‘Days of Our Lives’ EP on Bringing John Oliver’s Dream Soap Opera Role to Life: ‘He Wanted to Be Slapped’

Ken Corday, the executive producer of “Days of Our Lives,” knew John Oliver needed to make an appearance on his series. The host of the Emmy-winning HBO series “Last Week Tonight” publicly declared his desire to star in a soap opera during a March episode of his talk show, and Corday immediately got to work.…

YouTube/LastWeekTonight John Oliver has revealed the worst acting moment from his two stints as this summer’s newest soap opera star. In May, the late-night host offered his services to any soap opera this summer and eventually appeared on both General Hospital and Days of Our Lives. Oliver, 49, asked for three condit

John Oliver’s main story on Last Week Tonight may have been about fetal personhood but the British comedian also found some time to compare the conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln to some of Ryan Murphy’s work and give an update on his “hot soap opera summer”. News reports last week detailed the “horrendous details…