It’s been three weeks since John Oliver confronted Dustin Hoffman at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan. The event was in theory a panel held for the 20th anniversary of Wag the Dog, but Oliver didn't miss the opportunity to confront Hoffman over allegations of sexual harassment that had been made against him. When Oliver asked Hoffman if his apology statement to The Hollywood Reporter was enough, Hoffman replied, “First of all, it didn’t happen the way she reported,” then added, “I never met her; if I met her, it was in concert with other people.”

Oliver is now talking for the first time about that awkward conversation. During an interview on Sky One’s The Russell Howard Hour, Oliver said he felt like the dialogue between the two men “failed.”

“It wasn’t ideal but it became such a big story—but it became about my questions rather than his answers,” he said. “The questions weren’t particularly remarkable, but his answers were—not great. That was the point of it. But it didn’t really go anywhere constructive, so the whole thing just made me feel sad.”

Hoffman was first accused of sexual harassment in early November by Anna Graham Hunter, a then 17-year-old production assistant on the set of the 1985 T.V. movie Death of a Salesman, claiming he slapped her butt and used sexually-charged language around her. Hunter wrote an essay detailing her experience for The Hollywood Reporter. A month later his Death of a Salesman co-star on Broadway Kathryn Rossetter published an essay with The Hollywood Reporter alleging Hoffman often groped her while they worked together.

Hoffman has denied all the allegations against him, including during his conversation with Oliver. “You’ve put me on display here,” he told Oliver. “You have indicted me . . . That’s not innocent until proven guilty.”