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.

Varun Grover

You cannot have the same kind of character again and again in every season or every stage of your life. You change, people change.

Varun Grover

People who are privileged can take more risks because of that safety shield that privilege provides.

Varun Grover

I've stopped many things such as healthy eating. What's the point? In this post-truth era, I feel increasingly powerless.

Varun Grover

I'm okay with anybody interpreting my work anyway because I don't take it seriously.

Varun Grover

I like to dissociate myself from the person I was even three hours ago. It's a natural requirement to be a writer.

Varun Grover

I don't think stand-up comedy is becoming too serious, in fact, I wish it was. We are still mostly doing frivolous stuff.

Varun Grover

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

Varun Grover

British comedian Imran Yusuf is fantastic and so is Shazia Mirza, also London-based.

Varun Grover

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.

Varun Grover

The best jokes take something awful and make it silly.

Varun Grover

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.

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.

Varun Grover

My only success is that I am alive.

Varun Grover

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.

Varun Grover

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.

Varun Grover

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

Varun Grover

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.

Varun Grover

I don't understand why people who have the most power, say people like Amitabh Bachchan, are silent on most issues.

Varun Grover

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.

Varun Grover

I don't think changing minds is possible with just comedy. It's too much to expect from your own art.

Varun Grover