{"id":3475,"date":"2008-10-08T13:47:47","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T13:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/10\/08\/curry-king-swaps-tikka-for-tickles\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:22:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:22:57","slug":"curry-king-swaps-tikka-for-tickles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/08\/curry-king-swaps-tikka-for-tickles\/","title":{"rendered":"Curry King swaps Tikka for Tickles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Charan Gill begins new career as stand-up comedian<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"259\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/CharanGill_180x232.jpg\"\/>CURRY King Charan Gill MBE will swap Tikka for Tickles next week as he begins a new career as a stand-up comedian.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The former shipbuilder who founded his Harlequin Leisure Group in Glasgow in 1994 and built it into Europe\u2019s largest chain of Indian restaurants before selling it in a multi-million pound deal in 2005 is now determined to breakthrough in the notoriously cut-throat world of stand up comedy.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>And his first stop is The Stand Comedy Club in Glasgow NEC on 14 October. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Revealing what inspired him to embark upon such a radical career move, Charan said: \u201cI was in The Stand Comedy Club in Glasgow scouting for a comedian to book for The Hottest Night of the Year, the annual charity fundraiser I organise, when I had an epiphany and realised that I\u2019d always wanted to be a comic.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cWhen I sold my restaurants I was looking for fresh challenges \u2013 and being a stand-up comedian is certainly a fresh challenge!\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Charan\u2019s comedy routine will centre on Glasgow\u2019s love for curry and give a humorous insight into what goes on in Indian restaurants on an average Saturday night.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cBelieve me \u2013 I\u2019ve got plenty of material!\u201d he said. \u201cAnd, who knows, today The Stand, tomorrow I could be headlining at The London Palladium, so all booking agents looking for a laugh better make sure they\u2019re in the audience on Tuesday 14th!\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charan Gill begins new career as stand-up comedian CURRY King Charan Gill MBE will swap Tikka for Tickles next week as he begins a new career as a stand-up comedian. &#13; The former shipbuilder who founded his Harlequin Leisure Group in Glasgow in 1994 and built it into Europe\u2019s largest chain of Indian restaurants before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}