John Oliver Biography
John Oliver is a comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host of British-American origin. In the United Kingdom, Oliver began his career as a stand-up comedian.
John Oliver Age
Oliver is 44 years old as of 2021. He was born John William Oliver on 23 April 1977 in Erdington, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
John Oliver Family
Oliver is the son of Carole and Jim Oliver. His father was a school principal as well as a social worker, and his mother was a music teacher. His parents are both originally from Liverpool, Merseyside. Stephen Oliver, the composer, was his uncle. His paternal great-great-grandfather was William Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon and court chaplain to Queen Victoria. Oliver began playing the viola as a child. He has been a Liverpool FC fan since childhood, stating in interviews that his mother’s family is from Knotty Ash and his father’s family is from the Wirral, so supporting Liverpool was not an option. She has a younger sister who lives in Australia.
John Oliver Wife
Oliver lives in New York City with his wife, Kate Norley, an Iraq War veteran, and US Army medic. They met at the 2008 Republican National Convention, according to Oliver, when he was doing a piece for The Daily Show and Norley was campaigning with Vets for Freedom. She and the other veterans managed to keep Oliver, the other correspondents, and the camera crew hidden from security.
John Oliver Children
They married in October 2011 and have two sons, one of whom was born prematurely and the other in 2018. Oliver occasionally wears a lapel pin from the 1st Cavalry Division, his wife’s unit in Iraq.
John Oliver Education
Oliver attended the Mark Rutherford School in Bedford. Following secondary school, he studied at Christ’s College, Cambridge. Oliver was a member of the Cambridge Footlights, a university theatrical club run by Cambridge University students, while a student there in the mid-to-late 1990s. David Mitchell and Richard Ayoade were among Oliver’s contemporaries. He was appointed vice president of the club in 1997. Oliver earned a degree in English from Cambridge in 1998.
John Oliver Last Week Tonight
On April 27, 2014, Oliver began hosting Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, a late-night talk show that takes a satirical look at politics and current events. In February 2015, his initial two-year contract with HBO was extended through 2017, and again in September 2017 through 2020. Given HBO’s ad-free subscription model, Oliver claims he has complete creative freedom, including the ability to criticize corporations. Oliver was named one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” in 2015 for his work on the show. At the 77th Annual Peabody Awards, Last Week Tonight received a Peabody Award in the “Entertainment” category for “bringing satire and journalism even closer together.” HBO renewed Last Week Tonight for three years, through 2023, on September 14, 2020.
John Oliver Salary
Oliver earns an annual salary of $8 Million.
John Oliver Net Worth
Oliver has an estimated net worth of $30 Million.
John Oliver Stand-Up Show
Comedy Central announced in 2009 that it would order six episodes of the Oliver-hosted John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show, a stand-up series on Comedy Central featuring sets from himself and other stand-up comedians such as Janeane Garofalo, Brian Posehn, Paul F. Tompkins, and Marc Maron. The show was executive produced by Oliver, Avalon Television’s Richard Allen-Turner, David Martin, James Taylor, and Jon Thoday. Four comics were featured in each episode. The show aired four seasons between 2010 and 2013, with the final season lasting eight episodes.
John Oliver The Bugle
Oliver co-hosted The Bugle, a weekly satirical comedy podcast, with Andy Zaltzman from October 2007 to May 2015. It was originally produced by The Times before becoming an independent project in 2012. On July 13, 2012, the 200th episode aired. The show received 500,000 downloads per month.
John Oliver The Daily Show
In July 2006, Oliver was hired as The Daily Show’s Senior British Correspondent alongside Jon Stewart. He claims he was approached for the show by comedian Ricky Gervais, who had never met Oliver but was familiar with his work. He got the job two weeks after the interview, flying from London to New York on a Sunday and unexpectedly appearing on camera the next day. In 2009, 2011, and 2012, Oliver received Emmy Awards for outstanding writing.
During the summer of 2013, Oliver served as a guest host on The Daily Show for eight weeks while Stewart worked on his film Rosewater. Oliver’s performance was praised, with some critics suggesting that he should eventually succeed Stewart as host or get his own show. The possibility of Oliver replacing Craig Ferguson on The Late Late Show was discussed by CBS. HBO announced three months after Oliver took over as host of The Daily Show that he would be getting his own late-night show.
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