Paul Chowdhry

Paul Chowdhry
ਪਾਲ ਚੌਧਰੀ
Chowdhry in 2015
Born
Tajpaul Singh Chowdhry

(1974-08-21) 21 August 1974 (age 50)
Edgware, London, England
Occupation(s)Comedian, actor
Years active1998–present
Websitepaulchowdhry.com

Tajpaul Singh Chowdhry (born 21 August 1974),[1][2] better known as Paul Chowdhry, is an English comedian and actor.[3] He is of Indian Punjabi Sikh descent.[4][5][6][7] He began his stand up career in 1998 and hosted the Channel 4 comedy series Stand Up for the Week as of the fifth series, having been a regular act for the third and fourth series. Chowdhry was the first British act to perform at the Caribbean Comedy Festival in Trinidad in 2003. He has been a guest panelist on 8 out of 10 Cats, Comedy World Cup, and Sorry, I Didn't Know. He has appeared on Live at the Apollo twice, in 2012 and 2015. In 2016, he was one of the contestants on series three of the comedy show Taskmaster. In 2017, he was a guest stand-up performer in The Russell Howard Hour and also sold out the 10,000-seater Wembley Arena, becoming the first British Asian stand-up comic to do so.[8] In 2020, Chowdhry appeared in the television drama series Devils. Since 2021, he has been hosting the podcast The Paul Chowdhry PudCast, in which he interviews comedians. He uses the signature phrase "what's happening white people?" at the start of his stand-up routines.

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  2. ^ "The 'Prince' of Comedy". The Asian Today. The Asian Today Ltd. 5 December 2006. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
  3. ^ "Harrow's Own Paul Chowdhry Edges Out the Competition". 4 December 2017.
  4. ^ BREXINNIT. Paul Chowdhry. 12 November 2019. Archived from the original on 12 July 2021. Retrieved 15 September 2021 – via YouTube.
  5. ^ Patels – Paul Chowdhry. Paul Chowdhry. 7 April 2017. Archived from the original on 11 July 2021. Retrieved 15 September 2021 – via YouTube.
  6. ^ "Harrow's Own Paul Chowdhry Edges Out the Competition". 4 December 2017.
  7. ^ Live at the Apollo Paul Chowdhry. It's baking Dave. Ovid. 18 July 2016. Archived from the original on 11 July 2021. Retrieved 15 September 2021 – via YouTube.
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