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The Alexei Sayle Podcast

97: The Das Kapital Podcast!! (with Nish Kumar)

The Alexei Sayle Podcast

Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti

Society & Culture, Comedy, Government

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Nish Kumar joins the podcast to discuss his early years in a university sketch group, Edinburgh Fringe, Alexei's 90s era, the flag march and how the ultra-rich live with themselves.

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The Alexei Sayle Podcast is produced and edited by Talal Karkouti
Music by Tarboosh Records
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everybody, welcome to episode of the L'ALEZE

0:19.0

Hi everybody, welcome to episode 97 of the Alexis Sale podcast.

0:26.2

And they sound spontaneous.

0:28.4

In fact, Talal failed to notice that Rish was just doing his audio through the MacBook speakers rather than his own microphone.

0:40.1

So we're now going to have to restage the spontaneous banter that we had in the first

0:47.7

episode because it has to be exactly the same.

0:50.9

So hi, Nish.

0:53.0

Thank you for coming on my podcast. It's my pleasure, Alexi.

1:00.2

It's a quid pro quo for me going on your podcast. It was in the rider, the sail rider.

1:08.3

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

1:12.9

Okay, I've got that out the way.

1:15.2

So, Nish, I mean, you know, tell me all about yourself really.

1:19.6

I mean, just really how you got started and, you know, the whole...

1:25.1

Like, I've been doing comedy for nearly 20 years now,

1:29.3

but I got started in the...

1:31.9

I think the lowest form of artistic expression

1:34.9

known to humanity, the student sketch comedy group.

1:39.5

Oh.

1:40.7

The student...

1:41.7

Improv.

1:42.6

Not improv. It was sketch comedy.

1:45.4

Right.

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