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SIMON AMSTELL, David Baddiel, 30 Rock’s Judah Friedlander, punk poet John Cooper Clarke, and The Faulty Towers Dining Experience are all on their way to Galway to make the end of October the funniest 12 days of the year.

By Kernan Andrews

PHILL JUPITUS is talking over Galway for the October Bank Holiday weekend as there will be no fewer than five chances to see him during the Bulmer’s Galway Comedy Festival.

THE 10TH Tuam Arts Festival opens tonight and runs each day up to and including Monday, with storytelling, music, theatre, and the legendary punk poet John Cooper Clarke.

WRITERS FROM Ireland, Britain, and Australia will gather in Café 8 in the Galway City Museum tomorrow at 8pm for an Over The Edge reading.

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DAN LE Sac Vs Scroobius Pip are creating a huge stir with their take on pop/hip-hop, and will return to Galway to play ‘Stress!! Presents...’ at the Róisín Dubh on Saturday February 7 at 8pm.

SALENA GODDEN is known to music fans as the lead singer with underground ska/jazz band SaltPeter. She is also a slam poet and the Londoner will be the guest performer at North Beach Nights in The Crane Bar, Sea Road on Monday at 9pm.

DURING THIS time of economic recession we all need a good laugh and chortles galore are on the way to the city when the Galway Comedy Festival takes place from October 21 to 25.

WHEN HE was eight Jason Manford and his father went to see Billy Connolly perform in a local theatre. The Scottish comedian was to have a profound effect on the young boy.