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Nish Kumar on comedy and mental health
Nish Kumar has said that comedy is an "incredibly important and useful" tool for discussing mental health.
The Irish News, 13th April 2020Nish Kumar interview
Nish Kumar will be recapping the headlines as his satirical and surreal news show The Mash Report returns to BBC Two on Friday for a fourth season. The comic talks to us about making the hit, and how coronavirus might affect it.
The Irish News, 1st April 2020How comedians are fighting coronavirus from their sofas
Being an observational comedian is a lot tougher when there's nothing to observe but the same four walls every day. But necessity is the mother of invention, as comedians have shown this week in a flurry of online shows - many available now for catch-up viewing, and with more happening every day.
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 26th March 2020Nish Kumar on polarised politics
The presenter of The Mash Report said he doesn't give Labour such a hard time because: "I'm not sure those people need to be further beat up".
Anita Singh, The Telegraph, 24th March 2020Streaming with laughter: 50 best stand-up comedy shows
From Bill Hicks to Hannah Gadsby, Dave Chappelle to Josie Long - here are 50 specials you can watch right now.
Paul Fleckney, Harriet Gibsone, Ellen E Jones, Brian Logan and Graeme Virtue, The Guardian, 22nd February 2020Horrible Histories? We're living through one right now
The supposed "lack of patriotism" in the CBBC show is another poor excuse from those who would dismantle public broadcasting, says Stewart Lee.
Stewart Lee, The Observer, 9th February 2020Why is CBBC trolling Brexiteers?
That Nish Kumar / Horrible Histories thing shows that Remoaners have won the culture war.
Tom Slater, Spiked, 3rd February 2020Horrible Histories Brexit special condemned
The BBC's very own high-profile political heavyweight Andrew Neil was unimpressed by the satirical take on "what we'll miss".
Victoria Bell, Yahoo, 1st February 2020Jimmy Carr returns as the sarky quizmaster in this bumper edition of his anarchic celeb gameshow. Guests Claudia Winkleman, Nish Kumar, Joe Lycett, Alan Carr, Stacey Solomon and Jonathan Ross are all put through their paces in an eccentric celebration of the past 10 years.
Ammar Kalia, The Guardian, 2nd January 2020BBC, the public thinks your values stink
"I see that the BBC has decided to make Nish Kumar one of the regular presenters of the Radio 4 comedy programme The News Quiz. I suppose it thinks he ticks a box - not for his ethnicity but because, like seemingly every other comedian employed by the corporation, he is about as funny as kidney stones or gas gangrene of the shin", says Rod Liddle.
Rod Liddle, The Sunday Times, 22nd December 2019