Events: Foil, Arms and Hog @ Whelan’s April 20th

We caught comedy sketch gang FAH in Whelan’s last year, at which time our Andy pronounced them ‘a perfect balance between the surreal and observational, with sketches going from a disgruntled visit to the Samaritans to – possibly my favorite of the night – a twenty-second sketch in slow motion about a Dublin dance floor’. Since then, our Amanda has interviewed them and perhaps entirely unrelated to our eager coverage, their upward trajectory has continued unabated. All you really need to know is that they’re one of the finest sketch groups at work in Ireland today (with the possible exception of that active retirement group who meet up and draw the Stephen’s Green bandstand in charcoals every Thursday) and they’re celebrating their birthday in Whelan’s on April 20th with lashings of snappy sketch goodness. We highly recommend that you make your way there. Whelan’s is an interesting comedy venue with a … There’s more

The Comedy Interview: Foil, Arms and Hog

Foil Arms and Hog are one of those comedy groups that mesmerise and amaze you with their quick-witted humour and perfect comic timing on stage. Off stage they are a really nice and funny bunch of guys! I caught up with them in their fancy offices recently for a chat about comedy and their future plans. So lads my first question has to be about your name. What’s with that? (After much hole-digging on my part, trying to remember what I heard we finally got to the correct answer!)The lads explain that the name grew from nicknames they had for each other, like ripping it out of each other’s style of performance, so Sean Finegan became Foil as in the comedic foil, the straight man in the sketch, Conor got Arms because he is big into the physical style of comedy and Sean Flanagan ended up with Hog as he likes … There’s more