Paul Sinha: How I went from GP to award-winning comedian and Chaser

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Paul Sinha never really had a life plan and yet, somehow he's ended up with a career that's way beyond anything he could have imagined. He originally pursued a career in medicine, largely to keep his parents happy. But, whilst working as a junior doctor, he decided to give stand-up comedy a try. Now, he's not just a successful comedian but also a professional quizzer, best-known as one of the six Chasers on the ITV quiz show, The Chase.

He tells James what it was like to hide his sexuality at school, his unexpected break into comedy and the overwhelming sense of relief he felt when he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2019.

Paul's memoir One Sinha Lifetime is out now.

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0:00.0	This is a global player original podcast.
0:11.8	Hello and welcome to full disclosure. A podcast project conceived to let me spend more time than I'd ever get on the radio with interesting people. Paul Sinha, welcome.
0:19.6	Lovely to be here, thanks. It's lovely to see.
0:21.3	Comedian, broadcaster, professional quizer, former doctor.
0:24.6	A couple of quotes that you have used to describe yourself.
0:26.9	The only openly gay British Asian qualified doctor and TV quizer on the UK comedy circuit.
0:32.3	And now, writer, memoirist.
0:35.5	Memoirist is a nice word, isn't it?
0:36.8	Great title.
0:37.7	On Sinha lifetime. it? Great title. Once in her lifetime.
0:39.4	Everybody loves the title.
0:40.5	Great title.
0:41.4	The story of how a relatively dull and studious Asian kid who was pushed into a career in medicine
0:46.1	ended up as a professional stand-up comedian and quiz.
0:49.2	That's pretty much it, yeah.
0:50.5	And it does exactly what it's.
0:51.5	And also, of course, former star panelist on a much missed panel show
0:55.7	performed above a pub in South East London called No Pressure to Be Funny,
1:00.5	presented by that gobby-twatt-off LBC.
1:03.3	I think you're talking about yourself.
1:04.9	Usually too poor.
1:06.0	Unless Al Barry's got a job in LBC.
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