The Fear’s Ross Browne @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

ROSS BROWNE, one of the stars of RTE’s hit hidden camera show The Fear, is taking his Professional Idiot show on his first national stand up tour and Galway is one of his stops.

Show Me The Funny - round two

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

THE SECOND round of this year’s Show Me The Funny, takes place on Monday at The King’s Head Bar, with special guest, the great Karl Spain.

Neil Delamere brings new stand-up show to Town Hall

Thu, Jan 08, 2015

NEIL DELAMERE’S annual New Year pilgrimage to Galway is always a welcome start to any January and 2015 finds him with a new show - The Fresh Prince of Delamere.

Show Me The Funny returns for 2015

Thu, Jan 08, 2015

SHOW ME The Funny, the comedy competition and gig night to find Ireland’s next comedy star, returns to The Kings Head, High Street, this Monday.

Comedy Cocktails @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 08, 2015

THE COMEDY Cocktails Stand-up Showcase returns to the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh on Tuesday January 13 at 9.30pm.

Aindrias De Stac - Christmas show of The Man From Mogaga

Wed, Dec 17, 2014

HE IS the rapper and fiddle player on The Rolling Tax Revue’s ‘No Privatisation, Irish Water, Irish Nation!’ song which has gone viral on YouTube. He is also The Man From Mogaga who went Around The World On 80 Quid.

Brendan Grace’s New Year Galway shows

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

BRENDAN GRACE makes a welcome return to Galway in January and will get 2015 off to a hilarious start when he plays The Salthill Hotel on Sunday January 4 and the Loughrea Hotel, Loughrea, on Thursday January 22.

Kevin Bridges - two Galway shows in July

Mon, Dec 01, 2014

KEVIN BRIDGES, the Scottish comedian described by fellow Scot Billy Connolly as “brilliant”, by The Guardian as a “comedy prodigy”, and by the Daily Mirror as “a MUST-SEE act” is coming to Galway next year to play two shows.

Festive comedy and song with The Gingerbeard Family

Thu, Nov 27, 2014

COMEDY AND music will collide happily and hilariously at The Gingerbeard Family’s A Christmas Special show in the Róisín Dubh on Friday December 5 at 9pm.

Get Un-Robed with Andrew Stanley

Thu, Nov 13, 2014

ANDREW STANLEY is a “comedy tsunami” according to The Scotsman, which also described him as having “astonishingly good observational material delivered and timed to perfection”.

The LipSinkers - biting satire in high heels

Thu, Nov 13, 2014

THE LIPSINKERS, described as “possibly the most ridiculous, fun night out ever” by The Times make their Galway debut at Electric Garden & Theatre this Saturday at 8.30pm.

Alan Carr - Chatty Man to Yap, Yap, Yap! in Galway

Mon, Nov 03, 2014

ALAN CARR, the British comedian and host of the brilliant Channel 4 chat show Chatty Man, is coming to Galway in 2015 to perform his new stand-up show Yap, Yap, Yap!.

Aindrias de Staic - The Man From Moogaga

Wed, Oct 15, 2014

THERE WAS The Man From UNCLE, the man from Del Monte, The Man From Laramie, and ‘The Man From God Knows Where’, but Aindrias de Staic is The Man From Moogaga.

Shappi Khorsandi - laughing at an unconventional life

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

THE DAUGHTER of an exiled writer and comic from Iran, Shappi Khorsandi’s upbringing was in no way conventional, but what a story, and what comedy, she makes from it all.

Acts announced for Comedy Club 4 Kids

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

WHY SHOULD adults have all the fun? Why can’t the children get in on the laughs as well? They can - as long as they are over the age of six - at the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway.

Tommy Tiernan Comedy Carnival tickets selling fast

Tue, Sep 23, 2014

TICKETS ARE selling fast for Tommy Tiernan’s new show, Out Of The Whirlwind, which he is performing at next month’s Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway.

October laughter and the magic of the Spiegeltent

Thu, Sep 18, 2014

SIMON AMSTELL, David Baddiel, 30 Rock’s Judah Friedlander, punk poet John Cooper Clarke, and The Faulty Towers Dining Experience are all on their way to Galway to make the end of October the funniest 12 days of the year.

Vodafone Comedy Carnival line–up to be announced next week

Thu, Sep 04, 2014

It was a festival but this year it is becoming a carnival, and one of America’s finest comedians, Rich Hall - reputed to be the inspiration for The Simpson’s Moe Szyslak - will help launch it.

Stand up for comedy and charity

Thu, Sep 04, 2014

AIDAN KILLIAN, the Irish comedian who recently performed his show Jesus v Buddha at the Edinburgh Fringe, is coming to Galway to give a comedy performance with a difference.