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It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.
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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Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.
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You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.
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I don't think I'm identified as the anchorman, I think I'm identified as the impostor anchorman - there's a very clear line there ... I don't think it changes the way they respond.
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People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.
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Democracy is like a tambourine, not everyone can be trusted with it.
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Pumpkin spice lattes are egg nog for morning people.
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There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn't really matter anymore. I don't have any dignity left to lose. An audience can’t hurt you anymore when you’ve been completely dismantled.
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I guess the tone of jokes is often, at best, irreverent, but it always comes from a place of deep love.
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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.
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Everybody should care about facts. That is something all of us should agree on.
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Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.
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Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back.
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Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.
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I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life.
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Southern people are bigger-hearted and kinder than I had any right to expect.
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Once you learn how to make people laugh, then you get to choose exactly how you want to make them laugh.
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There is no greater anesthetic than sport.
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It's exciting to have a role in anything that's Claymation, just because you're always intrigued by what a clay wizard version of yourself would be.
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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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A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.
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