Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that. "
John Oliver
Intentions
Never
Real
Related Quotes:
" 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. "
John Oliver
Kind
Angry
You
" 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. "
John Oliver
American
Media
Humanity
" I have exactly as much rhythm as you think I have. "
John Oliver
Think
Rhythm
Much
" Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had. "
John Oliver
Growing Up
Voice
Heroes
" Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury. "
John Oliver
Campaign
Injury
American
" If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences. "
John Oliver
Speak
Work
Information
" I've said yes to everything that Jon Stewart has asked me to do. That's been a pretty good career decision, I think. "
John Oliver
Said
Me
Decision
" I would much rather America was a more stable, wonderful place. You know, I love it. "
John Oliver
Place
More
America
" When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing. "
John Oliver
Serious
You
Know
" 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
You
Someone
Back
" 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. And that's really not a good instinct with a 'Daily Show' field piece, where it's supposed to be an interview. "
John Oliver
Daily
Face
Good
" 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
You
Like
Done
" Politicians don't really bring up religion in England. "
John Oliver
Bring
Politicians
Up
" It really helps a comedian to be an outsider. "
John Oliver
Helps
Outsider
Comedian
" People are always going to say stupid things, and you're always going to be able to make jokes about that, but it should be the last thing you add in, because it's the easiest thing. "
John Oliver
You
Always
Say
" 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. "
John Oliver
Everything
New
World
" I would never heckle someone. That's why I think I'm so interested in someone that would. "
John Oliver
Interested
Never
Someone
" The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not. "
John Oliver
Sometimes
Press
Group
" I feel non-stop Brit shame! "
John Oliver
I Feel
Non-Stop
Feel
" I do one accent - my own. I can make it louder or quieter. That is the sum total of my vocal range. I thought I could do an American accent until I tried it in front of an American - the expression of horror is still burnt onto my retinas. "
John Oliver
American
I Can
Horror
" I find it hard in my general life to think further than the week ahead. "
John Oliver
Find
Life
Hard
" 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
Say
You
Understand
" I would hate to meet myself at 15. "
John Oliver
Would
Hate
Meet
" I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes. "
John Oliver
Jokes
Me
Ask
" People are friendlier in New York than London. "
John Oliver
New York
Than
People
" Most stand-ups, once they have done it, think of it as their default job. I'm pretty sure Jon Stewart still feels that way now. You are a stand-up first; other things come and go. "
John Oliver
You
Done
Job
" 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. "
John Oliver
Intolerance
Place
Places
" 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. "
John Oliver
Free
American Dream
Love
" When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain. "
John Oliver
Want
You
Stand
" When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery. "
John Oliver
War
You
Bravery