John Oliver

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1977 age 0

   Born

2. 2008 age 31

   CreditThe Love Guru

3. 2011 age 34

   CreditThe Smurfs

4. 2013 age 36

   CreditThe Smurfs 2

• JMJayma Mays2 titles
• NHNeil Patrick Harris2 titles
• KPKaty Perry2 titles
• RGRaja Gosnell2 titles
• HPHeitor Pereira2 titles
• SPSabrina Plisco2 titles
• PMPhil Méheux2 titles
• DWDavid N. Weiss2 titles
• SCStephen Colbert2 titles
• FAFred Armisen2 titles

• Influenced by

  • JSJon Stewart
  • DLDavid Letterman
  • PCPeter Cook
  • RPRichard Pryor

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Studied under, Taught.

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• It's very dangerous, a British person saying "I felt ownership of this country". Historically, does not go well. It's amazing! I just went to India and I felt like I belonged.

  John Oliver, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I would say, what is more quintessentially America than coming to a country you don't belong in and deciding you're going to stay?

  John Oliver, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Thanks very much for taking this magical moment and reminding me that joy is ephemeral, pain is forever.

  John Oliver, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The deeper you look into these stories, the more flawed you realize things are, systemically. But the more you encounter people work incredibly hard to change things. Like clockwork, at some point during a story, I go into Tim [Carvell]'s office, who I... run the show with, and we'll say "Burn it down. Just burn everything to the ground." 'Cause it feels like things are so bad in a story, only flames are going to purify the hell that we've built for ourselves. But you do then work through that, much like this shitty hot sauce, to realizing that, in lieu of-— even as you're waiting for major change that you think might not come, incremental change is possible, and valuable.

  John Oliver, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Many people would argue that the most dangerous inhabitant of the earth is currently the self styled 43rd president of the United States. Not so much in deed anymore as in word. Because to hear that man speak is to wish upon yourself physical harm.

  John Oliver, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I started looking into these groups in America, campaigns groups who want to put stickers on the front of all school science text books saying that Evolution is only one possible theory of life on earth. Now, although this seems like a stupid idea at first, second, and thirty ninth glance, look at it once more. Give it that fortieth view. Because it's brilliant. Let's have stickers on the front of all books! Slap one on the front of the Bible saying "Of course this could all be bullsh*t. Maybe he never died! Perhaps he opened a donkey sanctuary. He had a clear bond with donkeys." Or slap one on the Theory of Gravity! "Look, that's just one man's opinion. Maybe we could all fly! R. Kelly believed it so. Why would he lie to us? What does he possibly stand to gain?"

  John Oliver, CC BY-SA 4.0