{"id":2480813,"date":"2026-06-29T18:21:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2480813"},"modified":"2026-06-29T18:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:21:18","slug":"john-oliver-debuts-new-look-for-general-hospital-guest-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/john-oliver-debuts-new-look-for-general-hospital-guest-role\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver Debuts New Look for General Hospital Guest Role\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/john_oliver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">John Oliver<\/a><\/strong> is ready for his close-up.<\/p>\n<p>The Last Week Tonight host is about to make his soap opera acting debut on not one iconic TV series, but two famed daytime dramas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You may remember back in March, we discovered that <strong>Stephen A. Smith<\/strong> has been politely playing the role of Brick on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/general_hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">General Hospital<\/a> for the last 10 years, which filled me with, in equal measure, immense confusion and scorching hot jealousy,&#8221; Oliver recounted during the June 28 episode of his weekly HBO talk show. &#8220;So, I did the only thing any sane person would do in that situation: I offered myself to any soap opera that would create a role for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For fans who didn&#8217;t catch Oliver&#8217;s public plea earlier this year, he recapped, &#8220;I wanted to play a character with a ridiculous name, I wanted a juicy storyline like murder or slapping, and I wanted a dramatic close-up of my face.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And now, his dream has officially come true.<\/p>\n<p>The comedian revealed a first look at his upcoming appearance on General Hospital, including a shocking hair transformation for the mystery role.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Oliver is ready for his close-up. The Last Week Tonight host is about to make his soap opera acting debut on not one iconic TV series, but two famed daytime dramas. &#8220;You may remember back in March, we discovered that Stephen A. Smith has been politely playing the role of Brick on General Hospital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2480814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2480813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/John-Oliver-Debuts-New-Look-for-General-Hospital-Guest-Role.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2480813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2480815,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480813\/revisions\/2480815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2480814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2480813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2480813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2480813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}