A charity comedy showdown
Thu, May 13, 2010
A COMEDY showdown, in aid of the Irish Cancer Society, featuring 16 comedians, will take place in Kelly’s, Bridge Street, on Sunday at 8.30pm.
Read more ...New comedy club at Moycullen’s The Co-Op
Thu, Apr 29, 2010
GERRY MALLON, who ran the Comedy Club in Cuba* for many years is back with a new club, The First Friday Comedy Club in The Co-Op in Moycullen.
Read more ...Comedy rap with the Rubberbandits
Thu, Apr 22, 2010
IMAGINE AN edition of Prime Time where the topics were Limerick gangs, sniffing glue as an aphrodisiac, and encounters with ‘larger ladies’ and horses, well, that’s a Rubberbandits show.
Read more ...TG4 comedy series nominated for awards
Thu, Apr 22, 2010
AN CRISIS, the new comedy series on TG4, has been nominated for a number of awards at the Monte Carlo Television Festival 2010.
The series is broadcast on TG4 on Wednesdays at 10.30pm with a repeat on Saturdays at 8.45pm. It chronicles the strange world of An Chomhairle Teanga, an Irish language organisation, its director Setanta De Paor (Risteárd Cooper) who has to grapple with Government cutbacks, media scrutiny, questionable projects, a new Minister, and a series of oddball colleagues.
Read more ...Madcap football comedy comes to Town Hall
Thu, Apr 22, 2010
TWO FOOTBALL fans have just seen their side relegated after a referee disallowed a perfectly good goal, allowing the opposition to go down the other end and score.
The referee’s decision is final…or is it? The two cheated fans have to take matters into their own hands by kidnapping the ref and forcing him to change his mind on the all important goal... with hilarious and unexpected consequences.
Read more ...New Irish comedy film to be released in cinemas next week
Thu, Mar 11, 2010
IF YOU found a man resplendent in a shiny red space suit and helmet, passed out on the living room floor beside the drinks cabinet, would you believe he was an alien from outer space?
Read more ...Dublin comic Robbie Bonham will play Comedy@Kellys
Thu, Mar 04, 2010
The brilliant Dublin comic Robbie Bonham (pictured) will play Comedy@Kellys upstairs on Sunday March 7. Support is from Kieran Lawless and Giles Brody. The MC will be Bob Hennigan. Doors are at 9pm. Admission is €7.
Read more ...The Irishman who saved comedy and returned home the all-conquering hero
Thu, Feb 18, 2010
LONG BEFORE David O’Doherty ever took to the stage he was a devoted student of comedy arts. He would regularly go to see his brother Mark perform at The Comedy Cellar in Dublin and watched the international explosion of Irish comedy in the late 1990s.
Read more ...Zoe Lyons - comedy, controversy, and Elton John
Thu, Jan 28, 2010
SHE HAS earned the wrath of Germaine Greer, she is one of the most influential gay people in Britain, she is an award winning comedienne, and she plays Galway next week. She is Zoe Lyons.
Read more ...Ardal O’Hanlon - seeing the world through a comedy lens
Thu, Nov 19, 2009
THE RECESSION is biting hard. Many have lost their jobs or have been forced to take pay cuts. The Government, for so long in denial about the economic downturn, is threatening savage cutbacks in the upcoming Budget, and industrial unrest looks certain.
It is a winter of discontent but many of us have been through it before. The 1980s was one long period of recession and economic stagnation, yet by the end of the decade there was a new vibrancy in the comedy circuit in Dublin, a vibrancy that would unleash an inspired new generation of Irish comics who have since gone on to become household names - among them was Ardal O’Hanlon.
Read more ...Hit staging of The Comedy Of Errors returns to Black Box
Thu, Nov 19, 2009
EXIT PRODUCTIONS and the Get Out Your Bard Players give Galway theatregoers another chance to see their hilarious version of Shakespeare’s The Comedy Of Errors next week at The Black Box.
Read more ...A picture show and a talk show at Galway Comedy Festival
Thu, Oct 22, 2009
TWO SHOWS, which could prove highlights of this year’s Galway Comedy Festival, could also be its most unusual - one is a slide show of photographs, the other a chat show.
Read more ...Galway Comedy Festival @ The Laughter Lounge
Thu, Oct 15, 2009
SIX LEADING Irish and international comedians will present six new shows at the Laughter Lounge in the Róisín Dubh for this year’s Galway Comedy Festival
Read more ...McAleer and Capurro added to Galway Comedy Festival bill
Thu, Oct 08, 2009
KEVIN MCALEER and Scott Cappuro have been added to the line-up of the Galway Comedy Festival which takes place from October 21 to 25.
Read more ...Jason Manford - Manchester’s comedic son
Thu, Sep 24, 2009
WHEN HE was eight Jason Manford and his father went to see Billy Connolly perform in a local theatre. The Scottish comedian was to have a profound effect on the young boy.
Read more ...Galway Comedy Festival determined to keep ticket prices down
Thu, Sep 24, 2009
THE ORGANISERS of the fourth Annual Galway Comedy Festival, which runs from October 21 to 25, have pulled out all the stops to keep ticket prices affordable for Galway audiences this year.
Read more ...Get ready to laugh as the Galway Comedy Festival returns
Thu, Sep 17, 2009
DURING THIS time of economic recession we all need a good laugh and chortles galore are on the way to the city when the Galway Comedy Festival takes place from October 21 to 25.
Read more ...The Comedy Of Errors at the Black Box
Thu, Aug 13, 2009
SLAPSTICK COMEDY, high farce, mistaken identity, and a bit of magic are all in store when Shakespeare’s The Comedy Of Errors is performed in the Black Box Theatre on Wednesday August 19.
Read more ...Pizza Man’s slice of black comedy at Town Hall studio
Thu, Aug 06, 2009
NEW YORK’S Benefit Of The Doubt Theatre Company touch down at the Town Hall Studio next week with their staging of Darlene Craviotto’s uproarious dark comedy, Pizza Man.
The play centres on flatmates Julie and Alice and we meet them on the day Julie has just lost her job and Alice has been ditched by her married lover. Mad at the world in large and men in particular the duo plot to vent their anger by raping pizza delivery man Eddie who comes in to share a beer. From there on the evening gets crazier, wilder, and very, very funny.
Read more ...David Scheel’s brilliant blend of piano and comedy
Thu, May 14, 2009
TOWN HALL audiences are in for a real treat next weekend when feted Australian entertainer David Scheel brings his widely-acclaimed show Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player to the venue for one night only.
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