‘Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver Returns From The Void To Navigate A “Firehouse Of Nonsense” – Deadline Q&A

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John Oliver is out of the void and returning for the ninth season of HBO’s Last Week Tonight with a studio audience and a desire to tackle tricky subjects.The comedian is full of fresh quips and sardonic humor when speaking to Deadline ahead of his return.

He talks about how Last Week Tonight was able to deal with a crowd-free show better than some of the nightly talkshows (“I’ve always talked over the audience”), how happy he is that he no longer has to talk about Donald Trump, even if the U.S. “always wants to talk about its elections three years before they happen” and encourages Discovery, otherwise known as his new Business Daddy, to follow AT&T’s “Victorian marriage” model and “leave us the fuck alone”.The Brit, who became a U.S.

citizen in 2020, is in the middle of a three-year deal that sees Last Week Tonight run through 2023. He also picked up his sixth straight Emmy win in the Outstanding Variety Talk Series category – despite rooting for Conan.Bill Maher, who hosts Real Time on the same network, was recently quoted in James Andrew Miller’s HBO oral history Tinderbox as saying “They love John Oliver because when does he ever say anything that isn’t in line with what the conventional woke with them is?

I don’t watch it all the time, but what I’ve seen of it is extremely down the line liberalism”.Oliver counters this argument, calling it a “bullshit prism” to see it through and one that is “intellectually bankrupt”.He points out that he’s far more interested in covering topics that rarely getting any play in the medium from stand-your-ground laws, prison climate, the political status of Taiwan and Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko as well as lighter topics such as federal duck stamps.However, don’t expect