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
anchorman thinking lines
I don't think I'm identified as the anchorman, I think I'm identified as the impostor anchorman - there's a very clear line there ... I don't think it changes the way they respond.
thinking sound racist
You're sonically racist, Americans. You think we all sound the same, whereas I have definitely a mongrel accent.
listening immigration may
I do not want to leave in [U.S.] ... I cannot make that clear enough to immigration authorities who may be listening to this interview. I don't want to leave, so please don't make me.
grateful two comedian
I was definitely prepared for it to be slower, and it has not worked out that way in any shape or form. I'm grateful as a comedian, and slightly demoralized, occasionally, as a human being - those two things are always very different.
deep-love tone irreverent
I guess the tone of jokes is often, at best, irreverent, but it always comes from a place of deep love.
cards green moments
I have a green card now, but they can take that away, yeah, they can take that away at any moment. So please don't; please let me keep it.
summer thinking people
I think I'm just a summer fling that people will soon forget.
heart issues veteran
Veterans' issues are quite close to my heart. I find it quite hard to talk about, actually.
roles wizards clay
It's exciting to have a role in anything that's Claymation, just because you're always intrigued by what a clay wizard version of yourself would be.
america wonderful stable
I would much rather America was a more stable, wonderful place. You know, I love it.
moral-high-ground wells reporters
You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter,
live-life visa
It's pretty physically unsettling, living life on a visa.
jobs writing jokes
You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.
queens voice ears
My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.