--- title: John Oliver On RadioShack Bankruptcy: Last Week Tonight Video description: Watch his passionate, hilarious tribute to the struggling company canonical: https://time.com/3701225/john-oliver-radioshack-farewell-last-week-tonight/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-09T18:40:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:16:40.528Z og:title: Watch John Oliver's Passionate, Hilarious Tribute to RadioShack og:description: Plus, an earnest request for us to stop making fun of the company og:url: https://time.com/3701225/john-oliver-radioshack-farewell-last-week-tonight/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch John Oliver's Passionate, Hilarious Tribute to RadioShack twitter:description: Plus, an earnest request for us to stop making fun of the company twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # John Oliver Wants You to Remember That One Day We'll All Be Like RadioShack by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 9, 2015 6:40 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 9, 2015 6:40 PM CUT After 94 years of service, RadioShack [filed for bankruptcy](http://time.com/3698287/radioshack-bankruptcy/ "undefined") last week, and John Oliver has had enough of everyone’s jokes about it. In a short segment on Sunday’s episode of _Last Week Tonight_, Oliver called out the media for using “a glib, jokey tone” to discuss its demise. “This is a dying 94-year-old business,” he said. “At this point, it’s like you’re sitting across from your grandfather at Thanksgiving dinner saying, ‘You know, I don’t really see the point of Grandpa Fred in 2015.'” He then shares a homemade farewell message for RadioShack that he says they should feel free to use. It’s hilarious, but please beware it contains some NSFW language. _Read Next:_ [_How the ‘John Oliver Effect’ Is Having a Real-Life Impact_](http://time.com/3674807/john-oliver-net-neutrality-civil-forfeiture-miss-america/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3701225/john-oliver-radioshack-farewell-last-week-tonight/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3701225/john-oliver-radioshack-farewell-last-week-tonight/"},"headline":"John Oliver Wants You to Remember That One Day We'll All Be Like RadioShack","datePublished":"2015-02-09T18:40:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:40.528Z","description":"Watch his passionate, hilarious tribute to the struggling company","url":"https://time.com/3701225/john-oliver-radioshack-farewell-last-week-tonight/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3701225/john-oliver-radioshack-farewell-last-week-tonight/","name":"John Oliver Wants You to Remember That One Day We'll All Be Like RadioShack"}}]}] ```