John Oliver is a comedian who has become incredibly popular as he continues to put in performance after performance every day.His skill as a comedian is perhaps unmatched. Oliver is incredibly passionate about his career as a comedian.He uses his platform to be much more than a comedian, making jokes. Oliver uses the platform that he is on, using the influence he has to spread awareness about world events through the medium of comedy. John Oliver has been very particular about this, going on to clear the fact that news is not a game show, it is not about providing content in order to win some manner of prize.It is about being able to provide viewers with facts, and news that is real and unadulterated. John Oliver manages to deliver this to viewers by applying his own personal twist to it, which is what has seen him grow into one of the most popular people today. You see John Oliver delivers details of important events around the world by adding jokes to them. What this does is it really holds the attention of people, as the majority of the population today finds the conventional means of viewing news a tad bit mundane. This comes during a growing trend that sees news be delivered with a zest of comedy, with other popular hosts such as Trevor Noah.Famous John Oliver QuotesJohn Oliver has made quite a name for himself as a comedian and a television host. Here are some John Oliver quotes that have become quite famous over the years, with things being said during his shows as well as pieces that he has written.“I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.”“One thing that America is objectively exceptional at is overreacting whenever anyone accuses them of not being exceptional.““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.““I think Americans still can’t help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told what to do by a British accent. That’s why so many infomercials have British people.““The death penalty is like the McRib. When you can’t have it, it seems so tantalizing. But when they bring it back, you think, ‘Wow, this is ethically wrong.’““There is so much cross-pollination between the U.S. and Britain in terms of comedians. British TV comedies work well in the U.S. American stand-ups make it big in Britain.““If you want to do something evil, put it inside something boring. Apple could put the entire text of “Mein Kampf” inside the iTunes user agreement, and you’d just go agree, agree, agree - what? - agree, agree.““I watch one news channel until my soul can’t take it anymore. It’s the background of my life.““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.““The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media is definitely trying to stoop down to that level. Everyone is stooping to the lowest common denominator."“Democracy is like a tambourine, not everyone can be trusted with it.”“Having a human conversation is not something I’ve had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.““I think the best analogy for where we are right now is that America is Elvis Presley – the most beautiful, talented, rebellious nation in the history of Earth. And now, you’re in your Vegas years. You’ve squeezed yourself into a white jumpsuit, you’re wheezing your way through ‘Love Me Tender’ and you might be about to pass away bloated on the toilet. But you’re still the King.““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 it anymore. I’m not sure there is a point at which you think: ‘And that is finished.’““Welcome to The Daily Show, I’m John Oliver. Jon Stewart is still not here. He is currently living out a live-action Lord of the Rings role-playing experience deep in the New Zealand wilderness.““This pope was born on the 16th of April, making him an Aries, compatible with both Sagittarius and Leo. But, of course, Jesus was famously a Capricorn, meaning that this pope is incompatible with Jesus. Not my findings, the findings of science. Don’t get angry with me, Catholics. Go get angry with Galileo. Oh, you already did.““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 just running everything down. It’s like whatever the opposite of a hug is.“My family is from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen’s butler.“I do one accent – my own. I can make it louder or quieter. That is the sum total of my vocal range. I thought I could do an American accent until I tried it in front of an American – the expression of horror is still burnt onto my retinas.““If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That’s generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences.“Inspirational John Oliver QuotesThe comedian who is John Oliver is incredibly concerned about making sure that people who intend to follow in his footsteps as a comedian are best prepared. The comedian has tried to give out to people every lesson that he has picked up throughout his life, and from his career as a comedian. Taking some inspiration from that, here are some John Oliver quotes that might just inspire you into pursuing a career in the world of comedy.“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.““Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had."“There are some people who watch NASCAR for the highly skilled driving – but most people watch it for the crashes.”“Sometimes it’s good to remember how bad food can be, so you can enjoy the concept of flavor to the fullest."“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.”“France is going to endure, and I’ll tell you why. If you’re in a war of culture and lifestyle with France, good luck, because go ahead, bring your ideology. They’ll bring Jean-Paul Sartre, Edith Piaf, fine wine, Camus, Camembert, madeleines, macarons, Marcel Proust and the croquembouche. You just brought a philosophy of rigorous self-abnegation to a pastry fight, my friend.““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."“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.”“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.““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.“Best John Oliver QuotesJohn Oliver is one of the most popular among British people. He cleverly crafts jokes about a whole variety of things, ranging from the history of the Earth, to the way firms are marketing in the world, joking about laws that are passed, as well as jokes about prominent people such as the United States Secretary.“According to current Florida law you can get a gun, follow an unarmed minor, call the police, have them explicitly tell you to stop following the minor and choose to ignore that, keep following the minor, get into a confrontation with them, and if at any point during that process you get scared you can shoot the minor to death, and the state of Florida will say, ‘Well, look : you did what you could.’““You don’t need people’s opinion on a fact. You might as well have a poll asking: ‘Which number is bigger, 15 or 5?’ or ‘Do owls exist?’ or ‘Are there hats?’“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.”“While skepticism is healthy, cynicism, real cynicism, is toxic.““There’s only one infectious disease that two-thirds of the world should be getting right now, and that’s Adam Driver fever.““Calling slave labor “chores” is a euphemism on par with calling Hitler a “best-selling author with a side hustle” or JFK’s assassination a “bad hair day” or this a comedy show."“At this point, the rich are just running up the score…What sets America apart is that we are actively introducing policies that disproportionately benefit the wealthy.”“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.”“Cranberries are, I think we can all agree, nature’s most disgusting berry. Cranberries taste like cherries who hate you. Cranberries taste like what a raspberry drinks before a colonoscopy.““Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you’ll never get paid back.““So it’s an aging product that’s decreasing in popularity and yet somehow it just can’t stop making money. It’s basically the agricultural equivalent of U2.““You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn’t be when it is literally your job."“The only thing I’m nervous about is talking to guests like human beings because all of my interviews so far have been attacking people. I have a genuine concern about sitting across from an actor whose movies I obviously haven’t seen.”“When David Beckham got a tattoo of Jesus, the response from most soccer fans was, “That’s huge for Jesus. That’s a big deal for him.““There is no greater anesthetic than sport.““The German language is so sonorous, isn’t it? Beautiful language…the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry.““A blonde, German woman with spiky hair…walked up to the plane and said ‘There are busses outside that you will be loaded on to. You will be told what will happen to you when you reach your destination.’ And all I could think in my head, was, ‘I am not getting on those buses. No, no, I have seen too many Oscar-winning movies. I know how this story ends. I know what you do to people who look like me. If I’m getting on any bus, it’s with the blond family over there.’““Here in America, people come out to see what they’ve known you to do. In England, it’s like everyone comes out to tell you exactly how well they think you’re doing.““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, and there’s just no shortcut – you just have to do it.““As far as I can see, this is a system that has enriched multiple companies and that pays and fires teachers with a cattle birthing formula, confuses children with talking pineapples, and has the same kind of rules regarding transparency as Brad Pitt had for Fight Club.““One failed attempt at a shoe bomb and we all take off our shoes at the airport. Thirty-one school shootings since Columbine and no change in our regulation of guns.““Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language’s most offensive C-word.““For the record, if someone did that to me I’d hitch a ride to the International Space Station straight away; of course who am I kidding, they would never let me in, I’ve got spiders for hands! Internet is mean!““Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which clearly states that if you are stung by a bee, you should follow it back to its nest and then proceed to beat the nest to a pulp with a baseball bat until the stripey little bee has learned its lesson.““People are always going to say stupid things, and you’re always going to be able to make jokes about that, but it should be the last thing you add in because it’s the easiest thing.““Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.““Congress is like jazz — it’s really about the bills it’s not passing. It’s also like jazz in that most people hate it and anyone who says they don’t are lying.““Once you learn how to make people laugh, then you get to choose exactly how you want to make them laugh.““As any Brit will understand, things get a little easier when you don’t have to be number one any more. Really, the fall of an empire is not as bad as everyone thinks. It’s like retirement. People fear retirement, but it can turn out to be rather pleasant.“I took a tip from your history books, and, the day after election day, I got a truckload of Dr. Pepper and just drove it straight into Boston Harbor. See how you like your favorite beverage being drowned.“Short John Oliver QuotesJohn Oliver has some serious opinions, ones about April Fools’ Day, the British people, marketing, and many more things! Here are some short John Oliver quotes.“People are friendlier in New York than London.““If you want to do something evil, put it inside something boring.““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.““Democracy is like a tambourine – not everyone can be trusted with it."“We invented words; we’ll tell you how they’re supposed to sound.”“Southern people are bigger-hearted and kinder than I had any right to expect."“Pumpkin spice lattes are eggnog for morning people.”“Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call Destiny.““Everybody should care about facts. That is something all of us should agree on."“News is not a game show. You don’t win a car if you happen to be right.”“A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.““The disconnect between America and its military is shocking."“There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers.”“I’m British, pessimism is my wheelhouse.““I wouldn’t want anyone with the coronavirus serving me my next meal unless, of course, that person was Adam Driver.““I’ve always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy."“Anybody who claims to be excited for April Fools’ Day is probably a sociopath.”“I would hate to meet myself at 15.““I think I’m just a summer fling that people will soon forget.”“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.““I’m British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything."“It’s pretty physically unsettling, living life on a visa.”“There is no greater anesthetic than sport.““Politics has become infused with narcissism in America."“It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.”
John Oliver is a comedian who has become incredibly popular as he continues to put in performance after performance every day.
