John Oliver hates the hyperbolic headlines reacting every week to Last Week Tonight segments

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“You can’t really help how (a Last Week Tonight segment is) repackaged after the fact, you kind of just have to try and be confident with the piece in the context that exists,” Oliver said while speaking to reporters about the new season. “Then someone saying eviscerates or disembowels ― it can be a little bit sad when you’ve worked for weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks or months and months on something, and then it’s ‘takes a sledgehammer to the face of person TK.’”

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