John Oliver Explains Origin of Adam Driver Joke on Last Week Tonight
John Oliver explains how Last Week Tonight with John Oliver came up with the jokes about Adam Driver. The multiple Emmy Award-winning talk show is best known for its thoroughly researched weekly analyses on current political events and news topics, such as coal mining and opioids. The show also takes an unrelenting willingness for its satirical views, and performs maximum stunts for comedic purposes, including purchasing Russell Crowe's jockstrap and conducting a Bob Murray dance number.
Over the course of its seventh season, the news satire has kept up with its tradition of abnormal recurring jokes during discussion of serious topics, with its most famous being Oliver's obsession with Adam Driver and commenting on the actor's massive physical build by imploring the Oscar nominee to perform violent acts on him. The show ended its 2020 season by Driver making an appearance criticizing Oliver for his large number of inappropriate requests.
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Per Collider, Oliver has now explained in an interview with Steven Weintraub where the Driver jokes originated from in Last Week Tonight. Like many of the show's random jokes, Oliver did not expect the one about Adam Driver to land as well as it did with the audience, which inspired the writers to continue with it and conclude it in an iconic way. Oliver's full story can be viewed below:
«No, that was a one-off joke. That was one of the final shows that we actually had in the studio before the pandemic kicked in. I just liked it because it was a really funny joke. The audience seemed to like it a little bit and be very uncomfortable as well. And it was the perfect synthesis of those two reactions. So then
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