John Oliver

At 47 years old, John Oliver has this physical status:

Born in 1977, John William Oliver (born 23 April 1977) is an English comedian, writer, editor, politician, actor, and television presenter.

Oliver began his career as a stand-up comedian, both in the United Kingdom and the United States.

From 2006 to 2013, he drew more attention for his work on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as the country's senior British reporter.

Oliver received three Primetime Emmy Awards for his work as a writer on The Daily Show and as its guest host for an eight-week period in 2013.

Oliver co-hosted The Bugle (2007–2015), as well as Co-Host Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show on Comedy Central from 2010 to 2013.

He has appeared on television, most notably in a recurring role as Ian Duncan on the NBC sitcom Community, as well as in films, including voiceover work in The Smurfs (2011) and its sequel, and the Lion King's remake. Oliver has been the host of HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver since 2014.

He has received acclaim and praise for his work on the series, which has influenced US culture, legislation, and policymaking, and has been dubbed the "John Oliver effect" in the media.

Oliver has received eight Emmy Awards and two Peabody Awards for his work on Last Week Tonight, and he was named as a "comedic agent of change" in the 2015 Time 100, which is a "powerful agent of change" because he isn't afraid to address critical issues without fear or apology." Many have stated that Oliver's work is either journalistic or investigative journalism, a charge that Oliver himself rejects.

Early life and education

Oliver was born in Erdington, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, on September 23, 1977, to Carole and Jim Oliver. His father was both a school headmaster and social worker, while his mother was a music educator. His father was from Liverpool, England, and mother from Merseyside. Stephen Oliver, Stephen Oliver's uncle, was born in Scotland. William Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon and court chaplain to Queen Victoria, was his paternal great-grandfather. Oliver learned to play the viola as an infant.

Since childhood, he has been a fan of Liverpool FC, boasting that "my parents' family are from Knotty Ash and my dad's family from the Wirral, so supporting Liverpool was certainly not a choice." Oliver was educated at the Mark Rutherford School in Bedford.

He attended Christ's College, Cambridge, after secondary school. Oliver was a member of the Cambridge Footlights, the university theatrical club operated by Cambridge University students. David Mitchell and Richard Ayoade were among Oliver's contemporaries. He was the club's vice president in 1997. Oliver graduated from Cambridge with a degree in English in 1998.

Personal life

Oliver and his wife Kate Norley, an Iraq War soldier who served as a United States Army medic, live in New York City. Oliver said they met at the 2008 Republican National Convention; he was doing a piece for The Daily Show; and Norley was campaigning for freedom with Vets for Freedom. Oliver, the other reporters, and the camera crew from security were hid by her and other veterans. Both boys were born prematurely in 2015 and one born in 2018. Oliver's wife's unit in Iraq wears a 1st Cavalry Division lapel pin on occasion.

Oliver has a younger sister who lives in Australia.

Oliver's immigrant status placed limitations on what he could do in his adopted country, but he also provided him with comedic relief as he mocked the opacity and occasional absurdity of the process of obtaining US citizenship. Oliver was one of many writers on the picket line during the Writer' Guild boycott, which brought The Daily Show to a halt, and he appeared on the show when it reopened on January 7, 2008. During a sketch, he said he was in America on a visitors' visa that does not allow him to strike while the show is on display, as violation of the visa's terms would be grounds for deportation. Oliver said, "It's an ongoing, and barely unsettling conflict to be honest." I tried engraving "Give me your old, your homeless, and your up-andcoming comedians" into the Statue of Liberty base, but it's no longer legally binding."

Oliver said in an episode of The Bugle released on 2 November 2009 and filming on October 30th, 2009, that he now has "finally got [his] green card" (for US citizenship) and that he now has "get arrested filming bits for The Daily Show." When applying at the US embassy in London, Oliver says he was given a scare, when an immigration officer asked, "Give me one good reason." "Oh, I'm just kidding, I love the show," the officer continued with. Since then, he has referred to Americans as "us" or "you" based on what each segment has requested. On December 13, 2019, Oliver was born as a US citizen.

Oliver's philanthropy includes an on-air giveaway in which he forgives over $30 million in medical debt owed by over 9,000 people. On June 4, he bought the debt for $60,000 and forgave it on his show.

Oliver has been a fan of the New York Mets since moving to the United States. Oliver has said that being a New York Yankees fan would be the "wrong thing to do morally."

Oliver was raised in the Church of England. He died in a school acquaintance and an uncle's death, as well as a general lack of getting any useful responses from his church.

Oliver has declined an Order of the British Empire. On a September 2022 edition of Late Night with Seth Meyers, he said he turned down the award because the word "British Empire" in the title made him uncomfortable, and because of his skepticism of the British class system.

Oliver endorsed Joe Biden for president of the United States and celebrated Biden and Kamala Harris' triumph in the US presidential election in 2020. "More than 7 million people registered for [Trump] and everything he said and believes for, and we'll have to deal with for the foreseeable future," Trump said.

"Irma war crimes," Oliver said in May 2021, "life in Gaza is difficult even when they are not bombed," and "the US government has implicitly agreed to Israel's brutally hard line Israel has been taking."

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Career

Oliver revealed one of his first paying jobs was writing for The Big Breakfast in an interview with Seth Meyers on Late Night.

Oliver first appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2001 as part of The Comedy Zone, a late-night showcase of younger performers, in which he portrayed an "oleaginous journalist." Oliver regularly performed with others from the Chocolate Milk Gang, a group of comedians who often performed and performed with one another, including Daniel Kitson, Russell Howard, David O'Doherty, and Alun Cochrane. He appeared in his first solo performance at Edinburgh's 2002 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and returned in 2003. He collaborated with Andy Zaltzman on a double act and co-hosting Political Animal in 2004, and 2005, with various acts performing political material.

Oliver started performing in small clubs around the city and then headlined shows in larger venues after moving from the United Kingdom to New York City for The Daily Show. John Oliver, Oliver's first stand-up special, premiered on Comedy Central in 2008 and was later released on DVD. Since 2010, Oliver has appeared on John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show for four seasons. On a USO tour in 2013 to Afghanistan to do a stand-up for the troops deployed there.

"His style leans toward the American style that Americans love best from the British," Edward Helmore of The Guardian wrote. "His style is exaggerated, full of odd accents and demeanors in the vein of Monty Python." Oliver has made his British roots a central point of his jokes. Oliver's accent is a "mongrel" of Brummie, Scouse, and Bedford influences.

Oliver continues to be a natural performer.

Oliver was seen on British television as a panelist on the satirical news quiz Mock the Week prior to joining The Daily Show. He appeared in seven out of eleven episodes as a regular guest on the first two series in 2005 and 2006.

In July 2006, Oliver became the Senior British Correspondent for The Daily Show. He said he was interviewed for the show on the recommendation of comedian Ricky Gervais, who had never met Oliver but was familiar with his work. He did get the job, flew from London to New York on a Sunday and then found himself on camera for the second day two weeks after the interview. In 2009, 2011, and 2012, Oliver was honoured with Emmy Awards for outstanding writing.

Oliver co-hosted The Daily Show for eight weeks during the summer of 2013, while Stewart produced his film Rosewater. Oliver's appearances received rave reviews, with several commentators who suggested that he should replace Stewart as the host or receive his own show. On The Late Late Show, CBS discussed the possibility of Oliver replacing Craig Ferguson. HBO announced that Oliver would get his own late-night show three months after his time as the interim show host ended.

Oliver co-hosted The Bugle, a weekly satirical comedy podcast co-hosted by Andy Zaltzman from October 2007 to May 2015. It was originally produced by The Times and became a self-initiated venture in 2012. On July 13, 2012, it was the 200th episode of its 200th episode. The show attracted a 500,000-per-month download count.

Comedy Central announced in 2009 that it would be ordering six episodes of John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show, a stand-up comedy series on Comedy Central that included sketches from himself and other stand-up comedians, including Janeane Garofalo, Brian Posehn, Paul F. Tompkins, and Marc Maron. Oliver, along with Avalon Television's Richard Allen-Turner, David Martin, James Taylor, and Jon Thoday, co-produced the program. Each episode featured four comics. From 2010 to 2013, four seasons of the show were produced, with the last season spanning eight episodes.

On Friday, Oliver began hosting Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, a late-night talk show that takes a satirical look at politics and current affairs. His first two-year contract with HBO was extended beyond 2017 in February 2015 and into 2020 in September 2017. Given HBO's ad-free subscription service, Oliver says he has full creative power, including free rein to criticize corporations. Oliver was named on the list of Time magazine's "Most Influential People" in 2015.

Last Week Tonight was awarded a Peabody Award in the "Entertainment" category for "bringing satire and journalism even closer together," at the 77th Annual Peabody Awards.

Last Week Tonight, a television showtime from September 14, 2020, to 2023.

Oliver Pardiggle, a minor actor in the BBC drama Bleak House in 1985, appeared as a boy.

Oliver was a regular participant in the NBC comedy Community as psychology professor Ian Duncan. However, he refused to be a regular cast member because he did not want to leave The Daily Show. He did not appear in the third and fourth seasons, but he returned in season five, appearing in seven of the series's thirteen episodes. He did not appear in season six, which aired on Yahoo!

Oliver has appeared on Gravity Falls as the voice of Sherlock Holmes (season 1, episode 3), Rick and Morty as an amoeba (season 1, episode 1). On season four of Netflix's Big Mouth, Oliver portrayed camp counsellor Harry.

In the episode "Pay Pal" of the FOX animated television series The Simpsons, Oliver guest-starred as Booth Wilkes-John.

Oliver was in his first film role in 2008, playing Dick Pants in The Love Guru. In The Smurfs film and its sequel, he later played Vanity Smurf. Neil Clarke was originally cast in Terry Jones' film Absolutely Nothing as Neil Clarke in 2010, but scheduling conflicts leading to Simon Pegg's debut on Last Week Tonight in 2014 led to him being recast. In the remake of Disney's The Lion King, Steve in the CGI animation Wonder Park and hornbill Zazu appeared in 2014.

Oliver wrote and presented a BBC America campaign to get viewers to use subtitles (closed captioning). "The following program contains accents you would have heard a lot more if you hadn't thrown our tea into Boston Harbour," one says. "Not even British people can follow the British accent 100% of the time." You, as me, might want to use closed-captioning." In his stand-up routine, Oliver used some of these parodyays.

Oliver appeared on the BBC Radio 5 Live sports show Fighting Talk frequently.

Oliver appeared in a British television commercial in 1997, promoting the use of cable telecommunications for Cable & Wireless plc.

Oliver worked on the BBC3 comedy series The State We're In Between 2002 and 2003, as well as Anita Rani, Jon Holmes, and Robin Ince.

On an election night episode of Armando Iannucci's satirical show Gash on Channel 4, Oliver manned the "results desk" in 2003. In the second episode of Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive, he will return to Iannucci in 2005 as a panelist.

Oliver was a member of the National Radio Company in 2004 and appeared on BBC Radio 4's "The Department" with frequent comedy partner Andy Zaltzman and Chris Addison. Victor Gooch appeared in all three series before its cancellation in 2006.

Oliver appeared in numerous scenes in the 2009 Comedy Central series titled "Moments of Demetri Martin."

In 2009, Oliver made a cameo appearance as Rip Torn in the Fiery Furnaces' "Even in the Rain" video, which is based on the story of the film's production. Oliver began working as an executive producer for Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas in 2018.

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