British - Comedian | April 23, 1977 -
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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There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn't really matter anymore. I don't have any dignity left to lose. An audience can't hurt you anymore when you've been completely dismantled.
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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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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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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.
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I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in!
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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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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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It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.
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I can't relax. I find vacations problematic.
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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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Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.
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