Comedian & HBO Host JOHN OLIVER Announces Fall Tour

John Oliver, the host of Last Week Tonight, announces a fall tour with 15 dates including a stop at DPAC, Durham Performing Arts Center, on December 5, 2014. His last two appearances at DPAC sold out in 2011 and 2013.

Tickets go on sale Friday, August 15 at 12 p.m.:

• Online at DPACnc.com
• DPAC Ticket Center: 919.680.2787, 123 Vivian Street, Durham, NC
• Ticketmaster.com / Ticketmaster Charge by phone at 800.745.3000

Friends of DPAC members may place their orders starting August 13. Joining Friends of DPAC is free, and you can register at http://www.dpacnc.com/fod.

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.

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 has now 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 also continues to successfully tour the U.S. as a stand up. He 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 has recently appeared in The Simpsons as Marge and Homer's next-door neighbor, Booth Wilkes-John.

"Oliver is a master storyteller, stringing jokes together so tightly that not a syllable falls out of place." - The Onion

"The most intelligent political stand-up you'll see this year." - The Times

Follow John on twitter at @iamjohnoliver.

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ABOUT DPAC:
Since its opening in 2008, DPAC, Durham Performing Arts Center, has become the center for live entertainment in the Triangle. Recognized for its contemporary design, DPAC features 2,700 seats, intimate sightlines and state-of-the art sound and video. Listed four times in the top 10 in Pollstar magazine's annual worldwide theater attendance rankings, DPAC is currently the #3 ranked theater in the U.S.

What is up next at DPAC? An Intimate Evening of Rock 3 DOORS DOWN ACOUSTIC: SONGS From The Basement (August 17), Must-See Singer-Songwriter Superstar TORI AMOS (August 20), and NEEDTOBREATHE with special guest The Oh Hellos (August 24).

For more information please go to http://www.DPACnc.com.