There's a fear when you're a comedian of just being hectoring, so you do try to fight against that. — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
August is the time when I can feel myself getting stronger as a comedian. I'm at the height of my powers come… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
I'm a touring standup comedian so a lot of the time I'm looking for box sets that I can put on my… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
There's a 'Seinfeld' episode, where he talks about why he can't get angry, because his voice rises to a comedic pitch and… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
Doing political comedy you do feel guilty that you aren't trying to change problems, you are merely exploiting them for your own… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
The job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but a lot of my interests are in politics so I'm going… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
I'm a standup comedian who can't drive. I have never learned. I don't trust my hand-eye coordination. You're looking at someone who… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
I'm sure when alternative comedy started, before which - Billy Connolly aside - standup was essentially a person being racist and sexist… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
You have to have your own internal barometer of what is too far. I try and consider feelings of people in the… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
I'm in the middle of an existential crisis in how I approach comedy about these big issues. I sometimes find, when I… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time bathing in a glow of consensus but you also have to be willing to say something to people… — Nish Kumar Copy Share
The important thing with Facebook is to remember that it played a role in facilitating Brexit because it inadvertently allowed leave-supporting groups to use… — Nish Kumar Copy Share
In the event of a Mad Max-style post-apocalyptic dystopia, people with supplies of food and water could become warlords or chieftains in the social… — Nish Kumar Copy Share
When I left my family home and had finished university, I stayed in South London but moved closer to London's center, to Brixton and… — Nish Kumar Copy Share
When you're walking down the street and a kid shouts 'paki' it does start to get to you. — Nish Kumar Copy Share
I've still got a bit of angst about campaigning for a particular party. I want to write jokes about whoever I want without toeing… — Nish Kumar Copy Share
Apparently, it makes me hard to shop for because I'm constantly buying myself presents. — Nish Kumar Copy Share
I might have been lucky to grow up in the 90s, but I think, actually, we started getting complacent about prejudice. We thought we… — Nish Kumar Copy Share
When I was growing up, and periodically going to India to visit my grandmother, my classmates would often ask me about the trains. There… — Nish Kumar Copy Share
Viola Davis is just one of those actors who is never bad in anything. She could be in an awful film but you'd never… — Nish Kumar Copy Share
Every day I wake up and think: 'Am I part of the problem? Am I helping further entrench the political divide? All the raging… — Nish Kumar Copy Share
The job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but a lot of my interests are in politics so I'm going to use… — Nish Kumar Copy Share
I think I spent a lot of my mid-twenties thinking it was a problem of my onstage persona. But, actually, it was my actual… — Nish Kumar Copy Share
I wish sometimes I had a passion for hats and cheese and I could do a fun show about putting hats on cheese. — Nish Kumar Copy Share
