Quote

I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.

John Oliver

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Oliver
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: April 23
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Journalist
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Television Presenter
Television Producer
Writer
John William Oliver
Improv
Sketch
Tried
Comedy
Learn
Never

More quotes by John Oliver

Image
I care about facts the way I care about oxygen and imbibing enough water a day to live.
John Oliver
Image
Anybody who claims to be excited for April Fools' Day is probably a sociopath.
John Oliver
Image
News is not a game show. You don't win a car if you happen to be right.
John Oliver
Image
Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back.
John Oliver
Image
People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.
John Oliver
Image
It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.
John Oliver
Image
Politics has become infused with narcissism in America.
John Oliver
Image
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.
John Oliver
Image
Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which clearly states that if you are stung by a bee, you should follow it back to its nest and then proceed to beat nest to a pulp with a baseball bat until the stripey little turd has learned its lesson.
John Oliver
Image
Everybody should care about facts. That is something all of us should agree on.
John Oliver
Image
Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.
John Oliver
Image
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.
John Oliver
Image
I would hate to meet myself at 15.
John Oliver
Image
Teenagers falling off skateboards - funny. Nut shots - funny. Breaking wind - funny. The world cannot change those. Those three things are columns upon which humor is built.
John Oliver
Image
I can't relax. I find vacations problematic.
John Oliver
Image
Southern people are bigger-hearted and kinder than I had any right to expect.
John Oliver
Image
I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in!
John Oliver
Image
I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.
John Oliver
Image
I think being an outsider in general always helps you in comedy. I think it helps to have an outsider's eye. And so I have an outsider's voice. You know, as soon as I start talking, I don't belong here. And I think that helps in a way.
John Oliver
Image
Democracy is like a tambourine, not everyone can be trusted with it.
John Oliver