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Politics Unpacked

Nish Kumar Interview

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley meets Nish Kumar, comedian and host of the 'Mash Report’ to try and understand why a British 'Daily Show’ has never worked, how losing elections is the best way to avoid satire, how he dealt with being told to "go home" the day after the Brexit vote, and how he feels about that Piers Morgan cartoon.

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So Nash just explained to start with.

0:34.3

Did you just call me Nash?

0:35.8

Did I?

0:36.8

I like the idea that eventually...

0:39.8

I like the...

0:40.8

I like the...

0:41.8

The Nish Nash report.koma is a satirical comedy show.

1:00.8

Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast on The Times I'm Matt Cholly and in this episode

1:05.7

I will be speaking to Nish Kumar, host of the Mash Report and stand-up comedian.

1:10.5

We'll be discussing the problems with trying to be fair in your comedy when labour basically aren't doing anything.

1:16.0

How he felt the night after the EU referendum result when a heckler told him to go home and his concerns about the rise of racism and intolerance since the Brexit

1:25.6

vote and Pierce Morgan's reaction to that cartoon with his head up Donald Trump's

1:31.4

backside but I began by asking him to explain what exactly

1:34.6

the mash report is all about. It's a fake news program and I am the sort of

1:40.8

of notional anchor of it and it's a collaboration between me and a bunch of

1:46.1

writers that I've been working with for a long time and a bunch of writers who come from

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