PJ Gallagher @ Revolution
Thur 24 th September 8.30pm
Tickets €20 from Revolution or www.tickets.ie
PJ Gallagher has become one of Ireland’s best-loved comedians. Following the huge success of his role as Jake Stevens and many others in the hilarious and sometimes outrageous hit TV show Naked Camera, PJ rarely has time to be himself these days as he prepares for yet another TV series based in the USA.
PJ Gallagher is a Vicar Street regular, he has played the venue more than 10 times already this year. He has appeared at the Cat Laughs festival in Kilkenny. Electric Picnic and done many successful corporate appearances for Diageo, Sigma and quite a few others. He is also a graduate of the Gaiety School of Acting.
With appearances on The Late Late Show, The Miriam O Callaghan Show and Tubridy Tonight, you can expect to see a lot more of this brilliant, energetic young comic.
Steve Cummins & Friends @ Revolution
Fri 25th Sept @ 8.30
Tickets €20 from Revolution or www.tickets.ie
Steve Cummins has been a comedian for five years and has been full time since January 2004. He has performed in every major venue throughout Ireland and has performed at the Edinburgh festival. He is a regular contributor to Hot Press magazine and other publications. Prior to turning professional, Steve spent the previous fifteen years working with the homeless, juvenile offenders and adolescent gang members from the Projects in Chicago.
Steve was the resident comedian for 98fm, Dublins most popular radio station each Tuesday for the last two years and now contributes as a comedian and commentator for Newstalk 106 fm. He has also contributed to Spin 103.8 fm and is a regular contributer on The Last Word on Today FM. Steve has performed comedy on the BBC and is a panelist on RTEs Big Bite and also does warm up for Channel 4 and the BBC.
Steve is one of Ireland's foremost comperes and is not to be missed
After Dark & Blue
Fri 25th Sept @ Midnight
Revolution Basement Bar
Tickets €20 from Revolution or www.tickets.ie
Blue comedy is comedy that is risque, indecent, profane or obscene. It often contains cursing and/or sexual imagery that shocks and offends many audiences. The term comes from the comedian Max Miller who kept all his adult jokes in a blue coloured notebook.
Many comedians who are normally family-friendly might choose to work blue when off-camera or in an adult-oriented environment; so it is - Revolution after midnight - see your favourite comedians as you have never seen them before - RUDE AND OBSCENE!
Neil Delamere @ Revolution
Sat 26th September 8.30pm
Tickets €20 from Revolution or www.tickets.ie
Neil Delamere is one of the top headline acts working in the Irish comedy scene today. Having performed on 5 continents, he staged his debut solo show in the Edinburgh festival in 2004. His latest show at the Edinburgh Fringe 2007, The Viking Show attracted rave reviews
“One of the funniest things you’ll see at the Fringe this year.” – Edinburgh Fest Magazine
‘Neil Delamere has put together a slick show. He is a smooth talker and enjoys himself enormously, which puts the audience at ease and the hour slides past very comfortably’ – chortle.co.uk
His live stand-up set was then recorded for the BBC comedy series One Night Stand. Presently working on The Panel the RTE comedy news show alongside Ed Byrne and Colin Murphy and hosted by Dara O’Briain, Neil is also a regular on The Blame Game, a topical tv show for the BBC.
Hailed by the Irish Independent for his countless MC skills, Neil is the regular compere at several gigs round Dublin. He has performed all over Ireland as well as at the prestigious Kilkenny Cats Laughs Festival, the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival and the Adelaide Fringe Festival. He featured in both series of Liffey Laughs, RTE’s stand-up show in 2005 and 2006 as well as The World Stands Up for Paramount.
“ endless top-notch material that had this audience in stitches” – Adelaide Fringe Festival 2004
2007 saw Neil return to the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival while also presenting the RTE television series covering the festival, Just for Laughs, for the second year in a row.
“Neil Delamere…the rising star of Irish comedy and a wryly brilliant live performer” – Sunday Times
“No TV camera could accurately measure the lightning speed of Delamere’s wit” – Irish Times
Jason Byrne
Sun 27th Sept 8.30pm
Tickets €20 from Revolution or www.tickets.ie
One of the most exciting comedy performers and hailed by both the national press and public alike, Jason Byrne is the ‘must see’ comedian for the new Millennium.
Jason’s inspired, original brand of high-energy lunacy ensures that there is no other comedian presently like him. His fast, free-wheeling style, fused with an array of offbeat props, makes his act a helter-skelter of a show – where the audience are promised the ride of their lives. He has been one of the fastest selling performers at the last 11 Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, where his sell out shows have attracted Best Headliner Chortle Award in 2007, a nomination for 1998 Perrier Newcomer Award, and then a much revered Perrier Award Nomination for his outstanding 2001 show. He was also winner for the 2004 Forth One Fringe Award and continues to play to packed houses through Ireland & the UK.At this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Jason became the top selling comic ever in the history of the Festival.
With a strong international profile, Jason has performed in New York, Boston, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Singapore, Brussels, Milan and Paris and is currently preparing for more national tours around the UK and Ireland.
As well as his debut live DVD Jason Byrne – Out Of The Box (filmed in late 2006 in Vicar Street to a sell out crowd), Jason is about to begin recording the fourth series of his hit television series Anonymous(RTE2). Other credits included RTE Class Clowns, The Jason Byrne Show, Elvis Has Left The Building (BBC NI), Out On A Limb (BBC3), Jason Byrne is A Twiggy No Branch (Channel 4), Dark Ages (ITV), Stuck In The Middle (BBC), Father Ted(Channel 4), Stop The World (BBC) and Lenny Henry in Pieces (main writer, BBC). He has also appeared in several films including Alice in Wonderland (alongside Whoopi Goldberg, Martin Short and Gene Wilder).
