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
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People really have come for a dialogue when they go to a stand-up show in the U.K. They say, 'I understand that you have now finished your little comedy monologue; now I have something to say regarding what I've just heard.
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As any Brit will understand, things get a little easier when you don't have to be number one any more. Really, the fall of an empire is not as bad as everyone thinks. It's like retirement. People fear retirement, but it can turn out be rather pleasant.
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People are friendlier in New York than London.
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Southern people are bigger-hearted and kinder than I had any right to expect.
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I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.
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British people would die for their right to drink themselves to death
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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.
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Do you know how hard it is to kill 30 million people? It's a logistical nightmare.
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I think I'm just a summer fling that people will soon forget.
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People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.
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Here in America, people come out to see what they've known you to do. In England, it's like everyone comes out to tell you exactly how well they think you're doing.
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In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face.
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You don't need people's opinion on a fact.
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There are some people who watch NASCAR for the highly skilled driving - but most people watch it for the crashes.