So, I asked Mr. Oliver: Is he engaging in a kind of new journalism? He muttered an oath, the kind he can say on HBO for comic emphasis, but we don’t say here, adding, “No!”
“We are making jokes about the news and sometimes we need to research things deeply to understand them, but it’s always in service of a joke. If you make jokes about animals, that does not make you a zoologist. We certainly hold ourselves to a high standard and fact-check everything, but the correct term for what we do is ‘comedy.’ ”
Easy cop-out to avoid flak for mistakes or being plain wrong, by one of the most popular shows on the internet at the moment, which prides itself on being so much smarter than everything it mocks. I'm getting pretty turned off from Oliver, tbh. Why not just have the balls to 'fess on your own mistakes and fallibility, instead of backing off saying it's all for jokes. It's more than that, he tries to send a serious message in each episode, so that's bs.