John Oliver
John Oliver
John William Oliver is an English comedian, political commentator, television host, and occasional actor. He is widely known in the United States for hosting HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and for his work on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He co-hosted the satirical comedy podcast The Bugle and hosted John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show on Comedy Central...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth23 April 1977
funny people comedy
British people would die for their right to drink themselves to death
comedy sketch-comedy
I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.
role-playing roles welcome
Welcome to The Daily Show, I'm John Oliver. Jon Stewart is still not here. He is currently living out a live-action Lord of the Rings role-playing experience deep in the New Zealand wilderness.
growing-up hero voice
Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.
fun people fields
I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.
politician knows
I know I'd be an absolutely horrendous politician.
laughing comedian sound
I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.
soul watches news
I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life.
trying actors authority
I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.
fighting names bars
If your name is Sepp, at the bare minimum you’ve strangled someone in a bar fight.
evil want boring
If you want to do something evil, put it inside something boring.
sunshine thinking might
I think it might honestly be time for the Sunshine State to officially change its motto to the Worst State.
mean gun florida
Florida, just because you're shaped like some combination of a gun and a d*ck doesn't mean you have to act that way.
people nightmare knows
Do you know how hard it is to kill 30 million people? It's a logistical nightmare.