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John Oliver (comedian)
John William Oliver (born 23 April 1977) is an English comedian, political commentator, television host, and occasional actor. He is widely known in the United States for hosting HBO's ''Last Week Tonight with John Oliver'' and for his work on ''The Daily Show with Jon Stewart''. He co-hosts the satirical comedy podcast ''The Bugle'' and hosted ''John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show'' on Comedy Central.
He has worked extensively with Andy Zaltzman; their body of work includes hundreds of hours of satirical podcasts and radio broadcasts, including series such as ''Political Animal'', ''The Department'', and ''The Bugle''.
==Early life==
Oliver was born in Erdington, a suburb of Birmingham, and educated in Bedford at the Mark Rutherford School. He is the son of Carole, a music teacher, and Jim Oliver, school headmaster and social worker, both originally from Liverpool. His uncle was composer Stephen Oliver, and his paternal great-great-grandfather was William Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon and court chaplain to Queen Victoria.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Oliver, Stephen Michael Harding (1950-1992), composer )〕 In the mid to late 1990s, Oliver was a member of the Cambridge Footlights, the comedy troupe run by students of Cambridge University, with contemporaries including David Mitchell and Richard Ayoade. In 1997, he was the troupe's vice president.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.footlights.org/alumni-archive?name=1990-1999 )〕 In 1998, he graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Reporter 8/7/98: Congregations of the Regent House on 26 and 27 June 1998 )〕 where he read English.
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