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Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.
John Oliver
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John Oliver
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: April 23
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John William Oliver
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