In his past life, Paul worked as a lawyer and investment banker with the big shots on Wall Street. All the while, he was honing a secret, second career performing comedy in New York City. After a few years living this double life, Paul left Wall Street and is now a national headlining comedian with miles of touring under his belt, as well as an actor.
A national headliner in clubs and theaters across North America and in Europe, Paul has made many TV appearances including The Late, Late Show on CBS, Comedy Central Presents: Half Hour Special, The Daily Show w/Jon Stewart, ABC’s Wednesdays at 9:30, NBC’s Fridays, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, Shorties Watching Shorties, and Tough Crowd w/Colin Quinn. For his work as a writer on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, Paul won both an Emmy Award and a Peabody Award (the Pulitzer prize for broadcast journalism).
Paul has also performed at the prestigious Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal and he has had one of his short filsm screened at The HBO Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado.
Paul’s Consumer Man jokes about life as a frequently aggravated consumer have really taken off. In January 2008, his latest Consumer Man essay was published in The New York Times Magazine. Read the full story here, Lives: Consumer Man.
Paul has a recurring segment called Image Makeover on the nationally syndicated Bob and Tom Radio Show. As the Image Makeover Guy, Paul shares with listeners helpful tips on how public figures can easily improve their images. Alongside The Pope, OJ Simpson and Ted Haggard, Paul has even provided advice to such newsworthy events as the spread of E-coli and The Superbowl. To hear Paul..s hilarious Image Makeover segment, tune in to an affiliate station or check out the archive below. Who knows, maybe there’s some advice YOU can use.
Recently, Paul co-created, executive produced and starred in a show called, Sports Central which uses a news format to take a funny, smart look at all the off-the-field issues plaguing sports. Read more about it at myspace.com/sportscentralshow
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Consumer Man in The New York Times Magazine Possible bag conspiracy threatens to undermine social order.
"I'm one of those people who yell at store clerks. Not just any store clerks, but the ones who are rude, incompetent or indifferent. In other words, all store clerks. I'm the guy who always has to speak to the manager. In my head, I'm "Consumer Man": a superhero fighting on behalf of oppressed consumers the world over. In my wife's head, I'm crazy.
"Someday you're going to scream at the wrong person," she says. "And you're going to get shot." This "wrong person" has figured into so many of our conversations that I feel as if I know him, even though I really know only two things: 1) he's "wrong" and 2) he's going to shoot me..." READ MORE HERE!
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A blast from the archive. Check out this interview from Comedy Central Presents! Let's just say its not a good idea to get high on career day...
About Me: I was born in a modest tenement house in Providence, Rhode Island (a.k.a. the biggest little state in the union). My childhood was a happy one filled with endless days of chasing asthmatic squirrels (most of which I caught) and making rubber band balls, my favorite pastime to this day.
Not unlike Jesus Christ, my parents owned a furniture store and I, a precocious child would help out after school. My idea of an all rubber band house for kitties never quite caught on, but my parents didn..t care. They knew I was destined for greater things.
Flash forward to adulthood. With RI and the furniture shop far behind me, I arrived in the City of New York to pursue my dream of becoming a Broadway dancer. A hoofer, a gypsy of the boards, if you will. Sadly, this dream would never be realized since I knew next to nothing about dancing...so I became a lawyer on Wall Street instead.
It was the go-go nineties and I was on top of the world. But something was missing. I walked the streets of the city for years trying to put my finger on it. It turns out that I was not meant to be a lawyer or a dancer or even the rubber band ball maker from my youth. I was meant to be a stand up comedian. And the rest as they say is history.
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i'm sorry about the unintentional phone calls. i am taking steps to remedy this as we speak. i will not disgard the info entirely, in case i ever want to prank call you. i hope you understand. thanks....
Very funny blog about Obama!! Did you know my mother was born in raised in Providence?? My Gram, (god bless her, 93) still lives in Hope. No pun intended. xo! Alyson
Hey this is Sarah from the funny bone in Columbus Ohio the one that was getting married! We did get married by the way! Well, just stopping by to see how your doing! and to say Hi and have a great weekend!
Hey thanks Paul! Loved the show the other night definetly one of the most fun I've been to in a long time! Can't wait to see another. We may check another out when we take a trip to Boston sometime.
