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‘Pod Save The UK’s Nish Kumar On Invading Canada, Breaking America, Trump, Elon Musk, & Comedy Traversing The Globe
Nish Kumar jumped over the pond for his latest tour, & the Pod Save the UK co-host isn't here to play nice
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. Telling his live audiences that some acquaintances have asked him to lay off the politics and do more traditional stand-up about what is in his fridge, Kumar proved as far from kissing the ring or bending the knee as possible in our increasingly authoritarian era. To that, the comedian inspired by the 1990s barrier shattering Goodness Gracious Me and chatted with me as his North American tour enters its final week, about Trump’s war on Canada, low expectations, that Signal fiasco, breaking America,and his parents fears about crossing the 49 th parallel.
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