Last Week Tonight with John Oliver was not on last week, but will be on tonight — and with John Oliver. What are the odds, I ask you?
If you’re looking forward to it then you might be interested in Oliver’s chat with Ari Velshi on the subject “The Rigors of Laughter” [38:58] from December. Velshi is a correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC who serves on the board of The Philadelphia Citizen, which presented the interview as part of a day of programming “that brings the most innovative urban thinkers and global thought leaders together to share and discuss bold ideas”. Although neither gentleman was quite sure how to interpret the conversation’s title, it focused on Last Week’s process and purpose.
There wasn’t much in their exchange I hadn’t already heard or read, and Oliver isn’t
as engrossingly hyper-articulate as fellow Daily Show alum Stephen Colbert when he’s questioned in such a setting, but it was still fun seeing Oliver express his delight over the absurd expenditures of time, money, and other resources that his staff concocts.
Oliver visited Colbert’s Late Show this past Monday. Topics of the evening included — as the YouTube videos to which I’ve linked headline them — his becoming a U.S. citizen [7:45] and crushing on Eeyore from Winnie-the-Pooh [4:01]. I always enjoy watching them enjoy one another’s company and their shared history.
His freshly minted citizenship as well as his marriage to a retired Army combat medic turned veteran’s-rights activist who served in the Iraq War are given slightly more room in Marisa Guthrie’s profile of Oliver for The Hollywood Reporter a couple of weeks back. Perhaps the biggest surprise to me therein was that former Daily Show host Jon Stewart checks in with Oliver to talk English football.
Related: John for Jon • Deft Wonk • Oliver and Company
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