The news that President Joe Biden was withdrawing himself from the 2024 election took America, and most of his staff, by surprise Sunday afternoon—but perhaps nobody was more put off by the timing of Biden’s announcement than John Oliver, who recorded his weekly HBO show Last Week Tonight on Saturday this week.
As the show wryly admitted on X, formerly Twitter: “‘Hey, let’s switch our taping day to Saturday, no big news ever happens on a Sunday afternoon.’ — some idiots.”
Oliver...