'Last Week Tonight With John Oliver' scooped Best Variety Talk Show Series for the fourth year in a row at the Emmy Awards this year, reports Variety.

The HBO show - which also won for Outstanding Writing in a Variety Series - beat off competition from 'The Daily Show with Trevor Noah', 'Full Frontal with Samantha Bee', 'Jimmy Kimmel Live', 'The Late Late Show with James Corden' and 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' but the host joked it wasn't as popular as it may seem.

He told the audience at Los Angeles' Microsoft Theatre: "Thank you to the staff, these shows are a real grind and they are constantly diligent, they built a 6,000lb cake to p**s off the leader of Turkmenistan and I was so proud of them.

"Thank you to 'Game of Thrones' for the lead in over the years, it's been amazing, it's been really great working out how to lose your audience every week," the Brit comedian added.