John Oliver

It's just doing one show a week that you could have written in a day or two, to be fair.

Now...

From that lesson on, we extrapolated our process out so that we're spending six weeks on each story and you're just juggling them at the same time.

Yeah, you're just moving them around and then choosing... And you can force feed any story that you like on people then.

You earn the right to have an audience that will actually sit through something that sounds unbelievably...

boring, like mobile home financing.

But the moment that you get into it, you realize how interesting everything is.

You know this.

Everything is interesting.

Exactly.

That's literally what it is.

So you just need to give people enough information about it.

for them to be able to find it interesting, but that takes time.

And commercial television, that is much, much harder, because you need, it's hard.

Yeah, so that is a big difference, right?

It's hard to hold people's attention.

You take them on a long narrative story, if you're having to say six, eight, nine minutes in, we'll be right back.

Three minutes of Twix commercials, and they're like, I forget where I was.

So that is why it's much easier for us to be able to do like 40 minute long stories that sound like they're just in one breath because you can't leave.

We've been sued a bunch of, not a lot of times.