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The disconnect between America and its military is shocking.
- John Oliver
#America
#Between
#Disconnect
#Military
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.
- John Oliver
#American
#Humanity
#Media
#News
#Trying
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.
- John Oliver
#Genuine
#Human
#Movies
#Nervous
#People
It's pretty physically unsettling, living life on a visa.
- John Oliver
#Life
#Living
#Pretty
#Unsettling
#Visa
Veterans' issues are quite close to my heart. I find it quite hard to talk about, actually.
- John Oliver
#About
#Find
#Hard
#Heart
#Talk
Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.
- John Oliver
#American
#Campaign
#Democracy
#Injury
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
#Daily
#Humor
#Knowledge
#Me
#Mistake
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.
- John Oliver
#Comedy
#Communication
#Information
#Work
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.
- John Oliver
#Brave
#Everything
#New World
#New
#World
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 be rather pleasant.
- John Oliver
#Bad
#Fall
#Fear
#People
#Understand
I would hate to meet myself at 15.
- John Oliver
#Hate
#Meet
#Myself
#Would
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.
- John Oliver
#Daily
#Face
#Good
#Project
#Relationship
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.
- John Oliver
#Drive
#Hope
#Negativity
#New
#Positive
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.
- John Oliver
#Bravery
#Level
#Nothing
#Someone
#War
It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.
- John Oliver
#Doing
#Great
#Political
#Time
#World
The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.
- John Oliver
#Accept
#Feeling
#Get
#Moment
#Quality
Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.
- John Oliver
#Down
#Every
#How
#Know
#Person
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.
- John Oliver
#Actor
#Authority
#Daily
#Me
#Trying
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.
- John Oliver
#Comedy
#Done
#Stand-Up Comedy
#Things
We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.
- John Oliver
#How
#Sound
#Supposed
#Tell
#Words
I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.
- John Oliver
#British
#Pessimism
Americans just don't understand dry wit.
- John Oliver
#Dry
#Just
#Understand
#Wit
I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life.
- John Oliver
#Life
#My Life
#My Soul
#News
#Soul
I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.
- John Oliver
#Anything
#British
#Emotions
#Powerful
Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back.
- John Oliver
#Back
#Fan
#Know
#Money
#Never
#Someone
I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.
- John Oliver
#Behavior
#Human Behavior
#Human
#Think
Sometimes it's good to remember how bad food can be, so you can enjoy the concept of flavour to the fullest.
- John Oliver
#Bad
#Food
#Good
#Remember
#Sometimes
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