39. Nish Kumar: The Sidekick Soliloquy

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This week Mike is joined by British comic Nish Kumar and they discuss Brexit, the craft behind building a one person show, and the time Nish was told by a heckler to “go home” when he was pretty close to his home. Nish divulges his lifelong goal to not be Batman or even Robin, but rather the other guy. The sidekick of the sidekick. Find out why Nish should be everyone’s hero. https://helprefugees.org/choose-love/

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, we are back with an all new episode of Working It Out, one of my favorite
0:11.4	episodes we've ever done.
0:13.9	If you haven't heard the news, I am doing outdoor shows.
0:19.2	They're safely distance outdoor shows.
0:21.3	If you're in New England, they're in Connecticut and Pennsylvania and New Jersey and they're
0:28.8	safe.
0:29.8	And it's all the new material that you've been listening to me work on on this podcast,
0:36.4	but all together, what's going to become the old man and the pool and currently is called
0:44.1	Working It Outside.
0:46.7	So you can find out about that at burbigs.com as well as my Cape Cod Melody Ten Show in
0:52.5	August and my Fall tour, which is rescheduled from spring 2020.
0:58.8	But today on the show, we have a hilarious comic from the UK named Nishkumar.
1:05.2	Nishkumar is someone I met from just sort of following each other on Twitter over the
1:10.6	years and then he just put out a comedy album, which is called The Double Album Called
1:15.5	It's In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves, Part One and Part Two.
1:20.4	And I listen to this and I just thought this guy is hilarious.
1:25.5	It's available and all the audio platforms, I highly recommend it.
1:30.9	We have a great, great conversation about the relationship between personal stories and
1:37.6	the structure of shows and shows in Britain and shows in America.
1:43.0	And I hope you enjoy my chat with the very funny Nishkumar.
1:48.8	I've been listening to your album, It's In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves, Part
2:05.3	One and Part Two.
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