Quote

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.

John Oliver

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Oliver
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: April 23
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Journalist
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Television Presenter
Television Producer
Writer
John William Oliver
People
Knowledge
Generally
Show
Daily
Sense
Guess
Shows
Humor
Anchor
Come
Stand
Anchors
Would
Mistake
Broads
Think
Anyone
Broad
Thinking
Working
Actual

More quotes by John Oliver

Image
Whatever the occasion, [the Queen] has a face which demonstrably says 'I don't give a royal s**t.'
John Oliver
Image
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.
John Oliver
Image
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.
John Oliver
Image
Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back.
John Oliver
Image
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.
John Oliver
Image
Southern people are bigger-hearted and kinder than I had any right to expect.
John Oliver
Image
I feel non-stop Brit shame!
John Oliver
Image
People are friendlier in New York than London.
John Oliver
Image
Teenagers falling off skateboards - funny. Nut shots - funny. Breaking wind - funny. The world cannot change those. Those three things are columns upon which humor is built.
John Oliver
Image
Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.
John Oliver
Image
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.
John Oliver
Image
When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.
John Oliver
Image
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.
John Oliver
Image
It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.
John Oliver
Image
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.
John Oliver
Image
Americans just don't understand dry wit.
John Oliver
Image
Everybody should care about facts. That is something all of us should agree on.
John Oliver
Image
The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you’ve probably already done something very, very wrong.
John Oliver
Image
People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.
John Oliver
Image
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.
John Oliver