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.
Comedy as dissent or any art form as dissent is going to be our last safety valve.
Self-censorship is the most devastating thing for an artist.
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.
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.
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.