John Oliver has won in the Best Talk Series category for the last 7 years. He’s only lost one time. Know when that was?
His first year. When he was up against Jon Stewart’s last year on The Daily Show. Jon Stewart has won 11 times.
This year, Jon is back!
And Last Week Tonight is now moving to Scripted Variety Series. I wonder if they moved categories specifically because Jon is back. I also wondered who noticed and moved them. Scripted variety is way less crowded and it feels like if they’re eligible for Variety – which clearly they are – they could’ve done this years ago and made more room for Sam Bee, Colbert, Meyers, etc.
But I dunno. I mean, clearly they know what they’re doing because they have like a gajillion golden statues.
Anyway, just an interesting thing about this year’s ballot!