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  • - What is your favorite memory

  • from playing Zazu in "The Lion King"?

  • That's a good question.

  • I think it was singing, "I Just Can't Wait To Be King."

  • I finished singing and they said, "That sounded great."

  • And I said, "That sounds like Hollywood bullshit."

  • And they did not correct me.

  • Hi there, I'm John Oliver,

  • and this is Fishing for Answers.

  • Hence the goldfish bowl.

  • They could've gone with a fishing rod

  • but this seemed easier.

  • (upbeat electronic music)

  • Here we go.

  • Feels like someone's about to win

  • a very disappointing prize.

  • Name one thing you would do this season

  • if you had an unlimited budget.

  • Honestly, we like to kind of live

  • our daily lives at the show

  • like we have an unlimited budget.

  • (cash register rings)

  • Budgets are a state of mind.

  • That's how Game of Thrones ran their show, right?

  • Can your give your best impression

  • of how you think Queen Elizabeth II reacted

  • to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leaving The Monarchy?

  • The Queen reacts to nothing with emotion of any kind.

  • She'll have reacted to that,

  • the way she reacted to anything, like this.

  • That's the face that she reacted

  • when Britain hosted the Olympics.

  • On her wedding day.

  • Although that was appropriate.

  • When Princess Diana died.

  • So yeah, Prince Harry and Meghan leaving?

  • That's the whole point with the Queen,

  • you can't project how she's feeling.

  • It seems like a good decision to me.

  • If you think of them as human beings

  • and you think about the situation that they're in,

  • removing themselves from that emotionally

  • and physically, as far as possible

  • seems like the right thing to do.

  • If you are stuck on an elevator with Boris Johnson,

  • what would you say to him?

  • I would wait for it to go quiet,

  • I would wait for the door to close,

  • I'd clear my throat,

  • and I'd say "Fuck off Boris."

  • If you could trade places with any political figure

  • for a day, who would it be, and what would you do?

  • I would trade places with Boris Johnson

  • and I would walk straight into the ocean.

  • (water splashes)

  • Who was your first celebrity crush?

  • My very fist one?

  • That's a good question.

  • It might have been Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh.

  • I think I just liked his completely

  • defeatist attitude to life.

  • So it wasn't necessarily a sexual thing

  • although it wasn't a hundred percent unsexual.

  • I think it was more just, I like the color

  • of this donkey's jib.

  • I like the way he handles his business.

  • And that is bringing everyone else's mood down

  • by at least 20 degrees.

  • What is the one question you would ask

  • at a 2020 presidential debate?

  • I think it would just be, "How many of these

  • "are there going to be?

  • "Does it feel like there is too many?"

  • And bear in mind that the answer to that second

  • question is yes.

  • If we ask your writer's room to describe you,

  • what do you think they would say?

  • I really don't wanna know.

  • Our writers are very, very funny.

  • They can be cuttingly perceptive.

  • I would never want to be on the receiving end of it.

  • I have a horrible feeling I would almost cry

  • in which to a British person is basically crying.

  • We're done.

- What is your favorite memory

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