censored by British broadcaster Sky, a decision Oliver slammed.During Sunday’s episode of his show — which took home the 2022 Emmy for Outstanding Variety Talk Series — the British comic didn’t pass up another opportunity to take aim at the monarchy in the form of comedy.In his monologue, Oliver blasted President Joe Biden for saying the COVID-19 pandemic was “over.”Calling Biden’s announcement “irresponsible” and “complete bulls–t,” Oliver said “you can’t just declare something and make it a reality.”“If I declared, ‘The Queen is alive,’ that doesn’t make it true. We all know she’s in the afterlife right now looking up at Diana,” he said.During an appearance on “Late Night With Seth Meyers” last week, Oliver said it was “s–tty” to have his speech about the late Queen censored in his homeland.“All we said was that Britain is still mourning the shocking loss – right? – of a 96-year-old woman from natural causes.
As ‘Last Week Tonight’ Wins Seventh Consecutive Late-Night Emmy, John Oliver Knows How Lucky He Is
13.09.2022 - 05:20 / deadline.com
John Oliver’s winning streak at the Emmys continues.
HBO’s Last Week Tonight won its seventh consecutive Emmy in the Outstanding Variety Talk Series category.
The weekly show beat The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and Late Night with Seth Meyers.
Oliver thanked his cast and crew as the chyron on the screen joked about saying hello to Oscar Isaac.
“Thank you to HBO as well. We know how lucky we are to get to make the exact show that we want exactly the way that we want to make it whether that’s making a Korean subway drama or blackmailing Congress over data brokers or staging an elaborate cabbage wedding. We know how lucky we are,” he said.
Given his streak, Oliver added what everyone else was saying. “[The sign] is saying stop now in big letters and I don’t know whether that’s about this speech or in general but either way, it’s a fair point.”
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver has won every year since The Daily Show with Jon Stewart ended. It also picked up the award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series at last week’s Creative Arts ceremony, in addition to winning Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control For A Series.
Oliver’s win comes as the TV Academy is likely to shake up the category over the coming months, alongside the Variety Sketch category.
There’s been a lot of behind-the-scenes drama over the last twelve months when it comes to late-night and the Emmys.
Deadline revealed earlier this year that the Outstanding Variety Talk Series category won back its fifth nomination slot for this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards after a group of showrunners successfully campaigned the Television Academy.
Previously, the category was set to go down to only
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