John Oliver (comedian)

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John Oliver (born 1977)[1] is a British comedian and correspondent and writer for The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. His previous credits include The Department with Chris Addison and Andy Zaltzman, Political Animal, Fighting Talk, My Hero, and Mock the Week. He attended Mark Rutherford Upper School in Bedford, England and is a graduate of Cambridge University, where he studied English and was vice-president of the Cambridge Footlights.[2] According to his biography on Comedy Central's website, his passport lists his occupation as "comedian" and a passport "never lies". Oliver is a fan of English football club Liverpool.[3]

Oliver also wrote and presented the current BBC America campaign to have viewers use closed captioning (subtitles). Shown in brief segments before shows, "The following program contains accents you would have heard a lot more if you hadn't thrown our tea into Boston Harbor," says one. "Not even British people can follow the British accent 100 percent of the time. Therefore you, like me, might want to use closed-captioning." Oliver has begun using some of these jokes in his current stand up routine.[4]

In 2007 Oliver was given his first motion picture role, playing Dick Pants in The Love Guru.[5]

Oliver currently hosts The Times' weekly podcast The Bugle with Andy Zaltzman.[6]

References

  1. ^ John Oliver bio at ComedyCentral.com
  2. ^ "1997-1998". Retrieved on 2007-10-20. 
  3. ^ http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/04/john_oliver_fears_the_end_times.html
  4. ^ [1] Translated from the British
  5. ^ Oliver's movie break (English). Chortle.co.uk (2007-09-05). Retrieved on 2007-09-05.
  6. ^ The Bugle - Audio Newspaper For A Visual World (English). timesonline.co.uk.

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