Class Clown

Over the next few weeks we'll be uploading some of our most played older episodes of Class Clown and what better place to start than with our very first episode with Romesh Ranganathan. One of TV's most beloved stars, he's currently all over our screens with Traitors with his own hit Podcast... but let's throw it back to his childhood to see where it all began for Romesh.

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Alexei Sayle, talks about getting excluded from school, how his time at art school taught him to be a fully free thinking creative and how all that lead to becoming a figurehead of the alternative comedy scene.

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Alexei Sayle, one of the key figures of the alternative comedy scene and star of The Young ones joins Seann Walsh to talk about life in Liverpool, growing up as a member of the Communist Party and how he was a challenging student.

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This week on Class Clown Seann Walsh looks back over an earlier interview with YouTube creator and comedian Max Fosh, alongside Dr Natalia Cawley. The pair talk about how YouTube has empowered comedians and creators as well as dig into some of the typical psychological effects going to boarding school can have on you.

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Jacob discusses his two wayward summers front a band in Greece, having his heartbroken by a Slovakian waitress, how his dogged determination landing him a spot on a drama course and how going back to teach on that course lead to the launch of his smash hit podcast Screen Rot.

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Jacob Hawley best known for his hugely popular podcast Screen Rot joins `Seann Walsh to talk about his desire to hang out with the funniest and naughtiest kids at school, the satisfaction of misbehaving despite being in the top set, whether or not he truly is working class, the hours of fun that can be had building dens in childhood and how he would play Ricky Gervais out loud while hanging out at a BMX track as a teen.

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Andrew Mensah returns and this time he's talking about how close he got to being a pro footballer and why being a teenage preacher gave him the skills to write comedy. He also talks about the sin he committed that took preaching off the cards for him and why he has an unlikeley love for Loose Women.

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Andrew Mensah is one of the UK's fastest rising comedy stars. In this Class clown interview he talks about growing up in London, his ambitions to be a preacher before going into comedy, the pressure he felt to exceptional in whatever career chose, how he watched as people who he knew went to prison and also how he lost a friend who was tragically murdered.

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Mark Steel is back for part 2 in which he talks corporal punishment, hating school, being expelled and bring us a couple of very funny stories about how he frequently got in trouble while working his first job as a milkman.Mark Steel is one of the most acclaimed comedians in the UK and host of the long running radio series Mark Steel is in Town. He recently released a book about his battle with cancer The Leopard In my House.

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Mark Steel has had an incredible career from his beloved radio series to decades of acclaimed tours and numerous books to his name. For Part 1 of his Class Clown interview he talks about early scrapes that lead to fights, having a car stolen from under his nose, his Dad's embarrassing behaviour at a cricket match and how he comes from an era where working class people had confidence.

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