A biography for Nish Kumarhasn’t been written yet.
“I have a strange nose: it's big and weird.”
“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.”
“I'm quite a prolific self-gift-giver.”
“We were in denial about the extent to which Britain had cured itself of the poison of racism.”
“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.”
“During the Brexit campaign there was a deficit of outrage.”
“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.”
“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 a standup comedian who can't drive. I have never learned. I don't trust my hand-eye coordination. You're looking at someone who once dropped a cricket ball on to his own head during a routine catching practice; I don't think it's a great idea to have me in control of a high-speed metal death robot.”
“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 '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.”
“There's a fear when you're a comedian of just being hectoring, so you do try to fight against that.”
“Apparently, it makes me hard to shop for because I'm constantly buying myself presents.”
“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 consider it, the life of being a comedian - they have a right to boo me.”
“We've all been there - you find something moving, you commission a painting. I know one wall of my living room is taken up by a mural of the end of Toy Story 3.”
“I think that there's a real appetite for opinion-driven satire, not just generic making jokes about what's in the news but actually point-of-view-driven stuff.”
“But I like the process of putting a show together and the impact that Edinburgh has on me as a performer.”
“I'm quite good at Lego and Fifa, but they don't translate in the real world.”
“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.”