Malcolm Tucker Malcolm Tucker Malcolm Tucker is the antihero of the BBC political satire, "The Thick of It", and is portrayed by Peter Capaldi. He is the Director of Communications for the Labour Party, in both Government and Opposition, acting as the Prime Minister's chief enforcer overseeing cabinet ministers. Tucker was originally a secondary character, with Chris Langham's Hugh Abbot as the protagonist being watched over by Tucker, but after Langham was fired from the series the show directed more attention towards the character of Tucker and his dealings with the inept Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship (DoSaC), originally the Department
The Mash Report The Mash Report The Mash Report is a British comedy on BBC Two. It satirises the news and is hosted by Nish Kumar. First aired on 20 July 2017, it is a TV show spin-off of "The Daily Mash", a satirical website. The first series comprised ten episodes. The second series, of six episodes, started airing on 26 October 2018. Chortle regarded the series as a successful UK version of "The Onion". A segment, in the first show of the second half of the first series, was watched online more than 11 million times in two days (eventually reaching more