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Comedy as dissent is going to be our last safety valve...Varun Grover writes

Hindustan Times | ByVarun Grover
Sep 14, 2019 10:11 PM IST

The stand-up comic, screenwriter and lyricist thinks comedy is a strong medium to bring about social change

I am primarily a comedian. Sometimes I also do comedy about my cats. Now unless you find metaphors in cats, there is nothing political about those and I love doing such jokes as much as I love doing political content. I don’t think stand-up comedy is becoming too serious, in fact, I wish it was. We are still mostly doing frivolous stuff.

According to Varun Grover stand-up comedy has not become too serious
According to Varun Grover stand-up comedy has not become too serious
Today, you have to engage people in a different way, and one such effective way is through storytelling, through comedy and satire, because it works as an icebreaker, as a channel opener
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