“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,”
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John Oliver
John William Oliver is a British and American comedian, political commentator, actor, and television personality. He hosts Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on HBO and started his career as a stand-up comedian in the United Kingdom. He came to wider attention for his work in the United States as the senior British correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart from 2006 to 2013.
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Born 23 April 1977 · Q1701254
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2026· 11 entries
“Give me one good reason I should let you back in to insult my country”
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“get arrested filming bits for The Daily Show”
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“I saw Life of Brian in middle school, when a substitute teacher put it on to keep us quiet on a rainy day ... I”
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The Guardian: John Oliver on fetal personhood: ‘It effectively treats women as incubators’
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AOL: John Oliver Has Bad News for Donald Trump’s Next Catering Cart Escape
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The A.V. Club: John Oliver explains how fetal personhood becomes a pretext for criminalizing women
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Soap Central: John Oliver pokes fun at Trump for leaving staff behind during airplane swap in Last Week Tonight
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Public attention spiked: 11,191 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.7× the usual 1,676, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 11,451 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.8× the usual 1,676, with 4 article edits.
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The Quint rated the claim “The video shows John Oliver criticising PM Modi over his recent trip to The Hague in Netherlands.” False.
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2023· 1 entry
“s ad-free subscription model. In 2015, Oliver was named one of Time 100 influential people of the year for his work on the show. Across the TV airings, DVR, on-demand, and HBO Go, Last Week Tonight averaged 4.1 million weekly viewers in its first season. In 2014, Last Week Tonight was honoured with a Peabody Award in the”
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2022· 1 entry
Found that "calls for action" by Oliver in seasons seven and eight of Last Week Tonight raised over $5 million for charities and other causes
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2021· 2 entries
Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2021).
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Oliver received the Great Immigrants Award from the Carnegie Corporation of New York
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2019· 2 entries
Oliver was naturalized as a US citizen on 13 December 2019.
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Oliver voiced the porcupine Steve in the CGI animated film Wonder Park and hornbill Zazu in the remake of Disney's The Lion King
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2018· 2 entries
On Last Week Tonight, Oliver presented the children's book A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, a parody of Marlon Bundo's A Day in the Life of the Vice President
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Found that viewers of Last Week Tonight and The Colbert Report were generally more familiar with net neutrality than non-viewers; Last Week Tonight viewers were also more likely to support strict regulation to ensure net
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2016· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “A leaked Clinton Foundation e-mail demonstrates collusion between the organization and media personality John Oliver.” False.
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Claimed: “"We knew Strom Thurmond had proposed" the amendment that blocked Puerto Rico’s use of Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection.” — rated Mostly True by PolitiFact.
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2015· 2 entries
To 2020 in September 2017, to 2023 in September 2020, and to 2026 in December 2023
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Oliver was named one of Time 100 influential people of the year for his work on the show
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2014· 2 entries
Oliver began hosting his late-night news satire show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
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Last Week Tonight was honoured with a Peabody Award in the "Entertainment" category for "bringing satire and journalism even closer together"
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2013· 1 entry
Went to Afghanistan on a USO tour to perform for the troops
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2010· 2 entries
Released album “Earth: A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race”.
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To star in the Terry Jones film Absolutely Anything as Neil Clarke, but scheduling conflicts due to the debut of Last Week Tonight in 2014 led to the role being recast for Simon Pegg
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2009· 2 entries
Comedy Central announced that it would be ordering six episodes of the John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show, a series on Comedy Central that featured sets from himself and other comedians, including Janeane Garofalo, Bri
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Oliver made a cameo appearance in the music video for The Fiery Furnaces' single "Even in the Rain"
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2008· 2 entries
Oliver played Dick Pants in The Love Guru, his first film role
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John Oliver: Terrifying Times, his first stand-up special, premiered on Comedy Central
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2007· 1 entry
Oliver wrote and presented a BBC America campaign to have viewers use closed captions
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2006· 1 entry
Placed certain constraints on what he could do in the United States, but also provided him with comedy material as he poked fun at the opacity and occasional absurdity of the process of obtaining US residency
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2004· 3 entries
And 2005, he performed in a double act and co-hosted the political radio show Political Animal with Andy Zaltzman
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“I know I talk a lot on this show about the bad stuff Ronald Reagan did. So to balance that out, I do want to mention something positive he did for the planet. In 2004 – and this is true – he died.”
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Oliver wrote and performed in the satirical radio programme The Department on BBC Radio 4 with Andy Zaltzman and Chris Addison
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2003· 1 entry
Oliver manned the "results desk" on an election night episode of Armando Iannucci's satirical show Gash on Channel 4
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2001· 1 entry
Oliver appeared as a bank manager in series two of People Like Us
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1998· 2 entries
Studied at Christ's College, Bachelor of Arts (1998).
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Oliver graduated with a degree in English
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1985· 1 entry
Oliver made his first on-screen appearance playing Felix Pardiggle, a minor role in the BBC drama Bleak House
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1977· 1 entry
Born 1977-04-23.
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