Stand-up show by Romesh Ranganathan, 'Will Change Your Life', at the Hexagon Theatre in Reading.
Romesh Ranganathan brings his stand-up to the Hexagon Theatre on Thursday 12 November, with the show starting at 7:30pm. The tour is called Will Change Your Life, and it's a full evening of stand-up from a comic who's spent the last fifteen years moving from the circuit into some of the biggest slots on TV.
If you've only come to know him through the screen, it's worth remembering how he started. Ranganathan burst onto the comedy circuit in 2010, when he reached the Latitude New Act Final, the So You Think You're Funny? Final, and came runner-up in The Amused Moose Laugh Off all in the same year. From there, he built a career around a particular kind of dry, observational style that works just as well on a stage as it does in a script.
His TV work has been wide-ranging. He starred in the BBC Three series Asian Provocateur, which took him to Sri Lanka to learn about his parents' country, followed in 2016 by Mum's American Dream. He's since become a regular face on the BBC with The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan, The Ranganation, Rob & Romesh Vs, A League Of Their Own, Avoidance, and Romantic Getaway. He's also hosted The Weakest Link and his own BBC Sounds and Radio 2 show, For The Love Of Hip Hop.
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The critics have a fair few words for what he does. Three Weeks called him "extraordinarily hilarious", The Guardian noted his "bitingly fresh gags", and the Evening Standard described his work as "a masterclass in spinning life's frustrations into comedy gold". That last one pretty much sums up the appeal: taking the small, annoying things that happen to everyone and stretching them out until they're actually funny. It's a good night of stand-up in Reading, with the show starting at 7:30pm on Thursday 12 November at the Hexagon Theatre.
