Nish Kumar has said that comedy is an “incredibly important and useful” tool for discussing mental health. The comedian said that seeing issues being talked about on stage can have a “really powerful and potent” affect on normalising discussions around them.
He said: “I think using comedy as a tool to raise awareness around serious issues like mental health is incredibly important and useful. “I personally find that I’m more susceptible to engage with ideas if someone is making me laugh around them. “It can be a way of sugar-coating a pill. “You can get across really important information that people need to hear and they don’t even realise they are being told, it just seeps in.” Kumar is set to perform in the Comedy Against Living