John Oliver: How One Sweary Brit Became the World’s Translator for American Chaos
John Oliver, the bespectacled Englishman who somehow convinced HBO to fund weekly therapy sessions disguised as comedy, has become the planet’s unofficial translator for American dysfunction. From Lagos to Ljubljana, millions tune in not for his punch lines—though those are surgical—but for the reassurance that somewhere an over-caffeinated Brit is screaming into the void on…