Q. Name?
A. Paul Varghese

Q. Where do you live?
A. Dallas

Q. Who is your comedy hero?
A. Hero would imply that they saved me from dying onstage which nobody ever has. I do have influences though like Dean Lewis, Clinton Jackson, Greg Giraldo, Arj Barker, George Lopez, Robert Schimmel. I've learned something that's shaped my comedy just from watching and/or talking to them. Stuff that I still remember to this day.

Q. What made you decide to strive for a career in comedy?
A. I just always thought that what was funny to me was never on TV, or stage, for that matter. I felt like I had a story to tell.

Q. What career would your parents have chosen for you?
A. Anything that would allow them to brag to their friends about me and allow me to buy a plasma screen TV for them.

Q. Have you ever tanked onstage?
A. I was performing at an open mike in a hotel bar and had a lady once yell "You're the worst comedian I've ever seen! Can't you take a hint and get offstage?" I didn't take a hint and proceeded on and on and on until the tension was so thick it stuck to the roof of my mouth. It was my stubbornness to keep going and continue to piss off that lady that ended up shutting down that open mike for good.

Q. Everyone's a geek in some way. What kind of a geek are you?
A. I know way too much about sports. Not only can I carry on a conversation about it with another sports fan, but I can also keep going into such detail and mindless information that it creeps us both out into a state of uncomfortably awkward silence...

Q. What song is trapped inside your brain right now?
A. Bobby Brown "Don't Be Cruel" .. trapped? Not so much. I purposely locked and barricaded that song into my head. It makes standing in line or sitting in traffic fly by oh so quickly.

Q. What will you do with yourself after the fall of civilization?
A. Take credit for it.

Q. What is your greatest memory from your time with Live at Gotham?
A. The hooting and hollering that the audience did when they announced my name. I never get that. It's the response that I wish I got when they called my name at high school graduation.