Nish Kumar
Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware
Alice Williams
4.7 • 12.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
We’ve got political comedy superstar Nish Kumar joining us for lunch this week! Nish is a political satirist, podcaster, comedian & TV host and he is fresh in from the USA where he has been on testing out his brand new tour, ‘Angry Humour From A Really Nice Guy’. Over lunch, we covered everything from creating the podcast 'Pod Save The UK', the delicious Keralan food his grandma made him when he was younger, where he will be eating around the UK on his tour, hosting a travel show with friend of the podcast Joel Dommett, where to find the best Indian food in London, and we find out what happened when Nish chased Boris Johnson down the street swearing at him…! Thank you for popping over Nish, you are a really nice guy. Don’t miss his upcoming tour ‘Angry Humour From A Really Nice Guy’ which starts in September.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Table Manners. I'm Jessie Ware and I'm here in my kitchen with my mother. Hi mum. |
| 0:08.0 | Hi darling. That's a different lip that you've got on. It's my hourglass red. Oh, I like it. Do you? |
| 0:15.9 | How are you, mum? I'm okay, darling. I'm pretty tired. I bet you you're because we have been going around the UK |
| 0:23.5 | promoting my album and selling thousands and thousands of copies how many thousands of copies |
| 0:30.3 | did you sell we did over 18,000 which I'm really proud of so thank you to everyone who bought it |
| 0:35.4 | wow is that the most you've ever sold in one week? |
| 0:38.0 | Yes, it is. Wow, darling. It's an amazing achievement. I'm very, very proud. Um, so I'm also a bit tired. |
| 0:44.3 | Are you platinum yet? No, I think it takes a while to be platinum. Okay, darling. But, um, I am a bit tired, |
| 0:52.0 | so I have to explain. |
| 1:03.3 | I was at a record store yesterday to about 10 o'clock at night, so I have called in help today, and I, please forgive me. |
| 1:10.7 | I did execute the choices, but my sweet Rosie has helped me today, because I'll never lie to your table manners. |
| 1:11.5 | I'll never lie. |
| 1:21.5 | But we've done, we, she has, a mob kitchen recipe from their cookbook, comfort mob. |
| 1:26.6 | And it's a baked sea bass that's got like lemon grass in there. |
| 1:30.0 | It's beautiful. You put crispy onions on the top limes um ginger and like a chili sauce on the side then we're going to do it with coconut rice |
| 1:36.5 | and then a lovely easter bell fridge which i've done before this kind of maple lime sesame seed |
| 1:41.7 | salad so it's all quite fresh because it's gorgeous week it It's been really nice weather. And you've made pudding. Yeah, I remembered this week. Great. I've made a chocolate coconut cake. Oh, wow. And I... That goes well with this. Yeah, I think so. I love coconut. I thought I had two big packs of desiccated coconut. I hadn't. So I had to buy more. But I bought shredded coconut, which I've toasted and put on the top of it. I hope it's nice. |
| 2:09.0 | Whose recipe is it? It was a Sainsbury's recipe. And it's, they said it's like eating a cake and a bounty bar all in one. |
| 2:16.9 | I hope he likes bounty. |
| 2:17.8 | Bounties are very divisive. |
| 2:19.4 | I think if he comes from Kerala, coconut will be something he likes. |
| 2:23.4 | I think he's from Croydon. |
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