Nish Kumar and Josh Widdicombe on John Oliver, the right-wing press and local journalism

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Ай бұрын

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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@bulletproofblouse Ай бұрын

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.

@barbararowley6077 Ай бұрын

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.

@TJBeyonder2814 Ай бұрын

Can’t get better than these 3 people together talking about stuff and things

@sausagembape677 Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@chrisbfreelance Ай бұрын

Nish is that you?

@gossipmongersaunt774 Ай бұрын

Add Gary Linekar and James O’Brien

@iamjurell 17 күн бұрын

Yeah, really hard hitting. Stuff and things.

@Penhallam Ай бұрын

Splendid interview!

@jakem1126 Ай бұрын

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

@pgdh Ай бұрын

"there's bits of cars all over the track" would certainly get you a job alongside Alan Partridge's Desk of Sport.

@GoldTopCookie 26 күн бұрын

GOAL! and that's a goal right there.

@LeornianCyng Ай бұрын

The caption is perfect and says it all, no need to add anything else.

@jonathaneffemey944 Ай бұрын

Thanks for posting

@Howyanow Ай бұрын

Ed held his own here with two veteran comedians, our hilarious news boy

@williamsulman2646 Ай бұрын

Where were the comedians?

@polyestermammoth740 Ай бұрын

Nish Kumar cant be described as a comic

@williamsulman2646 Ай бұрын

@@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.

@MT-kx2uc Ай бұрын

@@williamsulman2646Stewart Lee? "I didn't laugh but I agreed the fuck out of it".

@iamjurell 17 күн бұрын

@@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.

@designbus Ай бұрын

More of this please JOE!

@Vesta_the_Lesser Ай бұрын

oh my god, when I saw this I was SO damn excited.

@99PTR99 Ай бұрын

Get Ollie on for a rebuttal!

@reverendroar Ай бұрын

The trio we thought we’d never need… damn that was good!

@dazlock4491 Ай бұрын

Funny to see Josh trying to hide his Nero cup when he talks, you can tell he is TV trained.

@tracysavage5189 Ай бұрын

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!

@domhuckle Ай бұрын

Good stuff

@Solid_Soup Ай бұрын

Spectacular botwork beneath

@wickenworkshop4625 Ай бұрын

Thanks for this. Three erudite, politically aware and funny young men. Josh, Nish, Ed and Joe are mint.

@gavinbuck8130 Ай бұрын

Shame it's so short, would've been lovely to for it to be an hour plus. :)

@blackdogbarking Ай бұрын

It is obvious that decent people find journalism very hard in this country.

@mboyle1 Ай бұрын

incredible

@FSMDog Ай бұрын

Old enough to remember Gus Honeybun :)

@GrumpleSenior Ай бұрын

As comedians go, Nish is right up there with Hannah Gadsby.

@Sweaty_Ken Ай бұрын

I never thought that I would hear Gus Honeybun referenced on PoliticsJOE

@DarkDreams685 Ай бұрын

Only about 40 years since he read my birthday card 😂

@slartybartfast666 Ай бұрын

OMG Gus Honeybun! made my summer holidays down in Cornwall as a kid

@fayesouthall6604 Ай бұрын

I loved Gus Honeybun I’m in south Wales but we got to see him too.

@jac-attack Ай бұрын

I thought Nish just really hated getting letters and going outside based on the thumbnail.

@pluribus_unum Ай бұрын

25:15 - _...the eternal thirst for hits - you know - is not conducive to brilliant journalism all the time._

@noellzy 28 күн бұрын

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 :)

@Evemeister12 27 күн бұрын

Old dart? That's a bit harsh on Jerry Hall

@noellzy 27 күн бұрын

@@Evemeister12 hahahahaha

@adamq3625 Ай бұрын

I'm currently working Joe at work, even though Josh told me not to.

@coleenocasturme Ай бұрын

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...

@SingularityMedia Ай бұрын

No comedians involved in the mash report tho.

@chrisstones1249 Ай бұрын

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@rohraspy1590 Ай бұрын

shame about the ownership of most local papers

@ghost_printer Ай бұрын

At least you didn't call it "vehicular detritus"

@nosylocaljourno 15 күн бұрын

I loved Gus Hunnybun!

@hopsail 22 күн бұрын

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.

@adamrandall5163 Ай бұрын

Is that the dude from Dirty Grandpa?

@johncollins3560 Ай бұрын

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

@bangthehankers1985 20 күн бұрын

Nish is nailing the Trotsky aesthetic.

@killymckillkill Ай бұрын

Ed Campbell the meat beast❤❤❤

@iamjurell 17 күн бұрын

How incredibly fresh and original. Tories = bad, yeah? Am i doing it right?

@Rockky67 Ай бұрын

Good balance, man who only knows top royals and man descended from King Edward I

@Keldroc Ай бұрын

If you don't know the Mail and the Sun are papers, that is a very funny pull quote on the thumbnail.

@captainhoratiobungleiii7147 Ай бұрын

It's only just occurred to me that only people in East Anglia would know who BC the Birthday Club bear is. Shook!

@roll1e76 21 күн бұрын

I'm so glad Gus Honeybun is coming back - just disappointed I live in Scotland now so won't get to see him.

@nathandoe4904 Ай бұрын

Fuck. Gus Honeybun. Instantly just brought me back to school holidays in Cornwall as a kid

@cassienorwood5635 Ай бұрын

I assume you went to Flambards XD

@nathandoe4904 Ай бұрын

I spend my summers going down the death slide. lol

@LimeyRedneck Ай бұрын

💜🤠

@lobsterboy2020 Ай бұрын

Guys stop writing all these negative comments I can't like them all

@Daithai96 Ай бұрын

It's not that long ago that the "Big 4" were the "Big 6". I have no comment on that "progression"...but...well...

@quintuscrinis8032 Ай бұрын

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.

@stevereber3358 Ай бұрын

Nish just knows Andrew from his local pizza place.

@verityviolet Ай бұрын

what a pity their show is on SKY a revolting media organisation that I would never ever subscribe to.

@Cruelty-Torture Ай бұрын

Ye can prob watch it somewhere else?

@kilianalexander2736 Ай бұрын

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

@bobthegrinch Ай бұрын

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.

@SingularityMedia Ай бұрын

The first double act where they are both the straight man.

@benpauley8167 Ай бұрын

Can't wait for PoliticsJoe to hire a competent audio engineer so that these videos are actually listenable.

@timd791 Ай бұрын

I've very little respect for Journalists - all on Murdock's teat with little counterbalance

@Cruelty-Torture Ай бұрын

Stop reading the papers he owns then. Lol. There are plenty of superior news outlets to frequent.

@timd791 Ай бұрын

@@Cruelty-Torture - I don't read his press but "I was only acting under orders" isn't a reasonable excuse - they're rotten

@Cruelty-Torture Ай бұрын

@@timd791 concur. They are a malignancy.

@StardustMonkey Ай бұрын

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

@tunes012 Ай бұрын

You were probably better off not knowing about them tbf, welcome to the shit show!

@mh1593 Ай бұрын

you should know John Oliver

@derekclear3913 Ай бұрын

The Sun is owned by murdock and the mail may as well be

@DanStrayer Ай бұрын

The Son and The Male don’t even exist, and they are automatically much better.

@Necrovamp101 18 күн бұрын

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.

@SirWhig-esq. Ай бұрын

Die spiellung

@giovannaspeciale375 Ай бұрын

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.

@trevorwhatever5301 22 күн бұрын

Happy taking Murdochs' coin I see lads.

@Kirbysbelt 25 күн бұрын

Worked for the guardian? Red flag

@eugenio1542 29 күн бұрын

Not funny or clever. Australia has "Friendly Jordies" as an aggressive independent comedian journalist 😂

@dianehrechko6370 Ай бұрын

How do we get Marley her own show? She seems to be the only one that knows anything

@theswiv Ай бұрын

I blame, Have I Got News For You, for normalising Nigel and Mogg

@louiswillems1979 Ай бұрын

And boris

@williamsulman2646 Ай бұрын

I blame the BBC for calling nish Kumar a "comedian". Don't you have to have made someone laugh?

@glyndwrjohn6383 Ай бұрын

He makes two people laugh in the video on which you're commenting, you goober. @williamsulman2646

@peterhopkins142 Ай бұрын

Good to see these two ground breaking panel show guests with such divergent views, given airtime. Such predictable stuff.

@jackmarshall5069 Ай бұрын

Whoever did the thumbnail made Nish Kumar Caucasian

@ianclose123 Ай бұрын

The man is whiter than Gary Linekar - but I suppose that is why Linekar got bullied at school

@chrisbfreelance Ай бұрын

I think this was a rare occasion where Nish didn't mention he was brown.

@sammorgan4451 Ай бұрын

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?

@ruaridhcameron3863 Ай бұрын

saying David Mitchell has shit political takes is a shit take.

@tcritt Ай бұрын

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.

@sammorgan4451 Ай бұрын

@@ruaridhcameron3863 alright son

@sammorgan4451 Ай бұрын

@tcritt not seen Rachel's recent takes and her position on Corbyn?

@tcritt Ай бұрын

@@sammorgan4451 I supported Corbyn, but come on. He didn't have what it took. Get over it.

@clivewilliams4859 Ай бұрын

Nasal overload

@vincass9392 Ай бұрын

Life is a public school party. Everyone else serves

@TheInternationalist01 Ай бұрын

Never interview your mates.

@user-wr6vy3rb7h Ай бұрын

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@dog-ez2nu Ай бұрын

what is this font

@colincampbell4261 Ай бұрын

Stop preaching!

@haydnsamuels73 Ай бұрын

Most Nasal Voice of the Year 2024. Quite a long format this year

@ianallardyce4222 Ай бұрын

I wish they'd make these kind of shows where one comedian leans left and the other right. Even slightly.

@user-dw7vx4gv6b Ай бұрын

Boors.

@kernowman2768 Ай бұрын

As opposed to the left wing press, The Grauniad and the Falling (Morning)Star comrades ✊🇰🇵🇨🇳. Still waiting for the revolution comrade 😅

@SI-vb7hd Ай бұрын

Funny that you think the Guardian is particularly left wing.

@chrisbfreelance Ай бұрын

It supports most radical left opinions and movements, how is it not?

@kernowman2768 Ай бұрын

@@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.

@user-gc8pc3ol6l Ай бұрын

The collective grey matter on display from this trio would be barely enough to cover a sandwich.

@TNT79714G Ай бұрын

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?

@paulthomas6381 Ай бұрын

Unlike the Guardian which is 100% factual and not biased

@Cruelty-Torture Ай бұрын

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.

@stujujitwingfut5192 Ай бұрын

@@Cruelty-Torturetotal babble.

@Cruelty-Torture Ай бұрын

@@stujujitwingfut5192 Your reading comprehension is obviously lacking.

@chopstrr Ай бұрын

@Cruelty-Torture the guardian is a total shit rag its full of lies and gasslight garbage

@stujujitwingfut5192 Ай бұрын

@@Cruelty-Torture weak words from the uneducated, just more babble.

@pauldunn9502 Ай бұрын

Well these guys love themselves anyway.

@StephMcAlea Ай бұрын

"I might move there when my career hits the skids". That soon? 😅

@purangesmith9053 Ай бұрын

Ah Nish Kumar, do you remember when he was funny? Yeh me neither.

@harrypittaway356 Ай бұрын

Nish pretending hes not a tory again

@LiamNI Ай бұрын

Can hardly make out a word...

@ImK4Os Ай бұрын

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.

@adamrandall5163 Ай бұрын

You must be busy commenting on everything you are not interested in. Most people ignore stuff that does not interest them.

@Gingerninja-jc5ky Ай бұрын

Why comment then 🥱

@lilmoyinyang5812 Ай бұрын

Not one drop of testosterone between them

@lobsterboy2020 Ай бұрын

Nish is about as funny as a fire in an orphanage

@EdwardLindon 19 күн бұрын

No, *you* don't find him funny.

@fireburn95rs Ай бұрын

two incredibly entertaining and funny people, and nish Kumar

@Phantom-mk4kp 27 күн бұрын

2 of the worst comedians of our time

@antonydavis2764 Ай бұрын

Politics Joe haven’t done their research. The interviewer just referred to Nish as a comedian.

@fayesouthall6604 Ай бұрын

🤦‍♀️

@gilesk Ай бұрын

Oh god, who is still booking Nish Kumar, he is awful

@matthewjames1114 Ай бұрын

Surely this has to break the record for being the most unfunny video ever

@chrisbfreelance Ай бұрын

No one more insufferable in British comedy than Nish Kumar.

@sausagembape677 Ай бұрын

Josh Widdicombe being paid to do anything other than go away, is one of the greatest mysteries of modern life.

@phil8528 Ай бұрын

Imagine how draining and miserable it must be to be around Nish Kumar.

@colincampbell4261 Ай бұрын

Look in the mirror mr nasty!

@aion5837 Ай бұрын

Three very unfunny people laughing at their own jokes.

@carlharding5311 Ай бұрын

Or maybe you have no sense of humour.

@turntheblueiris4626 Ай бұрын

Aw & you made the effort to be here. Poor you, so sad.

@chipledhungaman Ай бұрын

It's just missing Shappi Khorsandi

@silaw7413 Ай бұрын

disgracefully soft interview Ed just brown noses his way through and doesn't hold them to account for anything!

@dondoodat Ай бұрын

It was a chat, not an interrogation. What hard questions were you hoping for ?

@Cruelty-Torture Ай бұрын

Hold them too account for what? Do you think they are in government or something?

@silaw7413 Ай бұрын

Oh bless there's people who took this seriously, I guess more trolling's required

@Cruelty-Torture Ай бұрын

@@silaw7413 in my defense, I was watching in bed and not entirely awake. But yeah, whoosh, went straight over my head.

@silaw7413 Ай бұрын

@@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!?

@matthewdean6060 Ай бұрын

Ohh no you shouldn't give these anymore air time.. there annoyingly on TV all the time.. especially that awful Friday night programme.. with that terrible Aussie.. 🤮