John Oliver: “We pick up the immensely depressing relay baton" of news from late Thursdays through Sunday

The Daily Beast

What the Last Week Tonight host has come to realize is that all the late-night shows, except Jimmy Fallon, are finished with their week by Thursday evening. "So anything from like 5 o’clock on a Thursday probably falls to us, unfortunately,” he says with a laugh. “We pick up the immensely depressing relay baton. By the time Seth Meyers is done taping, we’re like, ‘F*ck, now it’s us.’” (It should be noted that Saturday Night Live also covers the news on weekends, but it's only on 21 weeks a year to Last Week Tonight's 30 weeks. And unlike SNL, Last Week Tonight doesn't take summer off.) ALSO: Is John Oliver a journalist, despite his protests?