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Another Little Taste of Home

The final installment of The Diet of Worms comedy web series, A Taste of Home, has gone live. Here’s all the episodes in order:
Episode 1 – The Debs:

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It’s a Little Bit Funny

Somewhat randomly, on a competition post , a regular Culch.ie reader, Peter, asked if there was any decent places for comedy in Dublin to bring a bunch of colleagues for a work night out he was arranging. So, I asked the Twitterverse .
I immediately got a few great suggestions from @pixievondust , @amylong [...]

NABO Returns

The lit-com of Not Also But Only returns to 4 Dame Lane this Wednesday 3rd March 2010 at 8pm.
As always its FREE, different and thoroughly entertaining you know, if you’re into mid-week free laughs and the likes.
Follow NABO on Twitter or check out the FB page if you’re a newbie to the [...]

All About Steve: review

In a moment of desperation, a friend asked me to go to the cinema with her last Friday night and there was nothing on at a decent time apart from All About Steve. I hadn’t heard or seen anything of it and she hadn’t either but Sandra Bullock was in it, so how bad could [...]

It’s Complicated: review

I saw It’s Complicated last week and although Niall had already talked about it here , I thought I’d give you my tuppenceworth too.
To put it very simply, Jane and Jake are married, have three children and divorce after twenty years of marriage. Fast forward ten years, Jake has a young wife and step son, [...]

Hood in the Joy?

Lots of comedians do standup DVDs. There was a plethora of releases at Christmas in the Irish market from the likes of Des Bishop, Neil Delamere, PJ Gallagher and Colin Murphy. Now these lads are major talents and are all household names so the need to do a DVD is understandable.
I’ve often been asked after [...]

Comedy for Haiti

A stalwart of the summer and the Edinburgh previews the “No Pricks Comedy Show” is making a special outing in aid of charities working in Haiti. The gig is on tonight (sorry for the late notice!) in Slattery’s Bar, Rathmines at 8pm. The gigs are organized and MC’d by Jarlath Regan and the line up [...]

Ed Byrne – Different Class

I have to admit I am a huge comedy fan. That aside, I got mixed responses to the mention Ed Byrnes new DVD [that I bought in HMV for 10.99] which I found a little surprising…. If you are the type that when Billy Connolly walks out on stage and says hello and you immediately laugh… [...]

A Sexy Christmas party? With Dead Cat Bounce? You having a laugh?

The above photos is used, for some bizarre reason, to highlight on Facebook the Sexy Christmas Party that those talented lads over at Dead Cat Bounce are hosting in Dublin’s Sugar Club on Monday December 21.
They’ve got a great line-up, including the International ’s comedy mish-mash superstars Andrew Stanley and Fred Cooke, [...]

Let’s David O’Doherty – his new CD recorded live at Whelan’s is out now.

Regular readers with great memories may remember Niamho writing about David O’ Doherty ’s live gig in Whelan’s of Wexford St, Dublin last August to record his new album.

A couple of us went – supporting live comedy, don’t ya know – and it was indeed, what it promised to be – a funny, [...]

The Seafarer at the Abbey Theatre

Wednesday night, with thanks to David McCadden at the Abbey I was lucky enough to see The Seafarer in the Abbey Theatre.
It’s Christmas Eve and Sharky has returned to Dublin to look after his irascible, ageing brother who’s recently gone blind. Old drinking buddies Ivan and Nicky are holed up at the house too, [...]

Accidental Death of an Anarchist: review

Devious Theatre put on a run of Dario Fo’s ‘Accidental Death of an Anarchist’ this past weekend in Kilkenny’s new Set Theatre . It was my first time to be inside the Set Theatre so I was looking forward to seeing that as much as seeing the play. And I wasn’t disappointed with either [...]

Awesome Movie Moment #15

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It’s The Emergency CD of the year, just in time for Christmas.

EDIT: Feck, I really should read this site from time to time. If I did, I’d have seen that Anto has already blogged about this CD this week . Sorry!
It’s over on mine so I thought I’d share the video of Brain Cowen being kidnapped that has landed in my inbox with you as [...]

Fancy entering Tommy and Hector’s Craic House in December?

Fancy getting audience tickets for what’s sure to be one of the most madcap shows to be broadcast on RTÉ over the Christmas season?

Photo by Andrew Downes
Comedy maniacs – and childhood friends – Tommy Tiernan and Hector Ó hEochagáin are getting together for a one off comedy talk show that will go out on [...]

Couch Potato – DVDs out this week

Okay folks we are now officially one month out from Christmas. Now the real fun begins with shops opening later and later in an attempt to syphon what meagre earning we have from our pockets. Looking to tempt us into a spending spree this week is a new line-up of shiny goodness for your home [...]

Nativity! review

Nativity! is simply a lovely, beautiful and funny film. Mr. Maddens, a primary school teacher played by Martin Freeman, attempts to run a successful school nativity after the headmistress has thrust the duty upon him.
His protests of “the children are useless. I’m useless!” and “it was a disaster four years ago” are met with headstrong [...]

Jeff Dunham gig moved to a new venue – more tickets due on sale

I mentioned the Jeff Dunham gig before. More news about it in the press release that follows:
Due to phenomenal demand, Raglane Entertainment have announced that the Jeff Dunham show scheduled for The Olympia Theatre, Dublin on April 18, 2010 has been moved to the brand new Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin.
With the original venue [...]

Tommy and Hector, kicking and starting

Tommy Tiernan and Hector Ó h’Eochagáin are to host a fundraising evening in Vicar Street on 22 November in aid of ‘The Complex’. You may have heard them perform together on their own radio show on i102104.ie – imaginatively called The Tommy and Hector Show – but this is a chance to see [...]

People of Ireland…. The Emergency

People Of Ireland…

If you are wondering why I look like such an eejit in this picture… chances are you’ve never laughed as hard as I did the day I met The Emergency .
Never heard of The Emergency before…? Chances are you’ve shared a cave with a bearded man for too long now. [...]