Nish Kumar

Links:

Roles:

Contestant

Biography

Nishant Kumar (born 26 August 1985) is a British stand-up comedian and radio presenter.

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.

As a solo 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. He has performed solo Edinburgh shows since 2012, including: Who Is Nish Kumar? (2012); Nish Kumar Is a Comedian (2013); Ruminations on the Nature of Subjectivity (2014); Long word... Long word... Blah Blah Blah... I’m so clever (2015); and Actions Speak Louder Than Words, Unless You Shout the Words Real Loud (2016).

He held a regular guest spot on Josh Widdicombe’s Radio X show between 2013 and 2015, where he presented the feature, Nishipedia.

In 2015, he was announced as the host for the twelfth series of the BBC Radio 4 Extra series Newsjack.

He has been a regular co-host and correspondent of The Bugle podcast since October 2016.

His series Spotlight Tonight with Nish Kumar first aired on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017.

In 2017, he competed in series 5 of Taskmaster, and 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.

In February 2019, it was announced he would be appearing in a new Sky One sport show, Comedians Watching Football With Friends.

In 2020, he hosted the first of 3 series of The News Quiz, and the Quibi topical comedy series Hello America, which ran from August 2020 until the channel’s closure in December 2020.

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, and The Alternative Comedy Experience.

[Source: Wikipedia, 02/03/2021.]