Romesh Ranganathan Can’t Speak his Mother Tongue | The Jonathan Ross Show

he's one of our best new stand-up committees would you please go crazy for wamish wanganatham come on so excited to have you here thank you for coming on the show thank you for having me we actually share the same name well romish is my middle name my first name is actually jonathan really yeah it's weird i registered jonathan ramesh and i said to my dad you know why did you do this and he says like to help you when you're growing up in the country sort of you know with job applications and stuff like that you don't get discriminated against if your name's jonathan right how is that gonna work like just sort of the guy looks at the form and goes jonathan ranganathan must be a white guy i mean what would happen at the interview it's the next question isn't it like you jonathan rang nathan yeah um what's going on here i'm sorry i've been on holiday for ages well speaking about ages that must have taken a while to grow that fabulous beard that you're sporting there yeah this is the thing now all the young men seem to have beards yeah it's um the problem is is that i don't get it trimmed enough and so sometimes it looks sort of stylish and i'm hipster and sometimes it look like i've just been found on a boat you know and it's less of a decision more hello yes i've been locked up for ten years glad to be out now i thought before you came on and i'd only met you briefly at the comedy awards yeah uh and bob mulderman has been telling me how funny you are that's always a good indication because bob was a big champion of yours early on and i trust his judgment very much um but i i thought you were an indian comedian i thought you're you're you're pennsylvania but you're not indian you're you're like he's not indian is it no i'm originally i'm originally sri lankan [Music] what are the chances of that happening that's uh that is the whole of my fan club my mom actually she thought she doesn't she doesn't think i'm a proper sri lankan like she calls me a coconut like do you know have you heard this coconut is a phrase of uh it's not a very nice phrase no it's brown on the outside white on the inside my mom's so good you're cooking you're coconut and the reason is it okay you're doing the accent i'm not sure i think i'm allowed to okay yeah you suddenly went oh does she sound like this i could give you permission well what is the sri lankan accent i'm not familiar with it particularly well i just i just nailed it one word basically basically but the thing is that my i can't speak my mother tongue you know because my mum and dad they didn't speak to me like so you weren't white you speaking that no but now the problem is because i can't speak it that's why my mom calls me a coconut because i can't speak here and she goes why don't you not why didn't you teach me and then we'll go to like a sri lankan party or something with those guys [Music] and she'll slag me off she'll slate me to a sri lankan foreign [Applause] [Music] foreign i don't know whether your parents wait this way but you are a vegan there's nothing to do with my parents it's just something i i wanted to do you know i was vegetarian for ages and um a few years ago i i said you know i wanted to become vegan and i said to my wife i'm thinking about becoming vegan she said to me you know well you can't [ __ ] like like nobody is going to invite us around for dinner if you're going to do that it's tough cooking for the vegans and it's tough because isn't it is it things you know sometimes i wish i wasn't told it happened to me i was at a wedding i was i was eating onion bargies enjoying do you like an onion bar juice look at me do you think i do not like an onion [Music] so i was smashing through some onion bhajis and i just thought you know what these are so good why are people eating meat i love myself a bar just to my mate aren't those onion bodies amazing you said yes mate but they are lamb pakoras and i thought i've done it now so i had another three and the other thing you know the big issue is pizza yeah you know you can't pizza is so how can you survive without these this is what i've got you know this is what as soon as you say to someone you're you're a vegan what do you have just water get impressed absolute no no i can't believe you know what i've got compassion all right guys but it's no it's it's difficult but you know like i i ordered a pizza you could you can eat pizza you can ask them i don't want you say to them i don't want cheese and then they go they look at you like a piece of that cheese is like trying to get someone to accept scottish money you know like yourself sorry it sounded like you said without shoes is that really what you want you know and then it's difficult you could go to mcdonald's and just have the bun couldn't you that would what a meal this is the kind of thing i'm talking about i'd go to his house for dinner got you a bun just put some citrus fruits in it hope you enjoy you

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Id: 4DhmqxJgJFo

Length: 5min 55sec (355 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 03 2021