I have a Stratocaster, which is part of my long, doomed ambition to become Jimi Hendrix. — Nish Kumar Ambition Copy Share Image
I think I spent a lot of my mid-twenties thinking it was a problem of my onstage persona. But, actually, it was… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
Having spent half my time at university studying English literature, I know from experience that reading lists often contain more white men… — Nish Kumar Birthday Copy Share Image
Every day I wake up and think: 'Am I part of the problem? Am I helping further entrench the political divide? All… — Nish Kumar Day Copy Share Image
I got out of university and there was a general panic throughout my family as to what I was going to do.… — Nish Kumar Family Copy Share Image
When I left my family home and had finished university, I stayed in South London but moved closer to London's center, to… — Nish Kumar Family 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 Change 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 Comedy Copy Share Image
I got fired from a job years ago. It was an accounting job. They were basically trying to cut corners, so they… — 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… — Nish Kumar Consequences 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 Comedy Copy Share Image
I don't feel I'm in competition with anyone. My sense is of it being like school: I don't want to beat anyone… — Nish Kumar Competition Copy Share Image
Viola Davis is just one of those actors who is never bad in anything. She could be in an awful film but… — Nish Kumar Actors Copy Share Image
We've all been there - you find something moving, you commission a painting. I know one wall of my living room is… — Nish Kumar Artist Copy Share Image
But there comes a landing point, where you finally get to a stage where you have something to hang your hat on.… — Nish Kumar Family Copy Share Image
The architects of Brexit are a cocktail of lying racists and buffoons. I don't think even someone as cynical as me could… — Nish Kumar Brexit Copy Share Image
When we were growing up we were all asked to accept ourselves as British citizens, and I still hold on to this… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
In the event of a Mad Max-style post-apocalyptic dystopia, people with supplies of food and water could become warlords or chieftains in… — 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 Comedy Copy Share Image
Brexit is a ceaseless grind of conversations about customs unions and backstops. Anything that can add an air of whimsical, childlike wonder… — Nish Kumar Brexit Copy Share Image
