John Oliver: "I was honestly really glad not to be on the air" during the week of the U.S. Capitol siege

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"It was nice not to have to fiddle while Rome burned," the Last Week Tonight host, who returns from a three-month hiatus on Valentine's Day, tells The Washington Post's Steven Zeitchik. As for his reaction to the insurrection, Oliver says: "There were those who said it was unimaginable. And I didn't understand that. It was actively imaginable. It was more than that -- it was literally predictable."