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My first 'Daily Show' piece was pretending I had this terrible immigrant journey, so I went to talk to an immigration lawyer who would help out people, and I ran into him in Penn Station about three months after I'd gotten the green card. I said, 'I got my green card yesterday.' And he hugged me because he understood that level of relief.
— John Oliver
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I would much rather America was a more stable, wonderful place. You know, I love it.
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I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.
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I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.
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You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. 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.
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