Tom Davis On Success, Setbacks & Being a Dad

The Romesh Ranganathan Show

Ranga Bee & Platform Media

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.6 • 706 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Comedian and actor Tom Davis joins Romesh for a proper deep dive into comedy, his working-class roots to his success and building his career long term. They talk about Tom’s route into stand-up, creating and starring in Murder in Successville and King Gary, and what it takes to survive rejection, hyper-criticism and projects going wrong. There’s rare praise from Romesh, chaos behind the production cenes, doing his own stunts, pranks, and a BIG announcement. Plus an ever important question from Shanthi. They also get into luck in the industry, being a dad, and how success changes your perspective over time. A Ranga Bee Production in partnership with Listen. 00:00 Intro 2:00 A present for Tom 4:00 The Big Five 5:32 Working with Romesh 8:00 Tom’s route to comedy 11:25 Hyper criticism 12:46 Tom's background 14:23 Murder In Successville 21:00 Luck in the industry 23:07 An annoyed Romesh 23:39 Tom's favourite guest 24:49 On success 26:30 Tom's encounter with Rio Ferdinand 27:58 King Gary 30:13 Chaos behind the scenes 34:20 Working Together 36:00 House Of Fools 42:24 Wold & Owl 43:20 Pranks 44:47 A big announcement 46:46 A question from Shanthi 50:00 On being a dad 52:55 Career perspective 56:47 Tom opening for Romesh 01:01:23 Misquoted 01:08:38 An exclusive Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jamie Lang and Sophie Haboo have arrived on Disney Plus.
0:04.0	We're having a baby.
0:06.0	We're having a baby.
0:07.0	I've always wanted to be mom.
0:09.0	And we're bringing you on our journey through everything.
0:12.0	I have no idea what we're doing.
0:13.0	Thank you. I have more of an idea.
0:15.0	I think of it like a Tamagocchi.
0:17.0	At the end of all of this...
0:20.0	We're going to have a little baby. Raising Chelsea, a Hulu
0:23.7	original series streaming exclusively on Disney Plus. 18 plus subscription required T's and T supply.
0:30.0	Quite weird, this isn't it? It's very strange. Yeah. Very weird. Excited to be in this room.
0:37.4	What's it like to be? Finally, you've made it to the big leagues. Massive. This is the biggest podcast I've ever done. Yeah. Without that out. Correct. Yeah. I know. You've done parenting, however, I haven't you? Yeah. But the best one with any integrity. Hi, I'm Tom Davis, idiot and philanthropist. and today, I'm on the Ramesh Ranganaathan Show.
1:01.0	It's the Romish Rangha, Nathan show.
1:07.0	Oh, shut up, Ramesh.
1:09.2	Okay, let's do your intro.
1:11.3	My guest today is an actor, comedian and writer. By the way, you're allowed to, if you don't like this, feel free to speak up. No, I hate these. My guest today is an actor, comedian and writer who created and starred in the BAFTA winning murder and successful, and the BBC sitcom King Gary. He's appeared in PLEB's Bad Education and The Curse and made the leap to the big screen in Paddington 2 and Wonka
1:30.1	alongside Olivia Coleman and Timothy Shalame. Now he's bringing his stand-up show Spud Gun to a city near you. He's the wolf to my owl. It's Big Tom Dee. Tom Davis, everybody! Thank you. Thank you, sir. Come on. It's very strange you doing that.
1:45.6	It's the first time I'm interviewing you. Yes. Sexy, isn't that? It's very cool. Yeah. I don't know how this episode's going to be. Not because of you, but just because it's the different dynamic. I'm used to sort of asking you questions back. Easy, easy. So do I need to sit outside of my lane? Well, it's just you're the interviewing now.
2:01.7	Do you know what I mean?
2:02.5	So you don't have to come up with your little flight.
2:03.8	It's a fancy that you do on the Warfana. Do I need to sit at some lane? Well, it's just you're the interviewing now.
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