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Our guest tonight is a former failed correspondent at The Daily Show. He's done nothing since then.
Who is John Oliver and what was his experience on The Daily Show?
Please welcome Mr. John Oliver.
All right, all right.
We get it. Enough already. Enough. I agree with you more than I agree with them. Well, well, well, look who's come crawling back. Yes. We're all started. I know. It's pretty weird to be back. I do not like being in that guest room at all. Oh, really? That was the one room where I worked here you were not allowed to go in, and I don't like being in it now. It feels like I'm doing something wrong by being inside it. You never snuck in to see a guest? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. And we were never allowed to really be in there because it had to be kept nice for the guests. And it never really occurred to me one day I might be that, and I still don't feel it. So I put my bag in there and then stood in the corridor for the rest of the day.
I don't want to be in there at all. Yeah, but this place brings back so many memories. You were here. You were in this building. I was very much in this building. This was the reason I came to America. And I was here for eight years. Yeah, same.
Yeah. That's why...
That's why I was so happy you came on, because people don't know by looking at us, but we actually have very similar backgrounds, because we both joined the show. I moved to America to do this show, just like you. And when I first joined the show, the Daily Show alumni network is so strong, I asked to meet up with Mr. Oliver. You came to the office. Mr. Oliver.
Wow.
He was Mr. Oliver. I was like, there's no way this guy's going to let me meet up with him. And you were like, no, come before work. There's nothing I like more than talking to people who have questions about how to make field pieces. Yeah. Because it's such a narrow set of skills. Yes. And all of your questions were great. I remember you leaving and thinking, oh, you're going to be fine. Even though you don't have the answers yet, all your questions are right, so you're going to be fine. You do not have a problem. I will say, before... Before we make it too sincere, you do have that unique skill set of not minding being a dick to people. And that really, at the end of the day, that is the secret sauce. Well, that is the, I mean, you know, you have to really not care to do satire sometimes.
Everyone's like, people, I don't think people know how much you don't give a fuck.
Yes.
You truly don't give a . You will go hard. In the marrow of my bones, sometimes when our lawyers say they're going to be upset, you go, I'm not having a physical reaction to that at all. Yes. It is of no concern to me whether the Sackler family are mad with me or not. To be honest, I'm a little bit. There's a tingle of happiness. Yeah, but that's kind of what you need to do it. Yeah, definitely. I like the feeling of trouble. Yeah, you do, yeah. In comedy, because I'm probably a natural coward in many ways, but when it comes to comedy, I do like the feeling of being in real trouble. Yeah, it's weird. You talked about it. You said pushing the button. You said there's a button, you just got to push it. Yeah, exactly.
Because when you told me it took you two years to relearn how to do comedy in America. Yeah. I think that's probably true. You were spot on to the day, by the way. In hindsight, I was like, oh my god. Because I remember there was a day I was in New York City gigging at some comedy club. And it was two years in, literally almost to the day. And I remember things just starting to click a little bit of relearning how to do comedy. Because again, you, like me, we were doing comedy outside of America. before we even came here. Yeah, and so I think the outsider perspective in comedy always works. The thing with being an immigrant here is you kind of have to learn the exact ways that your outsider perspective can translate.
So you kind of have to learn basically how that can work. And once it does, you're fine. But until that point, it does feel a little bit like uncharted waters. Yeah, it's a bit like, you know, you can come here and you can joke about America on a very surface level.
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