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There are some people who watch NASCAR for the highly skilled driving - but most people watch it for the crashes.

~John Oliver

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My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.

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The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

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There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.

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I would never heckle someone. That's why I think I'm so interested in someone that would.

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I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life.

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Politicians don't really bring up religion in England.

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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.

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Sometimes it's good to remember how bad food can be, so you can enjoy the concept of flavour to the fullest.

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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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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Comedian

Born: April 23rd, 1977

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