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Nish Kumar

July 2024

  • ‘We need a cultural economy that can sustain a career in the arts’ … Bayadère: The Ninth Life by Shobana Jeyasingh.

    ‘The arts stop us killing each other’: stars tell Labour how to rescue Britain’s downtrodden culture

    Steve McQueen, Tracey Emin, Steve Coogan, Adjoa Andoh, Danny Dyer, Jesse Darling and many more spell out what must be done to restore Britain’s cultural lifeblood, from ending elitism to supercharging libraries – and flooding schools with music

June 2024

  • Paul Weller by Dean Chalkley

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer Photography

    From the veteran Modfather to a teenage pigeon fancier: the best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in May 2024

May 2024

  • Charlotte Church with Gaza protesters

    Hay festival drops main sponsor after boycotts over Israel and fossil fuel links

  • Nish Kumar Life on a Plate Grooming: Juliana Sergot using Bobbi Brown and Tigi

    Life on a plate
    Nish Kumar: ‘Nando’s is the only thing uniting this increasingly fragmented nation’

April 2024

  • Nish Kumar.

    Comedy Q&A
    Nish Kumar: ‘It would be very cool if I was named the next James Bond’

    The standup on being a vibe killer, studying Richard Pryor and why comedy isn’t for good-looking people

December 2023

  • Top of the pods ... (clockwise from top) Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Will Smith, Jazzy Jeff, Nish Kumar and Coco Khan.

    2023 in Culture
    The 20 best podcasts of 2023

    From fake porn stars to staggering environmental exposés, it’s been a year of extraordinary audio – not least the ‘poodunnit’. It’s our top pods of the year!

May 2023

  • Big Zuu

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer Photography

  • Nish Kumar.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Nish Kumar: ‘Tony Blair increasingly resembles the supervillain in an 80s action film’

March 2023

  • Brian Logan

    The venue’s no joke but Just for Laughs’ London festival delivered megastar standups

    Brian Logan
    A new sibling to Montreal’s big comedy shindig has launched in the UK and despite the corporate guff there was a lot to laugh about

January 2023

  • Nish Kumar and Josh Widdicombe try to become local newspaper journalists in the TV series Hold the Front Page.

    Men reporting badly! Nish Kumar and Josh Widdicombe find being hacks is no joke

    The comedians chase local paper scoops in their new TV series Hold the Front Page. But many of their stories were destined for what reporters call the spike …

December 2022

  • From left … Jacqueline Novak, Jordan Gray and Nish Kumar.

    2022 in Culture
    The best comedy shows of 2022

    From dazzling comic debuts at the Edinburgh fringe to occult sketches, soul-searching standup and deeply strange revelations, it was a top year for laughing matters

August 2022

  • Photo by John Salangsang. Brooklyn Beckham

    Weekend
    Marina Hyde on Brooklyn Beckham, Nish Kumar’s Fringe, music post-30 – podcast

    This week, Marina Hyde on Brooklyn Beckham’s ever-evolving career path, comedian Nish Kumar is at the Edinburgh fringe, Jess Cartner-Morley investigates Whatsapp fatigue, and writer Daniel Dylan Wray asks why thirtysomethings are giving up on music.
  • Nish Kumar in Edinburgh for the fringe

    ‘It’s where I learned how to be a comedian’: Nish Kumar on why the Edinburgh fringe still matters

    The festival stands at a crossroads, with costs for performers soaring and many younger acts staying away. But it still offers comics a boot camp like no other
  • Posters for comedy shows at the Edinburgh fringe festival.

    ‘Too angry to be funny’: Edinburgh fringe split on politics in satire

    As this year’s festival opens, Boris Johnson is a popular target of comedians while others prefer a lighter touch in these turbulent times

June 2022

  • Ayden Brouwers and Lizzie Morris in Sound Cistem.

    Edinburgh fringe 2022: 20 theatre, comedy and dance shows you shouldn’t miss

  • Nish Kumar in Your Power, Your Control-Tour Warm-Up @ Soho Theatre, Downstairs. (Opening 24-01-2022) ©Tristram Kenton 01-22 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Sunday with Nish Kumar: ‘I mainly laze around the house’

April 2022

  • Nish Kumar performing at the Soho theatre in London in January

    ‘Forgotten how to behave’: comics say audiences more abusive post-lockdown

    Comedians such as Nish Kumar say they have noticed a change since crowds have returned to clubs

January 2022

  • Nish Kumar in Your Power, Your Control.

    Nish Kumar: Your Power, Your Control review – this time it’s personal

    An account of a terrible gig opens ‘a silly window’ on the Mash Report comic’s mental health and the rise of nativism

December 2021

  • Clockwise from top: An Hour and a Half Late, Maria Bamford, Jamali Maddix, Jody Comer, star of Prima Facie.

    2022 culture preview
    Theatre, dance and comedy to book in 2022 – from Alan Partridge to Tennessee Williams

    Amy Adams makes her West End debut, immersive dance confronts mental health and Steve Coogan’s alter ego embarks on a rare live UK tour

July 2021

  • ‘I want this set to be so good’ … David O’Doherty

    Reopening culture
    Brighton Comedy Garden review – David O’Doherty brings the fireworks

    Lou Sanders, Ed Gamble and John Robins cracked jokes for an acres-wide crowd, with O’Doherty’s delightful stream of consciousness the highlight
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