Possibly in a bid to separate him from Harry Hill - our best known GP turned stand-up - Paul Sinha's marketing material describes him as "the world's only gay, Bengali, GP-turned-stand-up".

This conjures a variety of cliched impressions, most of them inaccurate. To clear up a few, he's not camp, he's not militant and he's still a GP, in the daytime at least.

His shows generally comprise wry, personal anecdotes, about being a gay man who loves football ("Most gay men I know think Man City is some kind of sex resort") or, as in his latest show, a TV quiz he starred in as a 20-year-old.

Sinha considers himself a social rather than political act. "A lot of my material comes out of bewilderment and my inability to deal with the stupidity of the world," he says.

He started out on the comedy circuit while training as a doctor at St George's Hospital in London, also Hill's alma mater: "There was something in the water there," he quips.

Initially a hobby to relieve the stress of being a junior doctor, he discovered he had a knack for it and, some years later, decided to pursue it more seriously.

He took Saint or Sinha?, his second full-length solo show, to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2006, where it was nominated for the if.commedie award. King Of The World is the follow-up.

Supposedly inspired by Leonardo Di Caprio's famous lines in the film Titanic, it is about the moments in life when he felt on top of the world.

"I've always felt comfortable doing shows with a mix of autobiography and social comment," he says. "I think there's room for every style of comedy, but I'm not a clown, I'm somebody that talks about stuff."

Former patients will be relieved to know the show doesn't feature material drawn from his day job. Until last November, Sinha practised the medical half of his professional existence in Brighton.

"As a doctor you get a fly-on-the-wall view of British society," he says. "There's the realisation of just how bad binge drinking is. As a casualty doctor I was spending night after night stitching up gaping wounds in people's faces and it made me realise there was a real problem.

"All the stories I tell are true but I don't tell medical anecdotes as such because of ethics."

  • Starts 7.30pm, tickets £10/8. Call 01273 647100