John Oliver stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live after earning two Emmys for Last Week Tonight , and took the opportunity to reflect on being forced to keep his acceptance speech short.

Oliver recounted how he managed to thank everyone in only 19 seconds after the Emmys host, Nate Bargatze , kicked off a long-running (and much-maligned ) bit where money was deducted from the Boys & Girls Club of America if a speech went over 45 seconds.

“My motivating factor was just to cost Nate Bargatze money personally,” Oliver told Kimmel. “Whether or not it went to a good cause that was enough for me. The fact that it went to the Boys & Girls of America is great, but, again, it would have been fine if it was just set fire to.”

Kimmel noted that even though Oliver kept his speech short, other

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