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My 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
Tags: american, some, someone, family

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I would much rather America was a more stable, wonderful place. You know, I love it.
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A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.
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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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