{"id":489321,"date":"2026-11-07T21:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T21:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/489321\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T21:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T21:08:10","slug":"plano-comedy-festival-presents-paul-varghese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/489321\/","title":{"rendered":"Plano Comedy Festival Presents Paul Varghese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Varghese \u2019s comedy includes observations about being Indian, offering both outsider looking in and insider looking out perspectives, while also exploring a wide range of topics beyond his cultural experiences. He was named \u201cBest Stand Up Comic in Dallas\u201d by the Dallas Observer in 2007 and went on to win the Funniest Comic in Texas, Laughing Skull, and Trial By Laughter competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Varghese has performed at the HBO Comedy Festival, Just For Laughs festivals in Montreal and Toronto, and the TBS Comedy Festival. His television credits include Telemundo 2\u2019s \u201cLoco, Comedy Jam,\u201d NBC\u2019s \u201cLast Comic Standing,\u201d Comedy Central\u2019s \u201cLive at Gotham,\u201d and Showtime\u2019s \u201cRussell Peters Presents.\u201d He has opened for Russell Peters, Dave Chappelle, and the late Joan Rivers. <\/p>\n<p>His album \u201cPaul &amp; Oates\u201d is available on iTunes, and his special \u201cAs I Was Saying\u201d is available on YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Varghese \u2019s comedy includes observations about being Indian, offering both outsider looking in and insider looking out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[150359,4037,150360,5351,160,162,161],"class_list":["post-489321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-150359","tag-comedy","tag-occurrence202611101930","tag-performing-arts","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}