Oliver's first major stand-up appearance was at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2001 as part of The Comedy Zone, a late-night showcase of newer acts, where he played the character of an " oleaginous journalist". Oliver revealed in a later Seth Meyers appearance that one of his first paying jobs was writing for the British morning show The Big Breakfast. wanted a kid with dark hair and brown eyes, and I was two-for-two on that." In 2001, Oliver appeared as a bank manager in season two of People Like Us. He commented in an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, "When I was six years old. Oliver's first appearance on-screen was playing Felix Pardiggle, a minor role in the BBC drama Bleak House in 1985. In 1998, Oliver graduated from Cambridge with a degree in English. Oliver's contemporaries included David Mitchell and Richard Ayoade, and in 1997, he became the club's vice president. While a student there in the mid-to-late 1990s, Oliver was a member of the Cambridge Footlights, the university theatrical club run by students of Cambridge University. Oliver in 2007įollowing secondary school, he studied at Christ's College, Cambridge. Oliver was educated in Bedford at the Mark Rutherford School, and learned to play the viola as a child. His uncle was the composer Stephen Oliver. His father, from the Wirral Peninsula, was both a school headmaster and social worker, and his mother, from Liverpool, was a music teacher. Oliver was born on 23 April 1977 in Birmingham, England, to Carole and Jim Oliver. Oliver's work has been described as journalism or investigative journalism, a description Oliver rejects.
For his work on Last Week Tonight, Oliver has won fourteen Emmy Awards and two Peabody Awards and was included in the 2015 Time 100, being described as a "comedic agent of change.powerful because he isn't afraid to tackle important issues thoughtfully, without fear or apology". He has received widespread critical and popular recognition for his work on the series, whose influence over US culture, legislation, and policymaking has been dubbed the "John Oliver effect".
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Since 2014, Oliver has been the host of the HBO series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. He has also acted on television, most notably in a recurring role as Dr Ian Duncan on the NBC sitcom Community, and in films, notably voice-over work in The Smurfs (2011), The Smurfs 2 (2013), and the 2019 remake of The Lion King. In addition, Oliver co-hosted the satirical comedy podcast The Bugle with Andy Zaltzman, with whom Oliver had previously co-hosted the radio series Political Animal, and hosted John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show on Comedy Central from 2010 to 2013. Oliver won three Primetime Emmy Awards for writing for The Daily Show and was the show's guest host for an eight-week period in 2013. He came to wider attention for his work in the United States on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as its senior British correspondent from 2006 to 2013. Oliver started his career as a stand-up comedian in the United Kingdom. John William Oliver (born 23 April 1977) is a British-American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host.
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