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'You nearly killed someone with laughter'
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Features
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I performed to a Saudi Prince, hidden in a blacked-out glass box
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Reviews
Comedy Bloomer’s LGBTQ+ New Comedian Of The Year
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Live comedy picks
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Videos
Nish Kumar made his stand-up comedy debut on the Conan O'Brien Show last night.
As a self-styled diplomatic envoy, he thanked Americans for election Donald Trump - so ensuring the UK wasn't alone in committing geopolitical suicide. Kumar appeared on the TBS talk show on the back of two performances of his latest show, It's In Your Nature To Destroy Yourselves, at the Soho Playhouse in New York last week.
And in a fluke of booking, he appeared on the same show as his lookalike, the actor Jason Mantzoukas, who spoke about the John Wick movie franchise.
This week it was announced that Kumar would also be appearing at Montreal's Just For Laughs festival this summer.
Nish Kumar on Conan O'Brien
Stand-up set
Micky Flanagan recreates Daniel Craig's most famous 007 scene
It's Bod. Dad Bod.
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