435 - Nish Kumar Returns
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2023
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
Nish Kumar is one of the most powerful and provocative voices in British stand-up comedy, and his debut special “Your Power, Your Control” is streaming now on Sky On Demand & Now TV, for those in the UK & Ireland. He returns to the podcast to talk in depth about the creative process behind the writing of that show, the inciting incident in which a bread roll was thrown at him at a charity gig, and how that led to a media frenzy, terrifying death threats, and ultimately a total re-evaluation of his mental health.
We talk about making serious things funny, and the phenomenal rise of The Mash report, as well as “Birbiglifying”, “Frankensteining”, and phantom pooping…
23mins of extras exclusively available to members of the Insiders Club include Nish on his therapy journey, writing topical stuff for The Mash Report, and the rollercoaster of creating a stand-up show, from first scribblings to the marathon of the Fringe.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Stu here just popping in before the show starts to let you know that my comedy special |
| 0:04.2 | I need you alive is now available at Stuart Goldsmith dot com |
| 0:08.1 | There's a link there where you can watch it on an breathtaking array of places for the rest of the month |
| 0:13.2 | Including the 800 pound gorilla website Amazon Prime in the UK and US X-Box |
| 0:17.8 | God knows how they do that as well as loads of other links to catch it on audio go to Stuart Goldsmith dot com and |
| 0:23.6 | Watch this show that I am staggeringly proud of and do watch it if you can because it's very pretty |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith. This is the comedians comedian podcast and today I am delighted to welcome back to the show Nish Kumar |
| 0:51.3 | Who has a stand-up special streaming now on Sky on demand and now TV for those in the UK and Ireland |
| 0:58.7 | I'm not entirely clear on whether that whole sentence is for those in the UK and Ireland |
| 1:03.8 | But you are certainly if you're in those places or presumably if you have access to a VPN of any kind you can access |
| 1:09.8 | Nish's stand-up special streaming now on Sky on demand and now TV and in this in this episode |
| 1:16.1 | Which is lovely Nish came to my house and we hung out in my kitchen and we reminisced about living together and |
| 1:22.8 | The phantom pooper more on that later and we do a bit of a post mortem on the mash report |
| 1:28.7 | And we talk about the match reports phenomenal rise through digital content and the role that Nish played in that and we talk about how things |
| 1:37.6 | How things ended with that show |
| 1:39.6 | We get really into some deeply inside comedy baseball you can't say inside comedy base |
| 1:45.6 | Well, that completely destroys the analogy, but nonetheless |
| 1:47.9 | We get deeply into how to make serious things funny now this episode was recorded before the Edinburgh festival |
| 1:53.2 | And so I was still grappling with the vagaries of making the climate crisis funny or at least my dread of the climate crisis funny |
| 2:00.2 | And so we'll talk a little bit about that and about politics as well, which is much more Nish's stock in trade |
| 2:04.8 | We talk about how to be a biglify a show that sentence will be meaningless unless you've been paying close attention |
| 2:11.1 | And we also talk about Frankenstein and show together through audio recordings of whips fascinating stuff there |
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