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Can we expect Last Week Tonight to be back in studio or will you remain in the white void? I think we were going to probably be practicing relatively extreme caution for a whole bunch of reasons. Also, a bunch of our staff got sick at the start of the pandemic, which I think also kind of means that I think intuitively, we are going to be extremely cautious.
And yeah, it just feels like the lowest possible bar you can clear in the time of a pandemic is not to have your TV show make things actively worse. With the amount of exhausting dire news and Trumpian trash that came out on a daily basis last season, did you find it difficult to shift the tone while continuing that Last Week Tonight- branded humor?
What can you do, and what feels remotely appropriate? I thought we can do twenty-some-odd minutes about the mishandling of a pandemic and the rising death count. That felt fun enough.
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