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I'm surprised they air John Oliver's verbal diarrhea there at all. It's highly US specific, and moreover US liberal specific. I don't see why Indians would be interested in much of what he says _before_ it was banned. Now they'll probably watch it though.

It's like some crank in Germany thought that Merkel was literally Hitler, and spoke about it every night. Would you watch this in the US? I would not.

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It's not always US specific, Oliver has had pieces on other world leaders such as BoJo and Brexit, and Bolsonaro to name a couple.

A lot of the feature pieces are US-centric but a fair bit of US politics still applies on the world stage, plus it is interesting to learn how many US systems like healthcare and pharmaceuticals are completely broken.

I disagree. Oliver seems to have a pretty international audience (and a personal ancedote, I have cousins in India who watch him). He covers international current events quite often and HBO content is widely distributed internationally, not to mention YouTube etc.

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