Barry Murphy
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The only comedian to have played at every Kilkenny Cat Laughs festival since it began in 1994, Barry Murphy is Ireland’s undisputed Comedy Don. He founded the country’s longest running comedy club, The Comedy Cellar in 1989. Barry has been a writer or performer or both on practically all critically acclaimed home grown comedy for several decades. His list of credits include The End, Father Ted, Soupy Norman, Stand and Deliver and of course Après Match.
The godfather of Irish Comedy - Irish Times
Saturday 28th October 2017
David O’Doherty, Kevin Bridges, Lords of Strut, Joe Rooney, Barry Murphy
Saturday 28th October (Show 19:00), Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent
David or ‘The DOD’ as he is wont to call himself, does a fantastic line in self-deprecation. He describes his comedy as ‘Very low energy musical whimsy’ or occasionally as the ‘Ryanair Enya’ and previously has said he is a ‘failed jazz musician, scrambling about for something else to do with his life’. None of this is true of course. David has won the highest honour in the comedy world – The if.comedy award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2008. His shows are legendary. Few people can do musical comedy as well as this twinkly eyed Dubliner. Do not miss him. A beautiful mix of acute observation and startling invention - The Irish Times
Sunday 29th October 2017
David O’Doherty, Bernard O’Shea, PHILL JUPITUS, Micky Bartlett, Barry Murphy
Sunday 29th October (Show 21:30), Town Hall Theatre
David or ‘The DOD’ as he is wont to call himself, does a fantastic line in self-deprecation. He describes his comedy as ‘Very low energy musical whimsy’ or occasionally as the ‘Ryanair Enya’ and previously has said he is a ‘failed jazz musician, scrambling about for something else to do with his life’. None of this is true of course. David has won the highest honour in the comedy world – The if.comedy award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2008. His shows are legendary. Few people can do musical comedy as well as this twinkly eyed Dubliner. Do not miss him. A beautiful mix of acute observation and startling invention - The Irish Times
