‘Pod Save The UK’s Nish Kumar On Breaking America, Trump, Elon Musk, Canadian Tariffs & Comedy Traversing The Globe
deadline.com“We live in the stupidest possible version of human history,” said Nish Kumar to a roaring packed Largo at the Coronet in LA last week, perfectly summing up 2025 so far.
Cited as one of the 50 best comedians of the 21st century by the UK’s The Guardian and the subject of a recent New York Times profile that raised his American profile considerably, After Midnight alum Kumar’s relentless shiving and mocking of pompous and populist politicians was on full display on March 20 in those back-to-back shows at the iconic venue on La Cienega Blvd.
From Donald Trump and MAGA authoritarianism, UK right winger Nigel Farage (“if gout was a guy”) and race riots, and how horrible Kash Patel and Rishi Sunak are, Kumar raged against the moronic and self-declared messiahs.
There was also material on his mother’s obsession with Princess Diana, woke scolding, the return of Nazis to public life, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but the co-host of Crooked Media’s Pod Save the UK (with journalist Coco Khan) saved special vinegar for Elon Musk.
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