Covert Connemara comedy and a comedy club crawl

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

THE EVER innovative Vodafone Comedy Carnival hit on a good one some years back with the Wild Atlantic Wahey - a comedy themed tour of Connemara, busing 100 fans to venues along the Wild Atlantic Way for pints and performances by top festival comedians.

Belfast comics for the Comedy KARLnival

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

DAVE ELLIOT has been called “one of the stand out acts on the Northern Irish comedy scene” by the Belfast Telegraph, while John Bishop described him as "fantastic!”. Galway will see why next week.

Ross Noble brings Humournoid to the Comedy Carnival

Thu, Sep 12, 2019

A HIGHLIGHT of this year’s Vodafone Comedy Carnival will be Ross Noble at the Black Box Theatre, where he will treat Galway to his trademark preposterous musings on life, the universe, and everything.

Three Irish comics at the Comedy KARLnival

Thu, Sep 12, 2019

HE HONED his comedy skills Off-Broadway in New York, before returning to Ireland, becoming a regular host and headliner in some of Dublin's most prestigious comedy clubs.

Jason Byrne - Wrecked but Ready for the Comedy Carnival

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

HE IS the barely-in-control master of audience mockery and mayhem. He fires on all cylinders from the moment he bounds onto stage. He has been through real trauma with the breakup of his 20-year marriage, but comic genius Jason Byrne is ‘Wrecked but Ready’.

Johnny Graham to play the Comedy KARLnival

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

HE IS best known for the viral video, Man Flu: The Truth, which has received close to a million hits on YouTube, and for co-running Ireland’s Smallest Comedy Club. Next week he takes to the stage of the Róisín Dubh.

David O’Doherty - Ultrasound in the Town Hall

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

DAVID O'DOHERTY, the comedian also known as "the hairy Enya" returns to Galway with a new show made-up of talking and songs played on that plastic keyboard he got for his confirmation.

Martin Beanz Warde: The Gomey Feen

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

MARTIN BEANZ Warde is undertaking his first Irish tour this month, which includes Galway, and which will see him telling stories about what it is like to be a Traveller in modern Ireland.

Laughter is the best medicine

Thu, Aug 29, 2019

WITH EIGHT weeks still to go before its opening night, it already looks like another bumper year for the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway as the 2019 laugh fest has already begun to sell out its biggest shows.

So, just whose line is it anyway?

Thu, Aug 29, 2019

FIVE PERFORMERS arrive on stage with no script and not the faintest idea of what will happen. This is improv comedy, and there are few better at improv than The Stephen Frost Allstars

Stephen Ryan - the comedian with a 'mesmerising aura'

Thu, Aug 29, 2019

STEPHEN RYAN, winner of Forbidden Fruit Comedy Competition, 2016 Irish Comedian of the Year finalist, and two-time finalist in the Chortle Student Comedy Competition, headlines the Comedy KARLnival at the Róisín Dubh.

Tipperary stars - they’ve come a long way

Thu, Aug 22, 2019

TIPPERARY STARS, The 2 Johnnies, are tip top of the world. Not only has the premier county won the All-Ireland but its native comedian sons have just gone and sold out Galway’s Town Hall Theatre - and that’s before they reveal the identity of their mystery guest...there’ll be no party like it.

Paul Marsh to headline the Comedy KARLnival

Thu, Aug 22, 2019

DESPITE COMING to stand-up later in life than most, Paul Marsh made an immediate impact on the Irish comedy scene, winning the TedFest Toilet Duck Award and the Capital Comedy Club competition.

Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway confirms full line-up

Fri, Aug 16, 2019

Bill Bailey, John Bishop, Ross Noble, Jason Byrne, Reginald D Hunter, Ardal O’Hanlon, Omid Djalili, Rich Hall, and Shappi Khorsandi are just some of the stand-up superstars heading to Galway for this year’s Vodafone Comedy Carnival. The 2019 programme for Ireland’s largest festival of laughter has just been announced and it is simply outstanding.

Michael Mee to headline Comedy KARLnival at the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Aug 15, 2019

Performing at the Róisín Dubh on Tuesday, Michael Mee is an ex-solicitor and former law lecturer from Cork.

Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway 2019 launch night

Thu, Aug 08, 2019

JUST AS one festival season winds down in Galway, another brilliant one prepares to take off. It is time to announce the full line-up for this year’s Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway...

Wild Atlantic Cabaret

Thu, Aug 08, 2019

STAND-UP comedian Breeda Larkin, from east Galway and Limerick born burlesque performer Laura Lavelle join forces for the Wild Atlantic Cabaret.

Emman Idama to headline Comedy KARLnival

Thu, Aug 01, 2019

EMMAN IDAMA, the Nigerian-born Irish citizen, hailed as “charming and energetic" with "panache and charm to spare” by Chortle.co.uk, headlines the next Comedy KARLnival at the Róisín Dubh.

Tom O'Mahony to headline the Comedy KARLnival

Thu, Jul 25, 2019

SINCE STARRING in the hit TV comedy series Damo & Ivor as intolerable toff Tarquin, Tom O'Mahony has become one of the busiest Irish headline acts on the circuit, playing major festivals and clubs, both here and abroad.

Fred Cooke headlines the Comedy KARLnival

Thu, Jul 18, 2019

ONCE UPON a time, Fred Cooke was best known as ‘Fergus’ from the Spar TV ads, but recent years have his star as rise, becoming the MC on The Tommy Tiernan Show and a moonwalking semi-finalist on RTÉ’s Dancing With The Stars.

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