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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

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.

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

What you're thinking is, why is this... Why is everyone so serious?

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

Yeah, why aren't we worrying about what the color of the blocks are?

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

Oh, you don't want to worry about... You can change the color of a block in a second.

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

That's what I realized was being in rewrites, good and bad, you realize you can write jokes at the last second.

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

You can't...

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

fix part of the story quickly.

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

Not really, because I assumed, like, to take big swings, you're going to have to.

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

have a system that can back you up.

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

Otherwise, you're just not going to be able to do it for long in a country as litigious as America.

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

So I wasn't that surprised.

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

I certainly loved it.

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

I loved that part of the process.

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

And I think what we've done on our show is extrapolate that out now.

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

So it's not just Chods in a room basically just drowning in people's opinions, thinking, I'll tell you how much of this you can actually say.

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

And then an hour later, we'll have an answer for you.

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

Now we have a much bigger scaled out research department now so that they can spend weeks before the writers get anywhere near a story to work out what can you say?

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

And then you can craft the story from those ingredients and then you can craft jokes from that story.

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

I love it so much.

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

No, I would not.