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Just Quotes by John Oliver
- You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.
- 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,…
- You don't really know when stand-up material is TV ready; it's just at what point you're willing to let it go and not work on…
- Americans just don't understand dry wit.
- Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back.
- I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.
- I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.
- 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…
- It's exciting to have a role in anything that's Claymation, just because you're always intrigued by what a clay wizard version of yourself would be.
- I get nostalgic for British negativity. There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. When you go back to Britain, everybody is…
- 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…
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