John Oliver not only doesn’t care about ratings, he doesn’t even know what his are. When asked about his audience, he considered only the 100 or so guests in the live-studio recording of his HBO’s Last Week Tonight, whose fourth season premieres on Sunday. Maybe that’s stupid, but it’s the luxury of working at HBO,” Oliver said at a breakfast with journalists earlier this week. “And I kind of assumed that was bullsh*t, but they talked the talk and walked the walk.”Take Oliver’s Edward Snowden segment last season: Oliver traveled to Russia to meet with Snowden without telling HBO. “It was really depressing.”So, if he knows Trump’s not paying attention, will Oliver make the president the butt of his jokes this season?

Source: Forbes February 08, 2017 14:48 UTC