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Personal Details
Other Works:
Book:
"Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race". New York City NY: Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 978-0-446-57922-3
Publicity Listings:
2 Interviews
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10 Articles
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3 Magazine Cover Photos
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Height:
5' 11¾" (1.82 m)
Children:
Oliver, Hudson
Parents:
Oliver, Jim
| Oliver, Carol
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Personal Quote:
[on preparing for his new show
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014)] We're trying to build the machine that will one day make fun of stories that haven't happened yet. It's most important task is to take something really depressing in one end and spit out jokes on the other, in about a hundred different ways.
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Trivia:
He has English and Irish ancestry. On his father's side, he is the grandson of Osborne George Oliver, an electricity board official, and Charlotte Hester Girdlestone, a religious education adviser.
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