Nish Kumar looked back: “My father had a bribe to me with crises and Batman’s pens to stay in school.” Nish Kumar

He was born in 1985 in tooting, London, Nish Kumar is a comic and presenter. Standup started while he was at Durham University and was nominated twice for the best show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards. He faced a comedy news series, explaining The Mash Report and Co Hosts Post PODCAST POD save the United Kingdom With journalist Coco Khan. It takes its offer to the Edinburgh Festival this month.

This image was taken in our house In Croidon, I am sitting for Thundercats. At the age of five, the central columns in my life were Thundercats and adolescent ninja weapons. I was obsessed with the things I loved and had no good discrimination between reality and imagination. During one intense period of Vandum, I even contacted my mother intermittently.

Hair is completely narrated in this image. My parents clearly tried to comb the curls into an elegant side parting, but after a few minutes it could have risen again. This includes my childhood completely: everything about me was unbridled. My father is an arranged man and has no idea how he was born like this child. On more than one occasion he said: “If you don’t look largely, you assumed that your mother was in love.”

As a strange and eccentric genius child who loved reading, I was early in every wrong way. After my first day at school, my mother said, “How was that?” I replied, “Yes, it’s very good. I don’t think I will be back. An interesting experience but nothing.” They had a bribe to me to continue. Crunchie, Batman Pens, no matter what it takes to bring me through the gates. I found it difficult to make friendships, often as I was really young in the school year, but also because I was a duplic, happy in his world.

When you are a teenager, I was a real piece of shit. Half of my professors found very annoying; The other half encouraged my “audio associations” with their attempts to educate me. One of them told my parents that I would become the first white prime minister. I have no idea what he was relying on, but my father took him as an official promise. When it turned into a comic, they were like, “Well, this product did not meet its guarantee.”

As I am old, I did so Make others laugh is a way I can communicate with and find myself in a broader society. At the university I joined Durham Revue, where I met Ed Gamble and Tom Neenan. They were adventurous people and decided that they would prepare their comedy night. They rented the upper floor of a local tape, and without a request, I fell on one of the first offers. I was terrible during the first five years of standing, but slowly brown momentum. Only because I met this group of people and I had the space and time to experience at the university that now I have this job.

There were many years as I had to balance it as a terrible temporary factor, and I enter data and photograph it to the Central Information Office, with the deep. But by September 2013, things were going well and I could leave work in the office.

By the time I got on the TV, I was 30 years old and I felt well enough for the cruelty of the industry. I have received news for you and lived in Apollo, and although some people will end from political jokes, I was ready to face criticism of the comedy and I am proud of myself. But nothing could have brought me back the comments when the mash report was issued. This flexibility took me in almost a million to 2019, when I started getting death threats. Then I evaporated.

Then my friend Brett Goldstein and my chick Amy were [Annette] Tell me to see a processor. I am not sure of what I noticed in my personality that he suggested that this is what I needed, but I could have stopped the ability to manage my feelings. I was hesitant at first – I thought I could bear anything and that the need for treatment because my dream function was exhausting. But I was wrong. Because in addition to being incredibly arrogant, I have generalized anxiety, and that period of my life was more uncompromising accumulation.

Media coverage, in the past, It was beyond the hysterical. The show has become a kind of Battle of the agent about the BBC and the political balance. Some people said: “Nish Kumar represents a threat, and the BBC must get rid of him.” Others said, “No one is watching this show.” I thought, “both of these are not true.” Moreover, there was a book of columns in newspapers who did not believe that a person of my skin color should be able to obtain an opinion on the operation of the British government, and that any criticism of it was a form of dumping.

When I was a child, my parents – like my parents of most ethnic minority children – were constantly telling me, “You need to keep your head down. Stay safe, get a suitable job.” I believed that the reason for this was that they lacked imagination, but my mom reached England in 1973, when the National Front was in the streets. My parents were not “not bringing me” and my creative ambition – they just wanted to be a lawyer or a doctor because it is difficult for them to get out of the country when that time comes. One of the best things that my treatment said is: “People who are immigrants must realize that their parents alike in the madness of greatness and correct.” I grew up surrounded by an anxiety level that was not proportional but not healthy, and dealing with that was the lesson for me.

This does not mean that I am sorry to perform the job I did or made the jokes that I did, but perhaps I was naive about the response of the response to me on the TV. I am now much better: I have made a treatment for post -shock attention because my mind has absorbed death threats, and includes my support system as a mental health specialist.

It also helps to have many good people around me. From being a child who struggled to make friends, I now realize how fortunate that I am surrounded by a chic and a group of counterparts in the comedy that really has the appearance of each other. We all have reached at a time when there were many opportunities, and instead of trying to destroy each other in the panels, we were supporting. Not because we are particularly virtuous people, but because we were very assuming, and if you are a comedy in the week on Wednesday, this will make X Person birthdays very ridiculous on Friday.

Sometimes, on bad days, I feel like I have left my younger soul. As if I was less than my aspirations for the type of person I wanted to be. After that, in better days, I think, “All I wanted to do is enter the TV, and I did it.” Because, in my deep, I am still obsessed, strange, loud. All that is different, in fact, is beard and gray hair.