John Oliver joked that he butts heads with HBO attorneys assigned to his present largely due to one difficulty.
“I think that the tension between us comes from this,” he instructed Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday. “I think we have two different opinions of what their job is.”
“They think their job is to stop us from getting sued. I think their job is to make sure that when we are sued, we win,” he continued. “And the distance between those two things is where the fighting is.”
“Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” received an Emmy on Monday for Outstanding Scripted Variety Series.
After thanking his employees onstage, Oliver expressed gratitude to HBO and “our lawyers, who are angry with us all of the time.”
On “Jimmy Kimmel Live” Tuesday, Oliver shed somewhat mild on his interactions with the authorized crew.
“In the week running up to the stories, so we’ve been working on them for a month, we tell them what we’re doing, and there’s normally a deep sigh on the other end of the phone,” he mentioned, earlier than including a number of seconds of bleeped phrases.
″‘Oh, what are you going to say about Bezos? That’s attention-grabbing,’” he added, pretending to hold up the cellphone.
Oliver’s present has tackled the whole lot from the rail freight trade to cryptocurrency, performing comical deep dives into varied present occasions and taking intention at politicians and different highly effective individuals.
Watch his interview under on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
