Octopuses: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Web Exclusive)

Finally an animal that John admires in a non sexual way

Jesus Christ i nearly died squealing and cackling watching this stupid delightful man

This is the best. I love John Oliver. He's my favorite!

Octopuses are aliens.

John Oliver, I love you...Almost as much as I love octopuses. 😂 And ANYONE who has not yet seen "My Octopus Teacher" It is absolutely BEAUTIFUL so DO IT.
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With all this pro-octopus propaganda, I wonder if "John" wasn't just a really skilled mimic octopus...

What if Bigfoot, Nessie and all the other cryptids are just octopuses in disguise? That's why no one can find them!

no need to pit octopuses and cats against each other, john - haven't you ever heard of octokittens?

I wish they had at least ADDRESSED the idea that we shouldn't eat them. They are far too smart for it to ethically make sense. Like monkeys! And cats! And cows. And... hmm.

Keep talking about octopusses John, your doing great !! (video is over but im still thinking it :´) )

Did you just call “Octopus’s Garden” terrible!?

John Oliver is such a child at times.......wishing him well meanwhile....ie that he's not dead yet......lol!

I'm not exactly sure if John Oliver really likes Octopuses, or just really hates humans...
But to be fair, if my competition was an Octopus, I too, would be underwhelmed with myself

why can’t I like a video more than once

This is one of my favorite palet cleansers when life gets me down or when I need intellectual stimulation that has no connection to my day to day life. Octopuses are amazing, I still marvel at some of the hit facts even after many rewatches 🤩

It’s weird to listen to John without hearing laughter. How he keeps his energy going is incredible

John's mind will really be blown when he learns that both of those "plants" were not plants at all. First one was algae covered in small animals, second one was a colonial animal (tunicate or sponge of some kind) the ocean is full of God's typos

This feels like a weird video out of another dimension in which things revolve around octopodes.

If you'd like to read a book about an octopus, I recommend 'Remarkably Bright Creatures' by Shelby Van Pelt.. The story tells about a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus; a highly intelligent creature named Marcellus. It's a delightful story.

If somehow John would've been an octopus in disguise the entire time, I could've died happy

Episode for the Deep

Only tangentially related, but I keep seeing comments about a future in which octopuses rise up and take over the planet: Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Children of Ruin" heavily involves a distant habitable planet that was seeded with genetically-modified octopuses. When humanity reaches this long-forgotten world, an octopus civilization awaits them and it's flippin' cool.

A good read for any sci-fi buffs. Octopuses rule.

the web exclusives are uncomfortably silent yet delightfully entertaining

Golly.

John Oliver needs to narrate a documentary on octopuses ASAP!

It’s the fact that every of my nerdy obsessions are on this show 😭

Would

dudes just chillin

Wtf will he shut up

To John and team: not only have I watched this numerous times as a means of upliftment : ) , I also just employed it in courting (we will see how your ten second theory holds in principle).

Now, John, I have heroes, and they are overwhelmingly british: Dawkins, Douglas Adams and you, to name a few. My question is, what is it, in your opinion, that made and kept that pile of isles producing such wonderful, sane, learned people?

Sincerely,

Trevor

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Nice

this video made me go look up octopus facts.

Octopuses are so good a mimicry that, through this entire video, you probably thought you were watching John Oliver.

A billion years in the future, after the Earth is no longer recognisable as it is...
Human's in the shape that we recognise ourselves today will reappear; and Octopi (as they call themselves at this point) will see them, and avoid them, because they remember what Human's were like THE LAST TIME they were around.
Also... and for no reason... The Octopi Civilisation doesn't have time for the new Humans, because they're in the ocean, waging a hundreds of millenia long war against a Cosmic Horror from breaking into our universe and destroying it..

SO SHOW THE OCTOPUS SOME LOVE, PEOPLE! THEY'RE TRYING TO SAVE US!

They didn't thank the octopus in their acceptance speech??????????

You can really tell this was a COVID-19 inspired video. He's trying to cope by watching YT videos of octopi, but keeps coming back to death throughout his skit. And then wishing death upon the people for even being close to these fascinating creatures.

If corvids and octopuses form an alliance they well rule the world and I welcome our clever overlords

I havent see someone so excited about Octopuses since the Deep

This video made me hate octopuses even more 😅

You make me feel happy thank you.

Thanks John, you've sold me on octopuses🐙🐙🐙😊

Somehow I expected this to be about how we shouldn’t be eating octopuses.

I once posted exactly this rant about the plural of octopuses on Facebook 😂 although I’m still in favour of octopodes.

It’s great to see others marvel over animals while not watching animal planet.