- What is your favorite memory
from playing Zazu in "The Lion King"?
That's a good question.
I think it was singing, "I Just Can't Wait To Be King."
I finished singing and they said, "That sounded great."
And I said, "That sounds like Hollywood bullshit."
And they did not correct me.
Hi there, I'm John Oliver,
and this is Fishing for Answers.
Hence the goldfish bowl.
They could've gone with a fishing rod
but this seemed easier.
(upbeat electronic music)
Here we go.
Feels like someone's about to win
a very disappointing prize.
Name one thing you would do this season
if you had an unlimited budget.
Honestly, we like to kind of live
our daily lives at the show
like we have an unlimited budget.
(cash register rings)
Budgets are a state of mind.
That's how Game of Thrones ran their show, right?
Can your give your best impression
of how you think Queen Elizabeth II reacted
to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leaving The Monarchy?
The Queen reacts to nothing with emotion of any kind.
She'll have reacted to that,
the way she reacted to anything, like this.
That's the face that she reacted
when Britain hosted the Olympics.
On her wedding day.
Although that was appropriate.
When Princess Diana died.
So yeah, Prince Harry and Meghan leaving?
That's the whole point with the Queen,
you can't project how she's feeling.
It seems like a good decision to me.
If you think of them as human beings
and you think about the situation that they're in,
removing themselves from that emotionally
and physically, as far as possible
seems like the right thing to do.
If you are stuck on an elevator with Boris Johnson,
what would you say to him?
I would wait for it to go quiet,
I would wait for the door to close,
I'd clear my throat,
and I'd say "Fuck off Boris."
If you could trade places with any political figure
for a day, who would it be, and what would you do?
I would trade places with Boris Johnson
and I would walk straight into the ocean.
(water splashes)
Who was your first celebrity crush?
My very fist one?
That's a good question.
It might have been Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh.
I think I just liked his completely
defeatist attitude to life.
So it wasn't necessarily a sexual thing
although it wasn't a hundred percent unsexual.
I think it was more just, I like the color
of this donkey's jib.
I like the way he handles his business.
And that is bringing everyone else's mood down
by at least 20 degrees.
What is the one question you would ask
at a 2020 presidential debate?
I think it would just be, "How many of these
"are there going to be?
"Does it feel like there is too many?"
And bear in mind that the answer to that second
question is yes.
If we ask your writer's room to describe you,
what do you think they would say?
I really don't wanna know.
Our writers are very, very funny.
They can be cuttingly perceptive.
I would never want to be on the receiving end of it.
I have a horrible feeling I would almost cry
in which to a British person is basically crying.
We're done.