Nish Kumar on the BBC, 'cancel culture', rehabilitating monsters, comedy, and racism
The Owen Jones Podcast
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The Comedy of Stand Up, Isn't It?
I could never really pull off stuff that was too mean, you know, even in an ironic way. There's something about it that doesn't sit well with me. If i try and be so ironically cruel, it just seems cruel. My attempts at cruelty just come off as meanisn't good. Whatever twinkle in my eye, whatever twinkle inmy eye i would need is not present. And for me being it does. The esel that, over the course of the decade, has shifted away from that style. It just doesn’t sit well with my comedic style.
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