Varun Grover Quotes

Comedy is the ultimate anarchist.

Irreverence is an essential part of our culture.

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

What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.

It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

I couldn't fight, and I wasn't particularly interested in the academic. So I started doing satiric bits in the school bathroom. Guys would cut class to come and see me.

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

It is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

Comedians have to challenge the power. Comedians should be dangerous and devastating - and funny. That's the hardest part.

Let's just let funny people be funny.

There's always stuff to rebel against.

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

I used to think of myself as a comedian. I've always admired comedians. Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There's a liberation in that.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution

I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians need prejudice.

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.