Paul Sinha Guest Blog

I have been doing gigs in Glasgow at least annually for the last ten years. Those who have never been to Glasgow may wonder how a public school educated, openly gay Asian comedian with extremely limited resources of personal courage would get on. These people would certainly not be shocked that I was once punched to the floor inside the Best Kebab House on Dundas Street. But that was only the once. And I prefer to remember the good times, rather than the time a feral child ran towards me with a lit firework in his hand.

I for one cannot fault a city that has more Chinese buffet restaurants than Beijing. Until you have gulped down your 28th duck-filled pancake of an evening, you cannot claim to have done Glasgow. Glasgow is still the only city where I have ever been offered a threesome by a mixed gender couple. I still don't know what possessed me to decline. Sobriety can be a curse at times.

That sense of adventure is reflected in the comedy audiences in Glasgow who have always been a pleasure. Ken Dodd famously said of Sigmund Freud that, "The trouble with Freud is that he never had to play the old Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night." Well nor have I, but if the crowds were anything like those that turn up to the Glasgow Comedy Festival every year I would loved to have taken my chances.

Find out more about Paul Sinha at www.paulsinha.com

Paul will be performing his solo show at the Stand Comedy Club on Sunday 14th March. Find out more here.