Romesh Ranganathan, the BAFTA-winning host of The Weakest Link, plays two nights of his new stand-up show at The O2 arena in North Greenwich.
Romesh Ranganathan, the host of The Weakest Link, plays two nights of his new show at The O2 arena in North Greenwich on Friday 16 and Saturday 17 April 2027.
Born in Crawley in 1978 to Sri Lankan Tamil parents, he studied mathematics at Birkbeck, University of London. He taught maths at Hazelwick School, where he had been a pupil, and freestyled as a rapper under the name Ranga.
He began performing comedy while he was still teaching. His first major tour, Irrational Live, played large rooms including the Hammersmith Apollo in 2016.
The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan won a BAFTA in 2020, and The Ranganation won him the award for Best Entertainment Performance in 2021. He also presents a Saturday morning show on BBC Radio 2.
His last tour, Hustle, was recorded over two nights at The O2. It was released in 2025 as part of the Sky series Can’t Knock The Hustle, in which he checks the facts in his own material.