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Nish Kumar took a look at the congressional hearing into the big four tech companies - Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon – in the latest episode of his short-form satire show Hello America.
The show is available on the Quibi app – available, of course, via two of those very tech giants, on Google Play or Apple App Store.
Filmed in London but aimed at a US audience, the show also imagined what the world might look like in ten years' time.
New episodes are released every Monday and Friday.
Here’s Kumar’s latest monologue:
Ultra-rich mega nerds
Nish Kumar's latest Hello America monologue
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