The Bugle – The Comic's Comic

Episode #115: Andy Zaltzman

October 3, 2016October 3, 20161

Cue the bugle sounds and put your puns where we can see them, because Andy Zaltzman is my guest today. Zaltzman is a critically-acclaimed comedian in the UK where he has been performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe since 1999 and collaborating with John Oliver since 2001 — they created the …

John Oliver was so good at substitute hosting The Daily Show, HBO is letting him host his own weekly show in 2014

November 18, 2013

John Oliver did such a stellar job substituting this summer as host of The Daily Show, everyone just naturally assumed Oliver had become the de facto successor to Jon Stewart whenever he’d decide to step down from his role atop Comedy Central’s late-night talk show. Did they think nobody else …