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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You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter,
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If your name is Sepp, at the bare minimum you’ve strangled someone in a bar fight.
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I know I'd be an absolutely horrendous politician.
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Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,'
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Americans just don't understand dry wit.
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I feel non-stop Brit shame!
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There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.
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I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.
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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.
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You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well.
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You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.
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My first 'Daily Show' piece was pretending I had this terrible immigrant journey, so I went to talk to an immigration lawyer who would help out people, and I ran into him in Penn Station about three months after I'd gotten the green card. I said, 'I got my green card yesterday.' And he hugged me because he understood that level of relief.
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When he (Shaw) wrote 'Pygmalion,' he was really making a statement about social classes.
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The creditors have made their decision, despite what we regard as a very competitive offer.