Comedy Showhouse

DON’T QUOTE ME! is hosted by Sean Hughes (Perrier winner, BBC’s Buzzcocks, Ch4’s Sean’s Show) with stars of Irish comedy – , Fiona Looney, Dave Fanning, Eleanor Tiernan, Katherine Lynch and more. Special guest 2016 Best Irish Theatre Actor nominee OWEN ROE as ‘the reader’. They'll be asked to answer questions about who said what, where and why... and a musical round of who sung what?

Recorded as part of the Comedy Showhouse, presented by RTE Radio 1 and Grintage Ireland, the world’s first comedy radio festival.

DON’T QUOTE ME! is hosted by Sean Hughes (Perrier winner, BBC’s Buzzcocks, Ch4’s Sean’s Show) with stars of Irish comedy – Eleanor Tiernan, Dave Fanning, Fiona Looney,Katherine Lynch and more. Special guest 2016 Best Irish Theatre Actor nominee OWEN ROE as ‘the reader’. They'll be asked to answer questions about who said what, where and why... and a musical round of who sung what?

Recorded as part of the Comedy Showhouse, presented by RTE Radio 1 and Grintage Ireland, the world’s first comedy radio festival.

DON’T QUOTE ME! is hosted by Sean Hughes (Perrier winner, BBC’s Buzzcocks, Ch4’s Sean’s Show) with stars of Irish comedy – Andrew Maxwell, , Fiona Looney, Colin Murphy, Eleanor Tiernan and more. Special guest 2016 Best Irish Theatre Actor nominee OWEN ROE as ‘the reader’. They'll be asked to answer questions about who said what, where and why... and a musical round of who sung what?

Recorded as part of the Comedy Showhouse, presented by RTE Radio 1 and Grintage Ireland, the world’s first comedy radio festival.

DON’T QUOTE ME! is hosted by Sean Hughes (Perrier winner, BBC’s Buzzcocks, Ch4’s Sean’s Show) with stars of Irish comedy – Andrew Maxwell, Colin Murphy, Fiona Looney, Jarlath Regan and more. Special guest 2016 Best Irish Theatre Actor nominee OWEN ROE as ‘the reader’. They'll be asked to answer questions about who said what, where and why... and a musical round of who sung what?

Recorded as part of the Comedy Showhouse, presented by RTE Radio 1 and Grintage Ireland, the world’s first comedy radio festival.

DON’T QUOTE ME! is hosted by Sean Hughes (Perrier winner, BBC’s Buzzcocks, Ch4’s Sean’s Show) with stars of Irish comedy – Andrew Maxwell, Karl Spain, Fiona Looney, Fred Cooke and more. Special guest 2016 Best Irish Theatre Actor nominee OWEN ROE as ‘the reader’. They'll be asked to answer questions about who said what, where and why... and a musical round of who sung what?

Recorded as part of the Comedy Showhouse, presented by RTE Radio 1 and Grintage Ireland, the world’s first comedy radio festival.

DON’T QUOTE ME! is hosted by Sean Hughes (Perrier winner, BBC’s Buzzcocks, Ch4’s Sean’s Show) with stars of Irish comedy – Andrew Maxwell, Karl Spain, Fiona Looney, Chris Kent and more. Special guest 2016 Best Irish Theatre Actor nominee OWEN ROE as ‘the reader’. They'll be asked to answer questions about who said what, where and why... and a musical round of who sung what?

Recorded as part of the Comedy Showhouse, presented by RTE Radio 1 and Grintage Ireland, the world’s first comedy radio festival.

Episode six from the Liffey Laughs Series 2. Featuring comedians such as Bernard O'Shea, Maeve Higgins, Neil Hickey and Rhod Gilbert.

00:24 Bernard O’Shea Laois, Trinity Scarf

2:18 “” Farmer talk, Farmer & GF Song

5:15 Maeve Higgins J’Lo, Pale Irish complexion

7:03 “” Annoying friend, Pretending to be pregnant,

9:31 Neil Hickey Offices on the news, Fairytales

12:43 Rhod Gilbert Dry Dream, Playing Doctors & Nurses

14:06 Rhod Gilbert Join Navy as a Chef, Personality, low libido

► F O L L O W U S:

* WEBSITE:http://grintageireland.com/

* TWITTER: https://twitter.com/Grintagious

* FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Grintagious

Episode four from the Liffey Laughs Series 1. Featuring comedians such as Anne Gildea, John Lynn, Dermot Carmody, David O’Doherty, PJ Gallagher and Anne Gildea

00:21 Anne Gildea Famine, Ballad Singer

2:52 John Lynn Gay bar, Gaurds, Jaffa Cakes

6:45 Dermot Carmody Blues, Rathgar

9:00 David O’Doherty Song

11:55 PJ Gallagher Break ups

14:17 Anne Gildea Sex Before Irish, Promiscuous Irish women

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► F O L L O W U S:

* WEBSITE:http://grintageireland.com/

* TWITTER: https://twitter.com/Grintagious

* FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Grintagious

Episode two from the Liffey Laughs Series 1. Featuring comedians such as Brendan Burke, Anne Gildea, Karl Spain, John Henderson and David McSavage

00:19 David McSavage Ireland & England

1:22 Brendan Burke 11811, Eircom

3:11 Anne Gildea Cleavage

5:41 Karl Spain Fat, going to the gym, Dating agency

10:08 John Henderson Irish Ugly Gene

12:50 David McSavage Wheelchair

11:14 David McSavage ft Eval Kless on violin Pigeon Song

Episode one from the Liffey Laughs Series 1. Featuring comedians such as Kevin Gildea, Michael Mee, Kathleen O’Rourke, David O’Doherty and Jason Byrne.

00:20 Michael Mee Talking about his surname

2:42 Kevin Gildea Walking – an Olympic Sport

4:32 Sean Hughes & Jason Byrne

5:10 Kathleen O’Rourke Weight, Evans

8:10 David O’Doherty

10:19 Jason Byrne Marriage

11:14 Sean Hughes & Jason Byrne

11:56 Jason Byrne Talking about his son ruining their sofa

Sean interviewing Jason Byrne

Commissioned by RTE Two in 2006, the Liffey Laugh was recorded at the packed 1500 capacity Vicar Street and featured Irish acts Jason Byrne, Ed Byrne, Andrew Maxwell, Neil Delamere, David McSavage, Deirdre O’Kane, Dermot Whelan and David O’Doherty amongst others.

The series was boosted by the emergence of new Irish talent plus the appearance of new UK stars like John Bishop (first gig ever as full time performer), Alan Carr and Rhod Gilbert who were all unknown in Ireland but now established amongst the top comedy acts around the world.