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Varun Grover Quotes
Varun Grover Quotes
Varun Grover
American
Writer
Born:
1959
Also
Because
Comedy
People
Think
You
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
Me
I Am
Extra
Side
Everything
Gives
Hindu
Am
Male
Get
Cushion
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
Government
People
Country
Give
New
Voted
Because
New Government
Been
Want
Them
Even
Chance
By The People
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
Great
Nowadays
Kids
Response
Mention
Always
How
Gets
Expensive
Why
Set
Self-censorship is the most devastating thing for an artist.
Varun Grover
Devastating
Self-Censorship
Most
Artist
Thing
Revolutions can be messy but they can't be perceived as unjust.
Varun Grover
Unjust
Perceived
Messy
Revolutions
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
Me
I Am
Perspective
Language
Think
I Think
Say
I Can
Tell
Exact
Come
Also
Hindi
Idiom
Audience
Am
Lot
Stories
Which
Speaking
Helped
Helps
We critique all politicians who are in power, whenever there’s a talking point.
Varun Grover
Power
Politicians
Critique
Point
Talking
Whenever
Who
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.
Varun Grover
Nature
People
Comedy
Fall
Unkindness
Sexism
Tend
Supposed
Edgy
Oppressed
Lot
Very
Same
Patriarchy
Ordinariness
Traps
Play
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
Life
Character
You
Change
People
People Change
Stage
Every
Kind
Same
Cannot
Again
Your
Season
I don’t understand why people who have the most power, say people like Amitabh Bachchan, are silent on most issues.
Varun Grover
People
Power
Say
Silent
Like
Most
Understand
Issues
Who
Why
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
Comedy
Political
Clever
Way
Say
Find
General
Most
Least
Doing
Offensive
Want
Confrontational
Even
Things
Comedy as dissent or any art form as dissent is going to be our last safety valve.
Varun Grover
Art
Comedy
Safety
Dissent
Our
Valve
Art Form
Any
Going
Form
Last
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
Jokes
Problems
Will
Islam
Too
Everybody
Topics
Laughing
Muslims
About
Talk
Also
Audience
Any
Confront
Us
Show