Was that Joe Krabbenhoft I spied behind Gard there ? !?<| sep |> Hey guys , I was talking to my friend and totally surprised him with my smarts when I pointed out that the comedy show makes jokes AFTER presenting the facts in quotes so you assume there ' s something wrong with these facts despite the fact I make no arguments for that that ' ll serve as material and provide context for the jokes ! And then it DOESN ' T pause before the jokes to leave an awkward silence for a minute to let people think , instead it ONLY pauses for the LAUGHTER like any liveaudience comedy ever . And then it KEEPS doing that with different subjects like they ' re segments or something . So manipulative ! Now my first semester psych teacher just showed me a powerpoint presentation on a guy called skinner , and he totally did that too you guys ! It ' s called conditioning and you don ' t even notice ! It ' s subliminal you see , you associate the laughter with it being funny cause you laugh at things that are funny ! That way , you don ' t take the opinion FRAMED as funny seriously ! Now , you THINK that ' s because John Oliver is pointing out what he sees wrong with sugarcoated bigotry and socially dismissive rhetoric in a comedic manner because it is more effective to present the issues you feel are important and your positions on them in an engaging form and comedy is a great means to make often complex andor grim subjects more digestible , but it ' s ACTUALLY MANIPULATION from the biased leftist media ! THATS where he gets you his comedy makes you LAUGH ! I will end by mentioning that this mastery of manipulation techniques just BLOWS MY MIND , but it ' s in the hands of the entirely wrong people if it were I conditioning people then it ' d be cool , obviously . PSYCHOLOGY !