Nish Kumar
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And he said... Nobody can work out who my boss is.
It's still unclear.
Well, that does not bode well for...
No, Nish is an abbreviation of a slightly longer name.
Nish is an abbreviation of Nishant.
So my full name is N-I-S-H-A-N-T.
And it's a Sanskrit word that means daybreak.
But the only reason it's abbreviated is because when I was growing up, everybody called me Nish apart from... Your mum and dad.
Yeah, but they used to call me Nish.
If I got called by my full name, it's because I'm about to be told off by my grandma, basically.
Basically, if I hear my full name, weirdly the only people that call me by my full name are my mother and my grandmother when they're annoyed with me and Tim Key for some reason.
The comedian and actor Tim Key calls me Nishanth.
I think he likes it for some reason.
Yeah, he likes to give me my full title.
But yeah, I have always been referred to as Nish.
And apart from when my mum and grandma are in a bad mood with me.