John Oliver taped a stripped-down Last Week Tonight "somewhere else" after coronavirus struck his office building and studio

The Daily Beast

“Both the place where we normally tape on Sunday (the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City) and our office building had confirmed cases of coronavirus this week, so our staff has been working from home, and we’re currently taping this somewhere else with a very limited crew," said Oliver, who taped the shortened 22-minute episode without an audience and in front of a white background. He later added: “This was the week that the coronavirus, for many people here in the U.S., seemed to go from an abstraction to a very real threat.”