Comedy Dissent Quotes by Varun Grover

People who are privileged can take more risks because of that safety shield that privilege provides.

— Varun Grover

My only success is that I am alive.

— Varun Grover

We critique all politicians who are in power, whenever there's a talking point.

— Varun Grover

British comedian Imran Yusuf is fantastic and so is Shazia Mirza, also London-based.

— Varun Grover

Sometimes people don't want to laugh because it's wrong to laugh at their own establishment.

— Varun Grover

If you start imagining an audience for yourself, you don't do justice to the job. You fall into that trap of a self-image.

— Varun Grover

I like to dissociate myself from the person I was even three hours ago. It's a natural requirement to be a writer.

— Varun Grover

Comedy as dissent or any art form as dissent is going to be our last safety valve.

— Varun Grover

I don't think changing minds is possible with just comedy. It's too much to expect from your own art.

— Varun Grover

I don't think stand-up comedy is becoming too serious, in fact, I wish it was. We are still mostly doing frivolous stuff.

— Varun Grover

There's a lot of ordinariness, and people tend to play to the same regressive tropes - sexism, patriarchy, unkindness to the oppressed. Comedy shouldn't…

— Varun Grover

You cannot have the same kind of character again and again in every season or every stage of your life. You change, people change.

— Varun Grover

When a new government comes, even the detractors want to give them a chance because they have been voted in by the people of…

— Varun Grover

Speaking in Hindi has helped me a lot as I can tell my stories with the exact idiom in which they come to me.…

— Varun Grover

I don't understand why people who have the most power, say people like Amitabh Bachchan, are silent on most issues.

— Varun Grover