John Oliver

And I remember walking off the stage for the first night that we put our own show on.

And thinking, I want to do this.

I don't know what that's going to mean.

I don't know where I'm going to be able to do it.

That's the best feeling.

But all of a sudden, my life became...

quite clear in terms of not how it was going to turn out, but what I was going to try and do.

And that's a huge gift, isn't it, in many ways?

Oh no, it's the greatest gift of all.

I remember my dad years, years later saying, oh, I admire that you never gave up.

And

It only at that point occurred to me that at some point that would have been an option.

It never even crossed my mind to give up, even when from the outside it must have looked like, this is not a dignified life that you're building for yourself here.

But I was so happy in it.

It never crossed my mind.

Where did your funny come from in the family?

I mean, I don't know, survival.

Who would you say you have the closest comedic?

Probably my dad's dad, but my family's from Liverpool, right?

And so that is a city that's been through some shit.