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Are you familiar with his podcast The Bugle? It's a (mostly) weekly, 30-minute satirical news podcast that he does with another English comedian, Andy Zaltzman. They cover European issues in most episodes.

http://soundcloud.com/the-bugle

Archive of older episodes: http://gamesplusone.com/thebugle

Nope! Thanks!!! You gave something other than tech and philosophy to listen while running! Thanks!

Thank you! I only know Zaltzman for his cricket comedy. This is great, their styles match each other well.

He has done. For example, the Scottish Referendum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YkLPxQp_y0

Though sadly not as often (for the reason you cited).

Yes, the Scottish referendum was a subject I was watching closely. J. Oliver's comments were real gold, the fact that he is British added an extra flavor to the commentary :-)

The Bugle Podcast is all you need to know. You may have to put up with poor-quality phone lines in some episodes, but John and Andy take apart plenty of UK issues in their Friday issue of "an audio newspaper for a visual world".

Just imagine a high-pitched British voice calling everything "fucking horrifying" while tossing in random internet references every 5 minutes.