Quotes by Varun Grover - Page 1

My only success is that I am alive.
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Alive
Success Is
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The best jokes take something awful and make it silly.
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Silly
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Self-censorship is the most devastating thing for an artist.
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Self Censorship
Devastating
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Revolutions can be messy but they can't be perceived as unjust.
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Messy
Unjust
Revolutions
Perceived
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I think both comedy and dissent are liberating, for the listener as well!
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Dissent
Liberating
Listener
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We critique all politicians who are in power, whenever there's a talking point.
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Critique
Talking
Politicians
Whenever
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Comedy as dissent or any art form as dissent is going to be our last safety valve.
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Dissent
Safety
Valve
Art Form
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British comedian Imran Yusuf is fantastic and so is Shazia Mirza, also London-based.
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Comedian
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I'm okay with anybody interpreting my work anyway because I don't take it seriously.
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Interpreting
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Sometimes people don't want to laugh because it's wrong to laugh at their own establishment.
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Establishment
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People who are privileged can take more risks because of that safety shield that privilege provides.
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Privilege
Safety
Risks People More
Provides
Risks
Shield
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I like to dissociate myself from the person I was even three hours ago. It's a natural requirement to be a writer.
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Requirement
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I don't understand why people who have the most power, say people like Amitabh Bachchan, are silent on most issues.
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Silent
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I've stopped many things such as healthy eating. What's the point? In this post-truth era, I feel increasingly powerless.
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Powerless
Increasingly
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I don't think stand-up comedy is becoming too serious, in fact, I wish it was. We are still mostly doing frivolous stuff.
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Frivolous
Stand Up Comedy
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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.
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Imagining
Self-Image
Trap
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You cannot have the same kind of character again and again in every season or every stage of your life. You change, people change.
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Change
Character
Stage
Life Change Your
Life Character Your
Life Change Character
Again
Same
Cannot
Every
People Change
Season
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My set on why I won't have kids, and especially the mention of how expensive it is to have kids nowadays, always gets a great response.
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Expensive
Response
Great Always Why
Mention
Nowadays
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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.
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New Government
By The People
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I am Hindu, upper-caste, male, and able-bodied. So everything is on my side. That gives me the extra cushion that Swara Bhaskar won't get.
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I Am Me Everything
Hindu
Me I Am Everything
Cushion
Extra
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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.
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Clever
Offensive
Confrontational
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I am primarily a comedian. Sometimes I also do comedy about my cats. Now unless you find metaphors in cats, there is nothing political about those and I love doing such jokes as much as I love doing political content.
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Comedian
Cats
Metaphors
Primarily
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I was writing stand up comedy for TV for around 5 years and just wanted to attempt it myself. Vir Das started an amateur comedians' night in Bombay in 2009 and I went for the very first one. It was a competition and I won the first prize.
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Bombay
Prize
Amateur
Attempt
Comedians
First One
Stand Up
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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 nature comedy is supposed to be edgy and anti-establishment.
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Edgy
Oppressed
Ordinariness
Patriarchy
Sexism
Traps
Unkindness
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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-elite, so to say, as my stories are also from that perspective.
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Hindi
Idiom
Exact
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In any show, not everybody is completely with us on all the topics we talk about. We talk about Hindutva, and we talk about the problems with Islam also. If there are Muslims in the audience, laughing at the jokes on Hindutva, they will have to confront the jokes on Islam too.
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Islam
Topics
Confront
Muslims
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