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In a recent episode of Last Week Tonight on the the Medicare system in the U.S., John Oliver praised the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

This past weekend, John Oliver called out the exploitation of farmworkers on his show, "Last Week Tonight" and mentioned a West Michigan farm worker that yelled at a migrant worker.

Now that we’ve finally arrived in 2016, TV talk can safely shift to from the shows closing up shop in December, to the onslaught of premieres and returns on deck. We’ll have to wait until February the latest Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, but thankfully, the prolific host has a short segment to tide us over, and remind us it’s okay to fail New Years’ resolutions miserably.

Why doesn’t everyone ask John Oliver for advice on everything? The Last Week Tonight host consistently thinks of the best possible answer for every possible question, so why not just turn him into the world’s all-knowing sage or something? The guy isn’t that busy, right?

Exactly a year ago, if you would have said Taco Bell breakfast or Facebook stickers, we all would have said: "Whutt?"

In John Olivers' world he does. Oliver hosts the show on HBO he could have had on CBS replacing David Letterman. But he chose the safe and less stressful route of Pay Cable to entertain and be flippant.