Paul Zenon
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Paul is one of Britain’s leading comedy magician. He has has twenty years experience in performing after-dinner cabaret and hosting awards ceremonies and numerous other events for audiences ranging in size from a dozen to thousands at top venues all over the world. His act has been described as street-style magic played for laughs and as stand-up comedy with tricks. The magic is contemporary, amazing and funny, and his style is cheeky and irreverant but never offensive. The comedy is fresh, personalised and often improvised; adaptability being one of Paul's major strengths.
Britain’s oldest juvenile delinquent, Zenon has spent a lifetime dedicated to deceit, pulling off his first sting aged just eight by selling fake raffle tickets to the residents of his street for a non-existent prize. He skived off school to make his first stage appearance aged eleven, his first TV appearance aged fifteen and, as a teenager, he spent every summer working in a Blackpool joke and magic shop, the House of Secrets, with his lifelong friend and mentor Bill Thompson. Evenings were spent performing in promenade hotels and guest houses, and this seaside period probably accounts for his fascination with bizarre entertainments; sideshows, freakshows and the like, and a dress sense reminiscent of a fairground waltzer operator.
Aged eighteen, Paul travelled the Greek Islands for six months working as street magician, fire-eater and phony fortune-teller (“I can see travel over water…”, etc). He returned to the UK after a short spell working as a casino croupier in Scandinavia where he was fired for cheating (allegedly), and began performing shows and comedy clubs including the renowned London Comedy Store. He went on to host tours (acting as deterrent) for the British and U.S. Forces in locations as far afield as Belize, Bosnia, Croatia, Germany, Gibraltar, South Africa and the Falkland and Ascension Islands, performing in venues ranging from tents and tin huts to the backs of lorries and the hold of an aircraft carrier.
In the early Nineties, Paul presented four series of children’s programmes Tricky Business and Tricks 'n' Tracks - on BBC1, was a regular guest on shows including What's Up Doc? on ITV, produced and presented Magic You Can Do, a teach-yourself-magic videotape, and he was the creator, writer and associate producer of Crazy Cottage, an ITV gameshow. In recent years, Paul’s shows have had sell-out runs at the Edinburgh, Brighton, Adelaide, Melbourne and Auckland festivals, where he has also been a regular in the celebrated burlesque show La Clique at the Famous Spiegeltent.
Aged eighteen, Paul travelled the Greek Islands for six months working as street magician, fire-eater and phony fortune-teller (“I can see travel over water…”, etc). He returned to the UK after a short spell working as a casino croupier in Scandinavia where he was fired for cheating (allegedly), and began performing shows and comedy clubs including the renowned London Comedy Store. He went on to host tours (acting as deterrent) for the British and U.S. Forces in locations as far afield as Belize, Bosnia, Croatia, Germany, Gibraltar, South Africa and the Falkland and Ascension Islands, performing in venues ranging from tents and tin huts to the backs of lorries and the hold of an aircraft carrier.
In the early Nineties, Paul presented four series of children’s programmes Tricky Business and Tricks 'n' Tracks - on BBC1, was a regular guest on shows including What's Up Doc? on ITV, produced and presented Magic You Can Do, a teach-yourself-magic videotape, and he was the creator, writer and associate producer of Crazy Cottage, an ITV gameshow. In recent years, Paul’s shows have had sell-out runs at the Edinburgh, Brighton, Adelaide, Melbourne and Auckland festivals, where he has also been a regular in the celebrated burlesque show La Clique at the Famous Spiegeltent.







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