Comedy Quotes by Nish Kumar

11 Comedy quotes by Nish Kumar

These eleven snippets capture Nish Kumar’s blend of satire and insight, offering a short, engaging look at his comedic approach.

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There's a fear when you're a comedian of just being hectoring, so you do try to fight against that.

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All comedy shows make me feel better about everything.

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I'm a touring standup comedian so a lot of the time I'm looking for box sets that I can put on my…

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August is the time when I can feel myself getting stronger as a comedian. I'm at the height of my powers come…

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Doing political comedy you do feel guilty that you aren't trying to change problems, you are merely exploiting them for your own…

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There's a 'Seinfeld' episode, where he talks about why he can't get angry, because his voice rises to a comedic pitch and…

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The job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but a lot of my interests are in politics so I'm going…

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I'm sure when alternative comedy started, before which - Billy Connolly aside - standup was essentially a person being racist and sexist…

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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…

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You have to have your own internal barometer of what is too far. I try and consider feelings of people in the…

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I'm in the middle of an existential crisis in how I approach comedy about these big issues. I sometimes find, when I…

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When you're walking down the street and a kid shouts 'paki' it does start to get to you.

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Apparently, it makes me hard to shop for because I'm constantly buying myself presents.

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When I was growing up, and periodically going to India to visit my grandmother, my classmates would often ask me about the trains. There…

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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…

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My parents wanted me to be a lawyer.

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Every day I wake up and think: 'Am I part of the problem? Am I helping further entrench the political divide? All the raging…

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