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Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club presents
CAT LAUGHS CRAIC ATTACK - All-Ireland Comedy Talent Search
Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club presents
CAT LAUGHS CRAIC ATTACK - All-Ireland Comedy Talent Search

Thursday 14th April
8.30pm
€7/€5

Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club presents
CAT LAUGHS CRAIC ATTACK - All-Ireland Comedy Talent Search
Hosted by Andrew Stanley and Damian Clark and featuring Fred Cooke!
The search for Ireland's best new comedy talent comes to Leitrim. See local fledgling comedians sweating it out on stage to ...

 

The Emergency The Emergency

Thursday 10th March
8.30
€17/(€15 Comedy Club)

Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club presents
THE EMERGENCY
In the lineage of Hall’s Pictorial Weekly and Scrap Saturday, The Emergency offers a welcome antidote to the increasing doom and gloom propagated on our beleaguered island nation by a dismal leadership (and its recent replacement!) Have a lis...

 

The Cannaboe Liudramans The Cannaboe Liudramans

Friday 25th February
8.30pm
€10

The Cannaboe Liudramans are a group of Actors and Actresses from Ballinamore performing traditional comedy, which is hilariously funny. Book early so you wont be disappointed.

 

LEITRIM LAUGHS COMEDY CLUB presents MAEVE HIGGINS LEITRIM LAUGHS COMEDY CLUB presents MAEVE HIGGINS

Thursday 10th February
8.30pm
€16/€14 (comedy club)

Maeve Higgins – Ready For This?

Maeve Higgins (me) presents ‘Ready For This?’ - a night of fun with brilliant comedy, a special guest, a couple of baking tips and maybe even some signature cat material!! Can you wait? Before you answer that – Shhh! [Maeve puts hand over reader’s mouth.] You...

 

PJ Gallagher 'Raging' PJ Gallagher 'Raging'

Thursday 09th December
8.30pm
€18/€16(comedy club)

Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club hosts PJ GALLAGHER

- “Gallagher’s encounters with the unsuspecting public are not only hilarious but also crackle with an edgy energy.” The Sunday Times

Best known as the hilarious and outrageous Jake Stevens from RTE ’s Naked Camera and Makin’ Jake, PJ G...

 

Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club hosts KEVIN MCALEER Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club hosts KEVIN MCALEER

Thursday 11th November
8.30pm
€18/(€16 Comedy Club)

Back in the late Eighties, the undoubted highlight of late night RTÉ television was Kevin McAleer’s appearances on 'Nighthawks'. Kevin is one of the originators of modern Irish stand-up comedy and could quite rightly be proclaimed a comic genius but we like to focus on the fact that he is still funn...

 

Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club hosts THE EMERGENCY Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club hosts THE EMERGENCY

Thursday 14th October
8.30pm
€18/(€16Comedy Club)

People of Ireland, The Tiger is dead and smelling rotten, NAMA is raiding your kids’ piggy banks: it’s time to turn those tears of anger to tears of laughter, because this is THE EMERGENCY: LIVE! The Emergency, Ireland’s Topical Satirical Radio Sketch show comes to The Dock to perform a full live sh...

 

Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club hosts
*Edinburgh Fringe Preview Special*
DEAD CAT BOUNCE & JARLATH REGAN Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club hosts
*Edinburgh Fringe Preview Special*
DEAD CAT BOUNCE & JARLATH REGAN

Thursday 15th July
8.30pm
€15 (€13 Comedy Club)

We have a special treat for comedy fans this July before Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club goes on its summer holidays. Don’t worry about the volcanic ash or passport office delays; we are bringing a taste of the Edinburgh
Festival Fringe to Carrick-on-Shannon! Two of Ireland’s brightest young comedy ...

 

Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club hosts
ANDREW MAXWELL Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club hosts
ANDREW MAXWELL

Thursday 10th June
8.30pm
€20(€18 Comedy Club)

Andrew Maxwell has won and been nominated for several awards including an Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show, a Time Out Live Award for Best Stand-up, and Chortle Award for best contribution to the live comedy circuit. He was also recently voted Best Irish Comedian by the public at the entertainme...

 

Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club hosts
THE DUBLIN COMEDY IMPROV featuring Ian Coppinger,
Joe Rooney, Paul Tylak and Dermot Carmody Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club hosts
THE DUBLIN COMEDY IMPROV featuring Ian Coppinger,
Joe Rooney, Paul Tylak and Dermot Carmody

Thursday 13th May
8.30pm
€18 (€16 Comedy Club Members)

Ireland’s longest running professional Improv troupe make their Leitrim debut. Faster than comedy, more convincing than acting and funnier than anything,

The Dublin Comedy Improv have played with renowned improvisers such as Whose Line Is It Anyway? and cast members of The Simpsons and Che...

 

Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club hosts YOUNG, GIFTED & GREEN
featuring Dermot Whelan, Aidan Bishop and Eleanor Tiernan Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club hosts YOUNG, GIFTED & GREEN
featuring Dermot Whelan, Aidan Bishop and Eleanor Tiernan

Thursday 15th April
8.30pm
€10

3 COMEDY ACTS, 1 SHOW, TOO FUNNY

Is this the best value in Ireland?

Young, Gifted & Green showcases some of Irelands most talented and popular young comedians working in the country, many of whom regularly headline shows in their own right.

Each gig features three acts -...

 

Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club goes offsite with                    NEIL DELAMERE Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club goes offsite with NEIL DELAMERE

Friday 12th March
8.30pm
€20 (€18 for comedy club members)

The Dock conducted a survey recently to see which comedian Carrick on Shannon most wanted to see and, having added up the answers, most of you asked for Neil Delamere! So we are bringing him back with a brand new show, Bookmarks, that’s going to be bigger and better than ever – so big in fact we are...

 

Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club hosts ARDAL O’HANLON Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club hosts ARDAL O’HANLON

Wednesday 10th February
8.30pm
€25

*SELLING FAST*

Special Guest on the night - FRED COOKE!

Aiken Promotions present Ardal O’Hanlon Stands Up – Irish Tour 2010 for one night only at The Dock! A highly acclaimed stand up, Ardal has toured to sell out audiences internationally and has released two top ten standup DVD’s...

 

Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club hosts MAEVE HIGGINS Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club hosts MAEVE HIGGINS

Thursday 14th January
8.30pm
€16

*JUST ANNOUNCED*
MAEVE WILL BE JOINED BY SPECIAL GUEST GEARÓID FARRELLY AND LEITRIM LAUGHS MC JOHN COLLEARY

Maeve loves to blab and is pleased to have lots of new things to blab about to you! It’s hard to think of examples but she will definitely try to present you with an evening of g...

 

Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club hosts JON KENNY Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club hosts JON KENNY

Thursday 10th December
8.30pm
€20

As the Celtic Tiger seems to have slunk into a corner, curled into a ball and gone to sleep (God only knows where… has anyone seen him?) and our newspapers are full of stories of doom and gloom and bad weather, an evening of hilarious comedy with the inimitable Jon Kenny is just what the doctor orde...

 

Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club hosts
PJ GALLAGHER Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club hosts
PJ GALLAGHER

Thursday 12th November
8.30pm
€18

Best known as the hilarious and sometimes outrageous Jake Stevens from RTE’s ‘Naked Camera’ and ‘Makin’ Jake’, PJ Gallagher one of Ireland’s most popular and well-loved comedians. PJ tears through his hilarious live set with his customary manic energy including guest appearances from his good friend...

 

Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club hosts JASON BYRNE Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club hosts JASON BYRNE

Thursday 29th October
8.30pm
€20

*RESCHEDULED SHOW - PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE*

Jason Byrne’s inspired, original brand of high-energy lunacy ensures that there is no other comedian like him. His fast, freewheeling style, fused with an array of offbeat props, makes his act a helter-skelter of a show - where the audience ar...

 

Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club hosts DEAD CAT BOUNCE Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club hosts DEAD CAT BOUNCE

Thursday 10th September
8.30pm
€15

One of the most exciting live acts to emerge from Ireland in recent years, Dead Cat Bounce presents Wired, a brand new rock ‘n roll sketch show, stopping off at The Dock fresh from Electric Picnic.

Dead Cat Bounce’s unique blend of sketch comedy and musical performances has won them critic...

 

Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club hosts
ANDREW STANLEY (and Andrew Stanley’s Comedy MISH MASH) Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club hosts
ANDREW STANLEY (and Andrew Stanley’s Comedy MISH MASH)

Thursday 11th June
8.30pm
€15/€12

The last Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club before the summer break sees an extra special night lined up for you.

With free biscuits and lemonade!!

One half of RTEs legendary I Dare Ya double act, Andrew Stanley, will take to the stage with his new solo show…but thats not all! For the oth...

 

Leitrim Laughs hosts ANDREW MAXWELL Leitrim Laughs hosts ANDREW MAXWELL

Thursday 14th May
8.30pm
€20

Irish Post comedian of the year, if.comedy nominee and Time Out Award nominee Andrew Maxwell presents a show of five star comedy that kicks off with the lovely Leitrim Laughs MC John Colleary. Star of RTEs The Panel and Smoke and Mirrors, if you like your comedy sidesplitting and your storytelling m...

 

Leitrim Laughs hosts COLIN MURPHY Leitrim Laughs hosts COLIN MURPHY

Thursday 09th April
8.30pm
€20

When he’s not scribbling notes on the set of RTE’s The Panel, or reading
the news for the next week of BBC’s The Blame Game, nordie comedian,
Colin Murphy is perfecting his material for his first true love, stand up
comedy. Not only is Colin Murphy a first class TV star, he is one of the...

 

Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club presents David O'Doherty Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club presents David O'Doherty

Thursday 12th March
8.30pm
€20

What’s the time?
It’s David O’Doherty time.
Tick tock, tick tock,
It’s O’Doherty o’clock

Hang on to your minds world, David O’Doherty, the viscount of rumpled whimsy, the marble fawn of tiny keyboard based musical comedy is coming.

There will be some sitting, there wil...

 

Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club present NEIL DELAMERE ---EXTRA DATE!--- Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club present NEIL DELAMERE ---EXTRA DATE!---

Thursday 19th February
8.30pm
€20

EXTRA DATE ADDED DUE TO DEMAND! BOOK NOW!

Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club is back after its Christmas break with, star of The Panel, Neil Delamare.

With a platinum-selling DVD, Neil Delamere, the Star of RTE’s The Panel and BBC’s The Blame Game is currently touring Ireland with his bran...

 

Neil Delamare Neil Delamare

Thursday 12th February
8.30pm
€20

Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club is back after its Christmas break with, star of The Panel, Neil Delamare.

With a platinum-selling DVD, Neil Delamere, the Star of RTE’s The Panel and BBC’s The Blame Game is currently touring Ireland with his brand new show Crčme Delamere and it will be coming to ...

 

  Leitrim Laughs hosts PJ GALLAGHER

Thursday 11th December
8.30pm
€20/€18


Join us for the final Leitrim Laughs Comedy Club of 2008 (is it that time already?!) with, one of Ireland’s most popular and well-loved comedians, PJ Gallagher. Best known as the hilarious and sometimes outrageous Jake Stevens from RTE ’s Naked Camera and Makin’ Jake, for the past few years PJ...

 

‘Leitrim Laughs’ hosts
DES BISHOP in THE BUSH HOTEL ‘Leitrim Laughs’ hosts
DES BISHOP in THE BUSH HOTEL

Thursday 13th November
8.30pm
€25


The Dock brings its ‘Leitrim Laughs’ comedy club out of its usual spot, to The Bush Hotel to host Des Bishop, the star of the revolutionary RTE show ‘In the Name of the Fada’.
Bishop’s show Tongue’s promises to be a blistering night of stand-up comedy, where Des explores his Irish identity ...

 

Leitrim Laughs hosts
JOE ROONEY Leitrim Laughs hosts
JOE ROONEY

Thursday 09th October
8.30pm
€18

We brought you Ardal O’Hanlon last month, now meet the man who created and played the rebel priest ‘Father Damo’ who led Dougal astray. Currently starring as Timmy Higgins in Killnaskully, Meath man Joe Rooney is one of Ireland’s finest comic talents. He has toured extensively in Ireland, the UK and...

 

Leitrim Laughs hosts ARDAL O'HANLON
  -  BOOKED OUT Leitrim Laughs hosts ARDAL O'HANLON
- BOOKED OUT

Thursday 11th September
8.30pm
€18/€15

The man made famous by Fr. Ted, O’Hanlon is a founding father of modern Irish stand-up since he helped form Dublin’s Comedy Cellar in 1990. Ardal has a slew of comedy awards (and a BAFTA) to his name. Thanks to Father Ted, My Hero and Big Bad World, O’Hanlon is immediately recognisable, but his incr...

 

  Leitrim Laughs hosts IAN COPPINGER

Thursday 10th July
8.30pm
€15/€12


One of Ireland’s busiest comedians, Ian has performed to packed houses on four continents, including annual appearances at the Kilkenny Cat Laughs, Edinburgh, Adelaide and Melbourne International Comedy Festivals.
A founding member of ‘The Comedy Improv’ in Dublin in the early 90s, Ian stil...

 

Leitrim Laughs hosts DANNY BHOY 
*NEW* Support by ADAM HILLS! Leitrim Laughs hosts DANNY BHOY
*NEW* Support by ADAM HILLS!

Thursday 12th June
8.30pm
€15/€12


Scottish comedian Danny Bhoy has been impressing audiences since 1998. Since then, he’s had record ticket sales at the Edinburgh and Melbourne Comedy Festivals, was the ‘stand out hit’ at the Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in 2005 and did a major tour of Australia in 2007, culminatin...

 

  Paddy Courtney

Thursday 08th May
8.30pm
€17/€15

Paddy Courtney is so frequently voted the nicest man in comedy or the fan’s favourite, that it is easy to conclude that he is the most likable comic you will ever come across. A riot of sparkling, cheeky dialogue he is never short on energy or low on laughs and he was recently nominated for an IFTA...

 

KARL SPAIN KARL SPAIN

Thursday 10th April
8.30pm
€17 / €15

Karl Spain returns by popular demand! Having quickly established himself as one of Ireland’s top comedians, Spain has gone from strength to strength. Before he became a household name for his hit series ‘Karl Spain Wants a Woman’ (RTE 2), he had already appeared on two series of ‘The Liffey Laughs’...

 

Leitrim Laughs hosts ‘I DARE YA’ LIVE Leitrim Laughs hosts ‘I DARE YA’ LIVE

Thursday 13th March
8.30pm
€17/€15

What happens when two of RTE's funniest and craziest new stars take their hilarious hidden camera/stand-up show on the road? Find out on 13th March as RTE's latest celebrity pranksters, Andrew Stanley and Damian Clark, bring their hilarious show I Dare Ya! to The Dock. The ridiculously brilliant (an...

 

BRENDAN BURKE BRENDAN BURKE

Thursday 14th February
8.30pm
€17/€15

Make a date for Valentines Day with hilarious Dublin comedian Brendan Burke, described by Hot Press as "one of the funniest men in Ireland." With sell out shows in Vicar Street and at Edinburgh Festival, Burke is receiving rave reviews; “Suddenly I realised I was in the hands of a master comedian” T...

 

Leitrim Laughs hosts JOHN COLLEARY Leitrim Laughs hosts JOHN COLLEARY

Thursday 10th January
8.30pm
€17/€15

A rare chance to see the much loved ‘Leitrim Laughs’ MC, John Colleary, step into the headline slot. A "quick-fire, think-on-his feet comedian", John has quickly established himself on the circuit, writing and recording the TJ & TJ sketches for Today FM’s Matt Cooper Show and performing at Edinburg...

 

Leitrim Laughs hosts MAEVE HIGGINS Leitrim Laughs hosts MAEVE HIGGINS

Thursday 13th December
8.30pm
€17/€15

Best known for her appearances on the most watched comedy show in the country, RTE's ‘Naked Camera’, Higgins is also a regular contributor to the Ray D'arcy show on Today FM. Since beginning stand up three years ago, she has performed in comedy festivals around the world, including Edinburgh, Melbo...

 

DAVE MCSAVAGE DAVE MCSAVAGE

Thursday 08th November
8pm-10pm
€17/€15

McSavage’s unique brand of repartee, ribaldry and rhythm has seen him described as among the brightest talents to emerge on the comedy circuit in recent years. Having honed his craft on the streets of Europe, McSavage quickly established himself on the Dublin comedy circuit, with a string of sell o...

 

Colin Murphy Colin Murphy

Thursday 11th October
8.30pm

Leitrim Laughs presents COLIN MURPHY
Host of RTE’s 'The Blizzard of Odd' and a regular contributor on the popular show 'The Panel', Colin has deservedly earned himself a reputation as a force to be reckoned with! His distinct fusion of edgy 'in your face' topical satire, with off beat, but acut...

 

Adam Hills Adam Hills

Thursday 13th September
8.30pm
€17/€15

Adam Hills unique style of thoughtful, uplifting comedy & rampant spontaneity have won him rave reviews, a shelf of awards and a legion of fans worldwide, making him one of Australia’s most talented and widely respected comedians. He’s had sell-out shows at all the major comedy festivals and went do...

 

Leitrim Laughs hosts DAVID O’ DOHERTY Leitrim Laughs hosts DAVID O’ DOHERTY

Thursday 12th July
8.30pm
€15/€12

Star of his own hit TV show (‘The Modest Adventures of David O’ Doherty’ – Tuesday night RTE 2) and Eddie (formerly Perrier) Award nominee at Edinburgh Festival 2006, David O’Doherty is a rapidly rising star on the international comedy scene. He’s best known for his 80’s style Yamaha keyboard actio...

 

  ANDREW MAXWELL

Thursday 07th June
8.30pm
€15/12

Winner of Channel 4’s Kings of Comedy, and a regular on RTE’s The Panel, Andrew Maxwell is the cheeky one who gets all the laughs. A raucous laddish Irishman with a top-notch set, Maxwell injects life into any comedy night with his riotous and well-observed set. He thinks on his feet, and regularly ...

 

Leitrim Laughs hosts NEIL DELAMERE Leitrim Laughs hosts NEIL DELAMERE

Thursday 12th April
8.30pm
15 euro / 12 euro concession

A TV favourite thanks to his star turns on RTE’s The Panel, BBC’s Blame Game with Colin Murphy and more recently Test the Nation, Neil returns to The Dock after a string of sell out shows in Dublin’s Vicar Street. Having performed on 5 continents, last year he returned to Montreal to perform on the ...

 

  PJ GALLAGHER

Tuesday 10th April
8.30pm
€15/12

Resident comedian on RTE ’s hilarious hit
TV show Naked Camera,PJ is behind two
of the shows most enduring characters,The
Whistler and The Scanger and has become
one of Ireland ’s best loved comedians.His
high energy manic story-telling of real life
experiences will leave you...

 

Leitrim Laughs hosts JASON BYRNE Leitrim Laughs hosts JASON BYRNE

Thursday 08th March
8.30pm
18 euro

One of the most daring and original Irish comedians, Jason finally returns to The Dock after a hugely popular sell out show last February. A busy 2006 saw the release of his brand new live DVD Jason Byrne: Out Of The Box for Christmas and he’s now preparing for the second series of his hit comedy A...

 

  Leitrim Laughs hosts ARDAL O'HANLON

Thursday 08th February
8.30 pm
18/15 euro

The man made famous by Fr. Ted, O'Hanlon is a founding father of modern Irish stand-up since he helped form Dublin's Comedy Cellar in 1990. Ardal has a slew of comedy awards (and a BAFTA) to his name. Thanks to Father Ted, My Hero and Big Bad World, O'Hanlon is immediately recognisable, but his incr...

 

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