“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.’â€
- 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.