John Oliver Is Still Working Through the Rage

约翰·奥利弗仍在努力平息愤怒。

The Interview

社会与文化

2024-09-28

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The host of "Last Week Tonight" talks about what he’s learned in the ten years of making the show, why he doesn't consider himself a journalist and not giving in to nihilism.
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  • For me,

  • it was always about managing the fear and finding ways to use it until I could be motivated by the exact opposite of that.

  • And I never had to worry about the fear again because it didn't define me.

  • That's eight time Grand Slam champion Andre Agassi on everything and nothing to do with tennis.

  • Read more@nytimes.com UBS Agassi that's nytimes.com UBS A G A S S From 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 his start at the Daily show in 2006 as its senior British correspondent.

  • Yep, that was his actual title.

  • But since 2014, he's at 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 tongues technically are,

  • even though personally I consider them candy corn.

  • Modern farm policy was born during the Great Depression when farmers faced 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 or desks.

  • We accept that they're subsidized by the government as an investment in kids futures.