https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/watch-america-john-oliver-is-officially-a-us-citizen-now-1273984



by Marisa Guthrie January 29, 2020, 6:00am PST

HBO's incendiary 'Last Week Tonight' host (and recently sworn-in American) returns with plenty to say about Trump's 2020 campaign, Harry and Meghan, his awkward run-in with an AT&T exec ("We sized each other up" ), and the secrets behind his Emmy-winning brand of "aggressively-researched comedy."

On Friday Dec. 13, 2019, at the age of 42, John Oliver became a U.S. citizen. He can vote. He can serve on a jury. He can get arrested — without fear of being deported.

Since 2006, when he first came to the U.S. to work as "senior British correspondent" on The Daily Show, Oliver has lived with a pulsating anxiety that his life could be upended at any moment. "There isn't any part of me that didn't think I'm a little bit vulnerable. I do talk shit," he says, as the very visible host of HBO's Emmy-winning Last Week Tonight. "Under another country's politics, that would be cause for deportation, or at least [the government] engaging in some form of fuckery. Like something out of Goodfellas: They open a door, plastic sheeting, Jared Kushner in a swivel chair stroking a hairless cat."

When he appeared at the federal building in lower Manhattan with his lawyer and his wife, Kate Norley (a former combat medic), for the naturalization ceremony, he was so nervous he blanked on his phone number. Eventually, Oliver, along with 159 other people from 49 countries, raised his right hand and took the oath. He was given a tiny American flag as Lee Greenwood's "Proud to Be an American" played and a photo of Donald Trump glowered from a wall. "The feeling you get at the end of that process is overwhelming relief," he says. "And that it's nothing to do with the current president."

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