The Mash Report
- TV comedy
- BBC Two
- 2017 - 2020
- 28 episodes (4 series)
Topical comedy series inspired by website The Daily Mash and hosted by Nish Kumar. Also features Ellie Taylor, Steve N Allen, Rachel Parris, Andrew Hunter Murray, Geoff Norcott and more.
Press clippings
Rachel Parris: "I co-hosted BBC's most divisive political comedy show - the abuse haunts me to this day"
As Rachel Parris takes to the stage with her revised Poise stand-up tour, the comedian is all too familiar with the pitfalls of being a woman who dares to have opinions.
Asyia Iftikhar, Metro, 8th September 2024What happens to comedy when British politics becomes a joke?
When audiences do want something sharp, they want it to confirm prejudices.
The Economist, 17th August 2023Who killed comedy?
"The axing of The Mash Report on the BBC was woke comedy's Year Zero," writes Julie Burchill.
Julie Burchill, The Spectator, 29th July 2023Nish Kumar in "shock" departure from Late Night Mash
Nish Kumar has announced that he is quitting Late Night Mash, as the show concludes its first series on Dave. Revived from the axed BBC format The Mash Report, the comedy's future is now unclear.
British Comedy Guide, 28th October 2021The Mash Report to return on Dave
Channel Dave is reviving The Mash Report. Eight hour-long episodes of Late Night Mash, with Nish Kumar hosting, will be broadcast this autumn.
British Comedy Guide, 28th July 2021Oh no, The Mash Report is back
If The Mash Report can match its dismal BBC [viewing figures] on Dave, it will look like a hit. And I think it could serve a useful purpose for the UK's progressive parties. I advise them to watch it and to learn never to take that tone or do any of the things it sees there. De-Mash yourselves and prepare for power.
Gareth Roberts, Unherd, 28th July 2021Nish Kumar: 'I'd love to keep The Mash Report going'
Nish Kumar's next big appearance is due to be in the open air, but when I talk to him he has become one of the many hundreds of thousands of people in this country who have been trapped indoors by that new sound of the summer, a ping.
Clive Davis, The Times, 22nd July 2021Nish Kumar: BBC must be clear over Mash Report axe
The BBC must put an end to the "useful myth" it has cracked down on left-wing comedy, according to the satirist Nish Kumar. Either that, or it should admit that a so-called "war on woke" really did happen.
Vanessa Thorpe, The Observer, 16th May 2021What can we learn from the axing of The Mash Report?
Hopefully the series' legacy is continued in whatever show replaces it, but I doubt it will be.
Niall Hawkins, The Boar, 10th April 2021Nish Kumar: show's axed, his political fight continues
Nish Kumar's satirical late-night show The Mash Report ran for four years on public broadcaster the BBC. Some believe it was a casualty of a "war on woke."
Desiree Ibekwe, The New York Times, 1st April 2021