It’s so frustrating to not see more of him, he’s one of the best comics around. As with other comments- he’s a master. We need his voice.

Fantastic conversation between these two British Asian pioneers. Paul Chowdhry is the 🐐

Brilliant Podcast - Being a black Londoner I can seriously relate to Paul's experience of being a visible minority growing up in 80's London. Thanks Paul

Seen this guy at a few clubs and the Hackney Empire. A master of his craft. In one show he dealt with a racist heckle with such humour and grace, I’ve never forgotten it.

This talk changed my life. This man is so funny but at the same time so insightful about life.

paul has an honesty and gives of a sense of security in himself that i've never seen of any asian man in comedy or entertainment tbh ... i've got so much respect for him .. his comedy is needed so much .. its such a relief.. i'm claiming him as one of my own. i hope he never stops doing impressions of zain maliks dad 😂

He's right I think we don't hear as much about the Asian experience of and response to racism. Even within Asian experience there's diversity. Coming up through the Black comedy circuit was a good grounding for belly laughs while challenging conventions and power.

I did enjoy this conversation. Thanks Krishnan for inviting such interesting people and for being such a great interviewer.

I relate to the struggles growing up in the 70s & 80s & being the punchline of jokes too in a primarily white area! I always was happy to see Paul on stage representing us! Thanks for the candor in this interview!

A great interview, lovely to see Paul's serious side too. An amazing human being

Particularly love it when you start the Punjabi Paul. Your comedy is up there at the top.

I love this guy

Inspiring to see this side to the guy

Such a great interview. Thoughtful and intelligent - more content like this please

I first saw him on 'the cleaner'. I straight away knew he was an above average actor. He just mentioned about loosing his mother at 5 year old and how it psychologically leave him child like. That really explains why he perfectly captured his role as a man child on 'The cleaner'

He's easily one of the best stand-ups you can go & see. He's an absolute master at crowd work. And he is family friendly - I've seen him live, you can see whole families have turned up. Its a pity you didn't ask him about the men's health element that he'll often cover. But hey...glad you had him on.

He looks quite a lot younger than 47.

Funniest comedian for me. Funnier than anyone on TV.

I cannot go and see him live for the simple fact that I can't take a break when my sides are cramping from the laughing!!! At least at home I can pause it. I think he is hilarious!!!

First person I’ve heard mentioning how people sometimes think you’re arrogant if you’re a shy adult. Resonated

Great interview, thank you! Paul is super funny and also very interesting 👍🏽

paul did try to break into america around the same time when russell peters was trying on his brand of comedy but somehow it didn’t work out i think but his comedy has its nuances and subtlety well crafted around UK culture and communities! he must do more specials and push for a netflix deal

I enjoyed getting to know Paul better, he’s a great talent. Funny man.

Very informative interview, love Paul ❤️❤️

Very insightful and thought-provoking conversation.

I like Paul's comedy because in this day and age he's one of the few comedians openly "poking" things that we're not supposed to. Across cultures and all levels of Britishness, he doesn't discriminate. I don't know if he doesn't care or what insecurities he has internally but on the surface he seems like he doesn't give a sh!t and it feels genuine.

Thanks for every contribution

Exellent comedian, Great interview. 👍

Amazing how 2 Indian men are discussing the racism towards south Asians in general as well as highlighting how the P word is derogatory almost the same as the N word out of all honesty. Unfortunately, within British society South Asians are still to this date a huge outcast .. especially with very bad preconceived stereotypes which the men face the most. In addition , within dating or most domains fashion , media etc it is all pretty much black and white . Out of all honesty from what I’ve witnessed both black and white folk despise south Asians. But nobody really talks about it.

Best wishes to Paul chaudary 🇮🇳

He's brilliant!!!

I love Paul, he is so underated. He is so hsndsome too

30:35 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Oh my days, "do you mind if we call you Paul?" 😂😂😂😂

Amazing conversation.

Keep doing what u are doing bruv, luv u

Times have changed, i'm a white male that was born in the 70's i never met anyone other than white until i joined the British Forces. i spent 25 years and travelled the world. There is good and bad in anyone and it has f@ck all to with color. I welcome anyone of any color into my life and i have been welcomed on more occaisions than i can count where my color has been welcomed apart from in England. There is an issue with white communities in England and a lack of diversity, not here in here in Scotland but then the English have always hated the Scots. I've had first experience of discrimination in the early 90's being from Scotland where i preferred to be with Black or Asian soldiers rather than the English, it is well known that the Scots/Welsh Guards or the Gurkha's and Sikhs were more feared than any English Regiments. Evidence of this can be found if you would wish to research at how many Special Forces were Scottish and or from accents over the last 30 years that were not British born and bred. I love Paul Chowdry, he's exactly what we need to break down barriers but barriers need to broken at both ends.

Brilliant interview.

Fab stand up. Should be on tv more

18:40 pretty powerful stuff - makes you think about the kind of people in our society

Saw him in Bradford a few years back. Very funny and edgy !

Great interview I can relate to alot of what Paul says

Back in mid/late 90’s the cast of Goodness Gracious Me did some great work to introduce British audiences to Asian comedy. Fantastic legacy which is still funny decades later.

An intelligent masterful comedian. Paul Chowdhry is exceptional !

Mr Choudhury is clearly a highly intelligent and articulate individual.

Love Paul, saw him recently in Peterborough, laughed so much had tears in my eyes ! Just a generally fun man , and says it as it is. What you have to remember, it’s COMEDY pure and simple , forget race , forget gender it’s comedy………..

Great watch 👌🏽 Can we please have Mia Mottley next?

Approaching the concept of wealth, that jumps in, if you associate yourself with wealth, invariably someone feels threatened and their natural instinct jumps in 👍

I've been about 6 years in the UK now. I'm shocked at how bad the 80's were for a person of colour!

A very funny bloke and very clever 👍

Paul Chowdry is the main man🙌🏽💯

Funniest comedian with not enough air time 💪🏼

I don't think people understand what it's like being cancelled for all the wrong reason. Absolutely love PC.

As Channel 4 is known for breaking new grounds, please allocate a little slot for Paul (Churchill), Choudary as he is one one of the best naturally self-taught comics this beautiful country has delivered. Thanks

I love paul since 2012 since saw him on TV i really like too get to his live show but his clever unique humour will not get the bland people maybe his fans are my type of peps anyway currently enjoying your new pudcasts !

It’s heart rending to hear about how things were, Having a sense of humour, It’s a given, Big Hugs and look forward to seeing you perform in the future 👍

U bang on sis lol

It's weird what Krishnan says about Bernard Manning... I was brought up in the 70s and 80s in a strictly white area - a rural, well-to-do community where there was a fair amount of casual racism and I never found Manning funny. Not because of his racism (which had become normalized), but because I perceived subconsciously an aggression behind his language. Clearly, he was being aggressive towards minorities, and gradually I understood what he was about. Anyway, come to Peterborough, Paul: it has great infrastructure, which at the very least makes it easy to escape from!

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Weird title. He was born in 1974, so was only 16 in 1990.

Weird, I never saw it like that 👍

Please invite Robert Downey Jr and Quentin Tarantino to your podcast 😂

good lad

Same age as Paul and I also didn’t want to go through feltham ,

He's ma sha Allah looks so good for his age, just like me😜😆

Goshhh are you that old Paula 😂

Hi Paul, I think you are doing your cousin Navin a slight disservice. EVERY child of all nationalities, not just Asian seemed to have auditioned for that role initially in Madam Sousatzka. How do I know..? Navin was part of a drama group called Bristol Youth Theatre, run by an extremely talented drama teacher called Sally Noble. It was in her tiny flat in Clifton/Redland where we all read for the part and that was Navin’s first(and standout) audition.

Sorry to bombard Ur comment section bit u are right once again we seem to be submissive and always on the back foot. But with u Paul ji, u have always been a constant and hallarious factor in the British Indian institution. Not the asylum tho.

As naive as it sounds, As a white boy growing up, You were guaranteed there was a corner shop open on Sunday, Where you could pop in, get what you needed and have a chat 😀

Quite refreshing to see Paul Chowdhary not in character possibly for the first time.

Funny bloke l, hope he's ok 👍

Hands down one of the best Punjabi swearers in Britain today. I feel sorry for white people who can’t get that nuance.

God family comedies init

Dear Paul, I think you are doing you’re cousin Navin

He was born in 74, so he wasn't a man during the 80s - was between 5 & 15 during that decade.

A rough time, being spat on that's aweful, media isn't always the best, I think it might reflect a certain amount of insecurity?, It does worry me and it does feel like a lack of education.

Very hard to listen to, but I think there should be more interviews like this. Love watching Paul perform, my favourite is what's up white people.

We have a moral duty not to comply. No to discriminatory vaccine passports and mandates, it is an utter disgrace. This must not happen England. Will never vote Labour or Tory again. Disgraceful

We have to take into account that black/ asian are minority, so i guess we have to keep the % in movies realistic.

why dont you change your audience instead of altering your racist jokes?

Coconut gurumurthy

Identity politics

Diversity quotas are a stupid, stupid idea. Equality of outcome will essentially destroy growth and progress whether that’s in the sciences or in comedy.

Nish Kumar or Romesh are nowhere near as funny as Paul. Nish Kumar isnt even funny at all.

They did go British bashing, when Brits went and still do go to Europe, and I'm not talking as tourists, but I'm talking about in societal places where the working class of a given place congregate, I say that because were you not living in working class communities? Of course you were. Football is the test then, where society meets then for European working class peoples. Yes when the brits go abroad they got a leathering, likely more often than you'd have gone and got one here! Try follow your football team to Rome and see what happens to you for being British. A few of will be brit bashed, a few stabbed in the buttocks, even flame throwers etc The difference is they didn't hang around too long, looking for for more of it Wouldn't be worth it, nor could they afford to upticks, and live in some one else's country for the best part, Go to Marseille and tell some Algerians your an English man and see what happens, they'll get a good hiding more often than Asians ever did in Britain number for number and time spent on an unwelcome soil. You see it's a common trait around the world, foreigners are generally not welcome on mass. Maybe a bit of tourism, as it puts in and it's often seasonal, there's a break it's tolerated easier. Francis Bacon Lord Verulam, the Godfather of modern science, named it as one of the quickest ways to agitate and make a people angry was for governments to invite foreigners in to communities. The smartest men in Europe knew that in the 1600s! Why? It's the same all over the world. Common sense, and natural from China to Chile. You only squeal a lot because the liberal / leftist establishment, their religion, and it is, plus the bankers that back them ( and their USURY ) be they labourites or conservative all allow you to. It's encouraged, it keeps the heat off them doesn't it, divide and conquer, divert the attention from the stock jobbers and tax eaters, onto those we've made factions out of. but the facts are you're often squealing about what is in reality one of the most tolerant countries for foreigners to live in the world pound for pound. I wonder how they'd fair these working class people you lived around, if they upsticked in the same numbers into the countries your ancestors left?? And in other countries you often wouldn't get to squeal. Your voice would neither be heard or accepted. Count yourselves lucky you can mock and squeal about those that are overall perhaps the most tolerant people in Europe to foreigners. Of course the proofs in the pudding , you wouldn't be here if you didn't know more or less what I've said is the case. At which point we've got to admit you've some nerve.

9:35 I wonder how many white roles there are in Bollywood?! What a completely stupid thing to complain about.

SUMMARY: "Haha I'm Asian... you're asian too, wow. Being asian is quite the thing innit? haha yeah. People watching us are also asian. haha hahaha. Asian. Asian. Asian. innit? haha haha"

Channel 4 is a British public broadcast service, so why are there non indigenous people to the UK presenting it, it’s in the name British, it doesn’t say foreigner broadcast service.....!!

Deathly humourless BBC series coming up in 3,2,1...

he's about as funny as a fart in a bucket