[jthol]

Eh, it's a different beast. Oliver only has to do one show a week and he has an hour. He doesn't want to just be John Stewart's show but with swearing. Doing this every night would be tiring for the audience. Doing it once a week saying, "hey here's this one fucked up thing in our society" is a digestible form.

To put it another way one is comedy news, the other is a comedy news magazine.

[izacus]

Of course, having a whole week to prepare and research the content really helps at quality as well.

[SideburnsOfDoom]

What also helps is that John Oliver is on HBO - they have the budget, and they can swear or show pictures of genitals.