Last Week Tonight With John Oliver' auctioned a Bob Ross painting and other items for PBS, raising more than $1.5 million.

Bob Ross, prolific daytime television painting instructor who charmed the world with his serene monologues, continues to make ...

A Bob Ross painting auctioned by talk show host John Oliver already has a bid of more than $1 million. See other unique items ...

Another of John Oliver and Last Week Tonight's harebrained yet equally genius schemes has come to fruition, as the long-running HBO series successfully ...

John Oliver launched an auction to benefit public broadcasting, following major budget cuts. A Bob Ross painting is priced at ...

Three original paintings by beloved TV artist Bob Ross sold for more than $600,000 at auction to benefit public broadcasting ...

This is per Variety, which reports that the entire auction pulled in $1.54 million for the Public Media Bridge Fund, with the ...

Do you remember the show "The Joy of Painting" on PBS? If you do, you certainly will remember its host and creator, Bob Ross.

How much would you pay for a bad wax statue that goes to a good cause? Thanks to Oliver, some will pay thousands.

According to host John Oliver, the program bid on a trio of Ross paintings last week. Those paintings, the first of 30 being ...

The paintings were the first of 30 Bob Ross works being sold to benefit public TV stations hurt by cuts in federal funding.

The first three of 30 paintings sold in Los Angeles for a record-shattering $662,000. The rest will go up for auction in ...