When refugees are at a distance it's easy to be compassionate. — Nish Kumar Compassion 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 August Copy Share Image
There's a fear when you're a comedian of just being hectoring, so you do try to fight against that. — Nish Kumar Being Copy Share Image
I wasn't as cynical about Britain as a lot of friends of mine who are also people of colour. — Nish Kumar About Copy Share Image
Apparently, it makes me hard to shop for because I'm constantly buying myself presents. — Nish Kumar Buying 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 Comedian Copy Share Image
When you're walking down the street and a kid shouts 'paki' it does start to get to you. — Nish Kumar Does Copy Share Image
But I like the process of putting a show together and the impact that Edinburgh has on me as a performer. — Nish Kumar Edinburgh Copy Share Image
When I am on stage, I am often thinking about what I will eat after the show. — Nish Kumar I am Copy Share Image
I think that there's a real appetite for opinion-driven satire, not just generic making jokes about what's in the news but actually… — Nish Kumar I think Copy Share Image
The important thing with Facebook is to remember that it played a role in facilitating Brexit because it inadvertently allowed leave-supporting groups… — Nish Kumar Brexit Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, and periodically going to India to visit my grandmother, my classmates would often ask me about the… — Nish Kumar Carriages 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 Angry Copy Share Image
I might have been lucky to grow up in the 90s, but I think, actually, we started getting complacent about prejudice. We… — Nish Kumar Grow Copy Share Image
If you're reaching for a local reference to drop for a place that is typical of everything wrong with Britain, you would… — Nish Kumar Country 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 think I spent a lot of my mid-twenties thinking it was a problem of my onstage persona. But, actually, it was… — Nish Kumar I think Copy Share Image
One of the things I've stopped doing is going out of my way to make people feel OK about their mistakes. — Nish Kumar Feel Copy Share Image
If you can build up a sense of self-confidence if you're non-white by the time you're 15, 16 then that can't be… — Nish Kumar Build Copy Share Image
Frustration with the trains is inevitable, given the daily difficulties commuters face. — Nish Kumar Daily Copy Share Image
I consider it, the life of being a comedian - they have a right to boo me. — Nish Kumar Being Copy Share Image
We were in denial about the extent to which Britain had cured itself of the poison of racism. — Nish Kumar About Copy Share Image
I've still got a bit of angst about campaigning for a particular party. I want to write jokes about whoever I want… — Nish Kumar About Copy Share Image
I have a Stratocaster, which is part of my long, doomed ambition to become Jimi Hendrix. — Nish Kumar Ambition Copy Share Image
I wish sometimes I had a passion for hats and cheese and I could do a fun show about putting hats on… — Nish Kumar Fun 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 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
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
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
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 Apocalyptic Copy Share Image
You always appreciate it when people stick your neck out to support you. — Nish Kumar Always Copy Share Image
For many of us, football is both a source of frustration and absolute euphoria. — Nish Kumar Euphoria Copy Share Image
