Paul Chowdhry

I think people would say I was more of a serious guy, you know.

But then I would say things that people would find funny in a serious manner.

And that's where I thought, oh, you know, I grew up to, weirdly, I grew up to horror.

I grew up to horror films.

I would watch as a kid.

And also comedy was, I'd say in the 1970s or 80s, quite primitive in the UK in comparison to America.

So you had the alternative comedians, but we had mainstream comics in the UK who would do like we had, I don't know if you know about British comedy was very different to the Americans and then

So back then, you know, I grew up, you know, I'd say the biggest export we had at that time was Benny Hill in America.

Yep.

Looking back on Benny Hill, it's actually quite, it wasn't really a respected form of comedy.

It was quite sexist and misogynistic.

You know, you couldn't get away with that kind of stuff anymore.

Michael Jackson's favorite comedian, apparently, right?

He went to see him on his deathbed.

So I grew up to, you know, More Come Awise, like all these guys.

And then I dove into Pryor when I was, I'd say in the eighties, I was listening to Pryor, Kinison, obviously Eddie Murphy back, back then and the delirious era.

Yeah.

So, so, but we'd get cassettes back then.

So I'd listen to it on my Walkman.

uh, Carlin.