Paul Sinha

Paul Sinha - stand up sending Z-list postcards

Comedy editor, Martin Walker has been a big fan of Paul Sinha's stand-up since Paul's Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut in 2004. Eleven years on, Paul is best known to the public at large as a 'Chaser' in something called, The Chase on television. Sadly, Martin doesn't really know what that is, but is delighted that Paul is back at the Fringe doing comedy with Postcards from the Z List.

Paul Sinha's Edinburgh tips

It is that time of year again, when people give you their considered advice on who you should go and see at the Edinburgh Fringe, whilst carefully hiding their real reasons for plugging the shows.

Edinburgh preview: Paul Sinha

Sinha is very much a man of many parts.

This week's new live comedy

Previews of Paul Sinha, Kevin Bridges and Zoe Lyons.

Interview: Rarely Asked Questions - Paul Sinha

Paul Sinha is one of our finest purveyors of smart stand-up comedy. Armchair quiz fans may well know him as the trivia king from The Chase, but Sinha still gigs regularly.

Radio Times review

As a useful adjunct to BBC One's The Big Painting Challenge, try Hannah Gadsby's new series in which the Tasmanian comedian/art historian analyses four works of art. She also sketches in her own life as a gay art student, while a sardonic talking robot, who sounds to me like comedy producer John Lloyd, plays Richard Osman to Gadsby's Alexander Armstrong.

Amateur artists should draw inspiration from the fact that all four masterpieces were dissed by contemporary critics. The pieces scrutinised are Manet's Olympia (1865); Van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait (1434); Michelangelo's David (1504); and Picasso's Les demoiselles d'Avignon (1907). The robot impersonates Sister Wendy, which is much appreciated. As with Paul Sinha's similar comic reinterpretations of history, newcomer Gadsby elicits fascinating facts (Manet's nude was an artist in her own right).

Bearcat Comedy review

It was a very, very good bill last Friday, featuring Ingrid Dahl, Jo Caulfield and Paul Sinha.

Radio Times review

Paul Sinha is a bright lad who's becoming well-known for his quiz show appearances. His new Radio 4 series, in which he offers his take on historical events, seems calculated to appeal to Radio Times readers: Sinha deplores people who are uninterested in anything that happened before they were born.

The first show combines two of Sinha's specialist subjects, football and great navigators, and explains why Brazilians and Argentineans can kick a ball with more skill than Brits. It's not uproariously funny. It needs a shot of the off-the-wall observation that distinguishes QI, a television programme on which, for some unaccountable reason, Sinha has never appeared.

But it's undeniably interesting, full of the kind of information that might come in handy for the next pub quiz.

Daily Telegraph and how not to write about comedy

William Langley is the author of a puff piece on Tim Vine. It would be hard to imagine a more condescending and ugly minded piece about comedy. Or at least it would be hard if I hadn't read other Telegraph articles. It is hard to know where to start. But lets start with the headline.

Joke of the Fringe - a wilful act of cultural vandalism

I think reducing Fringe comedy do a pointless battle of jokes stripped of performance nuance and context is a wilful act of cultural vandalism.