AR: In the Indian comedy scene, how important has politics been, historically?
VG: Always. Again, comedy has an inbuilt incentive to say politically incorrect things. That’s why people go to comedy, even if it’s slapstick comedy, a lot of times it is politically incorrect, and that’s why it gets a laugh – so there is an incentive to include politics. Even if it is sometimes regressive politics and sometimes progressive politics, but it is there. So that’ll always be there. And that’s an important part of comedy.
AR: Everyone has their own gods. Can you write a joke about those you revere?
VG: Definitely. I keep writing jokes about people I revere. In fact, my latest standup solo ‘Nothing Makes Sense’ which I’m travelling with right now, has a whole section on how people like me, the so-called liberals have failed and there is a whole section on the figures of the liberals in India and that has a huge hand in shaping where are going.
AR: Do you enjoy the process of…
