Finally! An actual new ep!

And what an ep it is. Comedian, writer and broadcaster Nish Kumar hosts topical comedy show Newsjack on the BBC and has been twice nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award. He writes very smart, politically charged comedy and his laugh is glorious to behold.

Here Nish and I discuss the current “spicy meatball” of a political period the UK is experiencing. From the concept of “right-wing comedy” to post-Brexit xenophobia to Jeremy Corbyn to Jo Cox to Trump to Hanson, this has got everything you’ve been craving.

The World Keeps Happening at the Soho Theatre

Campaign for Australian Aid’s Comedy Gala Who The Bloody Hell Are We?

Boundless Plains To Share at the Belvoir Theatre, January 2017

Article: Why triple j moving the Hottest 100 could reset the convo around Australia Day by Chloe Sargeant

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Nish’s 2016 tour dates

Newsjack on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Article: Brexit: a disaster decades in the making by Gary Younge

Fences: A Brexit Diary by Zadie Smith

Article: No one told me to go home for 16 years then we voted for Brexit by Nish Kumar

Video: What can a satirist do with our post-truth politics? by Nish Kumar

Cause of the Week: We Love Immigration: A Comedy Night for Migrant Rights Network, Help Refugees UK (helprefugees.org.uk)

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Just a small message to say that this podcast is still happening and everything, I just got distracted and tired and drunk at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Sorry lol.

New episodes coming soon!

The World Keeps Happening is at London’s Soho Theatre from September 12th

Me on Something Wonky

Campaign for Australian Aid’s Comedy Gala Who The Bloody Hell Are We?

Thank youse.

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In a week of Sonia Kruger and Pauline Hanson nonsense, let’s talk to someone who’s actually doing something GOOD for immigrants and refugees and people of colour.

David Manne is a human rights lawyer and the Executive Director of Refugee Legal (formerly the Refugee Immigration Legal Centre or RILC). He’s passionate about helping people who ask our country for – and are deserving of – legal protection.

David gave me the lowdown on the Australian refugee crisis as he sees it: where we’re at, what laws we’re breaking, just how generous we are and what should (and can) happen next – an evacuation of people languishing in our offshore detention centres.

You can catch me at the Splendour In The Grass Comedy Club

Comedy Central’s Roast Battle @ JFL 2016

The World Keeps Happening at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Five facts to fight Sonia Kruger’s fear of Muslims by Jamila Rizvi

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Human Rights with Philip Ruddock – The Wheeler Centre’s Fifth Estate Podcast

Cause of the Week: Refugee Legal (rilc.org.au)

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It’s episode 69 so let’s talk about LOVE.

Writer and philosopher Alain de Botton is in the country to promote his (brilliant) new book The Course of Love: an exploration of the confusing ideas romanticism serves up for us. He thinks love is a serious matter indeed and one worth examining closely, and in this chat we talk about its effects, its position in our hard-wiring and its many forms.

Also, in the wake of Brexit and Trump, Alain reflects on how emotional intelligence might better inform our public debate.

You can catch me at the Splendour In The Grass Comedy Club

The World Keeps Happening at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Article: “Classwashing” Australia’s racism problem won’t make it disappear by Ruby Hamad

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The Course of Love

Video: In Praise of Short-Term Love

Cause of the Week: The School of Life (schooloflife.com – Sydney, Melbourne)

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How about that election, hey?!?!?!?!?!

As the votes continue to be counted and we all wait to see what happens next, half of the brilliant Something Wonky podcast Jeremy Sear joined me to discuss what it all means. He told me how he came to be a progressive person, negative gearing, tax cuts, Hanson, the plebiscite, humanising politicians and a whole new way of thinking about our electoral system. Good times!

The World Keeps Happening at the Sydney Comedy Store, July 9th

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The World Keeps Happening at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival

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The ABC’s Election blog

Article: Pauline Hanson’s back, and the disaffection genie is well and truly out of the bottle by Katharine Murphy

Article: AEC Admit They’ve Lost Count And Will Have To Start Again by The Backburner

Cause of the Week: Refugee Legal (rilc.org.au)

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