John Oliver
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Never, never.
I couldn't survive in that world.
I couldn't do it.
That was not for me.
Thank you.
And do I not speak it beautifully?
Can I tell you?
That's what three years of higher education will give you.
I didn't come in talking like this.
I left that way.
No, I started writing comedy at college, and then I did my first stand-up gig, and it was, I imagine, how a drug addict feels when they get their first taste of something which they know is now going to alter how they live the rest of their life.
driving theory tests, I think.
I can't remember exactly what I do, about EasyJet at the time.
Not great jokes, but I remember- Because before EasyJet was- It was early days of EasyJet.
It wasn't great, but the process of the feeling of it, I knew.
I was at college with Richard Ayoade.
Do you know that guy?
Oh, yes, I do know.
We wrote Footlights together.
And we did a two-man show.