I think I spent a lot of my mid-twenties thinking it was a problem of my onstage persona. But, actually, it was my actual personality. I was still working out what kind of person I was. Nish Kumar Read Quote
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 taken away from you. Nish Kumar Read Quote
As a kid who illegally streamed ‘The Daily Show’ it has always been a goal of mine. Nish Kumar Read Quote
When we were growing up we were all asked to accept ourselves as British citizens, and I still hold on to this idea that multicultural Britain is possible. Nish Kumar Read Quote
I got out of university and there was a general panic throughout my family as to what I was going to do. For about six months, I did this job in recruitment and I was just so awful at it. I jumped before I was pushed. Nish Kumar Read Quote
But there comes a landing point, where you finally get to a stage where you have something to hang your hat on. Then your family see that this is definitely happening and you’re making a success of it. Nish Kumar Read Quote
The job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but a lot of my interests are in politics so I’m going to use that. Nish Kumar Read Quote
You have to have your own internal barometer of what is too far. I try and consider feelings of people in the audience. What you have to try and do is that when there is something that could be seen as a transgression, you actually have a reason to justify the joke. Nish Kumar Read Quote
I’m interested in offence and why people take offence in certain ways about certain things. Nish Kumar Read Quote
