John Oliver has some advice for handling your New Year's resolution failures

John Oliver has some advice on tackling New Year&#039;s resolution failures — (Image credit: Last Week Tonight)

Last Week Tonight is officially on break until Feb. 14, but John Oliver dropped a little New Year's present online Sunday night. Well, "present" might be a bit of an overreach, but he had some advice for your New Year's resolutions, which he called "the exact middle line between lying to yourself and lying to other people."

"Let's be honest: We're a few days into the New Year now, and if you haven't broken your resolutions yet, statistically, you are about to," he said. "And that can be depressing, but don't panic — all hope is not lost. Because the key thing with resolutions is not how to keep them, it's how to revise them once you've failed." You can watch him explain his theory — and mispronounce Kentucky Derby — in the short video below. Peter Weber

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.