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Romesh Ranganathan

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“Yeah, similar to you, I don't have vivid memories. If I asked for a thing for Christmas, it's pretty likely I was going to get it. Do you know what I mean? For the first eight years or so. So it's really super comfortable. Do you know what I mean? And then it literally was, I would say, over the period of... Six months, everything got completely turned upside down. It was like. It was just a complete 180.”
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“To be honest with you, it's very similar to what you're talking about. I remember. I remember being very comfortable and I remember my dad. You know, all the stereotypical kind of things that you mark success with. My dad wore a suit to work. Do you know what I mean? We had a nice car. We never really wanted for anything. We lived in a nice house. The people that my family were like had a big social circle. All of those external signifiers, that was all happening. So my kind of recollection, to be honest with you, my recollection was being spoiled, to be honest with you. Like I had just loads of stuff. Do you know what I mean? Like mum and dad, mum and dad bought us loads of stuff, but we'd go out to eat a lot. My dad was doing well. He was doing really well. Do you know what I mean? And so”
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“So, yeah, that's kind of, it was kind of, I felt it. Do you know what I mean? But they never had an explicit chat, but I did feel it.”
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“My mum and dad left Sri Lanka for my dad to finish his studies. You know, it was an economic reason, but also there was trouble going on in Sri Lanka. My family originally Tamil, there was lots of trouble going on with the Singhese in the Indian government, and it's like a civil war going on. And that was affecting a lot of my family members as well. So there's like a lot of push and pull involved in them coming over here. But they never sat me down and had a talk. But every single time I made a decision or talked about what A-levels I was going to do or anything like that, I was conscious of the fact that they were really worried about what I was going to do. You know, for example, not going to university was not an option for me. Do you know what I mean? Really? I mean, unless I really decided to rebel, but they just assumed I was going to educate myself to whatever level and then go off and follow this path of being a successful whatever.”
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“They didn't explicitly say you're going to be, I mean, My dad was pretty laid back, to be honest with you. My mum was a bit more... A bit more kind of dead set on what we were going to do, but you know, there was. My mum”
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“I think so. I mean, I was just really into. I just loved it. I loved the idea of making people laugh. I love the idea of doing comedy. I was just so obsessed with it. And so then I entered the talent competition as a stand-up. It was horrendous. But I won. I beat this kid playing Kazoo. And then there's another kid doing a dance thing. Smashed it, absolutely smashed it. But like even then, I really loved stand-up. But the idea that I would do that for a career. As somebody from like an Asian background or whatever, you know, like my parents are very much like you're going to, you know, we've come over to this country for you to. Follow a path and be successful. The idea of doing set up as a career was not, we just wasn't ever in there.”
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“Somebody just talking, I just found it unbelievable, like the low finess of it, the sort of thing of I'm going to say things I think or my take on stuff. And that's the show. There is no more than this. There's no effects. It is just literally I am going to just stream of consciousness. The illusion is it's stream of consciousness. I'm just going to like talk and you're going to, and that's the show. I just found it incredible. And so then we went. My family took me to Punting's Holiday Camp. Me and my brother for like a week. And they had a talent competition. And all I used to do then was read joke books. Everything I read was like 3,001 jokes, like joke books for kids. That was all I would read all the time.”
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“I remember watching that. And I'd had watched Stand Up before on TV, like British Stand Up. I'd watched a lot of it as a kid and loved it. There was something about watching a guy and he just had a microphone and he walks out in that leather suit, not that I'd ever worn a leather suit or ever will, but like he walks out like it's a rock gig. Do you know what I mean? Like the whole crap, like this massive crowd, they go nuts and they watch a show.”
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“Well, I did stand up comedy when I was eight, you know, for the first time, where like. I mean The truth is, I fell into stand up by accident, but when I was a kid, we used to go to this, my mum and daddy stexas video store and they'd go, you can choose something each and we'd all watch it together or whatever. And my mum always used to pick like pink, she loved Inspector Clusa and like Peter Sellers and all that. So she'd choose all that stuff. And then I discovered Eddie Murphy. I remember getting out Beverly Hills Cop and I watched Beverly Hills Cop and I was just like, this guy is so incredible. And then I started watching everything. Golden Child, Trading Places, all of that. As a kid, I was too young to be watching that stuff, but my mum and dad had no idea about age rating. So they were fine with it. And then I discovered Raw, which was like his second special that came out, I think.”
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“It's horrible That never gets easier, man. But you learn more from those goose. I just need to do the best I possibly can at this gig. I'm not in control of anything that happens after that. Don't think about this goal down the line that you're trying to get to. Do this thing brilliantly. If you love what you do and you do that, you're on a good path.”
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“Addicted to do stand up, and it makes me better at everything, but I've got this inner voice that is horrific. It will say you're not a very good dad, you're not a very good husband. I had a one of about six panel shows and I was in a really bad place and I turned up to each one of them with a steadfast belief that I was shit at this.”
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“We lived in a nice house. We had a nice car. All the stereotypical things that you mark success with. Then it was a period of six months. It was complete 180.”
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“I think that all comedians have wired slightly differently. Something happened to them that has made them an outsider in some way.”
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