Performance Career
Early in his career Zenon performed with the rock band Hawkwind and was also lead singer with the Blackpool band Crackousrocknroll. As well as appearing on the comedy club circuit and performing in summer seasons and Forces entertainment, Zenon presented children's television in the early 1990s, hosting the BBC shows Tricks 'n' Tracks and Tricky Business with numerous guest appearances on What's Up Doc? ITV. He subsequently created and produced the Children's ITV game show Crazy Cottage. He has since made hundreds of TV appearances as performer and presenter on shows of almost every genre. He has had several successful one-man shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as well as at Melbourne, Adelaide and Auckland, and for some time has been one of the UK's most successful corporate performers, appearing at events and hosting awards ceremonies in over thirty countries. At the Edinburgh Festival in 2012, Paul took to the stage as magician, compare and comedian for La Clique Royale's run at The Famous Spiegeltent on George Street.
Zenon was the UK pioneer of 'Street Magic', writing and presenting several one-off specials on Channel 4 and ITV including Paul Zenon Turning Tricks (1999), Paul Zenon's Tricky Christmas, Paul Zenon's Trick or Treat (shot in Prague in 2000) and White Magic with Paul Zenon (shot in Lapland in 2002). His last special 'Paul Zenon's Revenge Squad' on ITV1 was a kickback against the faceless bureaucracy and daily irritations that we all have to suffer in modern-day Britain. He is currently a regular special guest in Countdown's Dictionary Corner and appears as pundit on various shows with regard to subjects such as the history of magic and variety, cons and scams, and as a skeptic with regard to all matters 'paranormal'.
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