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Paul is an Emmy & Peabody Award winning comedian for his work on "The Daily Show w/Jon Stewart," “The Late Show w/Stephen Colbert,” making recurring appearances on “The Late Show,” other national shows and his own comedy specials. He is also an accomplished actor, hosts the critically acclaimed podcast “Inside Out w/Paul Mecurio,” an award-winning writer and appears regularly as a commentator on news and sports outlets including, CNN, MSNBC, “CBS Sunday Morning,” Fox News, HLN and ESPN.
Paul can currently be seen opposite Golden Globe Winner, Liev Schreiber in the film, “Chuck,” the story about journeyman boxer, Chuck Wepner, the real-life Rocky Balboa.
Paul can be seen in the crime drama film “Johnny and Clyde,” starring Megan Fox.
Paul also created and starred in his hit, unique one-man Broadway show, “Paul Mecurio’s Permission to Speak” which was directed and produced by, Frank Oz, legendary director of such films as “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” “Bowfinger,” “Stepford Wives,” and “Little Shop of Horrors.” Frank is known for his work as Yoda in the “Star Wars” franchise, his close collaboration with Jim Henson creating/performing many iconic Muppet characters, as an actor (“Knives Out,” “The Blues Brothers”) and is an Emmy, Peabody and Grammy Award-winner. “Permission to speak” was met with rave reviews and been nominated for the prestigious “Best One-Man Show” Broadway Alliance Award. The show will be resumed within the next two months.
Paul has hosted his own shows for Comedy Central, HBO and CBS as well as his own talk show. He has appeared in his own Comedy Central and Showtime Specials, made several appearances on “The Late Show w/Stephen Colbert,” “The Daily Show,” "The CBS Late, Late Show," HBO, “The Tonight Show,“ “Conan,” ESPN, and Showtime.
Paul has made dozens of national television appearances as a recurring contributor on the major broadcast and cable networks including on such shows as the venerable
“CBS Sunday Morning,” “CNN New Day,” “CNN Newsroom,” MSNBC, CBS News, NBC News, CBSN, CNBC, ESPN and ESPN +, Fox News, VH-1, “Dr. Drew,” “Katie Couric,” “Outnumbered,” “Kennedy,” “Showbiz Tonight,” “Viewpoint,” “Hannity,” “Fox and Friends,” HLN, “Real Story” and many more.
After graduating Georgetown Law School with high honors, Paul worked as a lawyer on Wall Street at a top tier international law firm (Willkie Farr & Gallagher) and as an investment banker at a major Investment Bank (Credit Suisse), executing multi-billion dollar M&A transactions for Fortune 100 companies.
While on Wall Street Paul was hired by Jay Leno to write jokes for “The Tonight Show." After living a secret double life as a Wall Street lawyer/banker by day and comedian by night, Paul left Wall Street to go into entertainment full time ... if he hadn’t he would have had a nervous breakdown trying to keep the two worlds separate.
Paul was featured on “The Daily Show” as a correspondent and in “The Daily Show” segment, “Second Opinion,” in which Paul skewered the medical profession playing an HMO representative with a less than sympathetic mindset.
He has hosted several shows and pilots for Comedy Central, CBS, HBO and VH-1.
Paul is also a published essayist: “The New York Times Sunday Magazine.”
Paul’s interviewing skills are unparalleled as one can hear on his hit, critically-acclaimed podcast, "Inside Out w/Paul Mecurio” on iTunes, Spotify, iHeart and Audioboom. He has wide-ranging interests and his guests reflect that. His A-list guests at the pinnacle of the worlds of entertainment, pop culture, music, politics, science, sports and more, include …
Paul McCartney, Stephen Colbert, Kevin Costner, Spike Lee, Kristin Chenoweth, Bryan Cranston, Judd Apatow, Michael Strahan, Kyra Sedgwick, Billy Bob Thornton, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Jay Leno, Joe Walsh, Famke Janssen, Historian Jon Meacham, Tim Robbins, Laura Prepon, Thomas Friedman of The New York Times, Bill Burr, Elizabeth Perkins, Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Ludacris, Lewis Black, CEO Meg Whitman, Ken Burns, Bob Costas and many more.
Listen to Paul’s podcast here: https://found.ee/paulmecurio
Paul has also made appearances in the prestigious New York Comedy Festival, The Montreal "Just for Laughs" Festival and the Glasgow/Edinburgh Comedy Festival.
Permission To Speak On CBS New York
Permission To Speak on WGN Chicago
Permission To Speak on WKMG 6 Orlando
RECENT PRESS
Permission To Speak: Fox 6 Now Milwaukee
Paul Mecurio Host of All Star Comics for Kamala Event: Celebrity Access
Permission To Speak: NBC TMJ 4 Milwaukee
Permission To Speak: Providence Journal
Permission To Speak: Eye On Annapolis
Permission To Speak: NBC WTHR 13 Indianapolis
Permission To Speak: Fox 32 Chicago
Permission To Speak: The Westerly Sun
Permission To Speak: PBS Rhode Island
Paul Mecurio at Mark Ridley’s Comedy Castle: Fox 2 Detroit
Permission To Speak: Playbill
Paul Mecurio is Not Crazy
The Decline of American Lies - CBS Sunday Morning
What makes Tim Duncan's retirement remarkable - CBS Sunday Morning
Huffington Post: How Paul Mecurio Got Paul McCartney As a Guest on His Podcast
Comedians on What Tickled Their Funny Bones... - The Wall Street Journal
Consumer Man by Paul Mecurio - NY Times
Turning Fake News Into Real Careers - Newsweek
Paul Mecurio: When comedy and sports collide - Punchline Magazine
Just for Laughs Festival: Days Three and Four - The Independent
Paul Mecurio - City Pages Minneapolis
Q&A: Comedian Paul Mecurio - Indianapolis Star