A biography for Nish Kumarhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I've given up trying to reason with people who despise me.”
“I wish sometimes I had a passion for hats and cheese and I could do a fun show about putting hats on cheese.”
“When I left my family home and had finished university, I stayed in South London but moved closer to London's center, to Brixton and Herne Hill. Herne Hill is a tiny place that is ridiculously overstocked with lovely pubs.”
“August is the time when I can feel myself getting stronger as a comedian. I'm at the height of my powers come September.”
“You always appreciate it when people stick your neck out to support you.”
“One of the things I've stopped doing is going out of my way to make people feel OK about their mistakes.”
“As a kid who illegally streamed 'The Daily Show' it has always been a goal of mine.”
“When refugees are at a distance it's easy to be compassionate.”
“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 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 have a Stratocaster, which is part of my long, doomed ambition to become Jimi Hendrix.”
“I like having my mistakes corrected, but I wonder if it's because you're forced to have a certain humility if you're not an affluent white man.”
“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.”
“And I can tell you from firsthand experience that our train system is a mess. Carriages are full of unhappy travellers packed together like sardines, who have inexplicably paid for the privilege of being incarcerated.”
“I'm a touring standup comedian so a lot of the time I'm looking for box sets that I can put on my computer to pass the time on train journeys. I have far too much free time for an adult.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Everywhere's a party with me - I'm a factory of good times.”
“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.”