Gregory's ServerI really enjoyed this interview with John Oliver about the process involved in producing Last Week Tonight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9kNMJ8SguQ
"Those jokes have no structural integrity if the facts underneath them are bullshit"
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@metacurity it was good that he corrected later by saying effectively "the people I work with are absolutely journalists"  @simon I was not impressed by the interviewer, but John carried her with some great points.  That was a great conversation. Glad Oliver is still loving making his show, and hasn't fallen into the exhaustion that Jon Stewart fell into w/ Daily Show. @simon Having watched a couple of episodes of LWT off the back of that interview... Does anyone put together supercuts without the jokes? Or a #sponsorblock feed to skip them? Eg, the piece on the history of Boeing was powerful. It doesn't need the asides about the CEO's marriage, or some guy in a corporate video being too close to the camera. |
@simon I loved that he said he's not a journalist but has a research team that can interview experts, collect the facts, and then he and his writing team can report them.