Over the course of the last few years, John Oliver has proven himself as one of late night’s most prominent and biting satirists on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
However, things seem to have worked out in Oliver’s favor for the moment, as the defamation case filed by Murray Energy against the HBO series has officially been thrown out.
Having said that, his status as a prominent political comedian has also drawn the ire of the people that he profiles on a weekly basis, which recently led to a lawsuit at the hands of Murray Energy after a particularly notable segment on his show.