After a few weeks off the air,  "Last Week Tonight" returned to HBO on Sunday night with a blistering segment on Joe Arpaio, the former Maricopa County, Ariz., sheriff recently pardoned by President Trump. 

Or, as host John Oliver put it, "a man who answers the question 'What if a decaying russet potato somehow hated Mexicans?'" 

As Oliver recapped, Arpaio gained a national profile thanks to a host of controversial practices, including feeding prisoners rotting food and forcing them to wear pink underwear and chain-gang style uniforms and live in a tent city where temperatures soared.

A trio of shows — "Westworld," "Saturday Night Live" and "Stranger Things" — each took home five wins and HBO notched 19 wins total at the 2017 Creative Arts Emmys over the weekend. 

Though the bulk of the awards handed out Saturday and Sunday nights were for behind-the-scenes and technical achievements, there were some performance awards as well. 

Melissa McCarthy and Dave Chappelle won for guest actress and actor in a comedy series for their appearances on "Saturday Night Live," while the awards for guest actor and actress in a drama went to Gerald McRaney, for his work as Dr. Nathan Katowski on "This Is Us," and Alexis Bledel, who played Ofglen in “The Handmaid’s Tale."

Kristen Bell was making the best of her situation while she hunkered down in Orlando waiting out Hurricane Irma.

The "Frozen" and "Bad Moms" star's latest shenanigans include getting serenaded by a senior citizen — and rubbing it in her husband's face.

"Dear @daxshepard1, this is john. My side piece in orlando. I hope u understand. Im powerless over a man who serenades me. #Irma2017," she tweeted Sunday, sharing a video of said crooning side piece.

I’ve been doing this for a long time, and in my opinion I’ve been doing very good work. But now people are discovering me.... I’ve always been that utility worker, that utility actor, but now all of a sudden the world is seeing me on a platform they’ve never seen me on before. 

FROM THE ARCHIVES: 'Empire's' tough Cookie, Taraji P. Henson, always up for a challenge

I'm more comfortable in dramas than in comedies, and I think there's a certain irony that for so many years I was involved on the comedy side. Some of them I'm really happy to have done. But they're not necessarily movies that I would go to.

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I think it's a mistake to take projects just for that intention or just to shock people. You attract what you are ready for. I am finding that to be true. The projects I have come across recently have been there for a reason. It's all about timing.

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Troy Gentry, the co-founder of the country-rock duo Montgomery Gentry, has died in a helicopter crash. He was 50.

The duo was scheduled to perform a show on Friday at the Flying W Airport & Resort in Medford, N.J. The helicopter crashed in a forested area just outside the venue, according to FAA reports cited by Associated Press.

Gentry and a fellow passenger were killed, though it was not immediately clear who was piloting the helicopter. 

The pharmaceutical pariah who turned out to be the secret purchaser of the Wu-Tang Clan’s single-copy-only album “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” is auctioning it off with the stated hope that “someone with a bigger heart for music can be found for this one-of-a-kind piece and makes it available for the world to hear.”

Martin Shkreli, the former CEO of his own Retrophin pharmaceuticals company as well as Turing Pharmaceuticals, where he drew international scorn for hiking the price of a lifesaving AIDS drug to boost his company’s profits, bought the Wu-Tang album in 2015 for $2 million.

He posted the CD on eBay and started bidding at $1. As of Friday afternoon, the album had drawn 320 bids that have upped the potential sale price beyond $1 million.

It’s official: Garth Brooks will headline the Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio next year.

Brooks tweeted a short video on Friday alerting followers to his coming Stagecoach appearance, posing it as a question: “Are YOU ready for the BIGGEST party on the planet? Love, g.”

The video, which also is now showing on the Stagecoach website, slowly reveals a neon sign that spells “Stagecoach” using Brooks’ lowercase “g” logo as part of the word. No other details were offered.

Former Rep. Loretta Sanchez is coming to Hollywood — only this time, instead of asking for money, it looks as if she's aiming to make some. 

Sanchez, a Democrat who represented Orange County for 20 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, is named as an executive producer on a political drama that just got a script commitment from NBC, the Los Angeles Times has confirmed. 

"Accidental Candidate" will follow a small-town mom who gets thrust into the spotlight after a confrontation with a politician at a town hall meeting and impulsively decides to run for Congress as "the ultimate outsider against a powerful male incumbent," according to the show's logline.