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Backstage: ... Cambridge Footlights 1997 →
fuckyeahcomedians:
With the delightful news that Richard Ayoade is on-set at Community directing an episode, I thought it would be a good time to roll out this video. Richard, John Oliver, and Matthew Holness in the Cambridge Footlights, 1997.
(Pretty poor quality, but let’s just be glad this even exists. Hopefully a downloadable version soon.)
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The Big Apple According to John Oliver
Where are all the baby pigeons? Pigeons actually raise their babies in a giant disused factory in Montauk, Long Island, where the chicks are trained in the “ways of the flying rat.” Eventually, there is a coming-of-age ceremony in which graduating pigeons are dared to pass between the front wheels of a speeding taxi. Those that survive are the pigeons we see in public.
Why is the Thanksgiving...
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Watchtimeoutnewyork:
John Oliver is our cover boy this week, for our annual issue on things you probably didn’t know about New York City. The Daily Show correspondent was a good sport, posing with baby pigeons and gamely answering questions about his adopted home. He also sat down with another Brit—our senior web editor, Jon—to discuss “the British immigrant experience.” (Including learning how to...
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The Daily Show: Abandon news all you who enter... →
‘The Daily Show’ is a US institution: a thorn in the side of Bush and voice of a young, disaffected generation. John Oliver, a British comedian who has become one of the show’s stars, explains its unique satirical power in a world of ‘suspicion and panic’
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The Daily Show's John Oliver Visits KQED →
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