Late Show UK

In Britain there’s no escaping the big news story of the moment – the News Of The World phone hacking scandal involving Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation.

The story has gone global and The Daily Show is never one to miss out on a headline like this.

Watch Jon Stewart’s reaction when British Daily Show correspondent John Oliver brought the story to his attention:

John Oliver’s standup show – originally aired on Comedy Central in the US – is coming out on DVD on the 19th August this year. ‘John Oliver: Terrifying Times’ will be available on region all DVD at Amazon.co.uk so it can be played on any DVD player in the world – good news for UK fans. The DVD includes several added extras including extended footage from the standup show (and uncensorted), clips from John Oliver on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, other The Daily Show & The Colbert Report clips featuring John, an episode of Reno 911, John at the UCB Theater in New York and more.

IGN.com – Boxart for the ‘John Oliver: Terrifying Times’ DVD
IGN.com – “John Oliver’s DVDaily Show”
Amazon.co.uk – ‘John Oliver: Terrifying Times’ PAL region-all DVD (no preorder yet)
Amazon.com – ‘John Oliver: Terrifying Times’ NTSC region-all DVD (preorder now)
Late Show UK Store (just search for Terrifying Times – not available to preorder yet)

I’ve really been getting into The Daily Show over recent weeks. I’ve been trying to catch it every week on Virgin Media’s On Demand service – and have become seriously hooked. John Oliver has to be one of the funniest correspondents I’ve seen on the show – some of the stuff he comes out with is hilarious. I like the way they portray him as a stereotypical Brit. Most of his humour is very sarcastic as well. Take the recent dialogue about Iraq winning their version of the football World Cup – “Oh, symbolically. Yeah, of course. In that case, they’re well on their way to winning the symbolic World Cup, no doubt cheered on by their figurative fans, and returning to a jubilant metaphorical nation. And perhaps–perhaps you’re right, Jon. Perhaps now their hypothetical government will be inspired to pseudo-bring some quasi-order to this ‘country’”. Genius. Oh, and this recent segment.