John Oliver Shares Off-Camera Tales, Transforms Into Legitimate Media Critic
If it's Wednesday, it must be double-dose of John Oliver day. The Daily Show's resident cheeky wit has two very different interviews for your consumption.
The latest is from Denver's Westword Blog (thanks to No Fact Zone for the tip) with anecdotes from Oliver's first jittery days on the job to his humiliation of Sen. James Inhofe (R – OK):
" . . . who had written this bill wanting English as the official, not the
national, language, which would have banned translations in hospitals.
And we did this joke with him… He’d said diagnosis wasn’t necessarily
always verbal. It could sometimes be physical.
"And I said, 'Oh, he
could mime it out. Like, he’s broken his arm – he could mime it out. Or
he could mime if he had a pain in his side. Or mime, ‘I’m allergic to
penicillin.’' And there was this long, excruciating silence, and about
two minutes later, all of a sudden, he had an appointment he’d
forgotten! Out of nowhere!"
Speaking of the Queen's English, check out a much more acerbic J. Oliver in this interview with Britain's Channel 4 News. See John's comparison of U.S. politics to a Japanese game show, why Barack Obama poses a particular threat to the other candidates and his impression of Hillary's joke-telling skills.
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