John Oliver Quotes
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Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life.
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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.
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If I wanted to take a more activist or journalistic slant in work, I should probably just go be an activist or a journalist. But I'm happy being a comedian.
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There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers.
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When your rainy day fund is so big you've got to check it for swimming cartoon ducks, you might not be a non-profit anymore.
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If you're asking me, would I have voted for Mitt Romney, the answer is absolutely not. Emphatically not. I cannot envision a world in which I would have voted for Mitt Romney unless I sustained a massive concussion.
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We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.
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Drug companies are a bit like high school boyfriends: They're much more concerned with getting inside you than being effective once they're in there.
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Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.
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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 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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It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.
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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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I would much rather America was a more stable, wonderful place. You know, I love it.
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Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.
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I wanted to be a soccer player. I knew that couldn't happen.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've said yes to everything that Jon Stewart has asked me to do. That's been a pretty good career decision, I think.
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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.
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When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.
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People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.
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Politicians don't really bring up religion in England.