The winner of 2015 ‘America’s Got Talent’, Paul Zerdin is a comedian, magician and ventriloquist of international repute. Paul has appeared all over the world with his puppets Sam, Albert and Baby. Paul is arguably the UK’s number one ventriloquist and made his TV debut in 1993 as the host of GMTV’s ‘Rise and Shine’. He then went on to win ITV’s The Big Big Talent Show, hosted by Jonathan Ross. Since then he has appeared on countless TV shows including; The World Stands Up (Comedy Central) The Stand Up Show BBC, Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival, Comedy Rocks with Jason Manford (ITV1), Tonight at The London Palladium with Bruce Forsyth and Bradley Walsh (ITV1), Michael McIntyre’s Big Christmas Show (BBC1) and The Royal Variety Performance. He has performed in 29 pantomimes, including, since 2016, the famous London Palladium Panto with Julian Clary and Nigel Havers and others. Paul is a Gold Star Member of The Inner Magic Circle and his YouTube channel has received millions of views from around the world. He’s had a residency in Las Vegas, recorded a number of smash hit specials, appeared on the spin-off shows America’s Got Talent - The Champions and Britain’s Got Talent - The Champions, and he’s toured the US and UK with his critically acclaimed ‘All Mouth’ and ‘Puppet Party’ shows, This autumn, 2025, he’s back on tour all over the UK finishing at London’s Leicester Square Theatre in November .
Paul Zerdin is our guest in episode 474 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
Tickets for Paul Zerdin’s tour and all his shows are available here - https://paulzerdin.com/#tour .
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Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .
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