We spoke w/ iamjohnoliver about the making of LastWeekTonight, russellcrowe’s perfect joke, how his team works with the HBO lawyers, the Adam Driver joke, and how they are always working on six main stories at all times.
One of the best shows on any channel is HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Over its first eight seasons, Oliver and his brilliant team of writers have repeatedly tackled important issues like net neutrality, elections, and censorship, all while making the audience laugh. The way the show threads the needle with disseminating information with humor is nothing short of remarkable and it explains why the series has won so many awards.
OLIVER: I guess, in terms of the pandemic that I don't know to what extent this was surprising to people, that white void was in my home. So my kids were outside the door. The line between work and family life was about three inches. It kind of felt doing a show on your own at home, it turns out, feels a lot like not having a TV show at all. I don't know how chaotic people thought it was but it was very, very chaotic.
But I'm so curious, the first few seasons nobody really knows you. You can get away with like sending emails to people asking for comment.They have no idea what you're after. But now when an email comes in from Last Week Tonight, most people know, they're coming after us.How has it changed behind the scenes when you want to reach out to someone for comment knowing that they're going to probably get on the defensive once they get that email.
In the past there would be a lower consequence to perhaps saying to people, right, email this person. Because they get between five and zero emails. Now I would be much, much more careful. So when we did a story about robo calling and we said here are the office numbers of the people involved in making these decisions about robo calls, we knew those phones are going to get obliterated in the 12 hours.
I would imagine there's a lot of important people now that actually watch your show, love your show, love what you're doing and want to participate. So has it changed in the last year or two where you're getting, I don't know, some huge name calling you and saying, I wouldn't mind being the butt of a joke and I'd like to be included?
I think that the way you balance comedy with what you're talking about with a celebrity element, it all gels together to break through the noise.
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