I would hate to meet myself at 15.
From John Oliver
I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.
You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.
Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.
I find it hard in my general life to think further than the week ahead.
It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.
You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well.
I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.
You don't really know when stand-up material is TV ready; it's just at what point you're willing to let it go and not work on it anymore. I'm not sure there is a point at which you think: 'And that is finished.'
The only thing I'm nervous about is talking to guests like human beings, because all of my interviews so far have been attacking people. I have a genuine concern about sitting across from an actor whose movies I obviously haven't seen.
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