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It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.

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John Oliver
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: April 23
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John William Oliver
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One thing that America is objectively exceptional at is overreacting whenever anyone accuses them of not being exceptional.
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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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Americans just don't understand dry wit.
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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 guess the tone of jokes is often, at best, irreverent, but it always comes from a place of deep love.
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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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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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Sometimes it's good to remember how bad food can be, so you can enjoy the concept of flavour to the fullest.
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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've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.
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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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There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.
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My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.
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If you vote for Democrats, you might as well give Al Quaeda a death ray and a manual.
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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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You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.
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I can't relax. I find vacations problematic.
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