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WITH GALWAY set to enjoy all the high energy fun, laughter, and sheer craic of the Galway Comedy Festival, there will be no better way to end the night than at the Festival Club.

Jason Manford had a realisation. His origins are as a working class lad from Salford in the north of England, the child born to an Irish emigrant and English family, but his children, thanks to their dad’s success as a comedian, actor, writer, singer, and broadcaster, means they are very much middle class.

As I type, the Red Box is being dismantled in Eyre Square, with the Spiegeltent soon to follow, and Bob's Blunderbus is about to journey on, as the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway is over for another year - but the 2016 festival will linger long in the mind.

IT IS one of the highlights of the Vodafone Comedy Carnival. It is one of the festival's must see shows. It is where the comedians take to the stage for an unscripted, edge of the seat set, featuring some of their darkest material.

The Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway kicks off on Tuesday the 25th of October and runs until Monday the 31st. Get to know the perfomers a little bit better with these:

AT THE centre of the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway, and located in the centre of the city, the Spiegeltent ‘Jean Louis’ in Eyre Square, promises to be a centre of laughter, hosting many of the festival's flagship events.

THERE IS less than a week to go to opening night of the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway, and with ticket sales surging 20 per cent ahead of last year, it is no wonder Dylan Moran, Nina Conti, Jason Manford, Ardal O'Hanlon, and Stewart Lee have sold out already.

AN 81-year-old who has been doing stand-up comedy since she was 71, an author of 15 books, with two masters degree's, who even made Simon Cowell laugh on Britain’s Got Talent, has just been added to the line-up of the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway.

ALL THREE Dylan Moran shows at the Black Box Theatre have sold out, as has Nina Conti’s Town Hall show, while only a few tickets remain for the incredible Stewart Lee at the Róisín Dubh. Fear not though, there are still plenty of great shows to see at the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway.

TICKETS FOR the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway are now on sale, and with shows from Stewart Lee, Jason Manford, Deirdre O'Kane, and Ireland's rising comedy star Al Porter, the real question is, not if you are going to anything, but WHAT you are going to.