John Oliver

Oh, completely.

Yeah, there is like, it feels like you earn the right to criticize, right?

And they can...

They can be questioning, I think, understandably, Americans, where is this coming from?

And it was a shift for me to go often from you, you do this, you do this, to we do this.

Oh, yeah, and then I noticed you started saying we do this.

We, because I'm an American now, right?

And so I play with you and we.

But there was at least a sense of ownership.

And again, as a British person, a sense of ownership in a country has a bit of an asterisk on it.

But it did feel like this isn't coming from...

there have been people who've come, like done a smash and grab in America and there's no real emotional investment in it.

Whereas that was not the case with me and I don't think it was ever going to be the case.

Really?

Three.

Just three months.

Just that three months alone?

Maybe.

I think there was real panic about...

john ever leaving and i think at least it showed that that staff was solid enough that somebody could do that job temporarily yes i still don't think there was any confidence that somebody could do it forever yes yeah someone could fill in for him in a panic i don't think there was any real institutional confidence at comedy central of oh great so uh someone else can do it still very much his thing