When Last Week Tonight first premiered on April 27th, 2014 many people were quick to judge their format in comparison to other late night TV shows. Until then, the culture of late night was dominated with short skits, leading into a celebrity interview. John Oliver, host of Last Week Tonight, found his niche by focusing his shows on one event that happened in the last week. This one event is well researched and in some cases he gets the point of a broken system across better than most news anchors. He isn’t afraid to take on countries or corporations, ridiculing their sanctimonious operations. Being a fan of this show, I absorb the powerful satire culture that it creates and am inspired to take action based on the ideas John Oliver proposes and add my own parodies in the mix. Tina Fey in the article “Confessions of a
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Fey and I are very active socially and have many activities going on at once. It is hard to find timeslots where something new can be added. Sheryl Sandberg sees issues in time constraints in her struggle of finding where she belongs in a work culture of a technological environment. In her article “Why I Want Women to Lean In” Sandberg goes into the changes she as a woman made to fit into a male dominated culture. In fact, this male dominance is prevalent in Fey’s culture as well as my own. While John Oliver made his own following on sites such as YouTube the people who get the most attention in the comment section are the males. They may not be from the Last Week Tonight following, but they could be from the broader late night culture club. Last Week Tonight’s powerful satire culture consisting of John Oliver’s antics inspired me to create my own parodies, but due to the outnumbered male to female ratio, Tina Fey, Sheryl Sandberg and I feel the need to complete our tasks in ways that would stand out from the normal male content that is
Fey and I are very active socially and have many activities going on at once. It is hard to find timeslots where something new can be added. Sheryl Sandberg sees issues in time constraints in her struggle of finding where she belongs in a work culture of a technological environment. In her article “Why I Want Women to Lean In” Sandberg goes into the changes she as a woman made to fit into a male dominated culture. In fact, this male dominance is prevalent in Fey’s culture as well as my own. While John Oliver made his own following on sites such as YouTube the people who get the most attention in the comment section are the males. They may not be from the Last Week Tonight following, but they could be from the broader late night culture club. Last Week Tonight’s powerful satire culture consisting of John Oliver’s antics inspired me to create my own parodies, but due to the outnumbered male to female ratio, Tina Fey, Sheryl Sandberg and I feel the need to complete our tasks in ways that would stand out from the normal male content that is