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" Southern people are bigger-hearted and kinder than I had any right to expect. "
John Oliver
Right
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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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" 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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" People are friendlier in New York than London. "
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" Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper. "
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" The disconnect between America and its military is shocking. "
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" There is so much cross-pollination between the U.S. and Britain in terms of comedians. British TV comedies work well in the U.S. American stand-ups make it big in Britain. "
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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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Soul
" 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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Point
Day
Hard
" My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American. "
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Possible
Someone
" It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge. "
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Great
Doing
Time
" We in Britain stopped evolving gastronomically with the advent of the pie. Everything beyond that seemed like a brave, frightening new world. We knew the French were up to something across the Channel, but we didn't want anything to do with it. "
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Everything
New
World
" A Southern accent is not a club in my bag. "
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Bag
Southern
Accent
" You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them. "
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Enough
Time
Talk
" Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had. "
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Growing Up
Voice
Heroes
" It really helps a comedian to be an outsider. "
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Helps
Outsider
Comedian
" 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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Kind
Angry
You
" I can't relax. I find vacations problematic. "
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Problematic
Find
Relax
" There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. "
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Hope
New Yorkers
Positive
" The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media is definitely trying to stoop down to that level. Everyone is stooping to the lowest common denominator. "
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American
Media
Humanity
" 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. Having a British accent definitely gave me a sonic leg up on that because there is a faux authority to the British accent in and of itself. "
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Up
Actor
Authority
" As any Brit will understand, things get a little easier when you don't have to be number one any more. Really, the fall of an empire is not as bad as everyone thinks. It's like retirement. People fear retirement, but it can turn out be rather pleasant. "
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Retirement
You
" I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy. "
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Always
Been
Comedy
" I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior. "
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Human Behavior
Human
" I would hate to meet myself at 15. "
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Meet
" I really love stand-up. I'm more than happy to do it for nothing. I've come to America to do it for nothing. It's the American Dream: Work for free. "
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Free
American Dream
Love
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Moment
Accept
" I have occasionally - if ever I do interviews that are difficult or nerve-wracking - I take my wife's dog tags and have them in my pocket because it's a very quick way to realize that what I'm doing is not that important. It's not really worth getting stressed about because it's not, you know, war. "
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