--- title: Jimmy Kimmel Doubts John Oliver Loves Jimmy Kimmel Live! Video description: Following John Oliver's Emmy win for Outstanding Variety Talk Series, he appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to praise his fellow nominees. canonical: https://time.com/4501625/jimmy-kimmel-john-oliver-emmy-video/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-20T18:42:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:46.178Z og:title: Jimmy Kimmel Doesn't Believe John Oliver Actually Loves His Show og:description: And he has a good reason why og:url: https://time.com/4501625/jimmy-kimmel-john-oliver-emmy-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Kimmel Doesn't Believe John Oliver Actually Loves His Show twitter:description: And he has a good reason why twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Jimmy Kimmel Doesn't Believe John Oliver Actually Loves _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 20, 2016 6:42 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 20, 2016 6:42 PM UTC Following [John Oliver’s](http://time.com/4277790/john-oliver-donald-drumpf-records/) [Emmy win](http://time.com/4497201/emmys-2016-winners-list/) for Outstanding Variety Talk Series Sunday night, the _Last Week Tonight_ host appeared on Tuesday’s episode of [_Jimmy Kimmel Live!_ ](http://time.com/4473441/jimmy-kimmel-matt-damon-feud-history-timeline/)with trophy in hand. But as he chatted with Kimmel — who was also nominated in the category — about how deserving he felt _Live!_ and the other nominated shows were of the award, Kimmel chimed in with a complaint. “Can I just say that I don’t feel like you really mean that,” he said. Oliver, of course, insisted he was being sincere, prompting Kimmel to reveal that his guest was reading off cue cards. Watch the full clip above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4501625/jimmy-kimmel-john-oliver-emmy-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4501625/jimmy-kimmel-john-oliver-emmy-video/"},"headline":"Jimmy Kimmel Doesn't Believe John Oliver Actually Loves Jimmy Kimmel Live!","datePublished":"2016-09-20T18:42:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:46.178Z","description":"And he has a good reason why","url":"https://time.com/4501625/jimmy-kimmel-john-oliver-emmy-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Jimmy Kimmel","TV","jimmy kimmel live","Late Night Television","John Oliver"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4501625/jimmy-kimmel-john-oliver-emmy-video/","name":"Jimmy Kimmel Doesn't Believe John Oliver Actually Loves Jimmy Kimmel Live!"}}]}] ```