Latest John Oliver Quotes from Interviews

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• Everybody should care about facts. That is something all of us should agree on.

  John Oliver

  Care, Facts, Should

  Source: www.npr.org

• I care about facts the way I care about oxygen and imbibing enough water a day to live.

  John Oliver

  Oxygen, Water, Imbibing

  Source: www.npr.org

• By any rational metric, I am boring.

  John Oliver

  Metrics, Boring, Rational

  Source: www.npr.org

• When I heard that Hitler had problems with flatulence, it's funny. What - does that make him a funny man? No. It means he had funny moments when his rear end was speaking louder than his mouth.

  John Oliver

  Mean, Men, Doe

  "John Oliver On Facts, Donald Trump And The Supreme Court For Dogs". Interview with Steve Inskeep, scpublicradio.org. February 10, 2017.

• Teenagers falling off skateboards - funny. Nut shots - funny. Breaking wind - funny. The world cannot change those. Those three things are columns upon which humor is built.

  John Oliver

  Teenager, Fall, Wind

  "John Oliver On Facts, Donald Trump And The Supreme Court For Dogs". Interview with Steve Inskeep, ijpr.org. February 10, 2017.

• When you see people say crazy things on our show, they mean this stuff,and that's easy to forget: They're not joking.

  John Oliver

  Crazy, Mean, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I have a green card now, but they can take that away, yeah, they can take that away at any moment. So please don't; please let me keep it.

  John Oliver

  Cards, Green, Moments

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I do not want to leave in [U.S.] ... I cannot make that clear enough to immigration authorities who may be listening to this interview. I don't want to leave, so please don't make me.

  John Oliver

  Listening, Interviews, Immigration

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I think I'm just a summer fling that people will soon forget.

  John Oliver

  Summer, Thinking, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I guess the tone of jokes is often, at best, irreverent, but it always comes from a place of deep love.

  John Oliver

  Deep Love, Tone, Irreverent

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I don't think I'm identified as the anchorman, I think I'm identified as the impostor anchorman - there's a very clear line there ... I don't think it changes the way they respond.

  John Oliver

  Anchorman, Thinking, Lines

  Source: www.wbur.org

• People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on The Daily Show ... I don't think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor.

  John Oliver

  Mistake, Thinking, Anchors

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I was definitely prepared for it to be slower, and it has not worked out that way in any shape or form. I'm grateful as a comedian, and slightly demoralized, occasionally, as a human being - those two things are always very different.

  John Oliver

  Grateful, Two, Comedian

  Source: www.wbur.org

• You're sonically racist, Americans. You think we all sound the same, whereas I have definitely a mongrel accent.

  John Oliver

  Thinking, Sound, Racist

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I'm British. I don't really have access to my emotions on a daily basis.

  John Oliver

  Emotion, British, Bases

  "John Oliver talks ‘The Daily Show,’ Colbert & his new HBO series". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. April 25, 2014.

• I don't know if there is some psychological thing of wanting to know where your doctor got his degree from before he comes into the medical room.

  John Oliver

  Doctors, Degrees, Rooms

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think being an outsider in general always helps you in comedy. I think it helps to have an outsider's eye. And so I have an outsider's voice. You know, as soon as I start talking, I don't belong here. And I think that helps in a way.

  John Oliver

  Eye, Thinking, Talking

• When you do stand-up, you're just concerned with trying to leave with some semblance of human dignity at the end of your performance.

  John Oliver

  Trying, Dignity, Ends

• Once you learn how to make people laugh, then you get to choose exactly how you want to make them laugh.

  John Oliver

  People, Laughing, Want