The most British response to a stripper voting ad is "Excellent."

I’m just amazed at the battery life on that guys phone.

He literally got EVERYTHING right.

It's not often that I can say "this aged well" without any sarcasm, but this is one of those times.

The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the Axe, for the Axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them.

You should Realize John Oliver is Deadly Serious when He does not mention ADAM DRIVER

How did this man literally predict everything, including the Quibi bankruptcy

It still baffles me that half of America essentially heard Trump say "the election is rigged unless I win" and thought "that's a perfectly acceptable, and not at all suspicious statement".

Honestly, I prefer the year when all the clowns were trying to kill us.

German here. I have never missed a single election in my life, not on a federal level, not state-wide/local (those are held at the same day), not an EU election, I also went to (among others) a fucking referendum on what to do with the place that used to be an airport. I have never waited more then 5 minutes. Never. Most of the time not even 2 minutes. Edit: I like that this turned out to be the world telling the USA that things don't have to be that way.

Update on the Quibi joke, they just filed for bankruptcy.

"I'm not a good loser." Can confirm.

As a European, it is crazy to see how broken the oh so great democracy of the USA is.

As an Oregonian it’s so weird hearing people talking about mail-in voting like it’s a totally new concept. I can’t even imagine standing in line to vote. I always fill out my ballot while researching the candidates online in the comfort of my own room.

USA: We need less people to vote. Australia: You *will* vote. It is *not* a choice.

Being a Canadian is living above a haunted house....

I REALLY wish people would stop asking Trump if he'll accept the results of the election and leave the WH. Like, he doesn't have a choice. Why even put that out there and LEGITIMIZE it by asking him such stupid questions?

I love how Get Your Booty to the Polls combines sex and politics in a much more wholesome way than we normally see

Just wild how one month later and everything is playing out exactly as mentioned. The most surprising/disappointing thing is just how close the election is.

This aged like the finest imaginable wine ever.

The More i learn about american Politics, the more i am astonished that you guys aren't in an open civil war right now.

It’s honestly ridiculous that people are MORE scared of Mail-in voting than they are of those electronic booths. The machines have a fishier track record than anything that at least stays on paper.

"That could take our country to a very dark place" - Bill Barr. Dude that train left the station 4 years ago. LOL

Just popping back a month later from the future: Don't worry guys, its going to be ok.

Welcome Europeans to a new episode of "Why you're happy you don't live here"

From a German point of view US politics and their „democracy“ are just ridiculous. We had 30% Mail voting in the last federal election. Wasn’t even worth an article in the newspapers, it’s just normal and doesn’t cause any problems. And the signature stuff is next level ridiculous

I love how he predicted the trump reelection strategy so accurately. HAHAHAH

Seven hours to vote? As a Canadian that is more than I have spent in my entire life waiting to vote. To everyone that has had to wait that much or longer I thank you.

Anyone who says, "If I win there was no cheating, but if I lose, there was," is a liar.

"The literal definition of a Nazi is someone with gun and arm band invading the polls'" Best historical based joke I've heard in 2020.

I can't imagine waiting 8 hours to vote. I'm Canadian and I've voted in two elections, it took me less than 10 minutes each time even though I had to register on spot both times.

3 years later and it's like watching someone predict the future

Me: Ready to go to bed UKposts: Would you like to be depressed first? Me: As long as the British parrot is the one causing it

"I don't lose too often." His taxes actually show he does lose quite often...

As a person living in an “urban area”, I plan on mailing my ballot in a mailbox located in a “suburban area” to ensure my ballot gets processed in a timely manner…just saying.

Can we just appreciate the fact that this episode featured 2 different poll puns, and there was nobody around to laugh/groan? "Get your booty to the polls" (stripper poles) and Nazis invading the polls (people from Poland)

"Get your booty to the poll" is incredible.

I am a white man from the suburbs of Chicago in a majority white neighborhood and it has never taken me more than 15 mins to complete the whole process of voting. Could you imagine the Karen’s and Kyles if it took white people 8 hours to vote?!?!?!?!?!

I don’t know if anyone will see this but I need to get this out of my head or I’m gonna freak out. First of all, binging this series is what has been keeping me happy today. It’s been my light at the end of the tunnel. Second of all, my mom is one of the breach healthcare workers in my home town. Yesterday she just got tested positive for COVID. To make things even harder, my father is in the prime group for people in danger of the disease. I don’t want pity. I don’t want attention. I just need to get this out of my head. And once again, thank you HBO any John Oliver and your amazing team for keeping this content coming throughout this entire ordeal

Lol, John Oliver is a true prophet! I am watching this after the elections :D

I never before so truly understood the old Chinese curse. “May you live in interesting times.”

I have voted in the Netherlands at least a dozen times. It goes like this: every adult gets a letter a week or two before voting. You go to the voting booth which has never been farther than 5 minutes walk from my house. There's no line (maybe a couple of people before you, but there's no waiting). You show your ID card or passport and the letter you received and vote. That's it. It seems crazy to me how difficult it is in the US to even register yourself to vote, let alone let your vote count.

"Horribly coordinated, totally nonsensical, and extremely dumb." You, my friend, just described the government of the U.S

16:00 John Oliver called it perfectly

"Horribly coordinated, totally nonsensical, and extremely dumb" -2020 in a nutshell

8 hours waiting time? How did he go to the toilet? Also: 8 HOURS? WTF? Even in 3rd world countries it's less problematic to vote.

This episode should be called: John Oliver predicts the future!

I'm re-watching this on 17 January 2021. John nailed almost everything. I think his decency prevented him from predicting the insurrection, impeachment, and...?

Nazis are terrible, but the "...who threatens the safety of the Poles." line had me in stitches.

My phone needs a battery like the one that guy in Georgia has.

The whole “make sure your signatures match” thing is freaking me out so much. I’m an overseas citizen voter and I cannot for the life of me remember how I signed my ballot last time around 😓 Don’t have a US driver’s licence either so can’t even refer back to that!

Well John, guess we can say....... WE GOT HIM!!!!

America: where democracy is almost an religion Also America: let's make voting as difficult as can be. This country is such a joke.

Im more surprised that guy's phone battery lasted 7 hours and 45 minutes tbh

Anyone else extremely excited for Oliver's first post-election show??

If someone running last week tonight is reading this i would like there to be an episode on special education departments across the board with scandalous behavior and just disgusting treatment of mentally disabled/not at all mentally disabled people who were forced into the program and are legally trapped there, like myself i feel that it's time someone actually addressed the issue of special education boards across the country

America, the so called country of "Democracy". Yet it takes me in the simple ol Europe just 10min to go in a polling station and get out again with a successful vote :)

There are a few things I as a German take from this: 1. You have terribly long lines because you dont know how to organize an election. In the city where I come from (75.000 citizens), we have 45 polling stations to keep the lines as small as possible (usually you dont have to wait or max 1-3 ppl in front of you.) You get an invitation to vote. Take that and your ID (which isnt really looked at that much, if at all), they look if youre on the list, give you the paper (yes, no machines) and thats it. Easy, quick and unterstandable. 2. You vote on tuesdays, we on sundays. Less ppl work on sundays which spreads the votes more over the day instead of a literal rush hour when many ppl get home from work. 3. There are two results we get. The one on election night/early morning is not official yet. They just send it with a program to give parties a chance to sort out who they could form a coalition with, but its not official yet. That takes about 2-3 weeks. Not just because of the mail-in-votes, but the verification process takes time. The official result gets mailed with signings of several involved ppl to the next higher up, they look over it, sign it and send it etc. until it reaches the federal returning officer who announces it at the end. No idea how you can fuck up the most basic principle of a democracy so bad.

Now that Georgia has swung for DEMs, can we please get a follow up segment with the strippers who made the PSA? They are national heros.

Watching this video a few days after the election makes it crazily accurate

How is it possible that in America the Attorney General acts like the President's personal lawyer.. That Barr character is a real piece of work

Here in Switzerland we vote about everything 4 times a year. Every year. Most of us do it by mail. Never a problem.

The rest of the world: Man, living over here and we're still worried about this. Canada and Mexico: Screaming on the Inside being stuck with sharing a land border.

This aged perfectly 😂 the man is literally about to go to prison

The signature thing is really scary. Like what an old-fashioned, antiquated way of verifying something. We have voter ID cards, social security numbers, and driver's licenses to verify our identification, why should a bit of messy penmanship deny your citizenship in an election?

Strippers talking about voting in front patriotic decor is the most American thing I’ve seen😂🇺🇸

Spot on prediction of what actually happened, always great content ! Keep on going with the great work to the John Oliver team !

When you’re living the exact predictions they made a month ago.

America be like: This is the land of the free! Also America: let's prevent blacks and latinos from voting and also make sure not all votes are equal".

European here. American Bros, please clarify: -Why can't you vote comfortably? we have billions of public offices or even schools where we can vote, so no big lines and "fast" counting -How can the boss of public officials tell people there are going to be errors in vote counting, a task "he" (as in the government) is in charge with

Oh my, in Montreal, one of the most populous cities in Canada, I've never actually had to wait to vote. Every election I've been to has, at worst, had me wait for 5-10 minutes. Seeing this 7h waiting time just shock me. That guy reaaaaaally wants to vote, wow.

Holy shit, John was exactly on point with that last 3rd. That's exactly what happened.

Im impressed that his phone battery lasted 7+ hours

If you're afraid to vote because of potential poll intimidation, just imagine how terrified Trump is of your vote.

Watching this after the election and holy shit John Oliver nailed it all around. From the blue shift to the long time to count to trump declaring victory. Somebody give this man a medal

Utterly FASCINATING to watch this in March 2023…

Who’s gonna tell them it’s not a democracy if only one party can get elected

I think the US election needs UN observers and BBC reporters

I'm watching this in December 2020 and am very impressed with this most excellent public service announcement with such good information. Thank you, John Oliver, and your team for helping Americans to participate in the 2020 presidential election.

Wow John Oliver literally warned us of the future! Love watching this show keep it guys.

I can’t imagine my phone battery lasting for 5 hours while streaming tv.

My anxiety is out of control I hate this year so much

Watching this two days after election day is actually terrifying cause all his predictions came true...

This aged like a fine wine

A quick history lesson; The reason we vote "the first Tuesday in November" and don't actually seat members of Congress, the Senate, and Presidents until the following January, is because when the Constitution was written, everyone traveled either by Sailboat, or Horse/Donkey. The ballots most certainly weren't "electronic," and all of them were filled out by hand. They were then counted, the results, taken to the Secretary of State for each state, certified, then taken to the federal Secretary of State for certification. And let's not even get into the electoral college, or States appointing their Senators, for the first 100 years of the country. They were lucky if it was completed by mid-December, much less "election day." The first session of congress each election wasn't usually until a couple of months after swearing in due to everyone traveling by much slower, non-petroleum powered means of transport, and to make sure the votes were counted properly. It wasn't a thing to call political races on the night of the election (Dewey defeats Truman, Google that headline) until the modern Radio/Television era. Even then, they can still get it wrong.

I'm surprised Trump admitted he's a bad loser. He doesn't like to call himself a bad anything.

Who else is watching this after the election?? Like everything he has said hit the nail on the head

It still makes me smile, that I believe, that John Oliver isn't wearing trousers 😅🤦🏼‍♀️

It is so strange to see one of the richest countries on earth struggle with something as fundamental as an fair election...

5:26 ... I have nothing but admiration for this guy and the others who waited that long. It shouldn't have been necessary, of course, but the fact that these people saw the line and waited rather than going home ... huge respect!!

Best Late Night host ever. It will be a sad day when John Oliver is no longer on the air. American needs you, John!

You sooooooooooo called it!!!

Am I the only one wondering, how his phone lasted over 7h while watching shows and listening to music? :D

There’s nothing funny about any of this. I trained and served as an official poll worker in Florida and witnessed the methods used by Republican poll workers to suppress the votes of non-Republicans. Some of the behavior was subtle, some was blatant. Although I stepped in to try to prevent most of the abuses I witnessed firsthand, the three different precincts I worked at during three elections were but a fraction of the number of precincts overall. It seemed an orchestrated and very purposeful plan on the part of one party to prevent working class people from voting. All of my experiences were documented and reported at the time with the lawyers monitoring the elections as well as directly to the county Supervisor of Elections (who is a Republican.) But no action was taken against the workers involved and they were not removed from their election jobs due to shortages of volunteers. Not all voter suppression is perpetrated by the governmental bigwigs in charge. Much of it is being done directly by the volunteers at the polls, often right under the noses of poll watchers who do not take their jobs seriously or who don’t understand what they’re seeing or know what they can do about it. And because of such abuses and maltreatment by Republican workers, most non-Republican workers never volunteer again, making the problem even worse. I strongly believe that Florida would have a Democratic governor today had thousands of blue collar votes not been suppressed in such ways. In one precinct I witnessed hundreds of voters give up on trying to vote because the Republican clerk of the precinct had refused to set up the voting booths she had been given. Even when the county Supervisor of Elections ordered her to do so after complaints from the election lawyers I had called about it, she still refused. By the time the Supervisor sent a team to force the issue it was too late. Hundreds and possibly thousands of voters had given up on voting because of the extremely long lines. This was in the largest precinct of the entire county and those lost votes definitely could have swayed the election in favor of the Democratic candidate for governor.

Watching this after the race has been called is just...uncanny. I don't think there was a single prediction in here that didn't turn out to be 100% accurate.

The lady at 0:26 had me in tears with her skeptic impersonation 🤣🤣🤣😂😂

What kind of phone battery does the Fulton County guy have?

"The literal definition of a Nazi is someone with guns and armbands who threatens the safety of the 'polls'" (Shows picture of Poland) Badadum, TISH

It's amazing how well this has aged 1 month later and after election day.

Anyone else watching this in day 4 of America's election day?