Quotes from Nish Kumar

When I was growing up, and periodically going to India to visit my grandmother, my classmates would often ask me about the trains. There was an exotic fascination with people sitting on top of the carriages.

But I like the process of putting a show together and the impact that Edinburgh has on me as a performer.

The important thing with Facebook is to remember that it played a role in facilitating Brexit because it inadvertently allowed leave-supporting groups to use harvested data to target key voters.

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.

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.

I once got chased off stage by a heavy-metal band.

In the event of a Mad Max-style post-apocalyptic dystopia, people with supplies of food and water could become warlords or chieftains in the social order that emerges out of the rubble.

There's a fear when you're a comedian of just being hectoring, so you do try to fight against that.

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.

All comedy shows make me feel better about everything.

We were in denial about the extent to which Britain had cured itself of the poison of racism.

I consider it, the life of being a comedian - they have a right to boo me.

I wasn't as cynical about Britain as a lot of friends of mine who are also people of colour.

As a kid who illegally streamed 'The Daily Show' it has always been a goal of mine.

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.

The architects of Brexit are a cocktail of lying racists and buffoons. I don't think even someone as cynical as me could have predicted how deeply stupid these people are.

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.

I just love buying myself presents. Is that a crime?

Apparently, it makes me hard to shop for because I'm constantly buying myself presents.

Brexit is a ceaseless grind of conversations about customs unions and backstops. Anything that can add an air of whimsical, childlike wonder to proceedings can only be a good thing.

I'm quite a prolific self-gift-giver.

I got fired from a job years ago. It was an accounting job. They were basically trying to cut corners, so they employed a bunch of temps to do proper accounting. And it just caused absolute bedlam and I did get fired.

I've still got a bit of angst about campaigning for a particular party. I want to write jokes about whoever I want without toeing a party line.

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.