‘Last Week Tonight’ Host John Oliver Calls HBO Max “a Series of Tax Write-Offs to Appease Wall Street”

John Oliver took some jobs at HBO Max on Sunday last week tonight — which, of course, airs on HBO.

The comment comes two weeks after parent Warner Bros. bat girl, sources told Hollywood Reporter That CEO David Zaslav opted to postpone the project in order to take a tax write-down on the $90 million film. Meanwhile, several other series and movies have also been taken off streamers as part of Warner Bros. Discovery’s plan to merge HBO Max and Discovery+ into one service.

Sunday night’s episode Last week tonight, Oliver mentioned the write-down during a segment about former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who is running for the state’s House seat in a special election.

Oliver 1 Aug 16 . derive from New Yorker Story: “Sarah Knows How To Make The Crowd Work… But This Sarah, Inc.” He called “Sarah, Inc.” Before mocking HBO’s famous slogan “It’s Not TV,” sounds like the title of a sitcom starring Kat Dennings that has already quietly disappeared from HBO Max. It’s HBO.” Oliver added: “HBO Max. This is not TV. It’s a series of tax write-offs to please Wall Street.”

Earlier in the segment, Oliver mentioned that Palin is running for office and has been giving her deja vu from 14 years ago. “Looks like it’s 2008 again: [Palin’s] While running for office, America entered a bear market, and sex and the City making the spinoff that it clearly doesn’t have material to back up,” joked Oliver, previously showing marketing posters for both. sex and the City Theatrical film and recent revival of HBO Max And Just Like That. He said that the society is going backwards.

Two weeks ago, during a segment on untested COVID-19 vaccines, Oliver criticized Batgirl’s decision. “We let vaccines sit on a shelf in our stores like unused Chobani or a $90 million movie on HBO Max. By the way: Hello, new business dad. Looks like you’re doing a really good job. I have a vague understanding that you are burning my network for insurance money, but I am sure this will all pass,” he said.

Oliver often criticized previous parent company AT&T, when it owned HBO, also referring to it as “Business Daddy”. he had reprimanded before And Just Like That To move on without original star Kim Cattrall.