72 - Nish Kumar - a podcast by Tom Ballard
from 2016-09-13T11:41:31
Finally! An actual new ep!
And what an ep it is. Comedian, writer and broadcaster Nish Kumar hosts topical comedy show Newsjack on the BBC and has been twice nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award. He writes very smart, politically charged comedy and his laugh is glorious to behold.
Here Nish and I discuss the current "spicy meatball" of a political period the UK is experiencing. From the concept of "right-wing comedy" to post-Brexit xenophobia to Jeremy Corbyn to Jo Cox to Trump to Hanson, this has got everything you've been craving.
The World Keeps Happening at the Soho Theatre
Campaign for Australian Aid’s Comedy Gala Who The Bloody Hell Are We?
Boundless Plains To Share at the Belvoir Theatre, January 2017
Article: Brexit: a disaster decades in the making by Gary Younge
Fences: A Brexit Diary by Zadie Smith
Article: No one told me to go home for 16 years then we voted for Brexit by Nish Kumar
Video: What can a satirist do with our post-truth politics? by Nish Kumar
Cause of the Week: We Love Immigration: A Comedy Night for Migrant Rights Network, Help Refugees UK (helprefugees.org.uk)
Further episodes of Like I'm A Six-Year-Old
Further podcasts by Tom Ballard
Website of Tom Ballard