John Oliver Has Had Enough of This "Awful" Election: "This Has Been a Disaster"

John Oliver chops it up with CBS's Charlie Rose about this "awful" election.

September 23, 2016

With a well-earned Emmy win barely in the rearview,Last Week Tonight boss John Oliver dropped in on CBS This Morning to offer some words of clarity on this November's increasingly depressing election. During the chat with Charlie Rose and company, Oliver opened up about his intentions for that much-discussed Edward Snowden segment and the confirmed non-firing of Daily Show host Trevor Noah.

"Whenever you see awards shows growing up, the playing off is always the fun part," Oliver said, noting that he had specially requested to be played off during his Emmys acceptance speech. "It was an amazing thrill to have a band suddenly strike up to remove me from the stage."

Though bagging a prestigious award is dope, Oliver said it's now back to business as usual for his Last Week Tonight team ahead of the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

"This election is clearly the gift that you ideally would like to stop giving, but it does keep giving its gifts to our face," Oliver told the CBS This Morning hosts. "I don't think at the end of this election anyone can reasonably say, 'You did a great job, everyone!' I think, as a species, we want to call for the breakup of this election." By Oliver's estimation, this election cycle has been merely "a series of banana peels, mouse traps, and trap doors" that's just "awful" by any measurement. "This has been a disaster," Oliver added.

After breaking down how he and the rest of the Last Week Tonight staff pulled off that fascinating Snowden interview, Oliver corrected Rose when he mistakenly said Trevor Noah had been canned by Comedy Central alongside Larry Wilmore's Nightly Show. "Unless you are firing him live on TV right now, which is an amazing scoop," Oliver joked. "Please don't fire me in real time as well."