He isn’t bold. He isn’t confrontational. And he once read out survey data on stage. But Nish Kumar is the hot ticket at this years Edinburgh festival fringeNish Kumars mum recently dismissed him as “a left-wing comedian”. And she had a problem with this,he says, “because she thinks everyone is a left-wing comedian”. The Croydon comic has turned that barb into a new reveal, and his fourth solo Edinburgh fringe outing and one that – after final year’s acclaimed Ruminations on the Nature of Subjectivity – should seal his area at the top table of UK comedy.
Ruminations – a thoughtful bordering on nerdy analysis of race in comedy,neurosis and internet culture – was a near miss for an Edinburgh Comedy Award nomination. But that hasn’t stalled the 29-year-old’s progress. In February, he became the new host of Radio 4 Extra’s topical reveal Newsjack, and “a universally positive experience”; and final month,he gatecrashed primetime with a slot on The John Bishop reveal. Post-Edinburgh, he embarks on his debut UK tour with a reveal that unpicks the relationship between ideology and comedy. “It’s approximately whether I’m a left-wing comedian, or ” he says,over coffee in London, “what that means, or the situation we’re in lawful now as left-wing people.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com