Sadly I did not bump into John Oliver at the convention, that would have been funny. However, I did see a great number of recognisable faces both inside and outside the political sphere, one of whom you'll hear me mention in the next episode of RFN (a shameless--and probably entirely ineffective--tease there).
This trip was my fourth to the United States, and I've enjoyed myself there immensely on all four occasions, so yes ShyGuy it was predictably quite awesome. Hopefully it won't be too long before I can get out there again and catch a Bills game sometime (although I could also do that in Canada now, sigh).