John Oliver
gets his
own show
on HBO.
Starting tonight
at 11PM EST:
Last Week Tonight
The
show will be a half-hour, but a legit half-hour — no commercials.
That
will allow for longer pieces. Mr. Oliver was still unsure whether
the
format would routinely include a guest
“I like the idea of carving out my own space, rather than having
to step into some difficult shoes,” he said.
He
had the shoe experience during Jon Stewart’s sabbatical
from anchoring
“The Daily Show,” a role that had vaulted
the host to the status of
champion of truth-telling about
the news and media.
The
experience turned into far more fun than Mr. Oliver anticipated,
though
it began with exactly the level of terror he had feared.
“There are about seven seconds when that music plays at the top
of the show, seven
seconds for your heart to burst out of your chest,”
he recalled. “I sat
there thinking: ‘Is this visible? Can you see a heart
in a chest? No,
that’s a cartoon.’ ”
Nobody noticed. Instead they saw how much wit and spirit Mr. Oliver
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