British comedian Imran Yusuf is fantastic and so is Shazia Mirza, also London-based. — Varun Grover Also Copy Share Image
I am Hindu, upper-caste, male, and able-bodied. So everything is on my side. That gives me the extra cushion that Swara Bhaskar… — Varun Grover Cushion Copy Share Image
I think both comedy and dissent are liberating, for the listener as well! — Varun Grover Comedy Copy Share Image
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 Becoming Copy Share Image
I don't think changing minds is possible with just comedy. It's too much to expect from your own art. — Varun Grover Art Copy Share Image
We critique all politicians who are in power, whenever there's a talking point. — Varun Grover Point Copy Share Image
If you start imagining an audience for yourself, you don't do justice to the job. You fall into that trap of a… — Varun Grover Audience Copy Share Image
I don't understand why people who have the most power, say people like Amitabh Bachchan, are silent on most issues. — Varun Grover People Copy Share Image
Speaking in Hindi has helped me a lot as I can tell my stories with the exact idiom in which they come… — Varun Grover Bollywood Copy Share Image
I was writing stand up comedy for TV for around 5 years and just wanted to attempt it myself. Vir Das started… — Varun Grover Competition Copy Share Image
There's a lot of ordinariness, and people tend to play to the same regressive tropes - sexism, patriarchy, unkindness to the oppressed.… — Varun Grover Comedy Copy Share Image
You cannot have the same kind of character again and again in every season or every stage of your life. You change,… — Varun Grover Change Copy Share Image
Comedy as dissent or any art form as dissent is going to be our last safety valve. — Varun Grover Art Copy Share Image
My set on why I won't have kids, and especially the mention of how expensive it is to have kids nowadays, always… — Varun Grover Always Copy Share Image
When a new government comes, even the detractors want to give them a chance because they have been voted in by the… — Varun Grover Chance Copy Share Image
I've stopped many things such as healthy eating. What's the point? In this post-truth era, I feel increasingly powerless. — Varun Grover Eating Copy Share Image
Sometimes people don't want to laugh because it's wrong to laugh at their own establishment. — Varun Grover Comedy Copy Share Image
People who are privileged can take more risks because of that safety shield that privilege provides. — Varun Grover More Copy Share Image
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 Dissociate Copy Share Image
I'm okay with anybody interpreting my work anyway because I don't take it seriously. — Varun Grover Because Copy Share Image
Revolutions can be messy but they can't be perceived as unjust. — Varun Grover Messy Copy Share Image
In general, even when I'm not doing political comedy, I want to be clever and find the least confrontational way to say… — Varun Grover Clever Copy Share Image
I am primarily a comedian. Sometimes I also do comedy about my cats. Now unless you find metaphors in cats, there is… — Varun Grover Cats Copy Share Image
In any show, not everybody is completely with us on all the topics we talk about. We talk about Hindutva, and we… — Varun Grover Audience Copy Share Image
