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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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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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Politics has become infused with narcissism in America.
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When I heard that Hitler had problems with flatulence, it's funny. What - does that make him a funny man? No. It means he had funny moments when his rear end was speaking louder than his mouth.
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I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.
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I'm British. I don't really have access to my emotions on a daily basis.
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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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People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on The Daily Show ... I don't think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor.
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I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.
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I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.
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Whatever the occasion, [the Queen] has a face which demonstrably says 'I don't give a royal s**t.'
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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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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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Wow. Losing 95 percent of your audience in just five years. That basically makes Obama the NBC of presidents.
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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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I have exactly as much rhythm as you think I have.
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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.
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Here in America, people come out to see what they've known you to do. In England it's like everyone comes out to tell you exactly how well they think you're doing.
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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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I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life.
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