John Oliver

Yeah, it's a much more practical thing.

I think it's a bit of a hangover from the fact that when he won the Perrier Award, you know, the big award in Edinburgh, I think that that came with... That's the Ballon d'Or of... Yeah, it is.

That's right, see?

Yeah, it's the Ballon d'Or of comedy.

Right?

In that I imagine you think you have to pay for it somehow.

Is that right?

When he won that, all of a sudden he was finding there were people coming to his shows that he didn't necessarily want there.

He wanted to do his show the way he wanted to do it.

He didn't want people there who he didn't want.

in his audience.

And so he needed to get rid of some of that by making it more difficult for them to watch it.

Than it necessarily needed to be to come.

So it was a filtering system and it worked because the Perrier back then, it was such a gravitational force as an award.

It was huge.

All of a sudden you were plunged into a certain kind of career and he did not want that.

So that came with a need to...

do things his own way.

I cannot wait to get off because it's the weirdest place to be.

And it's not a funny place to be.