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Midterms 2026: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LongEntertainment
Published Nov 2, 2026
Views
5M
Likes
99K
Speed /h
132K
+24h
–
Early catch
Updated 06:10 PMBeat 90% of videos its age, 35 h after upload.
- Vs usual
- 5×
- Views/h now
- 135K
- Channel size
- 777K
Black: this video’s views at each read. Shaded: the median to the top 10% (the board’s reach bar) of all videos of its format at the same age; dashed: their top 1%.
Views over time
Views gained each hour, UTC- Views
- 4.7M
- Best hour
- +76.8K
- At 24 hours
- –
- At 7 days
- –
1 of 1 hours read. A gap is an hour we didn’t read close enough to say, not an hour without views.
viralshooter analytics
Our calculations on YouTube API data. Not YouTube metrics.
Position
- Speed percentile
- 95 / 100
- Category percentile
- 98 / 100
- ×base
- ×6
- Channel typical
- 777K · median
Dynamics
- Phase
- steady
- Acceleration
- 0.61×
- Momentum
- –
- Decay
- 0.39
- Speed half-life
- 7d
Engagement
- Like rate
- 2.05%
- Comments per 1k views
- 1.18
- Engagement rate
- 2.17%
- Views per subscriber
- 0.47×
- Crossed a language border
- No
◆ Calculated by viralshooter from YouTube API data. Not YouTube metrics and not endorsed by YouTube.
| Region | Chart | Best rank | First seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | Category chart | #1 | Nov 3 |
| Singapore | Category chart | #8 | Nov 3 |
| United Arab Emirates | Category chart | #46 | Nov 3 |
37h
From the YouTube record
Fields of the video as the YouTube API returns them.
- Published
- Nov 2, 2026, 7:30 AM
- Duration
- 25:38
- Category
- Entertainment
- Audio language
- English (en-US)
- Title language
- English (en)
- Captions
- No
- Definition
- HD
- Format
- 2D
- License
- Standard YouTube
- Licensed content
- Yes
- Embeddable
- Yes
- Made for kids
- No
- Age-restricted
- No
- Paid promotion
- No
- Public stats
- Yes
Topics
- Politics
- Society
- Television program
Title and description in 1 languages
- English
Availability
Blocked in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand.
Description
Ahead of this week’s midterm elections, John Oliver discusses why things aren’t looking great for Republicans, how they’re desperately trying to get ahead, and why Hamilton was a mistake. You heard us, Lin-Manuel. You’ve done more harm than good. Subscribe to the #lastweektonight YouTube channel for more almost news as it almost happens: www.youtube.com/lastweektonight Or find us on your favorite social media platform we may or may not have discussed at length on the show: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lastweektonight TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lastweektonighthbo Threads: https://www.threads.net/@lastweektonight Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lastweektonight.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lastweektonight Or visit our official site for all that other stuff at once: https://www.hbo.com/lastweektonightShow all
Ahead of this week’s midterm elections, John Oliver discusses why things aren’t looking great for Republicans, how they’re desperately trying to get ahead, and why Hamilton was a mistake. You heard us, Lin-Manuel. You’ve done more harm than good. Subscribe to the #lastweektonight YouTube channel for more almost news as it almost happens: www.youtube.com/lastweektonight Or find us on your favorite social media platform we may or may not have discussed at length on the show: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lastweektonight TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lastweektonighthbo Threads: https://www.threads.net/@lastweektonight Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lastweektonight.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lastweektonight Or visit our official site for all that other stuff at once: https://www.hbo.com/lastweektonight
◆ Calculated by viralshooter · all other figures from the YouTube API