Straight Outta Crawley: Memoirs of a Distinctly Average Human Being

At the age of 9, Romesh Ranganathan delivered his first ever stand-up set at a Pontin's holiday camp talent competition, smashing the other competitor, a young girl playing the kazoo.

The gig went so w…

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