I edited this wide-ranging season finale segment where John is first confronted for his weird obsession with Adam Driver, then gets up and shows the audience around the White Void, and finally blows up the year 2020. A lot of people thought the explosion was composited somehow, but it wasn’t! Afterwards, John said it felt “very hot.”
I made up these new names for the dogs from the 2021 Westminster Dog Show, which are undeniably better than their actual names. Except for the Welsh Corgi whose real name is “Gwendolyn.” That’s pretty good.
I edited the musical number Eat Shit, Bob which was dedicated to Bob Murray, the overly litigious coal baron who unsuccessfully sued Last Week Tonight for defamation. A lot of lawyers got involved and the ACLU even filed an amicus brief saying “Anyone Can Legally Say ‘Eat Shit Bob,’” which is pretty funny for the ACLU. I did win an 2020 Primetime Emmy for this, but I have to give a lot of the credit to the director Chris Werner (even though he honestly thinks Love, Actually is a good movie.)
I write, edit and perform the voice over for these And Now: Pumpkin Spice Latte segments, which have become a kind of yearly bit we do on the show along with similar segments about Peeps Easter candy.
I cut this trailer for The Wax And The Furious, a fake action movie where Warren G. Harding and a posse of presidential wax statues team up with Armie Hammer to pull off the greatest jockstrap heist of all time. This was before we all found out Armie Hammer was a cannibal sex criminal. Anyway, I won a 2019 Primetime Emmy Award for this segment and so far they haven’t taken it back because of the whole Armie Hammer thing. Russell Crowe is also in it!
I won a 2018 Primetime Emmy Award for this segment about the realities of working for the United States Border Patrol. Things have only gotten better down there since then!
I edited the Stoplight trailer, which is a parody of the trailer for the film Spotlight. The jokes are more about how newspapers are very important but underfunded, and less about the child sex abuse that the Catholic Church covered up for decades. I was nominated for a 2017 Primetime Emmy Award for this segment.
This is John's interview with Edward Snowden. It was a pretty big deal at the time, since it seemed like it might be illegal for us to talk to someone accused of treason, but it turned out okay. I was nominated for a 2015 Primetime Emmy Award for editing this segment.