The void left in the hearts of so many Americans by the departure of Jon Stewart from The Daily Show becomes somewhat filled each week when John Oliver, a Stewart protege’, takes to the small screen on HBO’s Last Week Tonight. He may not be Jon Stewart, but Oliver still does a bang-up job of keeping it real, exposing the greed and corruption inherent in our society in just over 50 minutes of uncensored glory every Sunday night.
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In this episode’s monologue, Oliver rips into Whole Foods for their obvious corporate greed. Climbing to success on the backs of people who believe they’re paying a premium because of the quality Whole Foods offers, the company has made some recognizably poor decisions and showcased some disastrous products. Oliver’s focus in this segment is the recent “asparagus water” debacle, where Whole foods was nabbed selling 3 stalks of asparagus submerged in water for $6.
Watch John Oliver make a perfect mockery of the ripoff that is Whole Foods.
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Boycott WF as they are a ripoff.Our local supermarket will sell a product for $1 .same product will cost $1.50 at WF.
Local store is Hannafords.I live in Portland, Maine.
Re: “He may not be Jon Stewart, but Oliver still does a bang-up job of keeping it real…”
I’m happy he’s NOT Jon Stewart, rather much more thoughtful and focused on issues in depth, and while he skews somewhat progressive (which is fine), he’s driven by what looking into the issue uncovers.
Stewart, on the other hand, would take the occasional pot shot at figures on the left, but basically was a (sometimes genuinely) talented and funny but pretty much nearly full-time and highly predictable shill for the Dem party’s agenda…. ….and fairly monomanically dedicated to attacking one biased network in particular, when in fact they’re all running their various party lines. And his commentaries were generally far shallower.
So give me Oliver any day of the week.