--- title: John Oliver Grills Dustin Hoffman, Internet Reacts description: John Oliver confronting Dustin Hoffman over harassment allegations brought against the actor has garnered a wave of support from the Internet. canonical: https://time.com/5049680/john-oliver-grills-dustin-hoffman-internet-reactions/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-12-05T16:13:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:49:04.280Z og:title: The Internet Celebrates John Oliver Grilling Dustin Hoffman og:description: "I can’t leave certain things unaddressed" og:url: https://time.com/5049680/john-oliver-grills-dustin-hoffman-internet-reactions/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt41bf427763c1517b/6988f3bfbc6cfc2fc93e431c/john-oliver-dustin-hoffman.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: john-oliver-dustin-hoffman og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Internet Celebrates John Oliver Grilling Dustin Hoffman twitter:description: "I can’t leave certain things unaddressed" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt41bf427763c1517b/6988f3bfbc6cfc2fc93e431c/john-oliver-dustin-hoffman.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # John Oliver Grilled Dustin Hoffman Over Harassment Allegations and the Internet Was Here for It > Sponsored content. 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After the _Last Week Tonight_ host [publicly grilled](http://time.com/5049430/john-oliver-dustin-hoffman-confront-dismissal/) Hoffman at a 20th-anniversary event for the 1997 movie _Wag the Dog_ on Monday, supporters of Oliver’s line of questioning took to social media to express their gratitude. Anna Graham Hunter [recently accused Hoffman](http://people.com/movies/anna-graham-hunter-accuses-dustin-hoffman-sexual-harassment/) of groping and making inappropriate comments to her when she was a 17 year-old production intern on the set of the 1985 movie _Death Of A Salesman_. After she came forward, writer and producer Wendy Riss Gatsounis [alleged Hoffman had propositioned her](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/nov/02/dustin-hoffman-faces-second-sexual-harassment-claim) inappropriately during a pitch meeting in 1991. “I can’t leave certain things unaddressed,” Oliver explained during the Q&A, which was [captured on video](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2017/12/04/john-oliver-grills-dustin-hoffman-over-sexual-harassment-allegation/?utm%5Fterm=.1511c4369dc4). “The easy way is not to bring anything up. Unfortunately that leaves me at home later at night hating myself. ‘Why…didn’t I say something?’ No one stands up to powerful men.” See a selection of the responses below. > [](https://twitter.com/ira/status/937968472901873664) > [](https://twitter.com/holbolrob/status/937986370127192064) > [](https://twitter.com/kathygriffin/status/937891020594753536) > [](https://twitter.com/janicemin/status/938050930049609729) > [](https://twitter.com/mikeBithell/status/937996784009433088) > [](https://twitter.com/theirishcowgirl/status/938030934078529537) > [](https://twitter.com/sd%5Fsaurav/status/938035754151960576) > [](https://twitter.com/LeftySocialist/status/938031616529719296) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5049680/john-oliver-grills-dustin-hoffman-internet-reactions/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5049680/john-oliver-grills-dustin-hoffman-internet-reactions/"},"headline":"John Oliver Grilled Dustin Hoffman Over Harassment Allegations and the Internet Was Here for It","datePublished":"2017-12-05T16:13:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:49:04.280Z","description":"\"I can’t leave certain things unaddressed\"","url":"https://time.com/5049680/john-oliver-grills-dustin-hoffman-internet-reactions/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","celebrities","viral","TV","Late Night Television","John Oliver","Last Week Tonight"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt41bf427763c1517b/6988f3bfbc6cfc2fc93e431c/john-oliver-dustin-hoffman.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt41bf427763c1517b/6988f3bfbc6cfc2fc93e431c/john-oliver-dustin-hoffman.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"john-oliver-dustin-hoffman","caption":"john-oliver-dustin-hoffman","creditText":"Getty Images (2)","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/5049680/john-oliver-grills-dustin-hoffman-internet-reactions/","name":"John Oliver Grilled Dustin Hoffman Over Harassment Allegations and the Internet Was Here for It"}}]}] ```