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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

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Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.

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When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.

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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 did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.

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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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I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.

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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.

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My first 'Daily Show' piece was pretending I had this terrible immigrant journey, so I went to talk to an immigration lawyer who would help out people, and I ran into him in Penn Station about three months after I'd gotten the green card. I said, 'I got my green card yesterday.' And he hugged me because he understood that level of relief.

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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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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Comedian

Born: April 23rd, 1977

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