John Oliver

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2,112 appearances 32 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 8 Jul

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Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky · A Year of Reclaiming · 27 Jan 2026 podcast

I guess one of the things you learn in, I remember there was a stand-up in England years ago that said to me something on the way to a gig when I was starting off.

He said, once you've bombed 100 times on stage, you'll be fine because there is nothing an audience can take from you.

After that.

And I've got to say he was kind of right.

Because I think to lots of people, watching a stand-up bomb is you get that awful sense of, oh, my God, this is a nightmare.

Yeah.

But there is nothing left.

Like your dignity has been so shredded from doing stand-up that –

it weirdly kind of slightly inoculates you to the audience loses their power to hurt you.

Does that make sense?

I think that it gives you this weird feeling

False bravado because you just can't.

Oh, yeah.

I think in my life, I've often been like a leaf being...

blown around in different directions and landing and being at the mercy of so many things.

And getting some, I know it's going to sound weird, but getting some agency back to really value my own choices and going, no, I'm actually, no, I'm not going to do that.

And working out what is a drain and what is a tap.

And there will always be things that empty you that are important you do anyway.

You know, listen to people when it's difficult.

But to remember that you must make choices that are also good for you, that fill you, that give you back.

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