Paul 'Silky' White

Paul 'Silky' White

Started in comedy in the mid-Nineties. becoming a BBC New Comedy Awards finalist in 1995; Silky is a regular circuit performer – often as compere – and promoter of the Kill For A Seat chain of comedy clubs.
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Silky: It Was This Show Or Have Kids

Note: This review is from 2013

Review by Nione Meakin

Music, cracker jokes, anecdotes, storytelling, even wearing a guitar stand as a helmet, Silky certainly leaves no stone unturned in his quest for laughs.

Whether you're in the market for some gently humorous, slightly soppy tales of cohabitation or a filthily funny dose of toilet humour, mild anarchy in the Co-Op or a reminder that, darn, kids really DO say the funniest things, this likable, laidback Liverpudlian is your man.

He perhaps underestimates his audience's attention span and he certainly won't win any prizes for innovation but on the basis of keeping everyone in the room happy, his jack-of-all-trades approach is shrewd.

It's warm and effortless, entertaining without being in the least bit demanding, or asking us to engage too deeply. In short, it's exactly the sort of show one would expect from a man best known as a compere and promoter (he runs the respected Kill For A Seat comedy clubs).

Silky clearly understands how to make people feel relaxed; he's a natural storyteller with an unforced warmth that unites the gathered group of strangers. But there are lots of funny people on the Fringe and there's very little to mark him out as anything especially different.

And perhaps this is where his selection-box approach lets him down. Although there's a thread running through the show about choosing between career and starting a family he doesn't really take it anywhere, choosing to lurch between bawdiness, sentimentality and seriousness through a scattergun series of vignettes. It makes for an uneven and unfocused tone, highlighted by a rather gruesome story about a recent health scare which hints at being significant but proves to lead nowhere.

This isn't a show that will leave anyone feeling especially shortchanged but equally, it's not going to blow any minds or split any ribs either. As one woman in the audience quipped, perhaps it might be time he went off and had those kids.

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Published: 14 Aug 2013

Doubled Up

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Past Shows

Edinburgh Fringe 2002

Silky's Midnight Run


Edinburgh Fringe 2012

Silky: Nut Allegory


Edinburgh Fringe 2013

Silky: It Was This Show Or Have Kids


Edinburgh Fringe 2014

Silky: Tribute Act


Edinburgh Fringe 2015

Silky: The Shrieking in My Mind


Edinburgh Fringe 2016

Silky: Indoor Fireworks


Edinburgh Fringe 2018

Paul 'Silky' White: Ziuq


Misc live shows

Doubled Up


Agent

Brett Vincent
Contact by email
3rd Floor
83 Charlotte Street
W1T 4PR
Office: 020 7222 3399

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