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Nish Kumar loses plot, interviews self
Feeling the pressure of an upcoming run of shows at Soho Theatre, rising star Nish Kumar has started talking to himself.
Nish Kumar, London Is Funny, 4th April 2013Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival 2013 - Nominees
Barbara Steele, Francesca Martinez, Nish Kumar, Paul Currie and Romesh Ranganathan are in the running in the Best Show category.
Howard Gorman, Comedy Chords, 1st March 2013Nish Kumar interview
We chat with Nish Kumar ahead of his shows - including the final SSP cook-off - at Leicester...
Andrew Mickel, Such Small Portions, 19th February 2013Nish Kumar, full of aerated lager
Nish Kumar asks who he is and hopes he doesn't fall foul of a heavy metal band again.
STV, 10th August 2012Nish Kumar in... Who Is Nish Kumar?
The Sun interviews Nish Kumar about his new Fringe show.
Tommy Holgate, The Sun, 20th July 2012The spotlight on ... Nish Kumar
He's a talented new-ish comic who now heads up the excellent Fat Tuesday club in Angel - it's Nish Kumar! But who is he? Who IS he?
London Is Funny, 17th October 2011The Spotlight on ... Gentlemen of Leisure
Never mind Newsnight Review, if you want incisive cultural commentary, turn to double-act Gentlemen of Leisure, aka BBC Radio writer Tom Neenan and Nish Kumar. They ask all the big questions, such as: is the novel dead, or just sleeping? If it is dead, who killed it?
London Is Funny, 14th April 2011Two young comics are to assume what I can only describe as "close to the bone" comedic alter-egos as bumbling and inept arts correspondents for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I'm told. Nish Kumar and Tom Neenan, who are avid fans of Newsnight Review and The Culture Show on television, are not exactly satirising the presenters and the acts that appear on such shows, but only gently "ribbing" them, Kumar says. The act, Gentlemen of Leisure, will feature such imaginary performance troupes as the Reduced Dickens Company (could this possibly have been inspired by the Reduced Shakespeare Company?) who rap the entire plot of A Tale of Two Cities. Another sketch involves a politically motivated dance troupe called Dystopia, who are "completely obsessed with the onset of robot attacks". Kumar says that, while it is not straightforward satire, it is what might happen "when the wrong people present these shows". Arts correspondents be warned. Their show is at GRV in Edinburgh from today.
Arifa Akbar, The Independent, 6th August 2010