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Romesh Ranganathan: Hustle

After a sell-out tour in 2022, Romesh is back with a brand-new show examining the human condition... are people inherently good? Is charity always a positive thing? Is hustling the key to success? Or is all this a load of rubbish we've made up to keep people working hard for no reason.

Join Romesh as he examines all of these issues and more while providing no real answers.

Best known for The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan, The Ranganation, Rob & Romesh Vs, A League Of Their Own, Avoidance, Romantic Getaway, host of Weakest Link and his own BBC Sounds and Radio 2 show For The Love Of Hip Hop.

'A masterclass in spinning life’s frustrations into comedy gold '️️️️ (Evening Standard)

‘..deceptively sharp and utterly disarming' ️️️️ (The Times)

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Romesh Ranganathan's New Tour 'Hustle': Dates, Venues & How To Get Tickets

25 September 2023, 06:00

By Kathryn Knight

Romesh Ranganathan is back on tour with a brand-new show called 'Hustle'. Here's what you need to know about the tour from dates and venues to how to get tickets.

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After a sell-out tour in 2019 - 2022, Romesh Ranganathan is hitting the road again with a new show, 'Hustle' – examining the human condition, in which he'll be addressing questions like 'are people inherently good?', 'Is charity always a positive thing?', 'Is hustling the key to success? Or is all this a load of rubbish we've made up to keep people working hard for no reason?'

Romesh will be examining all these issues while providing no real answers of course.

The comedian hits the road in January, taking the show from Edinburgh Playhouse to Manchester AO Arena.

Here's the info you need from dates and venues to getting tickets...

How to get tickets to Romesh Ranganathan's tour 'Hustle'

Tickets are on sale now, you can get your hands on them here!

Venues and dates for Romesh Ranganathan's 2024 tour

Saturday 20 January Lincoln, Engine Shed

Sunday 21 January Lincoln, Engine Shed

Thursday 25 January Basingstoke, The Anvil

Friday 26 January Cheltenham, Town Hall

Saturday 27 January Cheltenham, Town Hall

Sunday 28 January Basingstoke, The Anvil

Thursday 1 February Reading, The Hexagon

Friday 2 February Reading, The Hexagon

Saturday 3 February Northampton, Royal & Derngate

Sunday 4 February Woking, New Victoria Theatre

Wednesday 7 February Leicester, De Montfort Hall

Thursday 8 February Leicester, De Montfort Hall

Friday 9 February Portsmouth, Kings Theatre

Saturday 10 February Portsmouth, Kings Theatre

Sunday 11 February Southend, Cliffs Pavilion

Monday 12 February Southend, Cliffs Pavilion

Tuesday 13 February Southend, Cliffs Pavilion

Wednesday 14 February Oxford, New Theatre

Thursday 15 February Oxford, New Theatre

Friday 16 February Ipswich, Regent Theatre

Saturday 17 February Ipswich, Regent Theatre

Sunday 18 February Southampton, Mayflower Theatre

Wednesday 21 February Milton Keynes, Theatre

Thursday 22 February Canterbury, Marlowe Theatre

Friday 23 February Canterbury, Marlowe Theatre

Saturday 24 February Milton Keynes, Theatre

Saturday 2 March, Cambridge, Corn Exchange

Thursday 7 March, Stockton, The Globe Theatre

Friday 8 March, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 02 City Hall

Saturday 9 March, Stockton, Globe Theatre

Sunday 10 March, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 02 City Hall

Thursday 14 March, Douglas, Villa Marina

Monday 18 March, Norwich, Theatre Royal

Tuesday 19 March, Norwich, Theatre Royal

Thursday 21 March, Swansea, Arena

Friday 22 March, Bristol, Beacon

Friday 5 April, Glasgow, King’s Theatre

Saturday 6 April, Glasgow, King’s Theatre

Wednesday 10 April, Liverpool, Empire

Thursday 11 April, Liverpool, Empire

Friday 12 April, Sheffield, City Hall

Saturday 13 April, Sheffield, City Hall

Thursday 18 April, Brighton, Dome

Friday 19 April, Brighton, Dome

Saturday 20 April, Brighton, Dome

Thursday 25 April, Brighton, Dome

Friday 26 April, Brighton, Dome

Saturday 27 April, Brighton, Dome

Saturday 28 April, Southend, Cliffs Pavilion

Monday 29 April, Southend, Cliffs Pavilion

Thursday 2 May, Dublin, 3Olympia Theatre

Friday 3 May, Dublin, 3Olympia Theatre

Saturday 4 May, Belfast, Grand Opera House

Wednesday 8 May, Plymouth, Pavilions

Thursday 9 May, Bournemouth, Windsor Hall

Friday 10 May, Bournemouth, Windsor Hall

Saturday 11 May, Bouremouth, Windsor Hall

Tuesday 14 May, Aberdeen, Music Hall

Wednesday 15 May, Aberdeen, Music Hall

Thursday 16 May, Edinburgh, Playhouse

Friday 17 May, Edinburgh, Playhouse

Wednesday 22 May, Eastbourne, Congress

Thursday 23 May, Eastbourne, Congress

Friday 24 May, London, The 02

Saturday 25 May, London, The 02

Tuesday 28 May, Cardiff, International Centre

Wednesday 29 May, Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena

Thursday 30 May, Birmingham, Utilita Arena

Friday 31 May, Birmingham, Utilita Arena

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Wednesday 5 June, Hull, Bonus Arena

Thursday 6 June, Hull, Bonus Arena

Friday 7 June, Leeds, First Direct Arena

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• 09 May 2024 Bournemouth Windsor Hall SOLD OUT
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• 11 May 2024 Bournemouth Windsor Hall SOLD OUT
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• 24 May 2024 London The O2 LAST FEW AFTER PARTY TICKETS ALSO AVAILABLE. See Below
• 25 May 2024 London The O2 LAST FEW TO BE FILMED
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THE AFTER PARTY Grab your ticket (at an exclusive discounted price for Hustle ticket holders) for THE AFTER PARTY. Featuring, Special Guests at indigo at The O2 on Friday 24th May 2024 straight after the show at The O2.

From 10.30pm til late!

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Please note: This show is being filmed.

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Hustle 2024 tour.

• Date 24 May - 25 May 2024
• Venue The O2 arena
• Availability On sale now

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Romesh Ranganathan is back with a brand-new show ‘Hustle’, which is coming to The O2 on Friday 24 and Saturday 25 May 2024.

After a sell-out tour in 2022, Romesh is back with a brand-new show examining the human condition. Are people inherently good? Is charity always a positive thing? Is hustling the key to success? Or is all this a load of rubbish we've made up to keep people working hard for no reason? Join Romesh as he examines all of these issues and more, while providing no real answers.

Romesh is best known for The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan, The Ranganation, Rob & Romesh Vs, A League of Their Own, Avoidance, Romantic Getaway, host of The Weakest Link and his own BBC Sounds and Radio 2 show For The Love of Hip Hop.

Join Romesh for The After Party ft. Special Guests at indigo at The O2 on Friday 24 May 2024 straight after the show at The O2 arena. More info and tickets  here .

Important Information - How to download your tickets on The O2 app

For this show, if you’ve purchased your tickets from theo2.co.uk or AXS.com you’ll need to display your ticket on your phone via The O2 app. Ticket purchasers will receive an email with news and information on  AXS Mobile ID tickets  and how you can download your tickets to your phone. 

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Hustle tour.

• Date 7 June , 2024
• Event Starts 7:30 PM
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After a sell-out tour in 2022, Romesh is back with a brand-new show examining the human condition... are people inherently good? Is charity always a positive thing? Is hustling the key to success? Or is all this a load of rubbish we've made up to keep people working hard for no reason.

Join Romesh as he examines all of these issues and more while providing no real answers.

Best known for The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan, The Ranganation, Rob & Romesh Vs, A League Of Their Own, Avoidance, Romantic Getaway, host of Weakest Link and his own BBC Sounds and Radio 2 show For The Love Of Hip Hop.

Romesh Ranganathan: Hustle

• Website: www.romeshranganathan.co.uk

Brutally honest comedy from the star of Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan , A League Of Their Own and Judge Romesh .

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The incredibly funny tongue-in-cheek comedian from Crawley

Known for his trademark cynicism, Romesh Ranganathan is one of the UK’s most popular TV presenters and comics. He was born in West Sussex in 1978 as Jonathan Romesh Ranganathan and took an unusual route to stardom – via rapping and teaching.

After delivering his first ever stand-up set at the age of nine at a holiday camp talent competition, Ranganthan spent his teen years focused on becoming a hip hop artist with the moniker “Ranga”. Ultimately, he became a maths teacher and worked for many years at a school in Crawley, where he met his wife Leesa, who taught drama. They married in 2009 and around that time, Ranganathan found his way back to comedy by doing gigs in pubs as a hobby.

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Tour dates 2024

At 13 venues:

AO Arena, Manchester

£25–£40 / 0844 847 8000

Bournemouth International Centre

£30 / 0300 500 0595

Congress Theatre, Eastbourne

£32 / 01323 412000

Connexin Live, Hull

Prices to be confirmed

The Edinburgh Playhouse

£35.65–£80.65 / 0844 871 3014

First Direct Arena, Leeds

£25–£40 / 0844 248 1585

indigo at The O2, London SE10

Prices to be confirmed / 0871 220 0260

Motorpoint Arena Nottingham

£25–£40 / 0843 373 3000

Music Hall, Aberdeen

£34 / 01224 641122

The O2 Arena, London SE10

Sold out / 0844 856 0202

Plymouth Pavilions

£30 / 03337 727727

Utilita Arena, Cardiff

Utilita arena, birmingham.

£30–£40 / 0871 945 6000

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The award-winning comedian has lined up shows in Cheltenham, Basingstoke, Reading and more for next February

British comedian and TV personality Romesh Ranganathan has announced a list of extra dates for his 2024 Hustle stand-up tour. Tickets are on sale now. The Cynic's Mixtape star had previously announced performances in Glasgow, Sheffield, Brighton…

Romesh Ranganathan plots Nottingham and Leeds shows for 2024 Hustle Tour

The comedy star will hit arenas throughout the UK next April, May and June

British comedian Romesh Ranganathan has added performances in Nottingham and Leeds to his 2024 UK Hustle Tour. Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday 16 December. The presenter has already lined up shows throughout the UK for spring 2024, including the…

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'The Ranganation' star will headline venues in Brighton, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, London and more

UK comedian and presenter Romesh Ranganathan has confirmed a string of dates for his 2024 UK Hustle Tour. Tickets go on sale at 10am today. The beloved comic is set to headline the Dome in Brighton for two consecutive nights on Friday 25 and Saturday 27…

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New dates added in Halifax, Douglas, Croydon, Liverpool, Northampton, Eastbourne and London

Romesh Ranganathan has added six extra shows to his ever-expanding The Cynic's Mixtape tour. Presale tickets for the shows are available at 10am on Wed 25 Sep ahead of general sale at 10am on Fri 27 Sep. Romesh has been busy racking up TV credits on the…

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Comedian, actor, writer and presenter Romesh Ranganathan has announced he will tour new show The Cynic's Mixtape in 2019. Presale tickets for the shows are available from 10am on Wed 26 Sep. General sale tickets go on sale at 9am on Fri 28 Sep. Romesh…

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Romesh Ranganathan New Zealand Tour 2024

Multi award-winning Romesh Ranganathan is back on the road with a brand-new show Hustle - examining the human condition. Are people inherently good? Is charity always a positive thing? Is hustling the key to success? Or is all this a load of rubbish we've made up to keep people working hard for no reason?

“A masterclass in spinning life’s frustrations into comedy gold” Evening Standard 

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“..deceptively sharp and utterly disarming” The Times

A Sunday Times Bestseller with his autobiography Straight Outta Crawley: The Memoirs Of A Distinctly Average Human Being , Romesh has released second book As Good as It Gets: Life Lessons from a Reluctant Adult.

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After a sell-out tour in 2022, Romesh is back with a brand-new show examining the human condition. Are people inherently good? Is charity always a positive thing? Is hustling the key to success? Or is all this a load of rubbish we've made up to keep people working hard for no reason?

Join Romesh as he examines all of these issues and more, while providing no real answers.

Romesh is best known for The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan, The Ranganation, Rob & Romesh Vs, A League of Their Own, Avoidance, Romantic Getaway, host of The Weakest Link and his own BBC Sounds and Radio 2 show For The Love of Hip Hop.

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Inside Romesh Ranganathan’s life with incredibly private wife and three children

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Romesh Ranganathan has been a firm fixture of British comedy since the early 00s and often jokes about his family life with his wife and children.

Despite her husband’s celebrity status, wife Leesa Ranganathan steers clear from the spotlight and instead chooses to cheer him on from the sidelines.

Whether he’s starring in a new tv series or running in the London Marathon, Romesh has always thanked his wife for supporting his career.

The 46-year-old presenter is also set to head out on a sold out tour for the next two months, kicking off in Brighton and snaking across the UK and Ireland.

His tour, Hustle, hits cities like Birmingham , Belfast , Edinburgh , Cardiff , and London , before wrapping in Manchester in early June.

No doubt the show will be packed with jokes about his life with Leesa but thankfully she is unfazed by this as he once confessed: ‘She genuinely sees it all as just comedy, and therefore meaningless.’

Who is Romesh Ranganathan’s wife?

Leesa met Romesh when the pair worked together in 2009 at Hazelwick School in Crawley, before his stand-up career took off.

She was a member of the drama department while her future husband was a maths teacher.

Little is known about her except for what Romesh has shared about the pair, which includes details of their sex life — or lack thereof.

‘It was a pretty frank discussion of what Leesa and I were experiencing passion-wise,’ he revealed in his column for the Guardian in 2020.

He continued: ‘I have a vivid memory of seeing her face in the audience, looking completely calm, and then glancing across to our friends, who looked utterly horrified at the prospect of going out for dinner with a couple they now knew were definitely not having sex when they got home.’

Romesh went on to describe their intimate activities as ‘like making risotto’, something you ‘always enjoy’ but most of the time can’t be bothered to do.

How many children do Romesh and Leesa have?

Despite Romesh’s frank confessions of their less than steamy home life, the couple have three children together; Theo, Alex, and Charlie.

The doting dad even has two of his sons’ names tattooed on his arm — although not his youngest’s as he revealed in 2019.

He and Leesa had originally agreed to both get tattoos after the birth of their first son, but ‘she bottled it’, he wrote.

‘I got another done when my second son was born, but am yet to get a tattoo for our youngest,’ he said at the time.

‘The clock is ticking, because he is now learning to read, and will be upset when he discovers that, not only have I got his brothers’ names, but also Richard Pryor, Nas, the Roots and the Transformers’ Autobot logo before getting round to him.’

Is Romesh Ranganathan vegan?

Growing up Romesh was a vegetarian but decided to go vegan in 2013 and has been an advocate for a plant-based lifestyle ever since.

In 2019 he posted a video titled ‘The real reason people hate vegans’ which garnered a lot of traction as he simply said because they’re ‘saving the planet’.

‘People hate vegans,’ the comedian shared. ‘And the reason they hate vegans is because they think we’re humourless, and they think we think we’re better than non-vegans, and all of those things are true.

“Veganism has been shown to be, like, one of the two best things you can do to save the planet. So why are you annoyed at me?” @RomeshRanga asks, why do people hate vegans? 😂🥗 #TheRanganation pic.twitter.com/gCylmGA5Tr — BBC Two (@BBCTwo) May 16, 2019

‘In terms of my ethical decisions, I’m so much better than you. I’m better for the planet, I’m better than the animals, there’s nothing worse about me apart from I’m slightly irritating to have round for dinner.’

He added: ‘It’s sort of a sense of guilt, when you see a vegan. That vegan is a reflective surface showing you your own inadequacies and you can’t handle it.’

The star also shares recipes with his fans and has praised his mum’s vegan Sri Lanken curries in the past, although it’s not clear if she is also plant-based.

What is Romesh Ranganathan’s net worth – and did he once run a pub?

Thanks to his stints presenting The Weakest Link, appearing on panel shows, and of course touring his comedy, Romesh has an estimated net worth of £2.4million.

Part of this wealth came from inheriting a pub from his father, which formed the basis of his sitcom The Reluctant Landlord.

The Prince of Wales pub in East Grinstead was run by Romesh’s dad for at least 10 years before he passed away.

It has since been demolished as the comedian previously lamented to Metro.co.uk, he said: ‘We tried to run it for a bit and then gave up after a few months.

‘It was an absolute disaster and then I just contacted the brewery and said we can’t do this any more. The pub doesn’t exist any more.

‘They kept telling us it was a viable pub location and then we abandoned it and they knocked it down, which gives you an idea about how honest they were being about that! We weren’t great at it.

‘What I do think is sad is that pubs are just dying all over the country, and that pub went that way so it’s unfortunate.’

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Multi award-winning Romesh Ranganathan is back on the road with a brand-new show Hustle – examining the human condition. Are people inherently good? Is charity always a positive thing? Is hustling the key to success? Or is all this a load of rubbish we’ve made up to keep people working hard for no reason?

“A masterclass in spinning life’s frustrations into comedy gold” Evening Standard 

Romesh returns to New Zealand for the first time since 2017. Tickets go on sale Friday 10 May at 10am.

“..deceptively sharp and utterly disarming” The Times

Join Romesh as he examines all of these issues and more, while providing no real answers.

Romesh is best known for fronting such series’ as The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan, The Ranganation, Rob & Romesh Vs, A League Of Their Own, Asian Provocateur and BBC One’s Weakest Link . Host of his own BBC Sounds and Radio 2 show For The Love Of Hip Hop , Romesh also co-hosts hit podcast Wolf & Owl with comedy mate Tom Davis.

A Sunday Times Bestseller with his autobiography Straight Outta Crawley: The Memoirs Of A Distinctly Average Human Being , Romesh has released second book As Good as It Gets: Life Lessons from a Reluctant Adult.

“..vivacious comedy” The Guardian

Romesh’s brand new, children’s book is Lil’ Muffin Drops The Mic was published last year. It’s inspired by Romesh’s well-known love of hip-hop, rap music and his less well-known love of baking! At the heart of this funny and heart-warming book is that everyone (just like Romesh) can – with a little help from their friends – find something they’re good at.

Romesh made his return to acting, writing and starring in two new sitcoms produced with his own production company, Ranga Bee. Avoidance for BBC One hit our screens in summer 2022 and Romantic Getaway for Sky Max launched in January 2023.

Romesh has recently become a Comedy Icon for Teenage Cancer Trust and he is a Patron for CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably).

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