- Had a koala chlamydia clinic in Australia (donated by Russell Crowe) named after him.
- Oliver met his wife, Kate Norley, when he was covering the 2008 Republican Convention for The Daily Show (1996). Norley, an Army veteran who served as a medic in the Iraq War, was there with a group called Vets for Freedom.
- Attributes his success in the US to fellow Brit Ricky Gervais who "blindly" recommended him to Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show (1996), where Oliver served a seven-year tenure before landing his own show, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014).
- Graduated from Cambridge University
- On his father's side, John is the great-great-grandson of The Rev. William Boyd Carpenter (1841-1918), who was a court chaplain to Queen Victoria and the Bishop of Ripon. He was from a prominent family that produced many Church of England clergy.
- Has two sons (b. November 2015 and b. June 2018).
- Favorite homeland soccer team is Liverpool.
- Moved from UK to the U.S. in 2006 and became a US citizen on 13 December 2019. He maintains dual citizenship.
- Often writes and performs with friend Andy Zaltzman.
- 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.
- Writer and star of Radio 4's "The Department" alongside Chris Addison and Andy Zaltzman.
- Son of Liverpudlian parents, Carole, a music teacher, and Jim Oliver, a school headmaster and social worker.
- His uncle (father's brother) was composer Stephen Oliver.
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