John Oliver recently became a U.S. citizen, and the test he had to pass first was "incredibly nerve-racking," he told Stephen Colbert on Monday's Late Show. "The first question she asked me was 'What is your phone number?' And I was so scared, I forgot," he said. "It was utterly petrifying. ... There was part of me, even the day of the ceremony, I kind of thought it was going to be a trap. There was a part of me that literally thought they'd open the door and there'd just be plastic sheeting on the ground, like in Goodfellas, and just Jared Kushner sitting there, swivel chair, stroking a hairless cat."
The actual naturalization ceremony was "incredibly moving," Oliver said. "It's odd, as a comedian, you're kind of slightly allergic to sincerity, but it was 150 people from 49 different countries, all of us have been waiting a long time for this — I've been waiting over a decade, there are people who have been waiting for 30 years. So it was a big deal, and there's something very inspiring about the idea of these people choosing America — not just choosing America, but choosing America now, when the country's not at its best."
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