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The New York Times, this is the interview.
I'm Lulu Garcia Navarro.
Nobody is doing late night comedy quite like John Oliver.
He got a start at the Daily show in 2006 as its senior british correspondent.
Yep, that was his actual title.
But since 2014, he's had his own show, HBO's last week.
Tonight, the show opens with a short riff on the news of the week, but the main event is a deep dive into a single, often deeply nerdy topic.
This season alone, he's talked about state medical boards.
Our main story Tonight concerns medicine, the thing that tums technically are, even though personally I consider them candy corn.
Modern farm policy was born during the Great Depression, when farmers face a crisis.
And the case for universal free lunches in american schools.
Maybe we should be considering lunch as an essential school supply, you know, like books or desks.
We accept that they're subsidised by the government as an investment in kids futures, and I'd argue lunch should be, too.