Varun Grover

“In general, even when I'm not doing political comedy, I want to be clever and find the least confrontational way to say the most offensive things.”

“Speaking in Hindi has helped me a lot as I can tell my stories with the exact idiom in which they come to me. I think it also helps the audience when I am speaking in a language that is non-...”

“When a new government comes, even the detractors want to give them a chance because they have been voted in by the people of the country.”

“There’s a lot of ordinariness, and people tend to play to the same regressive tropes - sexism, patriarchy, unkindness to the oppressed. Comedy shouldn’t fall into these traps - by its very n...”

“Self-censorship is the most devastating thing for an artist.”

“Comedy as dissent or any art form as dissent is going to be our last safety valve.”