Cushion Quote by Varun Grover

“I am Hindu, upper-caste, male, and able-bodied. So everything is on my side. That gives me the extra cushion that Swara Bhaskar won't get.”

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

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My only success is that I am alive.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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…

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

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