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Romesh ranganathan edinburgh comedy fest live 2014
Jonathan Romesh Kondabolu Ranganathan (born 30 January 1978) is a British stand-up comedian and actor. He was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2013 Edinburgh Comedy Awards. He has made multiple appearances on comedy panel shows and in 2016, he co-presented It's Not Rocket Science, alongside Rachel Riley and Ben Miller. He is known for his deadpan comedy.
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- Romesh ranganathan edinburgh comedy fest live 2014
- Romesh ranganathan gets grilled by his mum alan carr chatty man
- Career
- Personal life
- Filmography
- References
He is also a regular panellist on Play to the Whistle and The Apprentice: You're Fired!, and the eleventh series of The Museum of Curiosity. In 2016, he completed his first major tour, Irrational Live, in which he performed in some iconic venues such as the Hammersmith Apollo. This tour was also released as a DVD.
Romesh ranganathan gets grilled by his mum alan carr chatty man
Career
As mentioned on a 2013 episode of Live at the Apollo (series 9) in which he featured, Ranganathan started performing as a comedian whilst a mathematics teacher at Hazelwick School in Crawley, and The Beacon School, Banstead, Surrey.
Ranganathan started presenting Newsjack on Radio 4 Extra in March 2014.
He appeared on The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice in 2014, during which he presented his homemade vegan chocolate brownies. Ranganathan is a vegan, having been a vegetarian up until 2013.
Ranganathan has guested on multiple episodes of 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. He has also appeared on Would I Lie to You?, Holby City, Soccer AM, Russell Howard's Good News, Sweat the Small Stuff, The Last Leg, Virtually Famous, Have I Got News for You and Mock the Week. He was a regular contestant on the first series of Taskmaster and also appeared in the third episode of Jon Richardson Grows Up.
In 2015, he presented a series for BBC Three, Asian Provocateur, in which he travelled to Sri Lanka to explore his ancestral country. In October 2016, the second series was aired in which Ranganathan and his mother travel to America to meet more of his relatives.
He also joined The Apprentice: You're Fired! in 2015 as a regular panellist. The show is a spin-off from The Apprentice. In December 2015, he appeared in Josh Widdicombe's sitcom, Josh. In 2016, he co-presented It's Not Rocket Science, a new entertainment series for ITV, alongside Ben Miller and Rachel Riley. In 2017, he became the eleventh co-presenter to John Lloyd on BBC Radio series The Museum of Curiosity.
Personal life
Ranganathan was raised in Crawley, West Sussex. He is married and a father of three. In 2014 Ranganathan's wife, Leesa, was admitted to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary during The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where Ranganathan was appearing, and gave birth to their son.
Prior to his comedy career, he was a freestyle rapper under rap name "Ranga" and once reached the finals of the UK freestyle competition.
Ranganathan studied Maths at Birkbeck College, University of London.[1] He subsequently taught maths and was head of sixth form at Hazelwick School in Crawley before becoming a professional comedian in 2012. His wife was a drama teacher at Hazelwick.
He is of Sri Lankan Tamil descent and a keen supporter of Arsenal F.C.
Ranganathan is a vegan and was raised Hindu. His mother has said that he "always prays before he leaves the home", although Ranganathan describes himself as "not massively spiritual".