Tajpaul Singh Chowdhry better known as Paul Chowdhry is an English comedian of Indian descent He began his stand up career in 1998 and hosted the Channel 4 comedy series Stand Up for the Week as of the fifth series having been a regular act for the third and fourth series Chowdhry was the first British act to perform at the Caribbean Comedy Festival in Trinidad in 2003 He has been a guest panelist on 8 out of 10 Cats Comedy World Cup and Sorry I Didnt Know He has appeared on Live at the Apollo twice in 2012 and 2015 In 2016 he was one of the contestants on series three of the comedy show Taskmaster In 2017 he was a guest standup performer in The Russell Howard Hour In 2020 Chowdhry appeared in the television drama series Devils Since 2021 he has been hosting the podcast The Paul Chowdhry PudCast in which he interviews comedians He uses the signature phrase whats happening white people at the start of his standup routines