John Oliver
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Podcast Appearances
Yeah, that's true.
You are right about FIFA and you are wrong about football.
Football is the beautiful cocaine that the Sinaloa cartel produces.
Well, we both have one of those.
To a FedEx driver, it's all the same.
But you know what?
They loved him.
I was what I was.
Of course, there is something about me they like.
But the interesting thing is that with that interview,
What I wanted to do was get the ugliness out in the open, in a short space, right?
And so it's difficult because there is, as you well know, a polish to racism in South Africa.
A real patina of dignity around the horror.
So I wanted to get under this guy's skin.
And I got... Louis Theroux had done some pieces in South Africa.
And so one of the producers of The Daily Show had worked...
with Louis Theroux.
So I'd asked him, hey, can you ask, is there anything, how does he get to the id of this ugliness?
How do you get through all of the poise?
And he said, as a British person, the one knife you have is make some glib remark about the Boers and the Boer War and all of a sudden things will change.