John Oliver
speaker
2,112 appearances
32 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 8 Jul
John Oliver’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The parts of the day that I didn't see, just as a writer and a correspondent on that show, what things need to happen.
So you get a fuller understanding of...
What mistakes do you need to fix earlier in the day?
Otherwise you're going to be living inside them for the rest of the day.
How many blocks can we go back before we can... So what you learned, right, was a different way to look at that room than that first day that you were in it.
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.
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