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Introduction
Nish Kumar is a British stand-up comedian and radio presenter. He has hosted BBC Two’s The Mash Report, BBC Radio 4 Extra’s topical comedy show Newsjack, the Comedy Central series Joel & Nish vs The World, the BBC Radio 4 programme The News Quiz and Hello America on Quibi.
Early life
Nishant Kumar was born on August 26, 1985 (age 35 years) in Wandsworth and raised in Croydon, South London.
| Name | Nish Kumar |
| Net Worth | $5 million |
| Profession | Comedian, Host |
| Height | 1.69m |
| Age | 35 years |
He attended St Olave’s Grammar School in Orpington before reading English with History at Grey College, Durham University. He is of Indian descent, with parents from Kerala.
Career
Kumar performed with Tom Neenan as a double act, Gentlemen of Leisure, having met while students at the University of Durham and performed in the Durham Revue.
He has been performing as a solo stand-up performer in shows since 2013. He also held a regular guest spot on Josh Widdicombe’s Radio X show between 2013 and 2015, where he presented the feature, “Nishipedia”.
He has become increasingly well known for broadcasting and podcasting on topical news programmes. In February 2015, he was announced as the host for the twelfth series of the BBC Radio 4 Extra series Newsjack.
Kumar has been a regular co-host and nude correspondent of The Bugle podcast since October 2016. His series Spotlight Tonight with Nish Kumar first aired on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017.
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He was a guest on the BBC comedy show Frankie Boyle’s New World Order in June 2017.
In 2020, he hosted the first of 3 series of The News Quiz, with Angela Barnes and Andy Zaltzman hosting the other two series.
Nish Kumar Shows
- 2012: ‘Who Is Nish Kumar?’
- 2013: ‘Nish Kumar Is a Comedian’
- 2014: “Ruminations on the Nature of Subjectivity”.
- 2015: “Long word… Long word… Blah Blah Blah… I’m so clever” at The Pleasance Theatre, which continued as a UK tour running from October to December 2015. The show was nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy Award.
- 2016: “Actions Speak Louder Than Words, Unless You Shout the Words Real Loud”, which received a number of favourable reviews. A joke from the show was featured in The Daily Telegraph’s list of the 37 funniest jokes from the Edinburgh Fringe. This show continued as a national tour.
Other
As a live performer, Kumar has appeared at a number of festivals and events, including the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, New Zealand Comedy Festival, Leicester Comedy Festival and the comedy tent at Latitude Music Festival.
In 2017, he competed in series 5 of Taskmaster with Bob Mortimer, Sally Phillips, Aisling Bea and Mark Watson. The same year, Kumar completed a six-part travel series for Netflix with fellow comedian Joel Dommett, titled Joel & Nish vs The World. In 2018 he appeared on Netflix’s Comedians of the World.
He has also appeared as a guest on Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week, Virtually Famous, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled, Hypothetical, The Big Fat Quiz, Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central, Sweat the Small Stuff, QI, Live from the BBC, The Alternative Comedy Experience and is a frequent guest on The Bugle.
Controversy
Kumar was booed off stage at a Christmas charity lunch event for the Lord’s Taverners in December 2019. The performance, for which Kumar was not paid, included political jokes on Brexit and colonialism.
Following the event, the Lord’s Taverners released a statement emphasising the apolitical nature of the organisation and expressing that they did not support the behaviour of some members of the crowd, which included booing, heckling and the throwing of a bread roll.
In response to the event, Kumar told The Guardian: “I’m sort of amazed by how fascinated people are by the whole thing. It’s not the first time I’ve been booed off stage. I consider it the life of being a comedian – they have a right to boo me.”
Kumar hosted the Quibi topical comedy series Hello America, which ran from August 2020 until the channel’s closure in December that year.
The Mash Report, It was speculated that the series was dropped due to its perceived left-leaning political position, although the BBC made no official statement on this. Kumar expressed frustration over the lack of clarity, saying “They need to make a definitive statement that it was not a political decision. Because what precedent does that set otherwise?”
Nish Kumar net worth
How much is Nish Kumar worth? Nish Kumar net worth is estimated at around $5 million as of 2021. His main source of income is from his primary career as a Comedian. However, he hosted the topical BBC comedy show The Mash Report from its launch in 2017 to its cancellation 2021.