I love "Last week tonight" and all, but this one is weird to me.

How was the initial publishing of Anthony Weiner's dickpics not revenge porn? He sent those privately (or at least intended to in some cases), and then they were published, with the goal of publicly shaming him.

You could argue that when he lied about it, that a public interest came into being. But then it still started as revenge porn.

"Hello I am John Oliver, let me tell you about this heinous thing called revenge porn, by the way I made a little dance to celebrate one instance of it."

What could possibly go wrong...

The Avengers movies were crowdfunded?

Spoiler alert, wonderful explanation here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQm8h4vtuAY

How about: The buspassenger 'pickpockets' the keys from the biker as they are talking, then has an assistant quickly drive back with those keys and dumps them on the street just before the biker arrives.
I think that makes a lot more sense.

You should press all the buttons for floor 1-5 before crashing, that will slow down the elevator when it comes close to the floor.

The title of this sift suggests that there is also an up side?

But the Wikipedia paragraph you quote speaks only of them washing their food, not every single item they come across.
Maybe those owners have not been feeding it, or maybe it thinks it's an 'Apple' phone (Apple phones aren't waterproof so that makes it easy to identify them even (especially?) if you're a raccoon).

For one time, I would wish this was a viral (for waterproof mobile phones, or water-resistant shoes, or something).
I can't imagine that the natural behavior of these animals is 'whatever I find around that is not bolted down or too heavy, I am going to soak it in water and see what happens'.

"First they came for the dick picks, and I did not speak out -- Because I never took or sent pictures of my 'junk'..."

(takes a while to get going, but I really liked the video, because Oliver takes a pretty critical stance towards Snowden)

Madison is my favorite American girl's name (already before this video), history wise.

That name comes from the 1984 movie Splash, before that it was hardly ever used as a girls name. Here is that very beginning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8CRERCoC10

In this video the name Madison has an 'info bubble' at 3:26, but it's really fun to watch the rise and rise of that name starting at around 3:10 (so the movie started it in 1984, but it really needed about 10 year to become an unstoppable powerhouse name).

I can't get over the timing, as pointed out by the Onion.
So after looking things up,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trapp_Family
was a *German* movie from *1956* in which this story was first turned into a musical romantic comedy.

So to translate that to my times, that would have meant that Al Quada would have produced a musical about 9/11 in 2012. I can't even...

Here's a vote for daylight saving time (with bi-yearly switch) from the Netherlands (mentioning the latitude is important I guess):

With all year standard time, it would become light at 3:30 in the morning in June (with accompanying waking bird sounds). How many extra deaths would that get from sleepy car drivers.

With all year daylight savings (which I would opt for if forced to choose, long evenings FTW indeed), in December it would only get light at 10:00 am...

The people most common complaint against the switch is that people who like it just have to change their daily routine on their own, but that's not really possible with standard work, shop opening etc. hours.

Regardless of the actual rules, they are both crazy.

The truck driver for intentionally taking away the room (see the sudden reduction in space with the car in front between seconds 15 and 19).

And the merging driver for not cancelling her action when she must realize it's not going to work (when she has merged half a lane it must have been clear that whatever was going to happen next, it was going to be problematic).

(she drives a great car though (especially the tires), getting shoved sideways by a truck at high speed but recovering apparently without major difficulty).

Just don't make it angry.
You won't like it when it's angry.