Show Me The Funny - the penultimate show
Thu, Feb 05, 2015
THE PENULTIMATE Show Me The Funny heat takes place this Monday at 8pm in The King’s Head, with only four grand final places left to fill.
Read more ...Dave McSavage - he’s not giving up
Thu, Jan 29, 2015
DAVID MCSAVAGE, the ‘enfant terrible’ of Irish comedy, makes a welcome return to the Róisín Dubh on Friday February 6 at 8.30pm as part of his Don’t Give Up tour.
Read more ...Show Me The Funny
Thu, Jan 29, 2015
MOTORMOUTH DUBLIN comic, Andrew Stanley - star of the AIG ads - will perform at the next instalment of Show Me The Funny.
Read more ...Reduced Shakespeare Company’s Complete History of Comedy
Tue, Jan 27, 2015
THEY HAVE taken on the world of Shakespeare, but now the legendary trio are finally tackling the subject they were born to reduce. From the high-brow to the low, The Complete History of Comedy (abridged) covers comedy from Aristophanes to Shakespeare to Charlie Chaplin to Chris Rock.
Read more ...Show Me The Funny
Thu, Jan 22, 2015
ERIC LAWLOR, the Dublin comedian voted Comic of the Year by readers of Entertainment.ie, is the special guest at this week’s Show Me The Funny.
Read more ...The Leg Breakers - comedy improv @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jan 22, 2015
COMEDY IMPROV group The Leg Breakers play the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh on Thursday January 29 at 9pm.
Read more ...The Fear’s Ross Browne @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jan 15, 2015
ROSS BROWNE, one of the stars of RTE’s hit hidden camera show The Fear, is taking his Professional Idiot show on his first national stand up tour and Galway is one of his stops.
Read more ...Show Me The Funny - round two
Thu, Jan 15, 2015
THE SECOND round of this year’s Show Me The Funny, takes place on Monday at The King’s Head Bar, with special guest, the great Karl Spain.
Read more ...Neil Delamere brings new stand-up show to Town Hall
Thu, Jan 08, 2015
NEIL DELAMERE’S annual New Year pilgrimage to Galway is always a welcome start to any January and 2015 finds him with a new show - The Fresh Prince of Delamere.
Read more ...Show Me The Funny returns for 2015
Thu, Jan 08, 2015
SHOW ME The Funny, the comedy competition and gig night to find Ireland’s next comedy star, returns to The Kings Head, High Street, this Monday.
Read more ...Comedy Cocktails @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jan 08, 2015
THE COMEDY Cocktails Stand-up Showcase returns to the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh on Tuesday January 13 at 9.30pm.
Read more ...Aindrias De Stac - Christmas show of The Man From Mogaga
Wed, Dec 17, 2014
HE IS the rapper and fiddle player on The Rolling Tax Revue’s ‘No Privatisation, Irish Water, Irish Nation!’ song which has gone viral on YouTube. He is also The Man From Mogaga who went Around The World On 80 Quid.
Read more ...Brendan Grace’s New Year Galway shows
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
BRENDAN GRACE makes a welcome return to Galway in January and will get 2015 off to a hilarious start when he plays The Salthill Hotel on Sunday January 4 and the Loughrea Hotel, Loughrea, on Thursday January 22.
Read more ...Kevin Bridges - two Galway shows in July
Mon, Dec 01, 2014
KEVIN BRIDGES, the Scottish comedian described by fellow Scot Billy Connolly as “brilliant”, by The Guardian as a “comedy prodigy”, and by the Daily Mirror as “a MUST-SEE act” is coming to Galway next year to play two shows.
Read more ...Festive comedy and song with The Gingerbeard Family
Thu, Nov 27, 2014
COMEDY AND music will collide happily and hilariously at The Gingerbeard Family’s A Christmas Special show in the Róisín Dubh on Friday December 5 at 9pm.
Read more ...Get Un-Robed with Andrew Stanley
Thu, Nov 13, 2014
ANDREW STANLEY is a “comedy tsunami” according to The Scotsman, which also described him as having “astonishingly good observational material delivered and timed to perfection”.
Read more ...The LipSinkers - biting satire in high heels
Thu, Nov 13, 2014
THE LIPSINKERS, described as “possibly the most ridiculous, fun night out ever” by The Times make their Galway debut at Electric Garden & Theatre this Saturday at 8.30pm.
Read more ...Alan Carr - Chatty Man to Yap, Yap, Yap! in Galway
Mon, Nov 03, 2014
ALAN CARR, the British comedian and host of the brilliant Channel 4 chat show Chatty Man, is coming to Galway in 2015 to perform his new stand-up show Yap, Yap, Yap!.
Read more ...Aindrias de Staic - The Man From Moogaga
Wed, Oct 15, 2014
THERE WAS The Man From UNCLE, the man from Del Monte, The Man From Laramie, and ‘The Man From God Knows Where’, but Aindrias de Staic is The Man From Moogaga.
Read more ...Shappi Khorsandi - laughing at an unconventional life
Thu, Oct 09, 2014
THE DAUGHTER of an exiled writer and comic from Iran, Shappi Khorsandi’s upbringing was in no way conventional, but what a story, and what comedy, she makes from it all.
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