| 12 August 2011
The cultured voice of comedy, Paul Sinha, former doctor, former public school boy, and current gay semi-professional quizzer, takes to the stage with an air of well-concealed nervousness. He’s playing to his biggest crowd of the festival thus far, you see, and is eager to please – which he does. The audience is eating out of the palm of his hand by the end of the show.
Ostensibly about dreams, and why we should all have aspirations, Sinha’s routine is really more about comedy, about why he’s not the big name he probably ought to be, about how the business works and why the celebrities he’s met in the last year, including Michael Barrymore and Jim Davidson, are still heroes despite their many failings.
Urbane and intelligent, although perhaps a little too obsessed with the topic of his own sexuality, Sinha delivers the perfect mix of big laughs and thoughtful moments. His banter with the audience is nice, and he is unafraid to ask a loudly drawling man at the back to quiet down – very politely, of course.
If you’re looking for wit and a fine line in cricket jokes, Paul Sinha is for you. If you are looking for a drunken laugh-fest, well, he might just deliver there, too, but remember one thing – keep quiet down the back.
Paul Sinha: Looking at the Stars, The Stand III, 5-28 August (not 15), 10.40pm
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