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John Oliver

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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2317 total appearances

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What Now? with Trevor Noah
John Oliver: The Daily Show, "Ignition" CPR, and Corporate Shit-Stirring

Yeah, that's true.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
John Oliver: The Daily Show, "Ignition" CPR, and Corporate Shit-Stirring

You are right about FIFA and you are wrong about football.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
John Oliver: The Daily Show, "Ignition" CPR, and Corporate Shit-Stirring

Football is the beautiful cocaine that the Sinaloa cartel produces.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
John Oliver: The Daily Show, "Ignition" CPR, and Corporate Shit-Stirring

Well, we both have one of those.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
John Oliver: The Daily Show, "Ignition" CPR, and Corporate Shit-Stirring

To a FedEx driver, it's all the same.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
John Oliver: The Daily Show, "Ignition" CPR, and Corporate Shit-Stirring

But you know what?

What Now? with Trevor Noah
John Oliver: The Daily Show, "Ignition" CPR, and Corporate Shit-Stirring

They loved him.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
John Oliver: The Daily Show, "Ignition" CPR, and Corporate Shit-Stirring

I was what I was.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
John Oliver: The Daily Show, "Ignition" CPR, and Corporate Shit-Stirring

Of course, there is something about me they like.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
John Oliver: The Daily Show, "Ignition" CPR, and Corporate Shit-Stirring

But the interesting thing is that with that interview,

What Now? with Trevor Noah
John Oliver: The Daily Show, "Ignition" CPR, and Corporate Shit-Stirring

What I wanted to do was get the ugliness out in the open, in a short space, right?

What Now? with Trevor Noah
John Oliver: The Daily Show, "Ignition" CPR, and Corporate Shit-Stirring

And so it's difficult because there is, as you well know, a polish to racism in South Africa.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
John Oliver: The Daily Show, "Ignition" CPR, and Corporate Shit-Stirring

A real patina of dignity around the horror.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
John Oliver: The Daily Show, "Ignition" CPR, and Corporate Shit-Stirring

So I wanted to get under this guy's skin.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
John Oliver: The Daily Show, "Ignition" CPR, and Corporate Shit-Stirring

And I got... Louis Theroux had done some pieces in South Africa.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
John Oliver: The Daily Show, "Ignition" CPR, and Corporate Shit-Stirring

And so one of the producers of The Daily Show had worked...

What Now? with Trevor Noah
John Oliver: The Daily Show, "Ignition" CPR, and Corporate Shit-Stirring

with Louis Theroux.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
John Oliver: The Daily Show, "Ignition" CPR, and Corporate Shit-Stirring

So I'd asked him, hey, can you ask, is there anything, how does he get to the id of this ugliness?

What Now? with Trevor Noah
John Oliver: The Daily Show, "Ignition" CPR, and Corporate Shit-Stirring

How do you get through all of the poise?

What Now? with Trevor Noah
John Oliver: The Daily Show, "Ignition" CPR, and Corporate Shit-Stirring

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.