--- title: John Oliver Explains Funny Story on Jimmy Fallon description: Jennifer Lawrence finally got to hear the context to John Oliver's True Confession story canonical: https://time.com/4755729/john-oliver-on-jimmy-fallon/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-26T14:55:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:07.042Z og:title: John Oliver Tells Jimmy Fallon Why He Got Kicked Out of a Sauna og:description: He also explains why he was tickled by the Dalai Lama—literally og:url: https://time.com/4755729/john-oliver-on-jimmy-fallon/ 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: John Oliver Tells Jimmy Fallon Why He Got Kicked Out of a Sauna twitter:description: He also explains why he was tickled by the Dalai Lama—literally twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's John Oliver Explaining Why He Got Kicked Out of a Sauna With Jimmy Fallon by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Apr 26, 2017 2:55 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Apr 26, 2017 2:55 PM UTC The last time that John Oliver was on _The Tonight Show,_ he played a game called [“True Confessions” with Jennifer Lawrence](http://time.com/4346358/jennifer-lawrence-john-oliver/?iid=sr-link1) and host Jimmy Fallon. During the game, Oliver admitted something very odd, but didn’t have time to give any context or backstory. When he returned to _The Tonight Show_ on Tuesday night, Fallon demanded an explanation for why [Oliver](http://time.com/4707865/best-john-oliver-zebra-memes/?iid=sr-link2) had been ejected from a Tokyo sauna. The answer was perhaps the most British explanation ever. “At 19-years old, I was forcibly removed from a Tokyo sauna for not being naked enough,” [Oliver](http://time.com/3981712/john-oliver-last-week-tonight-voting-rights-washington-dc/?iid=sr-link3) explained. He was touring Tokyo and had been told that many people enjoyed destination’s saunas, so he decided to give it a whirl. At the sauna, he says he was told he could be either naked or clothed. “I chose correctly, option B,” he told Fallon. However, he soon discovered that showing up in a sauna fully clothed actually wasn’t the best practice. It all went downhill from there, but Oliver wants everyone to know that those naked people did not win. Oliver also recounted a story about his [_Last Week Tonight_ interview with the Dalai Lama ](http://time.com/4691487/john-oliver-dalai-lama-tibet-last-week-tonight/?iid=sr-link1)who got “frustrated when people take him too seriously.” To navigate the interview with the spiritual leader with a serious funny bone, Oliver tried to be respectful, but that went out the window when the Dalai Lama tickled him. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4755729/john-oliver-on-jimmy-fallon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4755729/john-oliver-on-jimmy-fallon/"},"headline":"Here's John Oliver Explaining Why He Got Kicked Out of a Sauna With Jimmy Fallon","datePublished":"2017-04-26T14:55:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:43:07.042Z","description":"Quick: someone tell Jennifer Lawrence the context to John Oliver's confessional story","url":"https://time.com/4755729/john-oliver-on-jimmy-fallon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","jimmy fallon","The Tonight Show","Late Night Television","John Oliver","Last Week Tonight","Late Night Comedy"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"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/4755729/john-oliver-on-jimmy-fallon/","name":"Here's John Oliver Explaining Why He Got Kicked Out of a Sauna With Jimmy Fallon"}}]}] ```