John Oliver: court topo sur le phénomène

Je suis devenu très rapidement un fan de l'émission "Last week tonight" animée par John Oliver. Comme plusieurs j'ai découvert Oliver alors qu'il effectuait des "reportages" pour "The daily show" de Jon Stewart. Son émission sur HBO mélange humour et enquête fouillée, le tout présenté dans un format qui se récupère bien sur YouTube.

 "And Oliver—the heir to Jon Stewart now that “The Daily Show” has ended its run—gets results. After millions of YouTube viewers watched his 13-minute rant about the Federal Communications Commission, which had proposed a new set of rules that would allow Internet and media companies to pay for faster connectivity, Oliver exhorted viewers, “Turn on caps lock and fly, my pretties!” The agency soon received millions of comments and hundreds of thousands of emails about the proposed rule—enough to break its website. By February, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler had reversed course, issuing a new rule preserving “net neutrality.” Oliver had made net neutrality—“the only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are ‘featuring Sting,’” he said—into a viral cause that President Obama, too, endorsed."

  http://www.politico.com/magazine/politico50/2015/john-oliver