{"id":491091,"date":"2026-03-23T15:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/491091\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T15:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:30:08","slug":"romesh-ranganathan-is-surprise-comedy-act-at-bolney-village-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/491091\/","title":{"rendered":"Romesh Ranganathan is surprise comedy act at Bolney village hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She told BBC Radio Sussex that they already had a line-up of four &#8220;excellent&#8221; comedians, and then she heard last week they had an &#8220;extra special&#8221; guest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We sent that little rumour round &#8211; that Romesh was coming over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were allowed to tell people but we weren&#8217;t allowed to put it straight out, and the tickets clearly flew.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the evening was &#8220;just brilliant&#8221;, adding: &#8220;He came to us and gave us a suitable amount of stick about living in Bolney, but we didn&#8217;t mind, because he was very, very funny and very nice as well to have around. We were very lucky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Volunteers turned out to help her put out the chairs after the horticultural show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s how a village hall works,&#8221; Mullany said. &#8220;We have a great team.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She told BBC Radio Sussex that they already had a line-up of four &#8220;excellent&#8221; comedians, and then she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-491091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}