“Probably some kind of English period drama where
people talk a lot but don’t talk about how they feel — some movie version of Downton Abbey. Class-wise, I am of
peasant stock, so I would very much be the downstairs worker there, where I’m
getting shouted at by an expensively dressed man. I see myself as a kind of
bedraggled kitchen staffer being slapped across the face because the soup is
cold and Master is angry.” —Last Week
Tonight host John Oliver, asked “If you were in a film genre other than
comedy, what would it be?,” in “Stupid Questions With John Oliver”
(interviewed by Ray Rahman), Entertainment
Weekly, Feb. 17, 2017
(Photograph of
John Oliver from February 2008, by Ted Kerwin.)
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