John Oliver on Confusing ‘Last Week Tonight’ with Journalism: ‘The Correct Term for What We Do Is ‘Comedy’’

“We are making jokes about the news and sometimes we need to research things deeply to understand them, but it’s always in service of a joke. If you make jokes about animals, that does not make you a zoologist. We certainly hold ourselves to a high standard and fact-check everything, but the correct term for what we do is ‘comedy.’”

- John Oliver rejects the idea that Last Week Tonight is “engaging in a new kind of journalism” in a new interview with The New York Times.

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