A certain story always dominates the news cycle, but I’ve never seen anything quite like this before.

We’re trying to bring you news that isn’t just coronavirus related (why Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein hate each other, anyone?), but it’s few and far between.

John Oliver usually picks a different topic each week for the main segment on his show, Last Week Tonight, but on Sunday night, for the third week in a row, there was only one subject that mattered.

Due to the rapidly changing numbers, as the virus continues to spread across America and the world, some stats will be outdated, but the fact that America’s government is failing woefully remains the same.

Here’s that segment from Sunday:

Closer to home, and another Sunday favourite is Carte Blanche.

I usually try and avoid watching the show live, in order to enjoy the dying embers of the weekend, but I catch up throughout the week.

One of Sunday’s segments focused on how South Africans are bracing for the economic impact of the lockdown.

Spoiler alert – it’s going to be devastating:

[source:lastweektonight]