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- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn’t as cynical about Britain as a lot of friends of mine who are also people of colour.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents wanted me to be a lawyer.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I’m sure when alternative comedy started, before which - Billy Connolly aside - standup was essentially a person being racist and sexist onstage, there was also the sense that this was the death of comedy. But it’s just progress.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
There’s a fear when you’re a comedian of just being hectoring, so you do try to fight against that.
- Start
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you’re walking down the street and a kid shouts ‘paki’ it does start to get to you.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I might have been lucky to grow up in the 90s, but I think, actually, we started getting complacent about prejudice. We thought we had killed prejudice, and if you were still talking about it you were just going on too much.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a Stratocaster, which is part of my long, doomed ambition to become Jimi Hendrix.
- Nose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a strange nose: it’s big and weird.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing political comedy you do feel guilty that you aren’t trying to change problems, you are merely exploiting them for your own financial gain.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish sometimes I had a passion for hats and cheese and I could do a fun show about putting hats on cheese.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don’t feel I’m in competition with anyone. My sense is of it being like school: I don’t want to beat anyone but I don’t want to get left behind. That’s a great motivator. I like impressing my friends.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I’m in the middle of an existential crisis in how I approach comedy about these big issues. I sometimes find, when I get drawn on the subject of race, it’s too close to home for me and I can’t articulate what I’m trying to get across.
- Humility
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like having my mistakes corrected, but I wonder if it’s because you’re forced to have a certain humility if you’re not an affluent white man.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
All comedy shows make me feel better about everything.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020