Paul Merton
(1955-), ComedianSitter in 1 portrait
A writer and performer who combines a razor wit with an outstanding talent for improvisation, Merton became widely known through Whose Line is it Anyway?, Have I Got News For You, Paul Merton - The Series (1991-93) and Room 101 (1999-2007). A superb sketch-writer, he created sketches for Sticky Moments with Julian Clary. On radio, he is a long-standing, hard-to-beat panellist on Just a Minute. Merton has a great love of the comedy stars of silent film and has written a book on the subject. His television documentary series Paul Merton's Birth of Hollywood was broadcast in 2011.
Watch Paul Merton talking about Comedians in the Media section below
by Trevor Leighton
bromide print, 1994
NPG x47390
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