To wonder why Romesh Ranganathan…

I think Romesh is really funny! He has a very dry, sarcastic sense of humour. He is a bit awkward & self depreciating but very good at observational humour.

Different folks find different comics funny. I think Alan Carr is brilliant but my parents can't abide his voice. Jasper Carrot was brilliant back in the day doing stand up. My friend rates Michael Mcintyre but I just don't find him funny.

My son and his Gf bought us tickets to go and watch him, they’d enjoyed it greatly - we left at the interval !! I can’t stand rocky gervais either and I did email the bbc to complain about him once

This is a bit of an unpleasant thread. Romesh seems like a lovely bloke to me - very witty and funny. I love his podcast.

I turn over whenever he is on but I do that with a fair few comedians. I find RR boring and a bit smug. He never makes me laugh. He’s better on radio but not much. I watch lots of live comedy and it’s so hard to work out why you find some comedians funny and other comedians unfunny. Some are quick witted on game shows but can’t do a live show and other are brilliant live but unnoticeable and flat on tv.

I think he's perfect on The Weakest Link.

Anne Robinson used to make it all completely about her and really hyped up the nasty 'act' - except I think it's now clear as day that it was never an act at all. A lot of the things she said to contestants - not even celebrities who were used to being on TV and held some balance of power, but just ordinary members of the public in probably their one and only time ever on TV - were utterly vile and pure bullying.

Her mercifully-short stint on Countdown would appear to bear this out - and I think she felt very threatened working alongside two such incredibly strong, confident and intelligent no-nonsense women on the show that she almost imploded in her own hatred.

By contrast, Romesh happily takes a back seat and realises that the focus is on the celebrity contestants and not him. He's very quick with the gentle teasing, but there's no nastiness whatsoever. It isn't the AR-style "You are pathetic and stupid, so allow me to make you feel thoroughly ashamed of yourself"; rather it's the friendly "Oh, mate, what were you thinking?!"

I'm imagining Romesh starting this post to get some feedback! Fishing for compliments.

Presumably you understand that different people like different things?

Channels put presenters on contract nowadays and put them on different projects.

I like him but understand that we can't like everyone on telly, obviously.

I find Davina so annoying but everyone else seems to love her.

Your question may have been answered, I can't be arsed reading 5 pages, however he's all over the TV because they keep offering and it pays very well.

His stand up is funny as fuck. He's up there with Gervais and Bridges in that respect.

Actually thinking of changing my handle to FatPumPum 😂

I don't think he's at all funny. Bill Bailey is the funniest and most clever comedian I've seen. And Eddie Izzard was top of my list of funniest ever until he became a lot less funny in recent times

I agree. As I say, that was the one thing that I really found uncomfortable about him when he used to do it quite a lot.

I read it as comedy (which it is) so differently to you.

But I watched Michael McIntyre's 25 Years in Showbiz show (or called something like that) and I laughed so much I was nearly sick!

That's another interesting example where comedy is so very subjective too. As a family, we all like Michael in most programmes and laugh a lot; but that one particular special left us all completely cold throughout.

Didn't you say in an earlier post 'im sure he's a very nice person ' or something to that effect 🤔....You know you can always turn the TV over to another channel

A lot of comedians tried making their unfunny parent famous.

We obviously have a different perspective on that. I interpret it as a part of his deliberately-inappropriate humour; but that's only my personal understanding, which may well be wrong.

FWIW, I always found it uncomfortable how much he used to really over-egg how much he couldn't stand his kids; but now I've changed my view and I think it is just a comedic shtick, which he probably felt more able to get away with because, as is now very evident, he so clearly dotes on them.

I genuinely feel that Romesh plays a lot on his background of being just an ordinary bloke, who will often say dull and even embarrassing dad-joke-style things - even though he is actually (imho) a very talented and funny comedian and presenter.

Romesh is great! I love his dry, sarcastic and quick wit.

Another Vote for RR. I think he's great and watching his new show tonight Parents Evening...was brilliant. We don't all need to agree on what we find funny, that's what makes us humans 😁

Ok my mistake, I misremembered.

It didn’t come from him, i heard it on Katherine’s podcast. I think she said that she had an email from someone who was told they couldn’t be accommodated and he went out of his way to make sure she was.

Is he really? I'm sure he's never said...

It's just a type of humour you don't appreciate or find funny, OP. Plenty would feel similarly about comedians that you do like.

I was at uni with him. Same circle of friends. He wasn’t known as a ‘funny’ guy, but his dry sense of humour and awkwardness was always…well, funny