Maths teacher turned comedian Romesh Ranganathan’s quirky humour has propelled him to the top of the class. But, as he reveals here, life hasn’t always been so easy
“Well, I look like my dad, I am like my dad,” says Ranganathan. “My sense of humour is the same as my dad’s. I am basically a lot like him. There’s lots of things that I find frightening about that. So for example, I didn’t like the way my dad treated my mum and my dad was inconsiderate in a lot of ways. And I’m inconsiderate in a lot of ways, not deliberately, but I accidentally find myself being inconsiderate.
The second upending of Ranganathan’s life was self-inflicted. He taught maths for nine years at the secondary school he went to,in Crawley, and for the most part loved it. He met Leesa, a drama teacher, there and was made head of sixth form, which boosted his salary. So when he decided to do comedy full-time in 2011, he knew he was taking a risk.
“You become conscious: I need to get us out of this,” says Ranganathan. “Because I’ve made this career choice, we’re living like this. And it’s not a noble thing. Going into comedy is not a noble thing.” “It just went massive, that video, for me anyway,” says Ranganathan. “It eventually got to the point where my wife came up to me and she goes, ‘I’ve just had a message from somebody to say, “Can you thank Romesh for his homeschooling video?”’ Then she goes, ‘And I just wanted to ask you: what the fuck do you know about homeschooling? You’ve been up here writing the whole time.’”
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