John William Oliver is an English Comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host. He started his career as a stand-up comedian in the United Kingdom and the United States. He is best known as The Daily Show's senior British correspondent. He has been the host of the HBO series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
John Oliver was born on April 23, 1977, in the Birmingham suburb of Erdington, England. He holds British nationality. His birth sign is Taurus. Oliver dreamed of one day becoming a professional football player. He attended Christ's College at the University of Cambridge to study English, though he found himself more occupied with stand-up comedy than with keeping up with his schoolwork. He graduated from Christ College with a degree in English in 1998.
John Oliver was born to a father named Jim Oliver and a mother named Carole Oliver. His father Jim Oliver was a school headmaster and a social worker and his mother Carole Oliver was a music teacher.
John Oliver is a comedian. He has a height of 6ft and weight about 77 Kg. He has dark brown hair and brown eyes.
John Oliver was a married man with Kate Norley, an Iraq War veteran who served as a United States Army medic. They met at the 2008 Republican National Convention, he was doing a piece for the Daily shoe and Norley was campaigning with Vets for Freedom. They married in October 2011. The couple has two sons who born prematurely in 2015 and born in 2018.
John Oliver estimated net worth of $5 million and his annual salary around $2 million.
He won three Primetime Emmy Awards for his work as a writer on The Daily Show and was its guest host for an eight-week period in 2013. He has won six Emmy Awards and two Peabody Awards and was included in the 2015 Time 100.