The best laughter is here in Galway
Thu, Apr 09, 2020
LAUGHTER IS of utmost importance right now with everything so serious and scary, and we need some levity and perspective - even if only for a second, even if the laughs turn to tears because we just need some sort of release.
Read more ...Dungeons & Naggins - live on YouTube
Tue, Apr 07, 2020
NORMALLY, A dungeon is not something you want to be trapped in. A dragon is not a creature you ever want to be face to face with, but in this time of Covid-19, they are just the kind of things you might want to escape to!
Read more ...See the Comedy KARLnival Birthday Bash on Friday
Thu, Apr 02, 2020
IT MAY be only two years on the go, but the Comedy KARLnival at the Róisín Dubh is arguably a Galway comedy institution which even the coronavirus cannot keep down.
Read more ...The Comedy KARLnival goes online
Mon, Mar 30, 2020
THE CORONAVIRUS may have stopped us from going out to see a comedy show, but it cannot stop stand-up comedy coming straight to us.
Read more ...Seann Walsh headlines the Friday night KARLnival
Thu, Mar 12, 2020
HE GOT out of Brighton, survived that Strictly Come Dancing controversy, called a recent tour After This One, I'm Going Home, but Seann Walsh is nothing if not irrepressible.
Read more ...Join Micky Bartlett on a journey into his own head
Thu, Mar 12, 2020
MICKY BARTLETT, at the age of 32, is still trying to move out of his mother's house - a phenomenon all too familiar to anyone in their twenties and early thirties in Ireland.
Read more ...Get up close and personal with Reg D Hunter
Thu, Mar 12, 2020
CONTROVERSIAL AND acclaimed, Reginald D Hunter returns to the Róisín Dubh this month for a show which will also see a set from the 83-year-old comedian Lynn Ruth Miller.
Read more ...Chris Kent - new show at Town Hall
Thu, Mar 12, 2020
CHRIS KENT has children and therefore feels guilty about his contribution to global over population. He is coming to terms with being called “well trained” for carrying out basic tasks. He also loves his clothes horse.
Read more ...Emman Idama: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
Thu, Mar 05, 2020
NO BLACKS, No Dogs, No Irish - once that was a sign that appeared on boarding houses in Britain, and now it serves - in a slightly altered fashion - as the title of the new show by Emman Idama.
Read more ...Genius, bonkers, it's Ross Browne
Thu, Mar 05, 2020
ROSS BROWNE has been called a “genius” by Jason Byrne and “utterly bonkers” by Lucy Kennedy. Galway can make up its own mind when he headlines the Comedy KARLnival at the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Fleabag at the Pálás for International Women's Day
Thu, Mar 05, 2020
FLEABAG, THE one-woman show from the brilliant Phoebe Waller-Bridge that inspired the award-winning BBC sit-com, will be screened at the Pálás Cinema for International Women's Day.
Read more ...Steve Bennett's novel twist on Dungeons & Dragons
Thu, Mar 05, 2020
YOU HAVE heard of Dungeons & Dragons, but what about Dungeons & Naggins, the comedy fantasy role playing game with drinking - which has been developed by comedian Steve Bennett.
Read more ...Dave Elliott - the funny side of fatherhood
Thu, Mar 05, 2020
DAVE ELLIOTT has been declared as "fantastic" by no less a comic than John Bishop, but these days the Northern Irish funnyman is feeling battle hardened after more than a year of fatherhood.
Read more ...Andrew Maxwell - from reality TV to Reality
Thu, Feb 27, 2020
HE SURVIVED ITV's I’m A Celebrity… and now Andrew Maxwell is making the transition from reality TV to actual reality in his new stand-up show, called Reality.
Read more ...Skint Video's Steve Gribben for the Comedy KARLnival
Thu, Feb 27, 2020
STEVE GRIBBIN is a guitar-wielding satirist from Liverpool whose scabrous comedy songs, and off the wall observations, are firmly based in rock‘n’roll and pull no punches.
Read more ...Are you ready for Farmer Michael and Kathleen?
Thu, Feb 27, 2020
FARMER MICHAEL and Kathleen, the viral comedy sensations, will be in the flesh in Galway, performing their new live show to the Town Hall Theatre on Friday March 6 at 8pm.
Read more ...Aidan Greene - Did I Stutter?
Thu, Feb 27, 2020
AIDAN GREENE had a stutter, still has a stutter, but overcame it to become a comedian admired by Tommy Tiernan, and who is now touring a show about what he call "this sexy, silent disability".
Read more ...Two nights celebrating all things Father Ted
Thu, Feb 20, 2020
FATHER TED will be celebrated in Galway with a night of stand-up and musical comedy with two of the classic sitcom's most memorable characters, as well as a DJ set, and table quiz.
Read more ...Patser Murray for the Comedy KARLnival
Thu, Feb 20, 2020
PATSER MURRAY has appeared in Love/Hate, Primeval, Can't Cope Won't Cope, and movies such as Intermission, and he was nearly in Game of Thrones. He is also a first rate stand-up.
Read more ...Julie Jay - first solo tour comes to Galway
Thu, Feb 20, 2020
JULIE JAY, described by Tommy Tiernan as “the brightest, funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time”, is embarking on her first solo tour with her show, Julie Really Love Me?
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