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People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.
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John Oliver
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: April 23
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John William Oliver
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Welcome to The Daily Show, I'm John Oliver. Jon Stewart is still not here. He is currently living out a live-action Lord of the Rings role-playing experience deep in the New Zealand wilderness.
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Everybody should care about facts. That is something all of us should agree on.
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Americans just don't understand dry wit.
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I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.
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Politicians don't really bring up religion in England.
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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.
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I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.
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I think it might honestly be time for the Sunshine State to officially change its motto to the Worst State.
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I have exactly as much rhythm as you think I have.
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A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.
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I'm always interested in audience interaction. Not so much aggressive audience interaction - I'm genuinely interested in how people see things.
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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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The disconnect between America and its military is shocking.
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Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.
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I care about facts the way I care about oxygen and imbibing enough water a day to live.
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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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Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word.
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Iran is the middle child of the Axis of Evil. Iraq is the oldest child and gets the lion's share of the attention, and North Korea is the crazy baby.
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It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.
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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.
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