Straight Outta Crawley: Memoirs of a Distinctly Average Human Being

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That was one of the many hugely racist jokes I told as part of my set that night at Pontins, Camber Sands, which I also delivered completely in a Sri Lankan accent – a very early recognition of the fact that my ethnic minority roots could be exploited for comedic value. He appeared on The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice in 2014, during which he presented his home-made vegan chocolate brownies. It had a talent competition and I decided to enter as a standup, with a book of jokes from which I took all of my material.

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But I found the ending abrupt and disappointing which left a bad taste at the end, hence the lower score. At a charity event a few years ago, the comedian and TV personality even revealed that he gets recognised in Crawley more for being a former Hazelwick teacher than he does for his many TV appearances. And if you have ever tweeted me or spoken to me suggesting I talk about it too much, that’s a pretty racially intolerant position to adopt.

I saw quite a few of his early gigs before he hit the big time, so I really enjoyed reading about the other, lesser-known facets of his life. The book follows the story of James, who since the departure of his father, can’t seem to stop worrying about everything.

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If a woman wants to go on about periods or I want to talk exclusively about race, that should not be an issue.

After the Top Banana stand up went well and earned the comedian a laugh - something he failed to achieve in London - he began to perform in the Brighton comedy scene for experience. He was a contestant on the first series of Taskmaster and also appeared in the third episode of Jon Richardson Grows Up.

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distraction, but no matter how many AMAZING brownies he makes, James still feels like there’s a missing ingredient in his life . He stated that he became obsessed with being tattooed and subsequently has tattoos with the names of his sons, Richard Pryor, Nas, the Roots, the Albanian flag and the Transformers' Autobot logo on his body. One night, we were filming Mock The Week, on which I’ve appeared a few times, when Hugh Dennis made an Isis joke. I reported it to the police, not because I thought it was a credible threat, but because people shouldn’t be able to spout off like that without repercussions.On another Mock The Week, I observed that old people should be allowed to be racist because they have enough going on. Ranganathan taught mathematics at his former secondary school, Hazelwick School in Crawley, and at The Beacon School, Banstead, Surrey, [15] and was a freestyle rapper under the rap name "Ranga", once reaching the finals of the UK freestyle competition. I performed the whole thing without acknowledging I was having “bud bud ding ding” repeated at me from the front row. My main issue was that in some places it felt very disjointed and jumbled, and I felt myself getting a little lost.