Quotes from Nish Kumar

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.

I have a strange nose: it's big and weird.

I'm interested in offence and why people take offence in certain ways about certain things.

August is the time when I can feel myself getting stronger as a comedian. I'm at the height of my powers come September.

During the Brexit campaign there was a deficit of outrage.

Having spent half my time at university studying English literature, I know from experience that reading lists often contain more white men than Jacob Rees-Mogg's last birthday party.

Viola Davis is just one of those actors who is never bad in anything. She could be in an awful film but you'd never come away from it saying she was bad.

I'm in the middle of an existential crisis in how I approach comedy about these big issues. I sometimes find, when I get drawn on the subject of race, it's too close to home for me and I can't articulate what I'm trying to get across.

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer.