@lowqualityfacts Well, of course, John Oliver was born in Alabama, moved to London at age one, had the most haughty and insufferable Received Pronunciation you can imagine, and even against those odds, managed to turn out a good man with intelligent but not condescending diction.
@profdc9 @lowqualityfacts John Oliver, ca. 2004 - demonstrating that he’s pretty much always sounded like that. Solid middle class accent, absolutely not classical RP but definitely “middle class kid who grew up in Bedford”. :)
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Helen Keller used to baby sit him at her home in Tuscumbia. She almost drowned him in the well.
@lowqualityfacts Is this the fella with the cooking show on the telly?
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That's Jamie, John's alter ego.
@lowqualityfacts It doesn't work, sadly.
@lowqualityfacts I believe he was born in Alabamingham in the English Midlands.
@lowqualityfacts Stephen Colbert was born in Edinburgh
@lowqualityfacts I thought that's what the glasses were for.
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Actually, it was Oregon. But his nanny was from Boston, MA.
@lowqualityfacts I knew it deep down inside, just never had the courage to admit it.