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    John Oliver returns to 'Last Week Tonight,' talks Trump, Alec Baldwin and why he's in awe of Jimmy Kimmel

    by Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times Feb 19, 2018 5 minutes

    NEW YORK - "Thank you for coming," John Oliver told a room full of reporters who gathered last week at HBO's midtown headquarters to query him about "Last Week Tonight." "I realize the Westminster Dog Show is on today. The fact you're here and not there means a great deal."

    Such self-deprecation is typical for the British comedian, yet as "Last Week Tonight" headed into its fifth season Sunday on HBO, even Oliver would find it hard to deny his cultural cachet. His show has won a slew of praise, including back-to-back Emmys for variety talk series and, perhaps even more remarkably, has fired up Americans about such seemingly bone-dry subjects as net neutrality and civil asset forfeiture.

    Maintaining the show's focus on overlooked subjects amid a nonstop cycle of all-consuming Trump-related news has been challenging,

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