John Oliver
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Podcast Appearances
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
What you're thinking is, why is this... Why is everyone so serious?
Yeah, why aren't we worrying about what the color of the blocks are?
Oh, you don't want to worry about... You can change the color of a block in a second.
That's what I realized was being in rewrites, good and bad, you realize you can write jokes at the last second.
You can't...
fix part of the story quickly.
Not really, because I assumed, like, to take big swings, you're going to have to.
have a system that can back you up.
Otherwise, you're just not going to be able to do it for long in a country as litigious as America.
So I wasn't that surprised.
I certainly loved it.
I loved that part of the process.
And I think what we've done on our show is extrapolate that out now.
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.
And then an hour later, we'll have an answer for you.
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?
And then you can craft the story from those ingredients and then you can craft jokes from that story.
I love it so much.
No, I would not.