John Oliver

- Ray Rahman

Your new season premieres during Black History Month. Do you have plans to book Frederick Douglass as a guest?

I mean, I’m hearing great things about him. He’s a guy that’s had a lot of success. But not immediately, no. That would be an incredible get. [Edward] Snowden was an amazing get. Frederick Douglass, in a way, would be an even more impressive booking.

HBO is also home to Game of Thrones. Have you met the dragons?

No, I’ve not. They have dressing rooms long down the corridor from me—and some incredible catering.

During season 2 you set up your own church, Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption, which you were the head of. Would you consider yourself a young pope?

Listen, there’s only one young pope that makes sense and it’s Jude Law, for some reason.

You went to Cambridge, a very smart school. What was the dumbest thing you learned there?

The dumbest thing I was taught was that