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There is no greater anesthetic than sport.

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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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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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Politicians don't really bring up religion in England.
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If you’re asking me, would I have voted for Mitt Romney, the answer is absolutely not. Emphatically not. I cannot envision a world in which I would have voted for Mitt Romney unless I sustained a massive concussion.
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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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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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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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If you vote for Democrats, you might as well give Al Quaeda a death ray and a manual.
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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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When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.
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Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.
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I do not want to leave in [U.S.] ... I cannot make that clear enough to immigration authorities who may be listening to this interview. I don't want to leave, so please don't make me.
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News is not a game show. You don't win a car if you happen to be right.
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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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I get nostalgic for British negativity. There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. When you go back to Britain, everybody is just running everything down. It's like whatever the opposite of a hug is.
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I think being an outsider in general always helps you in comedy. I think it helps to have an outsider's eye. And so I have an outsider's voice. You know, as soon as I start talking, I don't belong here. And I think that helps in a way.
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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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Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word.
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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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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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