Last Week Tonight can’t stop collecting awards—even outside Emmy season.
John Oliver’s HBO show just won its third Peabody Award, this time for an episode covering the Israel-Hamas War.
The program was among 27 nominees announced last month in the Arts, Children’s/Youth, Entertainment, and Interactive & Immersive categories. The nomination specifically recognized the November 2023 episode titled “Israel-Hamas War.”
In announcing the show’s win today, The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors wrote: “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver offered an important corrective to the media landscape awash in misinformation and decontextualized vitriol just weeks after October 7,” it said. “Though ostensibly a ‘comedy’ show, Last Week offered one of the best encapsulations of the conflict in all of media.”
Oliver’s show is now 3-for-3 at the Peabody Qwards. It was nominated and won in 2015, and again in 2018.
A ceremony to honor this year’s winners will be held on June 9 in Los Angeles. Oliver’s Peabody-nominated segment on the Israel-Hamas War can be viewed on YouTube.
