John Oliver: ‘I couldn’t care less’ about 2016

“One story you won’t see Oliver covering on Sunday nights is the 2016 presidential election. “I’ll think about that in 2016 — I couldn’t care less right now,” he told reporters. “I truly believe that the 2016 election is what the news likes to think about when it doesn’t want to think about anything. There’s no merit in it. Unless you’re in the same year as the thing you’re describing, it’s a complete waste of breath. It’s like a subject screensaver for the news. You know that if they’re saying “Oh, look, Jeb Bush is running,” you know that’s the equivalent of just, nothing is happening in the newsroom, or we were tired! … I have no interest whatsoever in the 2016 election at the start of 2015. There’s a time and a place for that, and it’s in 2016.”