I Just Read About That…

[ATTENDED: November 4, 2025] Romesh Ranganathan

I have made a list of all of comedians from Taskmaster who I would like to see live.  It’s not everyone of course (some of them don’t do stand up and some I don’t think I would enjoy).  I never really imagined that I would see everyone on the list as many British comedians do not tour the U.S.

I was pretty excited when Romesh Ranganathan announced a show near us.  Romesh is HUGE in England–he’s got TV shows and radio shows and everything else.  But in the US, he filled the 500 seat theater (I wonder how weird it is for massive comedians to play smaller venues like this).

The biggest surprise was when we walked in there was a DJ spinning tunes on stage.  His name is Martin 2 Smooth and he played a whole bunch of classic hip hop, which Romesh loves.

Then Romesh came out and started his act.  I enjoyed that when a person walked in late, he quipped “I just flew in from London and I was on time.” (This was the first night of his US tour).

He was very angry on Taskmaster and I assumed he would be angry in standup.  But he wasn’t.  Well, he was angry, but that wasn’t his whole thing.  He was very funny, making jokes about his family (his oldest son who is now bigger than him and who he believes looks like a terrorist with his hoodie up all the time).

He made some very funny jokes about racial profiling–who would have thought that could be funny.

I also really happened to like his jacket.  I can’t remember much about it, but I remember thinking it was pretty nifty.

As happens with the funniest comedians, it’s really hard to remember the jokes after the show because you were laughing hard and then there was another joke right afterwards.  I do know that I laughed really hard.

Usually when I can’t remember the jokes in the show, I look for online clips to jog my memory  And there are like no clips of Romesh in recent days.  I hope more jokes will come to me–sometimes they just pop up out of nowhere.  I’ll add any that I recall.