Comedian Tim FitzHigham @ NUIG
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
COMEDIAN TIM FitzHigham will perform his hit Edinburgh Fringe show Gentleman Adventurer in the Bailey Allen Hall, NUI, Galway on Tuesday at 9.30pm.
FitzHigham is like an amalgamation of Monty Python and represents a lost idea of the classic British eccentric. He has conquered rivers in boats made of paper, rowed to France in a bathtub, run across deserts in suits of armour, and nearly died taking inflatable rubber things down Olympic ski slopes. In Gentleman Adventurer he will regale audiences with tales of his latest feats of endurance.
Read more ...Do you think you are a comedian?
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
HAVE YOU ever been to a comedy gig and thought ‘I could do that’? Well, now is your chance with a new competition from The King’s Head in association with Bulmers.
Read more ...Rising comedy star Jack Whitehall to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jan 27, 2011
HE IS only in his early twenties but English comedian Jack Whitehall has already made a remarkable impact upon the comedy world.
Read more ...Scotland’s rising comedy start to play Galway this month
Thu, Dec 09, 2010
KEVIN BRIDGES, the Scottish comedian who is one of the star’s of Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow and BBC One’s Live at the Apollo series is coming to Galway.
Kevin will play the Róisín Dubh on Sunday December 19 at 8.30pm where he will perform a full solo show of two 45 minutes slots with an interval.
Read more ...Rising comedy star Roisin Conaty to play Laughter Lounge
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
ROISIN CONATY, the pulchritudinous Co Kerry born, London based comic, described by Time Out as “a seriously talented young lady” is coming to Galway.
Read more ...A weekend of laughs at the Galway Comedy Festival
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
THE GALWAY Comedy Festival is on and the city is set for a weekend of laughs with comics like David O’Doherty, Dead Cat Bounce, Andrew Maxwell, and Phill Jupitus.
Read more ...The best of English @ Galway Comedy Festival
Thu, Sep 30, 2010
IF YOU are ever asked ‘What have the English ever done for the world?’ you can resist the temptation to mention such vile things as imperialism and X-Factor, and reply instead: comedy.
From the satires of Alexander Pope to the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, to The Goon Show, Monty Python, The League of Gentlemen, and Shawn Of The Dead, the English have excelled in the art of making us all have a laugh.
Read more ...Maeve Higgins @ Galway Comedy Festival
Thu, Sep 23, 2010
MAEVE HIGGINS, one of the best and most popular comedians on the Irish circuit will play two shows at next month’s Galway Comedy Festival.
Read more ...Launch of new on-line comedy series in Galway
Thu, Sep 09, 2010
LIFE COACH, the new on-line comedy series from local comedians Giles Brody and Bob Hennigan, will be launched tonight.
Read more ...Hilarious black comedy Kick-Ass takes the superhero genre into uncharted waters
Thu, Aug 19, 2010
KICK-ASS has just been released on DVD and the controversial comic book film packs a powerful punch with fast paced action scenes, a thoroughly entertaining script, and lots of laugh out loud moments.
Read more ...FIRST FRIDAY COMEDY CLUB AT THE CO-OP
Thu, May 27, 2010
FOLLOWING THE spectacular launch in early May, the monthly 'First Friday' Comedy Club at the CO-OP Moycullen continues on the Bank Holiday weekend with another strong line-up on Friday June 4. Stand-up comic,voice over artist,writer and actor Joe Rooney has many strings to his huge and acomplished bow.
Read more ...Michael Mee headlining a new night of comedy
Thu, May 27, 2010
On Saturday May 29 John Donnellan and Danny Dowling will showcase a night of new jokes, spoofs, and sketches at the Comedy Comedy gig in the Róisín Dubh. Headlining will be Michael Mee who has been described by Time Out New York as ‘Woody Allen with a Cork brogue’. The Irish Times described his performance as simply ‘hilarious’.
Read more ...A charity comedy showdown
Thu, May 13, 2010
A COMEDY showdown, in aid of the Irish Cancer Society, featuring 16 comedians, will take place in Kelly’s, Bridge Street, on Sunday at 8.30pm.
Read more ...New comedy club at Moycullen’s The Co-Op
Thu, Apr 29, 2010
GERRY MALLON, who ran the Comedy Club in Cuba* for many years is back with a new club, The First Friday Comedy Club in The Co-Op in Moycullen.
Read more ...Comedy rap with the Rubberbandits
Thu, Apr 22, 2010
IMAGINE AN edition of Prime Time where the topics were Limerick gangs, sniffing glue as an aphrodisiac, and encounters with ‘larger ladies’ and horses, well, that’s a Rubberbandits show.
Read more ...TG4 comedy series nominated for awards
Thu, Apr 22, 2010
AN CRISIS, the new comedy series on TG4, has been nominated for a number of awards at the Monte Carlo Television Festival 2010.
The series is broadcast on TG4 on Wednesdays at 10.30pm with a repeat on Saturdays at 8.45pm. It chronicles the strange world of An Chomhairle Teanga, an Irish language organisation, its director Setanta De Paor (Risteárd Cooper) who has to grapple with Government cutbacks, media scrutiny, questionable projects, a new Minister, and a series of oddball colleagues.
Read more ...Madcap football comedy comes to Town Hall
Thu, Apr 22, 2010
TWO FOOTBALL fans have just seen their side relegated after a referee disallowed a perfectly good goal, allowing the opposition to go down the other end and score.
The referee’s decision is final…or is it? The two cheated fans have to take matters into their own hands by kidnapping the ref and forcing him to change his mind on the all important goal... with hilarious and unexpected consequences.
Read more ...New Irish comedy film to be released in cinemas next week
Thu, Mar 11, 2010
IF YOU found a man resplendent in a shiny red space suit and helmet, passed out on the living room floor beside the drinks cabinet, would you believe he was an alien from outer space?
Read more ...Dublin comic Robbie Bonham will play Comedy@Kellys
Thu, Mar 04, 2010
The brilliant Dublin comic Robbie Bonham (pictured) will play Comedy@Kellys upstairs on Sunday March 7. Support is from Kieran Lawless and Giles Brody. The MC will be Bob Hennigan. Doors are at 9pm. Admission is €7.
Read more ...The Irishman who saved comedy and returned home the all-conquering hero
Thu, Feb 18, 2010
LONG BEFORE David O’Doherty ever took to the stage he was a devoted student of comedy arts. He would regularly go to see his brother Mark perform at The Comedy Cellar in Dublin and watched the international explosion of Irish comedy in the late 1990s.
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