People who are privileged can take more risks because of that safety shield that privilege provides.
My only success is that I am alive.
You cannot have the same kind of character again and again in every season or every stage of your life. You change, people change.
Sometimes people don't want to laugh because it's wrong to laugh at their own establishment.
I've stopped many things such as healthy eating. What's the point? In this post-truth era, I feel increasingly powerless.
I like to dissociate myself from the person I was even three hours ago. It's a natural requirement to be a writer.
I think both comedy and dissent are liberating, for the listener as well!
Comedy as dissent or any art form as dissent is going to be our last safety valve.
I don't think stand-up comedy is becoming too serious, in fact, I wish it was. We are still mostly doing frivolous stuff.
I don't understand why people who have the most power, say people like Amitabh Bachchan, are silent on most issues.
I don't think changing minds is possible with just comedy. It's too much to expect from your own art.
British comedian Imran Yusuf is fantastic and so is Shazia Mirza, also London-based.
Self-censorship is the most devastating thing for an artist.
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.
Revolutions can be messy but they can't be perceived as unjust.
The best jokes take something awful and make it silly.
We critique all politicians who are in power, whenever there's a talking point.
