Thurs 18th – Charleville Park Hotel, Charleville
Fri 19th – Carlton Hotel, Kinsale
Sat 20th – Walter Raleigh Hotel, Youghal
Sun 21st – Midleton GAA Club, Midleton
Wednesday 24th – Rochestown Park Hotel, Douglas (extra date added)
Thurs 25th – The Grain Store at Ballymaloe, Shanagarry
Fri 26th – Maritime Hotel, Bantry
Sat 27th –Parkway Hotel, Dunmanway (In Aid of The Niall Mellon Township Trust – tickets available from venue only)
Sun 28th – Rochestown Park Hotel, Douglas (limited tickets available from the venue)

Born in Sligo and based in Dublin, coming comic John Colleary is a familiar face on the Irish comedy scene making regular appearances at The International, The Comedy Cellar, and The Capital Comedy Club in Dublin and a host of venues throughout the country.

“The familiar cheeky wit of John Colleary guided an expectant audience through an evening of tear-inducing laughter.”
– The Weekender

The show kicks off at 9pm and tickets are available now at €18. To be in with a chance to win a pair of tickets for Saturday night’s show, just send your name in an email to competitions@corkgigs.com with the subject “John Colleary”.
Competition closes midnight Thursday 28th.

More about John Colleary:

Being resident MC on a monthly basis at Craic in the Box, Sligo, Leitrim Laugh, Carrick-on-Shannon, and Last Laugh at Roscommon Arts Centre, John has honed his comedic skills appearing with every top act in the country and beyond including; Jason Byrne, Des Bishop, Colin Murphy, Barry Murphy, Andrew Maxwell, Neil Delamere ,Karl Spain to name but a few.

“Craic in the Box gets it right”
– The Scene

A “quick-fire, think-on-his feet comedian”, John has gigged all over Ireland appearing at City Limits, Cork, Cuba, Galway, and Dolans, Limerick, not to mention having appeared three times at the Kilkenny Cat Laughs…twice at the Comedy Carnival at the Iveagh Gardens..and it has been reported that Colleary was seen twice at the Edinburgh Festival.

“John Colleary delivered what can only be described as a flawless set”
– GO Belfast

John also has some TV work to his credit having appeared in the first series of Naked Camera also showed up in the comedy showcase One Night Stand (BBC2)..most recently John contributed to and starred in the exciting C4 Comedy Lab pilot Headwreckers.

However it’s the world of radio where John has performed most consistently since 2006 by being one half of wacky cop duo (with fellow comic Bernard O’Shea) TJ & TJ on The Last Word on Today FM, neatly showcasing his talent for accents and impersonations which also form the basis of his live work.

“The future of Irish comedy in good hands.”
– Comedy Times, London

Also on Saturday night – MC Jason Coughlan, plus support.

Jason Coughlan is an up and coming stand up (a stand up guy) from Ireland, His off the cuff playful style, combined with his fine storytelling has one over many audiences in all the top clubs on the Irish circuit.To date Jason has performed in London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Edinburgh and as far away as Austin Texas.

Jason was asked to perform at the Green party convention. Currently the resident compere in City limits comedy club Cork since May 06. A co presenter on The Friday night show on Corks 96fm. More recently Jason has worked as the warm up act on The Saturday night show with Miriam O’Callaghan which airs on RTE1.

Competition is now closed, winners have been notified by email. Enjoy the show!
Thanks to all who entered, and keep an eye out for future competitions.

Maeve Higgins is a self-styled lyrical assassin, in her head. In reality she is a stand up lady who’s been very busy for the past two years.
She has performed at festivals in faraway Australia, nearby Kilkenny and quite close, Edinburgh.
She does a guest slot every monday on the Ray D’arcy Show on Today FM, discussing crucial issues and trying not to make mouth sounds (she hates when other people on the radio make mouth sounds). She also features in the hit show Naked Camera on RTE2, where along with PJ Gallagher and Patrick McDonnell, she tricks unsuspecting members of the public, then feels bad, but keeps doing it anyway because it is fun.
Maeve’s dream is to be the next child star, though it’s looking increasingly unlikely as time marches on.

“a master of edgy comedy” – The Sunday Times

“deadpan, low energy, but quietly wonderful” – www.chortle.com

Friday 18th, Saturday 19th July @ City Limits Comedy Club

Phone 021 4501026.
Info www.thecomedyclub.ie
Adm 18 euros.
On line Sales @ www.tickets.ie
or Plugd records, Washington Street, Cork…(or on the door on the night)

On Sunday 22nd June an afternoon show under the banner of ‘Cork Guitar Poets Mash’ will feature the local talents of Ger Wolfe and the New Skylarks, Ian Whitty and the Exchange, Aaron Dillon, Cian and special guests. Running nightly throughout the festival, The Last Resort will be an after-gig festival club incorporating Yurah Langer, a talent contest inviting those brave enough to show off their party pieces in front of the late night audiences.

Other Misdummer festival events include the Picnic in the Park, a Spencer Tunick installation at Blarney Castle, comedy, theatre, dance and circus events among others.

For full details check out the festival website:
www.corkmidsummer.com

GAS will primarily be aimed at the student population of The Rebel capital but is open to any fan of comedy. We will host some of the best new and established comedians working in Ireland today.

The people behind the comedy come with a good pedigree; they have been responsible for the running of The Craichouse Comedy Club For the last 3 Years and in that time it has become Corks premier comedy venue for new and up and coming comedians. We’ve helped launch the careers of local comedy icons such as Maeve Higgins, Eleanor Tiernan, Kevin Goldsmith, Johnny P, and Ross Brown and more. They are also on a first name terms with every new and up and coming comedian in Ireland today. This allows them the expertise to bring only the best comedians for the students of Cork.

They have also had successful runs in the 2004, 2005 and 2006 Kilkenny Cat Laughs Comedy Festivals, where more than 300 people filled the seats each year. And this year held the inaugural “Craic me up” comedy competition to find the best new comedian in Ireland.

The good people at Gas will also be giving a very new comedian an open spot every Tuesday night thus continuing out commitment to showcasing emerging stand-up comedians, so if you think you are brave enough why not try out. So if you like your comedy Raw and in your face then GAS is the place for you, sure it is bound to be gas.

All gigs have the following details.

Time: 9pm sharp
Venue: Liquid Lounge, Marlboro Street, Cork.
Price: €7/5 for students.

The Line Up

Tuesday Sept 25th

Neil Hickey
Neil Hickey began his stand up career just over three years ago, and in this short time he has performed his thoughtful, warm and witty brand of humour in all the major comedy venues across Ireland. A native of Dublin, Neil is a regular performer in the city’s most established comedy clubs, including the International Comedy Club, The Comedy Cellar, The Capital Comedy Club and the Laughter Lounge. In 2005 Neil won the Bulmers International Newcomers Comedy Comp and as a result supported Bill Bailey in Dublin’s famous Olympia Theatre.
Following this, Neil made his Irish television debut appearing on RTE’s Liffey Laugh stand up show, and then rounded off a fantastic 2006 by winning the Irish heat of the Amused Moose Laugh off Comp. More recently, Neil was selected to perform at the 2007 Irish Just For Laughs Montreal Showcase, and performed as part of the official line up for this year’s Kilkenny Cats Laughs Comedy Festival. Neil Hickeys stand up career looks like it will continue blossom for many years to come.

Tuesday Oct 2nd

Sharon Mannion
Sharon made her stand up debut at the Kilkenny Cat Laughs Festival 2005. Since then she has been gigging regularly in The Hapenny Inn (also as M.C), The International, Bankers, Capital Comedy Club, Crawdaddys, (Dublin), Cuba (Galway), Empire (Belfast), Comedy Den (Limerick) and various clubs around the country. She was a finalist in last year’s Best Stand up newcomer competition at the Bulmers International Comedy Festival, and she appears regularly with the Hapenny Laugh and The Craic Pack improv comedy troupes. She was also Runner-up in the 2007 Funny Women competition. A rising star, she’s one to watch.

“Sharon Mannion seems to have stolen Tommy Tiernan’s soul” Chortle.co.uk

Tuesday Oct 9th

Ross Browne
Ross is a very funny, self indulgent, I love me and so do all the girls in Ireland kind of comedian. He is also a part-time wrestler, so hecklers beware.
The Craichouse had a front seat to the blossoming career of Ross and the success of the club is in no small part due to the excellent job that Ross does as M.C. A ball of energy that is not afraid to do anything to get the crowd going, he’s a sharp dressed man with an equally sharp tongue who will be the next big comedy superstar to come out of Cork.

Tuesday Oct 16th

JOHN CAPLIS
John has been performing comedy on the Irish comedy circuit for over three years now. He made his first appearance as a nervous open mic at the comedy club in Scholars Bar UL during his days there as a history and politics student.
Luckily for John it went well and since that first night nearly three years ago he has gone on to perform in all of Ireland’s main comedy clubs including The Laughter Lounge in Dublin, The Empire in Belfast and City Limits in Cork.
In the last year he has also supported Des Bishop, Neil Delamere and Jim Eoin. Across the water he has performed at the world famous Comedy Store in London and currently runs and hosts monthly comedy clubs at Riddler’s Bar in Limerick City and the Kenyon Comedy Club in Nenagh Co. Tipperary, which hosts top acts from all over Ireland. John describes his stand-up routine as a “fusion of anecdotes from his working life which includes reading funeral notices on pirate radio in Limerick city to picking fruit in obscure remote Australian towns.

Tuesday Oct 23rd

Gar Murran
In September 2006 Gar won the Bulmers Comedy Competition held in Dublin and the prize for this was to support Puppetry of the Penis for two nights in the Olympia Theatre to over a thousand people and he has not looked back since. He has performed in The Laughter Lounge, The International Bar, Comedy Cellar, Capital Comedy,(Battle of the Axe) Ha’Penny Bridge Inn in Dublin, The Roisin Dubh, The Cuba Club, and DeBurgo’s in Galway amongst others.

Tuesday Oct 30th

Fred Cooke
County Meath has already given Irish comedy two Perrier Award winning legends in Tommy Tiernan and Dylan Moran. Fred Cooke is hotly tipped by those in the know to join their coveted ranks in a couple of years- so see him here first. Having started out in comedy by running gigs while he was still in college, Fred has already gone on to support such acts as Jason Byrne, Ross Noble and David McSavage. His career seems to be following a similar trajectory to that of Jason Byrne, as his off the wall, high octane, manic brand of surreal genius has seen him become a crowd favourite amongst Irish audiences as well as being in insane demand in the country’s third level institutions. He has played all over Ireland and Britain and has even performed in New York, Australia and even Barcelona and Madrid. Catch him here so you can tell all your friends you were a fan before he became huge.

Tuesday Nov 6th

Keith Farnan
Having appeared on Irish Television in the second series of the Liffey Laughs, and the BBC Comedy series, One Night Stand, Keith Farnan is beginning to make an impression on a wider audience with his intelligent and charming onstage persona. With performances in the Edinburgh Festival “Best of the Irish” and the Kilkenny Cat Laughs Festival, and having played across Ireland and the UK, Keith is rapidly building up a reputation as one of the most energetic and entertaining of the new Irish acts to watch.

As a regular host of Ireland’s biggest comedy venue, the Laughter Lounge, as well as a frequent headliner in Ireland’s oldest venue, the Comedy Cellar, he has honed his ability to weave audience interaction with sharp observations to create a mesmerizing set. He has also enthralled American audiences in some of the biggest clubs in New York, performing with comedians and writers from Saturday Night Live and ESPN as well as appearing in the New York Underground Comedy Festival.

“Possessed of Talent, Focus and Energy.” Hot Press.
“Irelands latest Comedy Star ” Irish Examiner
“Keith Farnan is an absolute natural” Chortle

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Line up for The Craichouse comedy club:

All gigs have the following details.
Time: 9pm sharp
Venue: Slainte (formally the vineyard) Market lane, Patrick street, Cork.
Price: €7/5 for students.

Sunday September 23rd

Darren Shine (Des Bishop’s, Joy in ‘Da Hood, Network 2)
Chris Kent (Cuba, Galway/ City Limits/ Laughter lounge, Dublin)
Johnny P (Kerry comedian of the year ’06, ’07)
Donnchadh O’Conaill (Chortle student comedian of the year ’06, London)

Sunday September 30th

Abie Bowman (Jesus: The Guantanamo years)
Colin McCarthy (Cuba, Galway/ City Limits/ International, Dublin)
Alan Hurley (UCC student comedian of the year ’05 )

Sunday October 7th

Breen Crotty (Craic me up semi-finalist)
Dylan Holland (Basement comedy comedy club, Galway/ Neptune comedy club, Dublin)
Eoin Keegan (Craichouse Craic me up Winner ’07)

Sunday October 14th

Niamh Marron (Bulmers comedy competition finalist ’07)
Pat O’Shea (Des Bishop’s, Joy in ‘Da Hood, Network 2)
Dave Coughlan (UCC student comedian of the year ’06)

Sunday October 21st

Eoin Keegan (Craichouse Craic me up Winner ’07)
Johnny P (Kerry comedian of the year ’06, ’07)
Kevin Loughlin (Comedy cellar, Dublin)

Sunday October 28th (Jazz weekend)

Musical night of comedy
All comedians will be playing musical comedy

Alan Hurley (UCC student comedian of the year ’05 )
David Duff, (aka Christ with a k)
Jamie O’Shea (Des Bishop’s, Joy in ‘Da Hood, Network 2)
Eoin Murphy (Craichouse craic me up finalist ’07)

www.thecraichouse.com

LAUGHTER RESOUNDS LEESIDE FOR CORK’S FIRST COMEDY FESTIVAL FROM 27th- 29th JULY 2007

The public will be entertained by a broad range of comedic talent at the first Cork Comedy Festival which will take place at different venues across the city of Cork over the weekend of Friday, 27th – Sunday, 29th July. Through the inauguration of this festival, Director, Dave Dineen, sets out to present humour in many different contexts and to have people question their perception of humour as something that can only be packaged as a commodity. Dave hopes that this festival over time will attempt to balance the lopsided view of Irish comedy.

Among the top international acts on the Cork Comedy Festival programme will be Glaswegian Jerry Sadowitz who has a well-deserved reputation as the bad boy of comedy for his jaw dropping irreverence ; Steve day, one of Britain’s hottest young stand-up stars and Kevin mcaleer – the Irishman who will have you eating out of the back of his hand solely for those who likes comedy rare and original.
Other highlights in the festival will be new English talent, Laurence Clark who has cerebral palsy and whose outlook on life as a disabled person shapes his comedy; the gifted comedic group Abnormally Funny People, who are a variety of disabled comedians and a token non-disabled stand-up who present a show intended to make us laugh and think at the same time. Their observational material overturns all sorts of stereotypes about the disabled but their main objective is to raise laughter, not to sermonise.

The best of International comedic talent will also feature on the Cork programme including Ed Byrne, whose line is it ? and Padraig Hyland, Tanylee davis as well as the fabulous Dublin based burlesque troupe the Pink Panty’s.

Cork Comedy Festival will embrace the community and give Cork a dose of humour never seen before in the People’s Republic! The festival will provide educational workshops for aspiring comedians who want to learn about stand up comedy, clowning and Commedia Dell’ Arte. Bull Comedy, Theatre Commedia Dell’Arte and Snatch Comedy will give participants expert advice on their unique approaches to writing and performing for comedy.

During the festival, venues in Cork will be filled with the cream of the crop of international, national and local comedic talent. The festival comedy club The Laughing Ass will open all weekend and offer a diverse programme of events throughout the three days of the festival. There will be a Comedy Pub trail in all major pubs in the city. Some of the city’s well-known late night venues will be holding unique events over the weekend featuring burlesque shows, Commedia Dell’Arte, late night comedy and stand up entertainment.

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Another strand to this first ever Cork Comedy Festival will be the Healing Through Humour conference with guest speaker Dr. Patch Adams. This is aimed primarily at medical and caring professionals and will debate and discuss the importance of humour in everyday life. Some of the main conference themes will include humanitarian clowning, social activism in the area of medical health and thinking outside the box healthcare system design. The conference will be held in the Silver Springs Moran Hotel, Cork on Friday, 27th and Saturday 28th July.

Cork Comedy Festival will finally put Cork on the map as a city that embraces the festival like a long lost brother!
Tickets for all shows can be booked on tickets.ie, ticketmaster.com, corkcomedyfestival.com or purchased from Plugged Records in Cork

All queries to

Dave@corkcomedyfestival.com
Roseanne@goldiefish.com

Stand Up And Be Counted Comedy Club will set up residency in the Tikki Lounge on Little Hanover St. on the 27th of February, and continues every Tuesday with no cover charge.

The Craichouse comedy night at Eddies Bar (formerly the L.V.) has been going strong for over two years. An established comedy club with an ever-evolving lineup, Craichouse also showcases new talent and has helped launch the careers of many aspiring local comedians. In the coming weeks, a new competition called “Craic me up” will see emerging talent battle it out for the chance to gig at the Kilkenny Cat Laughs comedy festival. Full details of upcoming lineups can be found on the Craichouse website.

Cyprus Avenue will host a new monthly comedy event — Barrel O’Laughs — kicking off on Friday February 23rd with Ian Coppinger plus guests. Tickets at €10 are available on tickets.ie and from the Old Oak bar.

The Lisa Richards Comedy Night is a touring co-op comedy night with a range of decent Irish talent on the books. For those down in wesht Cork direction, De Barra’s hosts its comedy night once a month, with Ardal O’Hanlon, David O’Doherty and Neil Delamere making appearances in the coming months.

And of course there’s the mainstay of the Cork comedy scene City Limits Comedy Club, with a reputation for brining the major names to Cork down through the years. Upcoming highlights at City Limits include Eddie Brill, Omid Djalili, Matt Saddlier, Jason Byrne & Andrew Maxwell.

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Stand Up And Be Counted Comedy Club, every Tuesday @ the Tikki Lounge, Little Hanover St. [map] No cover charge

Craichouse Comedy, every Saturday @ Eddie’s Bar (formerly the L.V.), McCurtain St. [map] Admission €7 / €5 (concession)
Sat 24 Feb 2007 — Alan Hurley, Breen Crotty + more
Sat 03 Mar 2007 — “Craic Me Up” Launch Night w/ Shantz
Sat 10 Mar 2007 — George Fox + ‘Craic me Up’ heat 2
Sat 24 Mar 2007 — Matt Sadlier + ‘Craic Me Up’ heat 3
Sat 31 Mar 2007 — Willa White + ‘Craic me Up’ heat 4

Barrel O’Laughs – monthly comedy night @ Cyprus Avenue, Caroline St. [map]
Fri 23 Feb 2007 — Ian Coppinger €10

De Barras Comedy night, monthly @ De Barras, Clonakilty, Admission €15
Wed 21 Mar 2007 — David O’Doherty
Wed 18 Apr 2007 — Neil Delamere
Wed 21 Feb 2007 — Ardal O’Hanlon

City Limits Comedy Club, Coburg Street [map], admission varies
Fri 23, Sat 24 Feb 2007 ———– Ardal O Hanlon w/ MC Jason Coughlan
Thu 01 Mar 2007 —————– Willa White + Fred Cooke
Fri 02, Sat 03 Mar 2007 ———– Eddie Brill
Thu 08 Mar 2007 —————– Dermot Whelan + Alan Hurley
Thu 15 Mar 2007 —————– Aidan Bishop + Keith Anderson
Fri 16, Sat 17 Mar 2007 ———– Omid Djalili
Thu 22 Mar ———————– Neil Hickey + Colin Ryan
Thu 29 Mar 2007 —————– Matt Saddlier + Colin McCarthy
Fri 30, Sat 31 Mar 2007 ———– Jason Byrne
Sat 07, Sun 08 Apr 2007 ———- Pj Gallagher
Fri 04, Sat 05, Sun 06 May 2007 — Neil Delamere
Fri 08, Sat 09 Jun 2007 ———– Andrew Maxwell