John Oliver fans can soon see him far from his desk on Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, as he has taken on a very different screen role: guest-starring on General Hospital for a three-episode arc.

That’s right, the Emmy-winning late-night host will be dropping in to Port Charles for the episodes airing July 2, 3, and 6, and the host announced that new role on the June 28 episode of Last Week Tonight.

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Why do I have the distinct suspicion John is playing "Z"?? LMAO.

"John Oliver is going to be at my disco tonight!"

I find him tedious most of the time but this is fun stunt casting, what something like Franco should have been back in the day.

Yeah, my tolerance for his show is limited at this point but he is a funny guy and it's a fun choice IMO.

I have no idea who this guy is.

1 minute ago, Soapsuds said:

I have no idea who this guy is.

He's a British exodus from the Daily Show who yells a lot.

Why did I know that after his plea GH would be the soap with the initiative to get this done?

28 minutes ago, BoldRestless said:

Why did I know that after his plea GH would be the soap with the initiative to get this done?

John Oliver is appearing on GH in July and DAYS in August
https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/comings-and-goings-john-oliver-joins-general-hospital-and-days-of-our-lives/

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6 hours ago, janea4old said:

John Oliver is appearing on GH in July and DAYS in August
https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/comings-and-goings-john-oliver-joins-general-hospital-and-days-of-our-lives/

thanks, didn't realize. So it's CBS who doesn't care to be part of a pop culture moment. I don't really care about John Oliver, but this would have been such an obvious get for BTG to have him interview Martin.

1 hour ago, BoldRestless said:

this would have been such an obvious get for BTG to have him interview Martin.

He doesn't want to play a reporter.
Bringing over what I wrote on the Days thread:

It's only three episodes for Days, and three episodes for GH. The SOD headline "joins" is misleading. John Oliver said, that since Stephen A, Smith recurs on GH, then he John Oliver could appear on a soap. (he said that before he was hired on GH). He wanted to do it for fun, he wants to play a character and not himself. He said he wanted to have his character be a bad person or a character that impacts story, and must have a weird character name, so basically a dayplayer who impacts things briefly. He also said that if hired, he would take it seriously and act to the best of his ability for whichever soap hires him. I don't think he expected it to be two soaps. Presumably he's a different character on each.