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AH LIFE. IF you don’t laugh, you’ll cry, right?
Well, we don’t want any crying around these parts, so we’ve rounded up seven of the best up and coming Irish comedians for you to watch out for.
Whether they’re standups, masters of the comedic tweets or YouTube superstars, check out their work below.
You’ll laugh. Oh, how you’ll laugh.
Eleanor Tiernan has supported Tommy Tiernan, Stewart Lee, Reginald D Hunter, Tig Notaro, Neil Delamere, Jason Byrne, Ardal O’Hanlon, and Pantibliss – so you know she’s good.
She describes her style of comedy as ‘Free range, organic, no added preservatives. Dead pan. I’m aiming for opium but it’s probably low grade heroin.’
So there you have it.
Conor writes and acts as well as doing stand up and he’s working on a new show for the Edinburgh and Dublin Fringe festivals called, ‘Conor O’Toole: A Retrospective 1995-2015.’
He’s also written and acted in a number of films, one of which won a Best Writing award.
Fresh from winning the Best Female TV Comedian at the 2014 British Comedy Awards (yup, she’s still Irish though), Aisling Bea, writer, actor, comedian and all-round person, is flying high with three Edinburgh Festival previews coming up as well as doing lots of stand up and TV appearances on shows like QI, Eight of Ten Cats, and Live at the Apollo.
These three guys have been on quite the comedic world takeover – recently selling out their sixth Edinburgh festival and returning from a successful Statewide tour with a sold-out show in Dublin.
You may recognise them from their stints on The Savage Eye and The Craig Doyle Show or maybe the clip below will jog your memory.
YouTube comedy star, Sean Connolly, aka The Sonic Screw, tweets and makes videos that delight the nation. He has nearly 9000 subscribers and his videos vary from parodies, to film retellings to inebriated cooking shows.
Each to their own, we say.
Alison has made videos for The Republic of Telly as well as featuring on RTE’s New Comedy Awards.
She’s also written and acted in a few other videos with some other up and coming comedians – you might notice her in the video of another of our entries… keep your eyes peeled.
Born in the States, but here for so long we’ll claim him for one of our own, Damon writes, acts and does stand-up. He’s written for RTE and has appeared on Newstalk, RTE 2FM, Dublin City FM, and Phantom FM.
He splits his time between Dublin and San Francisco, so we’re allowed to hate him, a little.
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Down with the government
@Alan B: Pipe down, bootlicker.
@Alan B: thank god I’m leaving this sham of a country next week, it’s attitudes like yours and support of government policy that’s has driven this country into the ground.
@Alan B: Gravy train running out of steam and poor Alan, you’ll have to hit Daddy’s inheritance hard.
The Green Party face total obliteration in the forthcoming General election. Ryan refuses to sanction road development, clearly unaware that buses use them. Labour’s €9pm public transport was unrealistic but no monthly concession offer from the govt is hugely unimaginative. No further reduction (on top of last year’s welcome 20 % decrease ) to incentivise bus/rail travel. Go figure !
anybody know when applications for this will open for 24 and 25 year olds?
@Sean Murphy: well considering it took them A YEAR to open up the application for free GP card, I’m gonna go ahead and say… when you’re no longer eligible.
“At least I stand for something”
Exactly what those on here who can’t accept their own failures say so that they can feel part of something or gave a purpose.
The truth is, instead of taking the tough steps to better yourself, all you do is whine on The Journal about how you have been screwed over.
@Sun Rise: We’re all being screwed over. Some of us just haven’t copped it yet.
Why would someone want a further reduction in public transport when the bloody thing doesn’t turn up? LOL
And the fact is with the TFI 90 mins fare you don’t reductions. They should spend money on actual card transaction machines like the rest of the developed world have. Also spend money on making Dublin Bus a reliable service, money spend elsewhere
Does the Leap card allow them to jump from place to place instead of going in a car or on a bus?
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