Another company owns the redistribution rights for the UK and the AU, and that company has decided not to allow it on YouTube until a point in the future.
IIRC from other YouTube comments, there's a 2 week delay.
Kind of stupid in a global era, but that's what big corporations do.
The show is on in the UK tonight; from what I remember previously, the videos are opened up for the UK from that point. Not the worst thing in the world, restricting YouTube videos until they've had a chance to show the full episode in said country. It's not like this is just a clip - it's a whole segment of the show.
It just feels like what footballer fan (soccer you,yanks) would feel if they had to wait over 24 hours to watch a world cup match .... most would just find another way to watch it.
You can thank Foxtel for that. First they stopped us getting Game of Thrones legitimately without Foxtel, now this. The Comedy Channel which they own 100% of purchased the rights to the show recently and so, it is only available on Foxtel.
samm-mbp ~/Desktop % youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=XEVlyP4_11M
[youtube] XEVlyP4_11M: Downloading webpage
[youtube] XEVlyP4_11M: Downloading video info webpage
ERROR: XEVlyP4_11M: YouTube said: The uploader has not made this video available in your country.
Other John Oliver videos are not restricted: http://polsy.org.uk/stuff/ytrestrict.cgi?ytid=uiN_-AEhTpk