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Unused image for Last Week Tonight post
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This video rejected me
Jun. 8th, 2024 02:51 pmI couldn't embed Plastics: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) because it was age-restricted, so I wrote Jason Momoa's message for World Oceans Day instead. At least it was more on-topic!
Postponed video about UFOs
May. 13th, 2024 11:08 amI might use this in the future. In the meantime, I posted 'Last Week Tonight' examines food delivery apps instead.
News story about John Oliver
Feb. 22nd, 2024 09:08 amTreat this as a trailer for John Oliver examines Clarence Thomas and makes him an offer on 'Last Week Tonight'.
Superceded video for power grid post
Jan. 11th, 2022 08:35 amI decided I didn't need to post the following video in John Oliver on the power grid for Cut Your Energy Costs Day because Oliver included a clip in his segment.
For the past three weeks, the members and volunteers of Coffee Party USA have been voting on the nominees for the 2019-2020 Golden Coffee Cups for television. Voting closed Sunday so it’s time to announce the winners in seven categories showcasing the best in politics and government on the small screen during the 2019-2020 television season.
Watchmen earned two awards, Best Miniseries or Movie for Television about Politics and Government and split Best Comedy, Drama, Miniseries, or Movie for Television about Fantastic and Futuristic Politics and Government with The Mandalorian. The Handmaid’s Tale won Best Drama Series about Politics and Government. Schitt’s Creek defeated last year’s winner Saturday Night Live for Best Comedy Series about Politics and Government. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver returned as Best Talk Show. Frontline won the initial award for Best Documentary, Nonfiction, or Reality Series about Politics and Government. Kiefer Sutherland as Tom Kirkman on Designated Survivor and Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live will share the office of Best Television President for 2019-2020 Season, replacing Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer on Veep, whose term expired. Sorry, this category does not go to the House of Representatives to break the tie. Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all of our members and volunteers who voted for the best shows and performances about politics and government during the 2019-2020 television season!
With the 2019-2020 television season out of the way, the members and volunteers of Coffee Party USA will move on to the best political movies of the 2020 awards season. Watch for the posting of the shortlists for the show categories on our blog along with an invitation to stream them while staying safe at home.
Coffee Party USA is a project of the Bridge Alliance Education Fund. Follow the Coffee Party at our website and on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
( Follow over the jump for the nominees in each category. )
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Hey, all of you binge-watching your guilty pleasure shows while staying safe at home, relaxing after working from home, returning for work after wearing a mask all day, or just stressed out from the real world! I have another suggestion to make your time in front of the big-screen TV in the living room, the slightly smaller screen in the bedroom, or even holding your tablet or smartphone work to help your appreciation of politics and government on television and then apply your understanding to help Coffee Party USA in one of our projects.
With the 2018-2019 television season out of the way, the members and volunteers of Coffee Party USA will move on to the 2019-2020 television season. Watch for the posting of the shortlists for the show categories along with an invitation to stream them while staying safe at home. If you want to become one of the voters for this or future Golden Coffee Cups, such as for the best political movies of 2020, become a member. Voting will happen on a members-only Facebook group.
Before I present the shortlists, I’m sharing a two-part activity Coffee Party USA and I are proposing our readers and supporters do.
The first part of the activity is to stream as many of the shows on the shortlists between now and March 13, 2021 to see which have the best portrayals of politics and government on television. The second is to become a member of Coffee Party USA by March 13, 2021, which you can do for as little as $30.00 per year. That’s because the members will also vote on the nominees and winners this year. That means you!
That’s your two-part activity. Now, have fun watching television while supporting the work of Coffee Party USA, whose core values include continuous learning on behalf of an informed citizenry, joining Coffee Party USA, and voting on the nominees!
Without any further ado, I present the shortlists for the Golden Coffee Cups for Television, beginning with the shortlist for Best Drama Series about Politics and Government.*
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Big Little Lies
Billions
Doctor Who
Euphoria
Evil
Better Call Saul
Black Mirror
Carnival Row
David Makes Man
Designated Survivor
Godfather of Harlem
Homeland
How to Get Away with Murder
Hunters
Killing Eve
Madam Secretary
Mindhunter
Mr. Robot
Outlander
Ozark
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
Pose
Snowpiercer
Star Trek: Picard
Star Trek: Short Treks
Star Wars Resistance
Stranger Things
Stumptown
Succession
S.W.A.T.
The Blacklist
The Boys
The Crown
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
The Good Fight
The Handmaid’s Tale
The Mandalorian
The Man in the High Castle
The Morning Show
The Outsider
The Rookie
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan
Vikings
Westworld
Succession won last year and Mindhunter the year before. In addition, the first winner of Best Miniseries or Movie for Television about Politics and Government, Black Mirror, has been moved here based on the reclassification of the series by the Television Academy. The shortlist sets up a situation where they could go up against each other for the trophy. Of course, they have to be nominated first. Will you be one of the people to join so you nominate them and the rest of the field?
( Follow over the jump to read the shortlists for television shows in the other four categories. )
John Oliver wants you to boycott April Fools' Day.
Recycled from Vox on April Fools Day at Crazy Eddie's Motie News.
April Fools’ Day is awful. Please stand with John Oliver and take the Last Week Tonight No-Prank Pledge.Good luck with that. After all, you're reading this entry. April Fools!
Recycled from Vox on April Fools Day at Crazy Eddie's Motie News.
Wax Presidents for Presidents Day
Feb. 18th, 2019 10:17 amOver at Crazy Eddie's Motie News, I posted 'The Wax and the Furious' from 'Last Week Tonight With John Oliver' for Presidents Day. Here is a video I rejected for the post, John Oliver And Stephen Make Wax Presidents Fight To The Death.
'Last Week Tonight' host John Oliver's wax Warren G. Harding takes on Stephen Colbert's Zachary Taylor in the fight of the (pre-21st) century!
'Black Mirror' USS Callister wins Outstanding Television Movie plus three other Emmy Awards
'The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story' is the big winner among limited series at the Emmy Awards
'Last Week Tonight With John Oliver' explains how Facebook moves fast and breaks things after winning four Emmy Awards
Cassini and Voyager both winners at the Emmy Awards
'The Talk' and 'Shark Week 2017' — two Emmy winning commercials
'The Americans' and 'The Crown' — 20th Century government winners at the Primetime and Creative Arts Emmy Awards
'Game of Thrones,' 'Westworld,' and 'The Handmaid's Tale' — fantastic and futuristic government winners at the Primetime and Creative Arts Emmy Awards
'Saturday Night Live' wins eight Emmy Awards
'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' wins 8 Emmy Awards plus other comedy winners
Emmy wins by 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' 'Queer Eye,' and 'Will & Grace' for National Coming Out Day
Two posts for National Veep Day
Aug. 9th, 2018 04:22 pm
National Day Calendar informs me that today is National Veep Day, the anniversary of August 9, 1974, when "Vice President Gerald Ford became President of the United States upon the resignation of President Richard Nixon." It's a day "designated to give recognition to the succession plan of the President of the United States." In honor of the occasion, I wrote two entries about Mike Pence at Crazy Eddie's Motie News today.
John Oliver on Mike Pence for National Veep Day
Pence on Space Force plus space law from Vintage Space, a Veep Day bonus
Thank you, Mr. Vice President, you prompted me to post two entries on the same day, something I haven't done since July 4, 2016, as I noted in A belated World Population Day 2018. I wasn't planning on doing that until October at the earliest.
Four posts with John Oliver videos
Feb. 6th, 2018 05:37 amOver at Crazy Eddie's Motie News, I wrote four consecutive entries with John Oliver videos to post at the Join the Coffee Party Movement Facebook page this month. Two of them are now in the all time top ten, they were so popular. Yes, I know my audience; they love John Oliver.
John Oliver on primaries and caucuses for Groundhog Day
Vox on Puerto Rico statehood and John Oliver on territories
John Oliver on stadiums and NFL cheerleaders for Super Bowl Sunday
John Oliver on D.C. Statehood
In case my readers are wondering where the next UCLA Marching Band video post is, it's coming. I just needed a break and I thought my readers did, too.
John Oliver on primaries and caucuses for Groundhog Day
Vox on Puerto Rico statehood and John Oliver on territories
John Oliver on stadiums and NFL cheerleaders for Super Bowl Sunday
John Oliver on D.C. Statehood
In case my readers are wondering where the next UCLA Marching Band video post is, it's coming. I just needed a break and I thought my readers did, too.
