trying their best. Some are offering remote learning but in person classes are definitely happening.

He's a stand-up comedian, so I'm sure he's used to it ;) hey-o!

@@JRSiebz I LOVE this format! Honestly I prefer to laugh at his jokes without the studio audience, and would watch the show way more if it was done this way.

@@Idiosynchris in sitcoms yes but here live audience make an atmosphere that is nice

no its not. my laugher is waking my up quarantined apartment.✌️

I'm digging it

"Welcome to Last Life Tonight"

John: “Sooooo...you died.” Me: ”No shit. Any good news?” John: “I’m dead too so at least you’ll have company.” Me:...”This is a tragedy.”

Cactus 🤣🤣🤣

Kinda like the Good Place.

At least Liverpool won the League Title

aw man can u imagine, the british edition of west wing

Would we still be referred to as the colonies, or would they allow us to be called America?

I am not perfect. I am some hypocritical dumbass. But. People, smarter than I, say you can test how accurate a model is by, well, seeing how many of it's predictions come to pass. Not just Corona videos came true. Police brutality and murders are still happening to unarmed Black folks, 2 years after George Floyd's murder. Climate change models predicting the weather events. And if the trend continues? Then Plastics, authoritarianism, biodiversity death, more intense racial violence, droughts, floods, and many other terrible predictions could come to pass, if they haven't already. I'm a tad nervous, lol

I wouldn‘t say accurate. He said it will take weeks or months, but….. what can you say anymore about it. Think about the hamster. Think about the hamster. Happy thoughts. Happy hamster.

Yeah, is crazy. I'm watching this in July 2020. I'll check back but I'm sure by September someone will be saying the same thing I'm saying now, WAKE THE FUCK UP AMERICA! This is real!

America threw all our coronavirus money at the top 10% to artificially inflate the stock market and it's slowly starting to go back down to reflect the real situation here in the states. The money didn't trickle down like Republicans have pretended it would for decades, it's only inflated CEO pockets.

but but but... mah freedom?

@@katyungodly it looks like those people that would be mafia just instead ended up sickening the state and the second amendment is there because people Realized' long ago that corruption pools and it needs to be culled Through reformation would be preferable

@@SailnoffHi, I’m here from September and things still suck. Someone respond again in October.

Poor hockey, but the NHL only has themselves to blame for their continued relative obscurity.

Hockey don't want dat smoke lol

That one hurt, even more so without the audience laughing about it.

@@bennettc419 It probably hurt even more that no one was laughing and you just know how close it hits...

@@ghettofridge Out of curiosity, why would you say that is?

😔

#MasterCastTV

It took him a while to find his pacing without a live audience, but, yeah, he's a UKpostsr now

I see he forgot about China while he was criticising Trump.

Hahahaha... Oh. :(

He did say, So far....

That was the first entry in the Coronavirus franchise. We're now in the shitty Disney spinoff, "Coronavirus X: USPS Strikes Back!"

I. E. Before he tried to steal an election 1🤣

A more innocent time.

Jesus Fucking Christ this comment thread reminded me how depressingly shitty things have been

I'm glad I'm not the only one who caught that joke X,D I thought that one was especially bitingly funny

He did phenomenally with no audience, well done

Why do I not get that? I feel stupid not understanding it as a hockey fan xd. I guess it's got something do with the fact that hockey is not that major sport in the us

Well it is Canadian. Lolololol

Corona Virus in current year

I do too!!!

Which to be fair, it's not that far off from what he does usually! :^)

Or purgatory

Agreed

The person pushing for GOF experimentation?

I approached the comments section cautiously to say just this.

It's 2023 and I still can't believe it. And in retrospect, I wish they use the term, physical distancing rather than 'social' distancing, which would clarify what it actually is- not social isolation but a physical one.

@@Hitori15what is this “social” of which people keep speaking?

DirectorG reading this comment lying on bed in the dark somehow feels soo comical hahahaha yes we are his phantom limbs!!!

why are we still here, just to suffer?

Damnit you got to the joke first... I was mid typing

Call Rusty Venture!

They could stream to a home audience for the laugh track? Or just press a button...

Kelp Farming did you have a stroke halfway through writing this?

@Kelp Farming You're... Incredibly stupid.

@Kelp Farming Guess what doofus, this disease spread so rapidly due to air travel from global commerce. Capitalism created this epidemic, not "open borders".

No he doesn't look like DotardChump so how did his show spread this disease? Explain your response please.

@Kelp Farming THAT'S why you guys stockpile all the toilet paper! You shit your pants when you're butthurt. Which is always.

Georgia Englot What they would have u believe....trump & Milania caught & were cured over the weekend the cure will be available after the vote/ don’t let it rule your life? The worst advice comes from liars & professional liars... trump / heraldo /

Hello from two weeks in the future. 215k Americans dead. And now I'm triggered for the afternoon...

@@wurdnurd1 woah there buddy, leave the time traveling to animal crossing alright

220k now Edit: 260k

Belgium has mandatory masks from very early and they have 16k cases yesterday with a population of only 10m. If they had same population as US they would have over 500k cases a day while US now only has 60-70k. Just proves lockdowns, testing, and tracing dont work in the long run.

Don Kanaille That’s our current affairs in a nutshell.

That hurts because it's true.

This reminds me of Jon Stewart on several occasions, but most prominently after 9/11. Informative, entertaining, genuine and somber.

O K!

NaiLed it!

sad.

lmao this comment hit differently - kudos

So true

Yeah if laugh tracks were ever appropriate or at least excusable it's in this instance

I feel like Pavlov dog. After a joke I laugh and wait for the audience laugh, but nothing comes out

I love how he starts sounding a little like Matt Berry and got little out of breath.

That one got me too!

When you nearly fall out your chair laughing 😂😂😂

That look on his face xD he likes that thick corgy butt...

Thicc

It just makes it painfully obvious how unfunny he is without the forced laughs

Exactly...the jokes fall hard, but the lack of an audience or even a laugh track makes it all so much more poignant.

Sean Harwood Oh. No that’s not what I meant. I love John and I think he’s very funny. I meant the quarantine is really weird. I’m in NYC and it’s really a strange place rn.

@@JuliaTaylorSoprano they are just haters, and as we all know: haters gonna hate.

I'm sure somebody will make an edit to add the audience in this episode

Makes the show more “real” tho, I guess it’s not that bad when talking about that kind of topic

It made the jokes feel like they were falling flat. You never really realize how much you use the audience's laughter to cue your own until the audience is gone.

Mac Daniel Howard lol ohh fuck you

Yes, without the laugh track ... he sounds like just another opinionated person.... However, I Still like his show.

I just added my own, where applicable. :-p

Who the fuck came up with your comment

Nice

I don't think John makes those decisions, but I am also glad they filmed this

Drink vodka you will be safe

China-coronavirus Africa -ebola virus America-Bernie virus

He still had some real great jokes though. I loled the bedroom eyes joke

He always make a documentary, what makes us laugh is how stupid the people is

I actually much prefer the show without audience laughter

The clear breaks for audience laughs that never come give me anxiety

He often does, but you haven't noticed.

I mean, the situation fits the tone, if you ask me...

It was right in line with work today: half deserted, everyone on edge, the whine of the auto-sanitizer and hurried footsteps in the lobby.

@@moarsaur That is really unsettling.

@@liamodahl1205 I haiku'd it, cuz what the hell: Quick footsteps trail the auto-sanitizer whine. Distanced together.

Did you see Steve Colbert's show the other day? Pretty sure he was drunk lol.

Yeah but it's been so shit that ya kinda want it to just end...😂 (Okay but seriously I hope people act smart and be safe!!😔)

Oh god I was literally just thinking the same thing

It’s like the last episode of Dinosaurs.

@@hey_its_p-ax yeeah!! It's so darn creepy :s

Same feels

Mee plesase

Nah we knew it was being treated like shit. Big hint was when the king thought injection of bleach or cleaners could work

It bothers me that Americans don't appreciate hockey, you're in the top 6 consistently!

It took me like 10 seconds to realize what he said and then I was sad :(

Andrew Carroll why’d he have to do my beloved NHL like that...

Isn't it just a definition? It's the NHL but MLB. So Baseball, Football, Soccer etc. are "Major Leagues" but Hockey is a "National League". I don't know if that's correct, I'm not American, just a theory. :-D

@@SunburntAZ dude, it was just a goof

Haha totally!

Unfortunately I can only half way agree. That is his response when a women, preferably of color, asks him a question he doesn't like.

Oh wow you’re definitely a moron

It's how you know you nailed the idiot with a zinger

This pretty much goes with out saying, but a really no-duh that follows is that Trump knows exactly what the question is about.

Wow so original

Facts

Very true.

that's indeed the truth everywhere now.

True!

That Kars for Kids commercial will take your life.

Especially with the white background

That’s an unsettling thought.

That's because you're expecting jokes - and the lack of canned-laughter, makes it impossible to tell where the punchlines of his weak jokes are. He is flailing his arms at Trump, listing the ONE of the two countries that has responded diligently to this crisis; Singapore and South Korea. Other than these TWO countries - NO GOVERNMENT IN THE WORLD has responded with due diligence. If anything - Trump has actually done a LOT more than some countries (like Sweden... which has done sweet fuck-all... and is TO THIS DAY - forcing parents to send their children to school at the threat of going to jail/loosing custody). Trump is a pile of shit.... but compared to ALL the other piles of shit... this pile of shit at least floats. John Oliver will never even recognize this... this is what makes John Oliver a partisan hate-mongerer intent to tear the country down. For example: Why does a leader say that the markets are doing fine? Because people are stupid fucking herd-animals. If you say "they will go to shit" people will sell all their holdings and thereby ENSURING IT GOES TO SHIT!!! I am 100% certain John Oliver knows this - which makes John Oliver an evil person... not just a comedian, but actually evil.

It feels like I shouldn’t be laughing

Sshh, Just listen.

He trained with John Stewart who knew that if you can make people laugh you can sneak a lot of info in at the same time.

We have reached a timeline where satire is being out-weirded by reality.

Logiwonk This

he is always more of a journalist than most journalist

It's like watching Game of Thrones again, oh the horror, the horror!!!

fenrirgg 😢

Felt like the rich folks for a sec there

@@thetacoguyy me too

I was waiting for this comment lol

Month later: everybody's dead dave

It actually seems kind of prophetic watching this one month later.

33 million people on such a huge country. You can have 1km social distancing ha-ha. Only if you didn't gather up in small cities.

​@@jamesflynn4951. Love that show.

@@villageblunder4787 the Cat was the best

UK are not far behind this!

Mexico says hi

We share a name 😊🙋‍♀️

what about Belgium. They have much more serious lockdown than almost all countries, were early on to react, masks are mandatory and yesterday they had 800% more infections than the US per capita.

Melhor piada!

Sebastian Limo He did a really good job considering he didn't have audience energy to feed off of.

Sebastian Limo yea the audience is told to laugh, not genuine laughter.

You mean the fake laughs

@@devynyates1929 you're dumb

Man still made a video regardless. Props to him 🙏

Sorry he only has eyes for horses and Ben Swolo.

@@slavko321 it felt more like he wants to say Papa John

I felt this too!

Wake me up when Trump's nuked China.

@@slavko321 don't forget thicc corgis

Yepp never forget how long it took western governments to recommend everyone to wear masks...

That was for 2 reasons: 1. Mask shortages. 2. They hadn't discovered that it spread asymptomatically. ...well if I'm being honest, someone HAD discovered it spread asymptomatically (in Europe), but scientists didn't believe it initially. That skepticism backfired.

I know.. it gives that morbid undertone of feeling like the audience all died. But it was still a good show. I'm glad he was able to put it together.

It also punctuates how unfunny John Oliver is without having an audience queue laughter.

It also makes the jokes land flat

@@IzzyTheNose Speak for yourself, I still liked the jokes. But it makes him feel a bit more like what he often is; a documentarian/newcaster doing comedy, not a comedian doing news.

Kevin T almost like real news. Not hyperbolically stoking the fire but reporting things as they are: surreal and very grim.

Lmfao

THATS what it sounds like. Was trying to place it

Lol you clearly don't know anything about poetry

@@JT-xj1pg Indeed I don't ^^

I wasn't sure if I'm laughing at right moments sometimes but it was fun even without the laughter track. Kudos to the show for that.

very funny.

@@amirhoseinmadadi3283 Who is kidding??

@@LaserGadgets have you ever been to the Islamic dictatorship of Iran?

@@amirhoseinmadadi3283 probably not lol

I think it's ironic for you to quote something as being "to stupid" while using the wrong "too."

Damn, good observation. Guy's a pro, that's for sure.

Colbert was completely lost without his. Kinda hurt to watch him.

@@amypfeffer4983 though, seeing him do a show actually drunk , or at least pretty tipsy was entertaining.

The sound of the audience laughing probably plays in his head after every joke

were there jokes? i must have missed them.

We are laughing at home. I appreciate the time.

Timing 👌🏻

@@hibafassifihri3420 😃👍

I hear the laughs loud and clear 🤣

Smh focusing more on trump than the virus itself

Me too!

Maybe this is Lupus?

It just seems like any other depressing news channel 😒

Alex Dummy my late night show has had zero audience since 2004. Then again, had almost zero viewers. But I don’t quit. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/ppNnfI6lpIt5tJs.html

@@frostychickenprods Please respect other commenters This isn't a joke.

Bell Boy I am? I don’t know what you mean. Sorry anyway though?

I actually found myself wishing for a laugh track, and I survived the 1970s.

Eerily funny

It's like the mood of the whole US right now tbh

@@iamsheel Not even a little.

Yes ... Its like a post apocalyptic version of the show 😬😬😬😬

Ikr wtf

What do we know now, we didn't know a year ago?

I much prefer it this way. No weird pauses to wait for the audience to finish laughing the hardest at the worst jokes

@@majorfallacy5926 Fair enough. Still, the silence makes the gravity of what he's saying feel that much more harrowing -- hearing those gut-busting guffaws from the audience helps to soften the blow a bit.

Also to HBO for making the entire show available on UKposts this week.

^

@@wecontrolthevideo Yeah, that was appreciated. I think we could all use a laugh right about now, don't you?

Perhaps, it's the coronavirus? (And I will escort myself out of the comment section...)

We need some of that "2001: A Space Odyssey" atonal music.

Music and gag audio could have gone a long way in this video...

I like it more without the background hysteria. I don't need prompts to understand humor... I must be European.

Made a Discord to help Laugh at John's jokes! discord.gg/G4zTa5E

I feel this mood.

It's so awkward laughing without the audience laughing too ;(

Don’t worry friend, I laughed too, you’re not alone, I promise.

We're laughing with you bud. None of us are alone in this

Same here, don’t worry, even though there’s no more audience laughing, jokes are still jokes and I can still feel people around the world are laughing together lollllll

Quite fitting, given the seriousness of the topic, no?

I was gonna say creepy.

Welcome to the rice fields

It's like when he ends an episode without a joke or an conclusion, just an angry ultimatum and a stony silent outro (Family Separation is a great example), and you know he's really fucking serious. But, like, cranked up to 11.

It does

@Asim Malik a comment on a months old video with just 7 likes. what a weird place to leave you spam lmao

and I'm watching this another eight months later thinking the same exact thing!!

Lina DiGioia big oof 😂

I'm a sabers fan, so it's probably gunna be for the best lol

I am a hockey fan and thought this was a delicious snipe. Well done!

NHL head quarters is in Canada so technically the National in its name is in reference to Canada

And then europeans need to remind themselves you guys mean the ice version, like you mean handegg when you say football

Same mate, same!!

@long nose no don't worry, the POTUS is over 70 and keeps breaking the hygiene protocol, by shaking hands etc., there is a high chance of him getting and suffering from it. But a much lower chance for regular citizens.

Agreed

It's Latin. And it means "crown".

Same...hahaaa!!!