Paul Chowdhry

She was like, who's this guy?

He's de-rigging the stage.

And I thought, one day...

You know, I went from, I'll sell this room out.

And then I went from de-rigging Mariah Carey's stage to then performing on the same stage as Mariah Carey.

Well, when you see the guys doing it, you realize the cost involved.

So Arena Comedy has a high expense.

So you could do like, say, a 2,000-seat venue in Apollo or something, for example, 3,000.

You could do three nights there as opposed to doing one night at a stadium or an arena.

But generally, comics do it as a statement.

It's like an industry statement that you can do it.

So, but you pay for it.

You know, you are paying for the privilege of playing.

And it's not an easy gig.

So with the first, at the O2, it was an arena.

I did the second, I had some acts that go on in the first half and they warm up the crowd as comics do.

But generally, when I do a tour show in the UK, I do the whole show.

So I do around half an hour in the first section.

And then we have an intermission, which you don't generally have in America.

And then in the second half, I do over an hour.