John Oliver

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2,112 appearances 32 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 8 Jul

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What Now? with Trevor Noah · John Oliver: Why Everything is a Scam: FIFA, Mergers, & Information Literacy · 15 Jan 2026 podcast

And you get to go full sociopath.

I was terrified of it.

So John, he did this, a similar version of that conversation that he pinged on you was that he called me at home and I'm in my apartment and he said, hey, I'm going to, that movie that I've been writing, I'm going to be able to direct it.

I'm going, oh, that's great.

This feels like a conversation.

I don't know.

This can't be the first call.

You're just calling everyone you know to say you're excited.

So he talks about when he's going to do it over the summer.

I'm like, oh, okay, great.

Yeah.

So what?

And he went, and could you host the show for me?

I went, yeah.

Because he'd given me everything, I think I was just hardwired to say yes to everything he said.

You need something from me, I will do it.

Whatever that thing is, criminal or not, I'll do it.

So I said yes, like it's nothing, put the phone down and then thought, whoa boy, what have I just agreed to?

And that was terrifying.

So then for the month before he left, I shadowed him much more closely to work out exactly what the day is like.

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