Nish Kumar turns on 'right-wing commentators' who 'can't take a joke'

Nish Kumar was the star turn on Friday at a ‘Brexit and Comedy’ panel discussion in central London. The event was staged by ‘The UK in a Changing Europe’ which describes itself as ‘an independent organisation created to make the findings of academic research easily available.’ Essentially it’s a left-leaning think-tank which behaves like a bereavement circle for distraught Remainers. The host, Professor Anand Menon, asked the three panellists to suggest a joke for Boris.

‘I’d just write him a joke that wasn’t racist. A non-racist knock-knock joke,’ replied Kumar The comic Andy Zaltzman, also on the panel, started to improvise. ‘Knock-knock’.

Kumar: Who’s there?

Zaltzman: The immigration authorities.

Marina Hyde, a Guardian satirist, said the best joke about Boris was his current job. ‘London used to be his playground. A girl in every postcode. Now he has to sleep next to the same girl every night with two policemen outside his door.’