John Oliver to Perform at Beacon Theatre, 1/30

New York, NY (October 13, 2014) - Live Nation announced today that John Oliver, host of HBO's Last Week Tonight, will be performing at The Beacon Theatre on Friday, January 30, 2015 at 7:30PM. John Oliver is an Emmy and Writer's Guild Award winning writer. His HBO show, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, presents a satirical look at the week in news, politics and current events. On his occasional breaks from television, John returns to his first love of stand-up and plays to sold out venues across the US. Tickets on sale Friday, October 17 at 9:00AM.

From 2006 to 2013 John was a correspondent and guest host on the multi-award winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He first came to prominence as a cutting-edge political stand up in the UK, with a string of television appearances and sold-out solo shows at the Edinburgh Festival. Having made the move to America in 2006 to work on The Daily Show, John won the Breakout Award at the Aspen Comedy Festival in 2007 and went on to write and star in his first hour long Comedy Central stand up special John Oliver: Terrifying Times in 2008. Such was its success that John hosted four seasons of his own stand up series for Comedy Central, John Oliver's New York Stand Up Show, featuring a hand-picked selection of his favorite comedians.

With long-time collaborator Andy Zaltzman, John co-writes and co-presents the hugely popular weekly satirical podcast The Bugle. Its success has grown significantly since its inception in 2007 and now pulls in over 500,000 downloads a week. John and Andy previously wrote and starred in three series of The Department (BBC Radio 4) alongside Chris Addison, as well as two series of BBC Radio 4 show Political Animal, based on their satirical live stand-up show.

John has a regular guest role on NBC's sitcom Community, is the voice of Vanity Smurf in The Smurfs movie and its sequel The Smurfs 2, and appeared in The Simpsons as Marge and Homer's next-door neighbor, Booth Wilkes-John.