John Oliver says Last Week Tonight will likely ease off AT&T after getting a new "business daddy" with the Discovery merger

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“I’m sure that if and when they finally get rid of this problem child that we will probably end up talking about them slightly less,” says Oliver, whose HBO show returns for Season 9 on Feb. 20. “However, I gather they’re still planning on existing in the world. So it seems likely that we are going to run into them in stories.”