Midway through our interview about his new political podcast, I ask Nish Kumar which politicians get up his nose. The 37-year-old stand-up — who hosted The Mash Report, the last heavyweight topical comedy show to grace a mainstream TV channel, from 2017 to 2021 — doesn’t hold back.
“I find Suella Braverman reprehensible and Rishi Sunak irresponsible,” he says. “I have no idea how the f*** you start with the period of time that Liz Truss was Prime Minister. And you read positive things about Theresa May as if [the] Windrush [scandal] never happened!” He grins sheepishly. “This isn’t a helpful answer because I’m angry about all of them.”
