And it really upset me.”įlexing their muscles: Rob & Romesh Vs Strongman. “Then I found out that he was, like, really fallible. But, as it turns out, she was not making a big enough deal about it.” Ranganathan smiles wryly. And that was because my mum was dealing both with what my dad was being like and also dealing with two kids who thought my mum was making a big deal about nothing. “I wouldn’t say I preferred him to my mum, I definitely wouldn’t say that, but he was the more fun one of the two. “I did hero-worship my dad,” says Ranganathan. Romesh was moved to the local comprehensive, and Shanthi and her two sons lived for 18 months in a B&B, before being found a council house. Soon after, he was arrested for fraud, the family home was repossessed and Ranga was sent to prison. Then, in a head-spinning three-month period when Romesh was 12, Ranga announced that he was leaving Shanthi for another woman. Ranga was an accountant and did well enough to be able to send Romesh and his younger brother Dinesh to the fee-paying Reigate Grammar School. His parents, Ranga and Shanthi, arrived in the UK from Sri Lanka in the 1970s and settled in Crawley, West Sussex. Ranganathan has lived a pretty steady life albeit with two major upheavals. You know, why would they want to watch another hour of the guy that lives with them?” “With something like Misadventures, because it is just me being me, albeit in a different country, they are just not that interested. “I’m trying to think if they have watched anything I’ve been in… No, I don’t think so,” he says. He has three sons, who are early teens and younger, and they never see any of his not-inconsiderable output on TV. These days the fact that Ranganathan is enjoying considerable success just by being Ranganathan is the cause of some bemusement in his household. Same with Rob and Romesh: if me and Rob run a restaurant for a night and nothing happens, we’ve both got to have a long, hard look at ourselves.” Like on Misadventures we shoot for ages if they can’t find an hour of funny stuff in that, then I shouldn’t be a comedian. “Whereas now, it’s partly that you feel more comfortable,” he goes on, “And partly because I trust the process. Top form: hosting A League of Their Own with “So my thing was being like this deadpan grumpy prick, right? The truth is, that exists within me, but there’s more to my character than that. “When I started, I was doing panel shows and you’re trying to look for the funny,” he says.
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Ranganathan is pleased that his work on TV is less “performative” than it has ever been. That became like the thing I talked about. “Like doing an initial layer, letting it cure, then doing a layer of polish over the top of that. “So for about a month, I deep-dived into different techniques for polishing shoes,” says Ranganathan, who is dressed all in black, from hoodie to (admittedly pristine) Air Maxes.
Ranganathan is naturally drawn to the incongruous: before he was a comedian, he was a maths teacher and he remembers becoming obsessed with one of his colleagues’ shoes, how shiny they were. An audience with Ranganathan is, instead, often gleeful and unexpected, like hanging out with a friend who just happens to be much funnier than your actual friends.
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It’s a well-established trope: you can interview comedians and not crack a smile. In person, when we meet at a photographic studio in Brighton, there seems very little distance between him and his onscreen persona. Ranganathan’s flawed everyman is also central to the appeal of the Sky panel show, A League of Their Own, on which he succeeded James Corden as host.Īnd, it has to be said, Romesh situations, while they must be maddening to be entangled in, do make excellent anecdotes. They are there in his television work, too: in The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan, where he travels to some of the world’s least enticing holiday destinations, or Rob and Romesh Vs, where he and fellow comic Rob Beckett undertake quirky challenges, such as training to become strongmen or running a restaurant for a night. If you have seen Ranganathan perform – he reliably turns up these days, occasionally even on time – you will recognise these well-meaning, chaotic traits. Photograph: Rich Hardcastle/BBC/RangaBee Productions Home truths: starring in Avoidance, his new family sitcom for the BBC.