When Romesh first broke into comedy, the pub was the perfect place to practise – even when his father got on stage to tell "the most disgusting, rude, dirty jokes... Everybody loved it".
Other challengers include Al Murray, standing in the guise of his comedy character the Pub Landlord though with work to do on his 1.4% rating.
Some of these riffs wouldn't make it in a pub comedy night in Surbiton – "No bite is worse than a bite.
The Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, learned on Wednesday that Al Murray, in the guise of his comedy character the Pub Landlord, is to take him on in the Kent seat of South Thanet this May.
Rather than being a downbeat offspring of Early Doors (Cash's delightfully muted pub comedy written with Phil Mealey), Rovers offers all the signifiers of something broader, but the gags never quite come.
The group toured London's pub comedy circuit with stops at The George IV in Chiswick, Canal Cafe Theatre in Little Venice and The King's Head in Islington.
Regular weekly events include club nights; live and acoustic music; a pub quiz; comedy; and a glamorous May Ball.
And does it matter if the words are uttered in a comedy performance, outside a pub, in a park or at a protest?
Other than that, JD Wetherspoon founder-chairman Tim Martin and comedy character Al Murray the Pub Landlord are two peas in a pod.
He started doing comedy sketches at a pub in New Cross and one night, while performing a character called Tappy Lappy, with a Bryan Ferry mask and planks on his feet, he was heckled by a solicitor in the audience called Bob Mortimer.
His book ends just as he starts performing his first few paid gigs, at comedy nights in London pubs, but to me, he seems an unlikely kind of a comedian, anxious and rather shy.
