Nish Kumar

Jimmy 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.

BBC, 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.

The decade in comedy

Mental health, sexism and watching stand-up through screens.

Nish Kumar gig in Brighton turns 'ugly and hostile'

A Nish Kumar gig at the Brighton Dome turned "ugly and hostile" last night. Kumar was the headline act and the first half of his performance went into great detail about the recent "bread roll incident" - which saw the political comedian being booed and heckled and eventually a bread roll thrown at the stage at the Lord Taverner's charity event earlier this month. But towards the end of the Brighton set, The Mash Report presenter was interrupted by a number of hecklers. One repeatedly shouted at him not to talk about the election, another simply shouted "bread roll" and told him to tell a joke, and another made remarks about minorities.

Details of Alternative Election Night line-up revealed

Joining the political bigwigs will be a host comedians including: Jimmy Carr, Nish Kumar, Henning Wehn, Geoff Norcott, Sophie Willan and Tez Ilyas.

Dealing with Brexit comedy: a lesson from Nish Kumar

A comedian being booed off stage is not normally a major headline story. But the case of Nish Kumar, heckled by an audience for espousing his politics during a set, has highlighted the way that rifts over Brexit have influenced our comedy. Is there a way to laugh at this most divisive of subjects?

Brexit-deranged comedians are biggest bores

When exposed to an audience not populated by the usual hand-picked sycophants, Kumar's tedious schtick finally got the reaction it deserved.

Nish Kumar and the trouble with clapter comedy

His material doesn't work if you don't already agree with him. No wonder he was booed.

Nish Kumar and the anti-Brexit comedy club

The disastrous reception given to comedian Nish Kumar at yesterday's Lord's Taverners' lunch is a sign that the maintained sector of British comedy has fallen victim to lazy groupthink and general mediocrity.