Press clippings Page 10
The 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 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 2021Brighton Comedy Garden review
Lou Sanders, Ed Gamble and John Robins cracked jokes for an acres-wide crowd, with David O'Doherty's delightful stream of consciousness the highlight.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 16th July 2021Aisling Bea and Friends review
The Irish comedian and guests Nish Kumar and Fatiha El-Ghorri lift their crowd's soggy spirits with some choice gags.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 5th July 2021Tom Allen launches new podcast: Room Of Gifts
In this six-part series, Tom Allen invites some of the UK's top comedic talent, including Katherine Ryan, Kat Sadler, Nish Kumar and James Acaster, to bring along their most unwanted gift, and share the funny and revealing stories behind them.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 17th June 2021Stewart Lee: Unreliable Narrator review
To research this Radio 4 essay about the role of the unreliable narrator, Stewart Lee spent almost three weeks with the Inrravat people of northern Canada, who believe in a trickster god whose stories cannot be trusted. What did he learn about this ancient culture? Well, almost nothing in a literal sense as all their stories - as you might expect - are based on lies and exaggeration.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 13th June 2021Mark Watson's Carpool Comedy Club, Henley-Marlow review
Along side Watson were Jen Brister, Catherine Bohart, and Nish Kumar having some very strong words with a Conservative-supporting heckler.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 17th May 2021Nish Kumar: 'Do they just hate my jokes?'
Nish Kumar considers himself a mild-mannered British Asian man who does comedy. So why does he attract so much rage from the rightwing press and social media?
Tom Lamont, The Observer, 16th May 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 2021Stephen Fry & Nish Kumar to headline Mind's comedy gala
The annual Oxfordshire Mind comedy festival will this year be livestreamed from the North Wall Arts Centre and has a star-studded line-up including wit and raconteur Stephen Fry and stand-up and presenter Nish Kumar.
Miranda Norris, Oxford Mail, 20th April 2021