When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.
John OliverYou know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter.
John OliverMy family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.
John Oliver