British - Comedian | April 23, 1977 -
Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life.
John Oliver
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I have exactly as much rhythm as you think I have.
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Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.
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Veterans' issues are quite close to my heart. I find it quite hard to talk about, actually.
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A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.
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It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.
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Americans just don't understand dry wit.
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I would much rather America was a more stable, wonderful place. You know, I love it.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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