Nish Kumar and Josh Widdicombe on John Oliver, the right-wing press and local journalism
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- Опубликовано: 15 апр 2024
- Nish Kumar and Josh Widdicombe swung by JOE Towers to discuss the second series of their show Hold The Front Page, out on Sky on April 24th.
They join Ed Campbell to discuss their experiences working as local journalists around the UK and abroad and the secret to getting a decent story on the front page.
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A lot of my political knowledge before I was 10 was Spitting Image in the 1980s (never understood why Norman Lamont held a yoghurt pot against his temple though), going into my teen years doing a paper round gave me a solid foundation to build my hatred for the workings of the British mainstream press.
I think satire is incredibly important in news, because it can be used to state bluntly exactly what’s happened, without having to tread on eggshells because of the legal protections afforded to it.
Can’t get better than these 3 people together talking about stuff and things
😂😂😂
Nish is that you?
Add Gary Linekar and James O’Brien
Yeah, really hard hitting. Stuff and things.
"there's bits of cars all over the track" would certainly get you a job alongside Alan Partridge's Desk of Sport.
GOAL! and that's a goal right there.
Splendid interview!
Thought eds interview style was great in this, didn't try to keep up with them in terms of jokes but still was funny and made the conversation flow nicely. Good job guys
Thanks for posting
The caption is perfect and says it all, no need to add anything else.
Ed held his own here with two veteran comedians, our hilarious news boy
Where were the comedians?
Nish Kumar cant be described as a comic
@@polyestermammoth740 I dunno how you can say that when so many people give a round of applause. No actual laughter but a lot of clapping.
@@williamsulman2646Stewart Lee? "I didn't laugh but I agreed the fuck out of it".
@@MT-kx2uc'that story is not true....but what it says is true' has become a little lacking in the self aware irony these days.
Stewart Lee is at least explicitly playing a character to some extent.
More of this please JOE!
The loss of so may local papers and local radio stations is a huge concern and a great shame. I used to work for a local radio station 35 years ago and it’s important to have a place for people to hear about local issues. But that’s just ‘the times they are a’changing’
oh my god, when I saw this I was SO damn excited.
Get Ollie on for a rebuttal!
Shame it's so short, would've been lovely to for it to be an hour plus. :)
The trio we thought we’d never need… damn that was good!
Funny to see Josh trying to hide his Nero cup when he talks, you can tell he is TV trained.
I live on the Isle of Wight and actually saw Nish and Josh in East Cowes…but what they say about the press on the Island is completely correct…it’s dreadful and for some reason we have sooooo many outlets all pretty much like carrion over non-stories!
Good stuff
It is obvious that decent people find journalism very hard in this country.
Spectacular botwork beneath
Really enjoy the local journalism show. The two of them are funny and genuine guys. Nish does an incredible job suppressing his natural inclination to rant politics. He let's just enough through for this show.
Thanks for this. Three erudite, politically aware and funny young men. Josh, Nish, Ed and Joe are mint.
incredible
I never thought that I would hear Gus Honeybun referenced on PoliticsJOE
Only about 40 years since he read my birthday card 😂
25:15 - _...the eternal thirst for hits - you know - is not conducive to brilliant journalism all the time._
OMG Gus Honeybun! made my summer holidays down in Cornwall as a kid
I loved Gus Honeybun I’m in south Wales but we got to see him too.
I thought Nish just really hated getting letters and going outside based on the thumbnail.
Is that the dude from Dirty Grandpa?
Old enough to remember Gus Honeybun :)
As comedians go, Nish is right up there with Hannah Gadsby.
Anyone around Josh's age that holidayed in the TSW area as a kid remembers Gus Honeybun! 😂
We had Gus Honeybun in South Wales, too! Westward TV was what we had instead of ITV. I was very scared of Gus in the 70's.
I'm currently working Joe at work, even though Josh told me not to.
I'm so glad Gus Honeybun is coming back - just disappointed I live in Scotland now so won't get to see him.
I loved Gus Hunnybun!
If you don't know the Mail and the Sun are papers, that is a very funny pull quote on the thumbnail.
shame about the ownership of most local papers
It's only just occurred to me that only people in East Anglia would know who BC the Birthday Club bear is. Shook!
Ed Campbell the meat beast❤❤❤
I can only stomach news that has been pre-digested by comedians. Spitting Image, HIGNFY, Mock the Week, The 10 O'Clock Show, The Mash Report...
No comedians involved in the mash report tho.
At least you didn't call it "vehicular detritus"
Good balance, man who only knows top royals and man descended from King Edward I
Apologies for Murdoch from the place that spawned him. We're renowned for poisonous animals. If it's any consolation, he was screwing us well before he went to the old dart :)
Old dart? That's a bit harsh on Jerry Hall
@@Evemeister12 hahahahaha
Really hope that the secret gay messaging hidden within the Gus Honeybun segments got picked up by Josh - it’s the most incredible part of the story
Fuck. Gus Honeybun. Instantly just brought me back to school holidays in Cornwall as a kid
I assume you went to Flambards XD
I spend my summers going down the death slide. lol
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Bits of cars all over the track is perfectly acceptable to describe the first few shots of an accident before the camera teams have worked out who exactly is involved/where the main structure now is.
Nish is nailing the Trotsky aesthetic.
It's not that long ago that the "Big 4" were the "Big 6".
I have no comment on that "progression"...but...well...
I am in the USA and have never heard of the these news outlets … so the caption was very confusing to me! I was thinking why would the Mail and the Sun be controversial… I love getting mail and basking in the sun! … so I watched and realized my ignorance
You were probably better off not knowing about them tbf, welcome to the shit show!
you should know John Oliver
The Sun is owned by murdock and the mail may as well be
The Son and The Male don’t even exist, and they are automatically much better.
How incredibly fresh and original.
Tories = bad, yeah? Am i doing it right?
💜🤠
I've generally had quite a bad view of journalism tbh, but then every single one of the newspapers in my province are owned by the same oil company, sooooo
Guys stop writing all these negative comments
I can't like them all
Nish just knows Andrew from his local pizza place.
It would have been better for the middle guy to have been louder. I kept having to turn it up when he was talking and down when the comedians were talking. Very irritating.
Good to see these two ground breaking panel show guests with such divergent views, given airtime. Such predictable stuff.
Happy taking Murdochs' coin I see lads.
Can't wait for PoliticsJoe to hire a competent audio engineer so that these videos are actually listenable.
How do we get Marley her own show? She seems to be the only one that knows anything
Hold the Front page was a fun show. I admire Josh Widdicombe's commitment to being the one who isn't funny on so many two hander comedy projects.
The first double act where they are both the straight man.
So can SKY.
I've very little respect for Journalists - all on Murdock's teat with little counterbalance
Stop reading the papers he owns then. Lol. There are plenty of superior news outlets to frequent.
@@Cruelty-Torture - I don't read his press but "I was only acting under orders" isn't a reasonable excuse - they're rotten
@@timd791 concur. They are a malignancy.
Worked for the guardian? Red flag
what a pity their show is on SKY a revolting media organisation that I would never ever subscribe to.
Ye can prob watch it somewhere else?
Die spiellung
Nish, your lack of support for Corbyn was cowardly. But hey, you got a new TV series out of it. And a posh pad in Hampsted.
Not funny or clever. Australia has "Friendly Jordies" as an aggressive independent comedian journalist 😂
I blame, Have I Got News For You, for normalising Nigel and Mogg
And boris
I blame the BBC for calling nish Kumar a "comedian". Don't you have to have made someone laugh?
He makes two people laugh in the video on which you're commenting, you goober. @williamsulman2646
Whoever did the thumbnail made Nish Kumar Caucasian
The man is whiter than Gary Linekar - but I suppose that is why Linekar got bullied at school
I think this was a rare occasion where Nish didn't mention he was brown.
Honest question, it's nice to see these lads on a lefty podcast but how do they feel about working on these panel sort of shows with people like Rachel Riley and David Mitchell that have shit politics/takes?
saying David Mitchell has shit political takes is a shit take.
Yeah, I mean IMAGINE being in the same room as someone who is only mildly left of centre and not in complete lockstep with every far-left position that only people on Twitter have even heard of. The only thing worse would be having to breathe the same air as someone on the right! Yuk! /s. Touch grass. Seriously.
@@ruaridhcameron3863 alright son
@tcritt not seen Rachel's recent takes and her position on Corbyn?
@@sammorgan4451 I supported Corbyn, but come on. He didn't have what it took. Get over it.
Nasal overload
Life is a public school party. Everyone else serves
Never interview your mates.
Nish is great but is Josh suddenly pretending he is left-wing when he spent years on the last leg parroting the right-wing media attacks against the previous Labour leader?
Most Nasal Voice of the Year 2024. Quite a long format this year
انا اختكم من اليمن والله ماتكلمت الا من جوع ومن ضيق الحال انا وامي وخواتي نحن في حاله لا يعلم بها الا الله حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل في من اوصلنا الى هاذا الحال وًّالَلَهَ الَعَظَيَمَ مَا كتَبَتَ هَذا الَمَنَاشَدَهَ غَيَرَ مَنَ الَضَيَقَ وّالَفَقَر يَاعَالَمَ حَسَوّا فَيَنَا ارَجَوّكمَ وّالَلَهَ الَعَظَيَمَ رَبَ الَعَرَشَ الَعَظَيَمَ انَه الَاكلَ مَا فَيَ عَنَدَيَ بَالَبَيَتَ وًّالَلَهَ يَا اخَوّانَيَ انَهَ اخَوًّنَيَ بَقَعَدَوًّ بَالَيَوًّمَيَنَ مَافَى اكلَ وًّالَلَهَ وًّضَعَنَا كثَيَرَ صَعَبَ نَحَنَ 6 نَفَرَ دَاخَلَ الَبَيَتَ وًّابَيَ مَتَوًّفَيَ وًّلَا يَوًّجَدَ مَنَ يَعَوًّلَ عَلَيَنَا وًّسَاكنَيَنَ فَيَ بَيَتَ اجَارَ لَانَسَتَطَيَعَ دَفَعَ الَاجَارَ الَلَيَ بَاقَيَ عَلَيَنَا ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' اخي اول كلامي انا اقسم بالله على كتاب الله اني لااكذب عليك ولا انصب ولا احتال اني بنت يمنيه نازحين انا واسرتي بيننا ایت الشهرب 15 الف يمني والان علينا 45 الف حق 3 شهور وصاحب البيت من الناس الي ماترحم والله يا اخي انه يجي كل يوم يبهدلنا ويتكلم علينا ويريد من البيت للشارع لانناماقدرنا ندفعله الأجار شافونا الجيران نبكي ورجعو تكلمو الجيران ومهلنالاخره الأسبوع معادفعنا له حلف يمين بالله هذا بيخرجنا إلى الشارع رحمه واحنا. بلادنا بسبب هذا الحرب ولانجد قوت يومنا وعايشين اناوامي واخوتي سفار والدنا متوفي الله يرحمه ومامعنا أحد في هذا الدنيا جاانبنا في هذه الظروف القاسيه خواتي الصغار خرجو للشارع وشافو الجيران ياكلو واوقفو عند بابهم لجل يعطوهم ولو كسره خبز والله الذي له ملك السموات والارض انهم غلفو الباب وطردوهم ورجعو یبکو ایموتو من الجوع ما احد رحمهم وعطلة ردها لقمت عیش والان لوما احدنا ساعدنا في إيكيلو دقيق اقسم بالله انموت من الجوع فيا اخي انا دخيله على الله ثم عليك واريد منك المساعده لوجه الله انشدك بالله تحب الخير واتساعدني بقدر استطاعتك مع تراسلي واتساب على هذا الرقم00967717415667 وتطلب اسم بطاقتي وترسلي ولاتتاخر وايعوضك الله بكل خير اخواني سغار شوف كيف حالتهم وساعدنا وأنقذنا قبل أن يطردونا في الشارع تتبهدل أو نموت من الجوع وانا واسرتي نسالك بالله لولك مقدره على مساعد لاتتاخر علينا وجزاك الله خيرا`°`^``{`}|π√`^~÷.........،..
what is this font
Stop preaching!
The collective grey matter on display from this trio would be barely enough to cover a sandwich.
Boors.
As opposed to the left wing press, The Grauniad and the Falling (Morning)Star comrades ✊🇰🇵🇨🇳. Still waiting for the revolution comrade 😅
Funny that you think the Guardian is particularly left wing.
It supports most radical left opinions and movements, how is it not?
@@SI-vb7hd You only have to see who they employ,soy boy Owen Jones to see that it is. He's been quoted as saying Marxism in the Labour Party should be celebrated.
I wish they'd make these kind of shows where one comedian leans left and the other right. Even slightly.
Unlike the Guardian which is 100% factual and not biased
The Guardian does good reporting sometimes. And is known to be left of centre. Nothing wrong with a bias if everyone knows what it is. In the UK we know. The Daily Mail is right-wing for example.
Most everyone in the UK could tell you the bias of the papers available. Its obvious.
@@Cruelty-Torturetotal babble.
@@stujujitwingfut5192 Your reading comprehension is obviously lacking.
@Cruelty-Torture the guardian is a total shit rag its full of lies and gasslight garbage
@@Cruelty-Torture weak words from the uneducated, just more babble.
Well these guys love themselves anyway.
2 of the worst comedians of our time
I might be in the minority but im not particularly interested in what two mediocre multi millionaire comedians leaning on the archaic format of British panel shows to sustain their careers have to say on the state of britain today.
You must be busy commenting on everything you are not interested in.
Most people ignore stuff that does not interest them.
Why comment then 🥱
"I might move there when my career hits the skids".
That soon? 😅
Nish pretending hes not a tory again
Ah Nish Kumar, do you remember when he was funny? Yeh me neither.
Not one drop of testosterone between them
Nish is about as funny as a fire in an orphanage
No, *you* don't find him funny.
Can hardly make out a word...
two incredibly entertaining and funny people, and nish Kumar
Oh god, who is still booking Nish Kumar, he is awful
Surely this has to break the record for being the most unfunny video ever
Politics Joe haven’t done their research. The interviewer just referred to Nish as a comedian.
🤦♀️
No one more insufferable in British comedy than Nish Kumar.
Josh Widdicombe being paid to do anything other than go away, is one of the greatest mysteries of modern life.
Imagine how draining and miserable it must be to be around Nish Kumar.
Look in the mirror mr nasty!
Three very unfunny people laughing at their own jokes.
Or maybe you have no sense of humour.
Aw & you made the effort to be here. Poor you, so sad.
It's just missing Shappi Khorsandi
disgracefully soft interview Ed just brown noses his way through and doesn't hold them to account for anything!
It was a chat, not an interrogation.
What hard questions were you hoping for ?
Hold them too account for what? Do you think they are in government or something?
Oh bless there's people who took this seriously, I guess more trolling's required
@@silaw7413 in my defense, I was watching in bed and not entirely awake. But yeah, whoosh, went straight over my head.
@@Cruelty-Torture well, while I don't think that defence would stand in court (lets face it even trumps lawyers haven't tried it tho it probably applies) I will in the interest of deescalation accept your (non)apology and refrain from mocking you (publicly). ah am I not magnanimous!?