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Replay: The Vodafone Comedy Festival

  By Sinead Keogh | July 28, 2011 - 10:14 am | Celebs, Comedy, Events, Festivals, Gigs, The Arts
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We spent a very sunny Saturday in a very black tent for The International Comedy Club show at The Vodafone Comedy Festival in the Iveagh Gardens last weekend. On the Thursday we caught Maeve Higgins, Tig Notaro and Eleanor Tiernan in an unexpectedly awesome all-female line-up. We can’t find official video from the weekend online just yet, but with Tig Notaro and Nick Thune being two brilliant new-t0-us acts that we’ve come away loving, we’re doing our duty to pop culture and telling you to check them out. The Comedy Fest, by the way, has lots of newfangled venue names like ‘The Cherry Top’ and ‘The V Room’ now that new sponsor Vodafone’s on board, but it’s still the same awesome weekend of comedy. Missing it and looking forward to next year already.

Free Events: Aidan Bishop Previews ‘Misspelled’ @ The International Bar

  By Culch.ie | July 15, 2011 - 9:13 am | Comedy, Events, Gigs
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Irish comedy’s heartthrob Aidan Bishop (hey, it’s not often they’re good lookin’, it’s worth the mention) is heading off to Edinburgh pretty soon for his fourth consecutive run at the Fringe. Before he does, he’s doing a week of preview shows at The International Bar on Wicklow Street (‘The Inter’ to regulars) and they’re 100% free in. Interested? ‘Misspelled’ is described as a ‘brand new stand-up comedy show’ in which ‘Aidan Bishop asks if dyslexics make the best comedians’. The resident MC at the Inter and well known brother-of-Des grew up with undiagnosed dyslexia and the new one-hour show explores his childhood and how dyslexia has changed his life. Sounds like heavy going, but they say tragedy breeds comedy and we’ve heard on the grapevine that this one’s worth a look. Running Monday 18th to Friday 22nd at 7.15pm (doors at 7pm) it’s totally free and 100% misspelled.