Doing political comedy you do feel guilty that you aren’t trying to change problems, you are merely exploiting them for your own financial gain.
— Nish Kumar
I have a Stratocaster, which is part of my long, doomed ambition to become Jimi Hendrix.
When you’re walking down the street and a kid shouts ‘paki’ it does start to get to you.
My parents wanted me to be a lawyer.
When I am on stage, I am often thinking about what I will eat after the show.
I might have been lucky to grow up in the 90s, but I think, actually, we started getting complacent about prejudice. We thought we had killed prejudice, and if you were still talking about it you were just going on too much.
There’s a fear when you’re a comedian of just being hectoring, so you do try to fight against that.
I wasn’t as cynical about Britain as a lot of friends of mine who are also people of colour.
I have a strange nose: it’s big and weird.
During the Brexit campaign there was a deficit of outrage.
I’m sure when alternative comedy started, before which - Billy Connolly aside - standup was essentially a person being racist and sexist onstage, there was also the sense that this was the death of comedy. But it’s just progress.
There’s a 'Seinfeld' episode, where he talks about why he can’t get angry, because his voice rises to a comedic pitch and no one takes him seriously - and that’s true of me, too.
