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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
I once got chased off stage by a heavy-metal band.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Viola Davis is just one of those actors who is never bad in anything. She could be in an awful film but you’d never come away from it saying she was bad.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I’m a touring standup comedian so a lot of the time I’m looking for box sets that I can put on my computer to pass the time on train journeys. I have far too much free time for an adult.
- Glow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend a lot of time bathing in a glow of consensus, but you have to be willing to say something to people who might not agree with you and take the consequences of what follows.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got out of university and there was a general panic throughout my family as to what I was going to do. For about six months, I did this job in recruitment and I was just so awful at it. I jumped before I was pushed.
- Hat
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- Nov 07, 2020
But there comes a landing point, where you finally get to a stage where you have something to hang your hat on. Then your family see that this is definitely happening and you’re making a success of it.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
The job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but a lot of my interests are in politics so I’m going to use that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to have your own internal barometer of what is too far. I try and consider feelings of people in the audience. What you have to try and do is that when there is something that could be seen as a transgression, you actually have a reason to justify the joke.
- Nov 07, 2020
I’m interested in offence and why people take offence in certain ways about certain things.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I like the process of putting a show together and the impact that Edinburgh has on me as a performer.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
August is the time when I can feel myself getting stronger as a comedian. I’m at the height of my powers come September.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I’ve stopped doing is going out of my way to make people feel OK about their mistakes.
- British
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we were growing up we were all asked to accept ourselves as British citizens, and I still hold on to this idea that multicultural Britain is possible.
- Denial
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were in denial about the extent to which Britain had cured itself of the poison of racism.
- Glow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend a lot of time bathing in a glow of consensus but you also have to be willing to say something to people who might not agree with you and take the consequences of what follows.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every day I wake up and think: ‘Am I part of the problem? Am I helping further entrench the political divide? All the raging mouthpieces of the right that I’m furious with - am I just the same but on the left?’ I have no easy answers to that.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020