211. Nish Kumar Returns: Dinosaurs Before the Meteor

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🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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British comedian Nish Kumar returns to the podcast to discuss the humbling nature of stand-up comedy, lessons learned from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and more. Nish explains the concept of his new tour, “Angry Humour From a Really Nice Guy,” and how he finds the comedy within his pessimistic views about humanity. Plus, Mike and Nish discuss different kinds of heckling, and why Nish’s voice caused an audience member’s Apple watch to call an ambulance.

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0:00.0	The descriptor of your new show reads, Nish Kumar is 40.
0:03.7	His mind is breaking.
0:04.8	His body is worse, which I love is a description.
0:07.4	What is breaking your body and what is healing you, if anything?
0:12.0	I would say, so like, my body is sort of showing the signs of the slowdown.
0:21.6	Yeah, yeah.
0:22.6	The big slowdown.
0:23.6	It's the first yawn before the big sleep.
0:25.6	You could feel everything.
0:29.6	Like, it's just the thing of, that noise.
0:32.6	That noise has started to happen without me wanting it to happen. The overall feeling of people having to look at my butt more than they did before.
0:44.5	Why is that?
0:45.5	Just bear his butt problems.
0:51.4	That is the voice of the great Nish Kumar.
0:57.3	Nish is back. One of my favorite guests we've had through the years and we work out a lot of jokes today. Like a lot of our repeat guests, we really get in the weeds on jokes.
1:03.8	I was thrilled to have him. If you don't know Nish, he is a brilliant comic from the UK. He's got a new
1:09.1	special out called Don't Kill My Vibe. Nish is a super
1:12.8	nice guy. He's very angry about a lot of things, but very funny about it. Talk about that today.
1:18.9	We work out a lot of jokes, by the way. We have a new episode of me working out listeners jokes
1:24.9	over on Working It Out Premium on Apple Podcasts. We just dropped it. Pete Holmes and I work out listeners jokes over on Working It Out premium on Apple Podcasts. We just dropped at Pete Holmes
1:29.7	and I work out your jokes that you sent to Working at Out Pod at Gmail.com. If you go over to
1:36.2	the Apple Podcast app, you can subscribe. It's $4.99 a month. You get no ads for any of the episodes.
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