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1s 28th May – Kilkenny
Tickets 056 7763837 www.carls bergcatlau ghs.com
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Des Bishop
Although he’s from New York, Des has spent most of his life in Ireland. His charismatic star quality and unique observations on Irish society have been captured on five DVDs including the IFTA award winning In the Name of the Fada. He can also speak Irish better than most Irish people.
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In true Liverpudlian style John is a master storyteller, recreating the atmosphere of kicking back with your mates down the pub. He won Best Stand Up in the 2004 North West Comedy Awards and in 1992 cycled around the world just for the hell of it.
Lewis hails from Washington D.C.; his passionate rants on the vagaries of contemporary life have earned him numerous awards including a Best Comedy Album Grammy for The Carnegie Hall Performance. He lives in New York because it’s loud enough to drown out the stuff going on in his head.
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Festival Debut
All the way from Queens, New York, Alonzo describes his material as “cynically good-natured in an angry suburban Negro kind of way”. He won the third series of Last Comic Standing and he was the voice of Thunderon in the Power Rangers TV series.
Massachusetts born and bred, Bill’s comedy is raw, intense and genuine. He has an hour-long comedy special titled Why Do I Do This? and his voice is featured in Grand Theft Auto IV.
Jason grew up in Ballinteer, Dublin. Boundless energy and unpredictable spontaneity are the hallmarks of his inspired chaotic comedy. He won the 2007 Chortle Best Headliner Award, has sold more tickets than any other comedian in the history of the Edinburgh Fringe, has just released The Byrne Identity on DVD and used to work in a lighting warehouse with PJ Gallagher.
Alun Cochra
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Alun is a laidback, whimsical Yorkshireman, a genuine, educated, natural-born storyteller who thinks the world is a bit wonky. He’s been nominated for a Perrier Best Newcomer award and Chortle’s Best Compère and Best Break-through Act. He owns a shed and would rather make a good chicken stock than go bungee jumping.
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Santry born Ian tells great stories, writes great gags and is a worldclass improviser. He’s a founding member of the Dublin Comedy Improv and was one half of the legendary sketch combo Fat Man’s Picnic Basket (he was the one not called Paddy Hickey).
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Otis is a redneck jailbird from Tennessee. This Perrier Award winner writes Tom Waitsian tunes and blends this with audience banter, producing a perfect fusion of music and comedy. He was discovered, some say created, by Rich Hall in 1998.
Derek Edw ards
Festival Debut
Neil’s from Edenderry. A regular on BBC’s The Blame Game and RTE’s The Panel, Neil’s comedy is wickedly wry and always intelligent. He’s also the voice of the little green man on the Lotto ads.
Swordsman Brendan (he’s from Swords, he’s not a man with a sword) has moved to London. His easy confidence and intelligent wit make him a leading international improviser. Actor, writer, director, comedian; this multi-talented comic has performed all over from Montreal to Melbourne and Edinburgh to South East Asia.
Derek is Canadian. His dry polished style won him Best Male Stand Up in the Canadian Comedy Awards and he’s just finished his own one-hour special for The Comedy Network.
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Festival Debut
A native of Tasmania, Hannah won the 2007 Best Comedy Show from an Emerging Artist at the Adelaide Fringe Festival with the fabulously self-deprecating Wrong and Broken. She keeps chickens in her backyard (not a euphemism) and her feet get hot when she’s nervous.
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PJ is from somewhere in Ireland. His visceral honest comedy and raw engaging style is infectiously funny. He has just released his first ever DVD Take After Yourself and Be Smile and in 2008 travelled to America where his alter ego Jake Stevens tried to annoy Erik Estrada (from C.H.I.P.s) into throwing him out of his house; it took two hours.
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Festival Debut
Greg lives in New York and has a law degree from Harvard. He’s provocative and intelligent and he once reached number four in the Australian music charts with a song called Underwear Goes Inside The Pants.
Rhod is Welsh. His stylishly hangdog performances have won him the 2008 Time Out Breakthrough Act, a 2008 if.comedy nomination and a spot on last year’s Royal Variety Performance. He is the first comedian ever to play Taiwan and yes – he’s the guy in the Visit Wales television ads.
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Festival Debut
Originally from Staffordshire, Dave’s stand up is conversational, intelligent and engaging. He’s won two BAFTAs and his show Are you Dave Gorman? has toured the world and spent three months off Broadway where it was named Comedy Show of the Year by Time Out New York.
Ricky is not your typical East Ender. This huge ex-boxer, exhairdresser with his permanently bemused take on life is an awardwinning writer who was illiterate until his early thirties.
Rich Hall
Rich comes from Virginia; his grouchy, deadpan exterior belies a grouchy, deadpan interior. He is a Perrier Award winner and he was once a hurricane namer for United States Meteorological Service where, presumably, he named hurricanes.
Dom Irrera
Philly born Dom’s roguish engaging style has made him one of the festival’s longest standing comedians. He has two Emmys (he won them, we don’t want to imply he just picked them up somewhere) and has appeared in everything from Seinfeld to The Big Lebowski.
Maeve Higg
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Maeve is from Cobh. Her delightful naïve-country-girlwith-street-smarts-to-burn is charming, engaging and very, very funny. Maeve rose to an uncomfortable level of notoriety with RTE’s Naked Camera. She doesn’t like being famous but she loves cats.
Jimeoin
Australia adopted this Belfast man in 1988. Jimeoin started out as a gardener but quickly got into stand-up where his witty observations on the absurdities of everyday life have made him a household name. He also wrote and starred in The Craic, a film that won the 1999 Australian Movie of the Year Award.
Adam Hills
All the way form Sydney, Australia, Adam’s performances are warm, spontaneous, uplifting and inclusive; it’s kinda like your best mate just got onstage, if your best mate had ten international solo shows under his belt, three nominations for the Perrier Award and won GQ Magazine’s 2007 TV Personality of the Year.
Milton Jone
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Milton is from London. He tells jokes; surreal, hilarious, repeatable one-liners. A Perrier, Sony and Time Out awards winner, he has most recently been nominated for the Chortle 2009 Best Headliner Award and is officially known as Britain’s Funniest Milton.
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Langtons
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Midnight
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Jason Byrne, Lewis Black, Kathleen Madigan, Dom Irrera €24 90mins
Kings Suite at KK Ormonde
Des Bishop, Alonzo Bodden, John Mulaney, Hannah Gadsby €24 90mins
Kilbride at KK Ormonde
Neil Delamere, Rich Hall, Derek Edwards, Shane Mauss €24 90mins
Rivercourt
Ross Noble, Adam Hills, Bill Burr, Greg Giraldo €24 90mins
Fri 29th May 6pm
Langtons Zoo
7pm
8pm
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Tommy Tiernan, Ricky Grover, Derek Edwards, Ian Coppinger €28 90mins Andrew Maxwell, Hannah Gadsby, Dave Gorman €23 75mins
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Neil Delamere, John Bishop, Bill Burr, Paddy Courtney €28 90mins
Fri 29th May 6pm
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Kilbride at KK Ormonde
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Jason Byrne, Alonzo Bodden, Russell Kane, Barry Murphy €28 90mins
Clubhouse Hotel
11pm
Midnight
Des Bishop, Shane Mauss, Jon Richardson, John Colleary €28 90mins
Comedy Cats €19 90mins
Kings Suite at KK Ormonde
Ross Noble, Kathleen Madigan, Andrew Lawrence, Bernard O’Shea €28 90mins
PJ Gallagher, Lewis Black, Alun Cochrane, Brendan Dempsey €28 90mins
Rivercourt
Colin Murphy, Rich Hall, Rhod Gilbert, Jimeoin €28 90mins
Kytelers
Adam Hills, Lee Mack, Greg Giraldo, Fred MacAulay €28 90mins The Cat Laughs International Improv €23 90mins
Watergate Village Inn
Jarlath Regan, John Mulaney, Sarah Millican €23 75mins
Club 51 at Kilford Arms
David O’Doherty, Maeve Higgins, Dom Irrera, Damian Clark €28 90mins 6pm
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Des Bishop, Jon Richardson, Ricky Grover, Fred Cooke €29 90mins Andrew Maxwell, Lewis Black, Andrew Lawrence, Bill Burr €29 90mins Neil Delamere, Lee Mack, Hannah Gadsby, Damian Clark €29 90mins
Colin Murphy, Kathleen Madigan, Milton Jones, Barry Murphy €29 90mins
Neil Delamere, Rhod Gilbert, Bill Burr, Damian Clark €29 90mins
Otis Lee Crenshaw €24 60mins Tommy Tiernan, Greg Giraldo, Sarah Millican, John Henderson €29 90mins
Colin Murphy, John Mulaney, Russell Kane, Ricky Grover €29 90mins
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Kings Suite at KK Ormonde
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PJ Gallagher, Alonzo Bodden, Adam Hills, Bernard O’Shea €29 90mins
Zoo
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Adam & Jason Spotlight on ... Hans Teeuwen €28 75mins
Tommy Tiernan, Dave Gorman, Shane Mauss, John Colleary €29 90mins
Langtons
9pm
11pm
Midnight
Rich Hall, David O’Doherty, John Bishop, Alun Cochrane €29 90mins
Ross Noble, Lewis Black, Karl Spain, Fred MacAulay €29 90mins
Karl Spain, Dom Irrera, John Mulaney, John Lynn €29 90mins
David O’Doherty, Derek Edwards, Jimeoin €28 75mins
Club 51 at Kilford Arms
The Dark Show €28 75mins
PJ Gallagher, Russell Kane, Alonzo Bodden, Rhod Gilbert €29 90mins
Clubhouse Hotel
Dead Cat Bounce €23 60mins
Comedy Cats €22 90mins
Rivercourt
Ardal O’Hanlon, John Bishop, Kathleen Madigan, Fred MacAulay €29 90mins
Village Inn
Maeve Higgins, Alun Cochrane, Aidan Bishop €28 75mins
Jason Byrne, Shane Mauss, Sarah Millican, Andrew Stanley €29 90mins Ardal O’Hanlon, Hannah Gadsby, Eric Lalor €28 75mins
Cleeres
Comedy Cats €22 90mins
Jarlath Regan, Jimeoin, Milton Jones €28 75mins Comedy Cats €22 90mins The Cat Laughs International Improv €26 90mins
Watergate 6pm
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9pm
10pm
11pm
Midnight
7pm
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Kytelers
Rhod Gilbert, Jimeoin, John Mulaney, John Colleary €29 90mins
Kilbride at KK Ormonde
Tommy Tiernan, John Bishop, Shane Mauss, Fred Cooke €29 90mins
Skyline at Hotel Kilkenny
Neil Delamere, Russell Kane, Kathleen Madigan, Brendan Dempsey €29 90mins
Otis Lee Crenshaw €24 60mins Ross Noble, Milton Jones, Hannah Gadsby, Bernard O’Shea €29 90mins Ross Noble, Alun Cochrane, John Mulaney, Paddy Courtney €29 90mins
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Rivercourt
8pm
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Ardal O’Hanlon, Rich Hall, Lee Mack, Jarlath Regan €29 90mins
Midnight
Tommy Tiernan, Alonzo Bodden, Jon Richardson, Andrew Stanley €29 90mins
Adam & Jason Spotlight on ... Hans Teeuwen €28 75mins
Langtons
11pm
PJ Gallagher, Bill Burr, Russell Kane, John Colleary €29 90mins
David O’Doherty, Kathleen Madigan, Milton Jones, Bernard O’Shea €29 90mins
Colin Murphy, Alonzo Bodden, Maeve Higgins, Fred MacAulay €29 90mins
Kings Suite at KK Ormonde
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Colin Murphy, Rhod Gilbert, Shane Mauss, Damian Clark €29 90mins
Orchard at Hotel Kilkenny
Des Bishop, Dave Gorman, Karl Spain, Damian Clark €29 90mins
PJ Gallagher, Ardal O’Hanlon, Lewis Black, Sarah Millican €29 90mins
Village Inn
Lewis Black, Alun Cochrane, John Henderson €28 75mins
Andrew Maxwell, John Bishop, Dom Irrera €28 75mins
Zoo
Dom Irrera, Sarah Millican, Dermot Whelan €28 75mins
Jarlath Regan, Hannah Gadsby, Barry Murphy €28 75mins
Clubhouse Hotel
Dead Cat Bounce €23 60mins
Comedy Cats €22 90mins
Club 51 at Kilford Arms
Messin’ with... YouTube €23 60mins
Des Bishop, Lee Mack, Bill Burr, Aidan Bishop €29 90mins
Adam Hills, Greg Giraldo, Jon Richardson, Ian Coppinger €29 90mins
Cleeres
The Dark Show €28 75mins
Comedy Cats €22 90mins
Watergate
Comedy Cats €22 90mins The Cat Laughs International Improv €26 90mins
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Langtons Kings Suite at KK Ormonde
Des Bishop, Neil Delamere, Maeve Higgins John Bishop, Adam Hills €25 105mins
G’Nite Cats €39 Till late! Jason Byrne, Lee Mack, PJ Gallagher, Jimeoin, David O’Doherty €25 105mins
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Festival Debut
Russell hails from Middlesex. His effervescent, engaging style has seen him twice nominated for the if.comedy awards and in 2007 he hosted Channel 4’s Big Brother’s Big Mouth.
Lee Mack
This fiery-haired Londoner’s demonic persona spews a grizzly repertoire of festering comic negativity that was the talk of last year’s Dark Show. He was nominated for the if.comedy Best Newcomer 2006 and Best Comedian 2007 and is definitely not for the faint hearted.
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Born in the Royal Perth Infirmary (Scotland not Australia) Fred observes life from the perspective of a twenty-year-old middle-aged man. He is witty, charming and one of the best all round comedians you’re ever likely to see.
Shane Mau
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Festival Debut
Lee comes from Blackburn. This infectiously mischievous, subtly sophisticated all round comedian wrote and starred in BBC1’s Not Going Out and was also once a bluecoat in Pontin’s holiday camp.
Originally from Missouri, Kathleen’s cynical, unpretentious style made her CD/DVD one of the most downloaded comedy albums of 2007. She is one of the judges on Last Comic Standing and is the only 5’ 2’’ Mid-Missouri Hoop Shoot Champion in recorded history.
Born and raised in Wisconsin, Shane’s ambling tone counterpoints his keen sense of funny. He was awarded Best Stand Up Comic at HBO’s prestigious US Comedy Arts Festival in 2007 and used to be a roofer with a fear of carrying heavy loads up icy ladders.
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Sarah Millica
Festival Debut
Living in London but raised in Kilbarrack, Andrew’s sharp, incisive taboo-challenging commentaries are always anarchic, always passionate and always very, very funny. He won Chortle’s 2005 Comics’ Comic Award, he was nominated for the 2007 if.comedy and he regularly howls at the moon!
Barry Murp
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Barry’s from Cork but lives in Dublin. His classy, mischievous characters are always innovative, provocative and spot-on. He cowrote RTE’s Soupy Norman, is one third of Après Match and still supports Leeds.
John Mulan
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Festival Debut
Sarah lives in Manchester; her deliciously dark material delivered with infectious bawdy impishness won her the 2008 if.comedy Best Newcomer Award and she describes herself as “encouragingly pessimistic”.
Although he’s only 26, Chicago born John’s darkly observational material is delivered with the easy grace of a seasoned performer. He is a writer for Saturday Night Live and has been doing comedy since he was seven.
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Ross Noble
Colin is from Belfast. His wellcrafted stories are delivered with the effortless confidence of a genuine comedian. He has five sell out solo shows at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival under his belt and he performed the first ever English language comedy gig in Finland.
Although based in Melbourne, Ross was born in Northumberland. His comedy is surreal, spontaneous and utterly unique. He has received more than twenty major international comedy awards and before he got into stand-up he sold balloons as a stilt walker.
David O’Do
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David grew up near a pitch and putt club in Sandymount, Dublin. He has described his comedy as very low energy musical whimsy. He won the 2008 if.comedy Award and is currently writing a book called 100 Facts About Pandas that will probably contain 100 facts about pandas.
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Monaghan born Ardal’s comedy is intelligent, understated and deadpan. He played Robbie the Reindeer in Hooves of Fire, a naive superhero in My Hero and a priest in some sitcom or other. He’s great at Scrabble and his favourite word is onyx (66 points on a triple word score).
Karl Spain
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Originally from Kildare, Jarlath’s original brand of clever observational material is delivered with debonair genteelness. He makes obscure greeting cards and enjoys underestimating things in order to increase the level of excitement in his life.
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Jon comes from Bristol. His grumpy young man style comes from his ever-increasing neurosis of being a single man living on his own with just his absurd thoughts for company. He won the 2008 Chortle Breakthrough Act Award and was voted one of the top five comedians to look out for in 2009 by the readers of Q Magazine.
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There was a young man from Nantucket – sorry, Limerick. Karl’s from Limerick. He is naturally funny with a selfdeprecating, ebullient sense of humour. His commentary at the comedians’ football match is one of the high points of the festival weekend and he’s a huge Marty Whelan fan.
A household name in his native Holland, Hans has sold over half a million DVDs. His comedy is surreal and uncompromising. He’s won the 2008 Chortle Award for Artistic Integrity and he is like nothing you have ever seen before.
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Born in Donegal but raised in Navan, Tommy explodes onto the stage like a hurricane, tackling subjects from religion to racism. A Perrier and Funniest Living Irish Person awards winner, he was also twice accused of blasphemy in the Irish Senate.
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This year’s improvisers are Ian Coppinger (Dublin Comedy Improv), Brendan Dempsey (Dublin Comedy Improv), Phill Jupitus (Comedy Store Players), Steve Frost (Whose Line Is It Anyway?) and Rob Andrist Plourde (Boom Chicago). Chosen from the best international improv troops around the world, Kilkenny sees them all perform together on the same stage for the first time. It doesn’t get any more improvised than this. Watergate Friday 29th May, 10.00pm €23; Saturday 30th May, 10.15pm €26 Sunday 31st May, 9.30pm €26
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Dead Cat Bounce are (mostly) from Dublin. They’re a sketch group with a very black sense of humour and a great eye for believable comedy characters. In 2008 the lads performed more than 56 shows in 24 days at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival and this January RTÉ aired The Dead Cat Bounce TV Pilot to public and critical delight. Clubhouse Hotel Saturday 30th May, 8.45pm €23 Sunday 31st May, 9.00pm €23
ompères C & s t a C y Comed Ireland continues to punch above its weight in quality and variety of emerging comedy talent due in no small part to the numerous comedy clubs that have sprung up all over Ireland in the last few years. Acknowledging this, the festival will showcase some of these clubs’ most talented headlining acts in the ever popular Comedy Cats segment of the programme. Leading compères from this rapidly expanding club scene will host many of the biggest shows over the weekend.
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Barry Murphy and David O’Doherty battle it out with the best videos on YouTube. Everyone has a couple of YouTube favourites they like to ruin a good party with; the sneezing panda, the battle at Kruger park, more cowbell. But, unlike these lads, not everyone has the time, inclination and professional dedication to trawl through the internet and find the all-time greatest YouTube clips. Come armed with suggestions and pit yourself against the best by playing YouTube Tennis (We’re not actually sure of all the rules yet but that’s all part of the fun). You can also post your suggestions for The YouTube Of The Century Award on the Carlsberg Cat Laughs website. Visit www.carlsbergcatlaughs.com/youtube.
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Clubhouse Hotel, Sunday 31st May, 10.30pm €23
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The Dark Show returns having been the underground hit of last year’s festival. Who’d have thought people would want to see comedians delve the more sinister recesses of their minds? Who’d have suspected anyone would want to sit through a whole show utterly devoted to taboo subjects and irreverent viewpoints? Who, in their right minds, would want to put themselves through 75 minutes wondering if it’s PC to laugh? Well, lots of people actually and if you’re one of them then come warm yourselves by the devilish glow of the unholy triumvirate that is Andrew Maxwell, Greg Giraldo and Andrew Lawrence as they rip open the can of worms trapped inside the darkest corner of Pandora’s Box. Zoo, Saturday 30th & Sunday 31st May, 10.30pm €28
Festival favourites Adam Hills and Jason Byrne team up to bring you a unique blend of mania and spontaneity that has wowed audiences at the Edinburgh Fringe for the last two years.This unlikeliest of double acts present two spectacular shows spotlighting the amazing talents of festival debut artist, Hans Teeuwen. A household name in Holland, Hans has sold half a million DVDs there and is about to explode onto the international scene. He really is like nothing you will ever see again (unless you come and see him twice). Kilkenny Ormonde Kings Suite, Saturday 30th & Sunday 31st May, 8.30pm €28
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Oh it’s on! It’s definitely on! The Annual Football match between Ireland and The Rest Of The World is most definitely on! The rose coloured glasses are firmly attached and the kid gloves are off. The result of last year’s football match vary depending on who you talk to; It was 4 – 2 or 5 – 2 to Ireland with either Neil Delamere or David O’Doherty scoring the winning goal but one thing’s for sure; Ireland won (unless you talk to someone from the Rest Of The World who are convinced it was 15 – 3 to them with Andy Parsons scoring a brace of hat-tricks). It’s shaping up to be a proper derby grudge match with nothing less than comedic pride on the line. And with Karl Spain and Steve Frost commentating from the sidelines, you won’t miss a thing. Fairgreen, Sunday 31st May, 2.30pm Free
FA Cup Final s l’ r a K d n a y Barr Looking forward to the FA Cup Final? Wondering where’s the best place to watch it? Feeling guilty at the prospect of spending the afternoon with like-minded people enjoying one of the highlights of the sporting calendar? If the answers to these questions are Yes, Yes and Not in the slightest then come watch it with us at the Left Bank on the Parade. Barry Murphy & Karl Spain will host an informal screening of the match with passion, punditry and prizes. The Match starts at 3.00pm so buy a ticket and get there early. The Left Bank, Saturday 30th May, 2.30pm €10
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A Film With Me In It is an intelligent, savagely black comedy set in Dublin. It follows Mark (Mark Doherty), a down at heel actor, and his writer/gambler neighbour Pierce (Dylan Moran) as they try to chart a course through a sea of murderously bad luck. It received no fewer than 6 nominations at this year’s IFTA awards including best film, best actor (Dylan Moran) and best screenplay (Mark Doherty). It’s one of the best films of the year and we’re proud to screen it in the Parade Tower at Kilkenny Castle. As an added bonus, there’ll be a Q&A session afterwards with creator Mark Doherty. Parade Tower Kilkenny Castle, Saturday 30th May, 1.30pm €8
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C: Laugh till you cry.