Three sisters try to find a tenant to rent their garden apartment. They later meet George Barrow who’s plotting to turn their apartment into a hedgefunder Disneyland of 50-foot-wide townhouses with spas, movie theaters and in-ground pools.
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American viewers may know him best as the British correspondent on “The Daily Show,” but John Oliver is also an accomplished stand-up comic. In his first Comedy Central special Oliver tackles the topics that perplex him about the United States. He takes well-aimed shots at the American political process and the invasion of Iraq (including how the Brits would have done it differently), and argues for reparations from the Revolutionary War.
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