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John Oliver
John Oliver
British Comedian
Born: Apr 23, 1977
American Comedy Me People Think You
Related authors: Alexei Sayle Eddie Izzard Eric Morecambe Jack Whitehall Stephen Fry Tim Vine Tommy Cooper Tracey Ullman
People really have come for a dialogue when they go to a stand-up show in the U.K. They say, 'I understand that you have now finished your little comedy monologue; now I have something to say regarding what I've just heard. John Oliver
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When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain. John Oliver
You Entertain Onstage Doing Want Stand Extent
The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not. John Oliver
Good Sometimes Group British Press Press Often Ends Use British
There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers. John Oliver
Destructive Kinds Constructive Two
I would never heckle someone. That's why I think I'm so interested in someone that would. John Oliver
Think Would Someone Never Interested Why
My first 'Daily Show' piece was pretending I had this terrible immigrant journey, so I went to talk to an immigration lawyer who would help out people, and I ran into him in Penn Station about three months after I'd gotten the green card. I said, 'I got my green card yesterday.' And he hugged me because he understood that level of relief. John Oliver
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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. John Oliver
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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. John Oliver
Good Food You Sometimes Remember Enjoy Bad Concept How Fullest
Politics has become infused with narcissism in America. John Oliver
Politics Narcissism Become America
There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. John Oliver
Positive Hope Drive New New Yorkers Inherent
I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy. And I guess I've always liked to channel some kind of personal element to that. John Oliver
Comedy Political Channel Guess Kind Some Liked Always Been Personal Interested Element Socially
I'm always interested in audience interaction. Not so much aggressive audience interaction - I'm genuinely interested in how people see things. John Oliver
People Aggressive See Audience Genuinely Always How Interaction Interested Much Things
We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound. John Oliver
You Words Tell Invented Supposed How Sound
You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. John Oliver
Time You Long Long Time Before Well Learn How Quite Quite A Long Time
Veterans' issues are quite close to my heart. I find it quite hard to talk about, actually. John Oliver
Heart Veterans Find About Talk Issues Close Quite Hard Actually
There are some people who watch NASCAR for the highly skilled driving - but most people watch it for the crashes. John Oliver
People Some People Some Driving Highly Most NASCAR Crashes Skilled Who Watch
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