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THE BRILLIANT Robbie Bonham will headline the next Comedy Comedy night upstairs in the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 8.30pm.

DOUG STANHOPE, the fearless, controversial, and provocative US comedian, will play the Laughter Lounge in the Róisín Dubh on Wednesday September 3 at 9pm.

At the age of 18 American comedian Doug Stanhope left his suburban home outside Boston behind and travelled to Los Angeles to become rich and famous. He appeared in a number of TV movies and uncredited extra roles and eventually he left acting behind to pursue a lucrative career in telemarketing. After breaking up with his then girlfriend Doug decided that the only road open to him was the world of stand-up comedy and in 1995 he won the San Francisco comedy competition. Throughout his career Stanhope has been somewhat controversial and in recent years has toured with a bunch of comics under the banner of The Unbookables. He has upset the sensibilities of the booking agents at the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival, The Edinburgh Comedy Festival and the Kilkenny Cat Laughs Festival. Stanhope makes his way to Galway on Wednesday September 3 to play The Laughter Lounge at Roisin Dubh.

THE GALWAY Arts Festival may be over for another year, but that does not mean great music is at an end in the city. The Róisín Dubh has, as always, an impressive line up of acts during August, September, and October.

THE LAST time Doug Stanhope played Galway he kept referring to it as “Dublin”. However he overcame this by turning it into an ironic, self-referential joke, that won the audience over.