John Oliver is facing a new lawsuit. The comedian is being sued by Dr. Brian Morley, a physician and healthcare official who alleges he was defamed in a 2024 episode of Last Week Tonight that ...

Dr. Brian Morley is hauling John Oliver into court over comments the health insurance exec made in 2017 (Getty Images) Medicaid has become a hot-button issue under Donald Trump's second term as ...

The late-night comedian known for his acerbic take-downs landed in hot water last month when Dr. Brian Morley, who was shown in clips during an episode of Oliver's show tackling Medicaid, insisted ...

John Oliver took aim at Dr. Brian Morley during an episode titled “Medicaid” that aired last April. LastWeekTonight / HBO “F–k that doctor with a rusty canoe!

To bring his point home, Oliver played clips of 2017 audio testimony from Dr. Brian Morley, who then served as an executive with AmeriHealth Caritas, in which Morley stated, “People have bowel ...

Dr. Brian Morley, a hospital administrator and former medical director for AmeriHealth Caritas in Iowa, filed his lawsuit Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York, says that Oliver distorted comments made at a 2017 administrative hearing in Iowa by Brian Morley, a former medical director at the managed ...

Morley's lawyers, however, argue that it was 100% taken out of context. Oliver's program, they argued, had defamed the doctor by failing to provide vital details about the actual patient he was ...