John Oliver is heading to cleaning soap opera screens.
The “Final Week Tonight” host revealed on Sunday that he booked roles on each “Days of Our Lives” and “Common Hospital.”
The 49-year-old known as the latter “every thing [he] hoped it might be” in a assertion to Selection over the weekend.
“It’s a real honor to be a small stain on the historical past of this illustrious present,” he advised the outlet, happening to name “Days of Our Lives” a “enormous honor” as properly.
“I’m joyful to say that I’ve already taped every week of episodes,” Oliver mentioned. “It’s been residence to a number of the most famed cleaning soap opera actors, like Deidre Corridor, Susan Seaforth Hayes and John Aniston. It’s additionally featured visitor appearances from legends like Dick Van Dyke, Betty White and now me.”
The comic, who has been a late-night host since April 2014, clarified that “cleaning soap opera performing shouldn’t be [his] Plan B.”
He defined, “I merely provided my hypothetical performing talents to any cleaning soap that may meet my phrases, which have been: I needed to play a personality with a ridiculous title, I needed a juicy storyline like homicide or slapping and I needed a dramatic close-up of my face.”
Oliver put his hat within the ring throughout a March episode of his HBO present after discovering out about Stephen A. Smith’s recurring position on “Common Hospital” as Brick.
“To all of the cleaning soap operas on the market, let me say this: I’m formally providing myself to you,” he introduced. “Write me a job, and I’ll be in your set so quick, it’ll make your head spin.”
Smith, 58, subsequently requested Oliver by way of Instagram whether or not he was “able to commit.”
The ESPN commentator mentioned, “That is severe, OK? You’ve gotta be prepared to be that unhealthy man. … Can’t have the smile in your face on a regular basis.
“You’ve gotta put on that scowl, you’ve gotta be irritating, you’ve gotta be all of these issues,” he continued. “You’ve gotta welcome being disliked.”
“Common Hospital” government producer Frank Valentini “didn’t hesitate for a second” when he noticed Oliver’s public plea for a job, he advised Selection on Sunday.
“He was every thing you’d hope he’d be: ready, skilled, humorous and genuinely variety to everybody on set,” Valentini recalled.
“He performs an integral character within the story, and I can’t look ahead to followers to see who he crosses paths inside Port Charles.”
Oliver’s three “Common Hospital” episodes will air July 2, 3 and 6, together with his “Days of Our Lives” debut, in the meantime, going down on August 11, 12 and 14.
