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
doctors rooms degrees
I don't know if there is some psychological thing of wanting to know where your doctor got his degree from before he comes into the medical room.
thinking voice people
I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told what to do by a British accent. That's why so many infomercials have British people.
addiction beast
Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.
want
When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.
empires drains british
Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.
sound
We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.
mistake thinking anchors
People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on The Daily Show ... I don't think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor.
vowels london tone
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.
morning eggs people
Pumpkin spice lattes are egg nog for morning people.
inherent new-yorkers
There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers.
thinking rhythm
I have exactly as much rhythm as you think I have.
new-york cities world
If you’ve been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where delegates come from all over the world to f*** up this city’s traffic.
fans lending mets
Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back.
remember sometimes flavour
Sometimes it's good to remember how bad food can be, so you can enjoy the concept of flavour to the fullest.