John Oliver On Bond With Late-Night time Hosts & Profitable Emmy Towards ‘SNL’ – Deadline

Carrying his two new Emmys awards, John Oliver was making his approach via the packed HBO afterparty Monday evening when he stopped to talk with Deadline about his relationship with fellow late-night hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers.

Collectively, they launched a restricted collection podcast, Strike Pressure 5, throughout the WGA strike to assist their crew members who had been out of labor as a result of the exhibits had shut down because of the strike.

“Truthfully the dynamic had much less to do with the podcast and extra to do with the truth that the strike was so hectic, it was good to have the ability to truly lean on one another slightly bit,” Oliver mentioned in regards to the quintet staying in fixed communication throughout the work stoppage. “Not even essentially something to do with the podcast, simply speaking to one another often on Zoom.”

Oliver famous the frosty relationship between then-top late-night hosts throughout the 2007-08 WGA strike when the exhibits ultimately returned on the air, one after the other, with out writers. It didn’t occur this time because of efforts to assist struggling crew members by way of different means, together with Strike Pressure 5.

“It was so fractured the final evening in 2008 as a result of the hosts hated one another, and it was actually useful to have the ability to simply lean on one another throughout that troublesome time,” Oliver mentioned. “Probably the most helpful factor was simply having the ability earlier than and throughout the strike to continually keep up a correspondence with one another to make it possible for we have been all on the identical web page and we might preserve the exhibits off the air. For that, it was massively helpful.”

The shut private relationship between the 5 hosts has continued post-strike with them staying in a bunch chat collectively, Oliver revealed. Did his American counterparts use the textual content chain to congratulate Oliver on his newest Emmys?

“After all,” the British-born comic mentioned.

This 12 months, Final Week Tonight gained one other Excellent Writing For Selection Sequence trophy in addition to the primary ever Emmy within the newly created class of Excellent Scripted Selection Sequence the place it confronted NBC’s stalwart Saturday Night time Dwell.

Requested about how he feels beating SNL of their head-to-head, Oliver mentioned, “I don’t actually consider it that approach. It feels so bizarre to be at these occasions anyway. The entire thing simply feels very complicated.”

After competing (and persistently successful) towards Colbert, Kimmel, Fallon and Meyers’ exhibits for seven years within the Excellent Selection Discuss Sequence, Oliver’s Final Week Tonight was moved to the newly created Scripted Selection Sequence discipline this 12 months.

The Late Present With Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Dwell! and Late Night time With Seth Meyers have been nominated within the Excellent Discuss Sequence class however misplaced to The Each day Present With Trevor Noah, the latest incarnation of The Each day Present, which Noah initially joined in 2014, shortly after Oliver had left it to begin Final Week Tonight.