A painting Bob Ross created in Muncie, Indiana, set an auction record last week with the help of TV show host John Oliver. “Cabin at Sunset” was sold for $1,044,000 through an auction by HBO’s “Last ...

Comedian John Oliver's HBO show "Last Week Tonight" raised more than $1.5 million for PBS through a charity auction featuring unusual items and artwork. The auction's star lot was a Bob Ross painting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Happy little trees and other curious items are bringing in big bucks for public broadcasting stations. John Oliver announced an ...

The first of 30 Bob Ross paintings — many of them created live on the PBS series that made him a household name — have been auctioned off to support public television. Ross, with his distinctive afro, ...

Throughout most of the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s, PBS aired The Joy of Painting, a quiet art show that might’ve been lost to the annals of history if it weren’t for the magnetic host. He ...

An original Bob Ross painting sold for a record price in an auction by HBO talk show “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” with proceeds benefiting public media. Donated by Bob Ross Inc. for the ...