The Liquid lounge in association with Craichouse promotions is proud to announce the creation of a brand new comedy night for Cork city.
This comedy night will be called “GAS” and will be on every Tuesday from the 18th of September in the Liquid Lounge, Marlboro Street, Cork.
GAS will primarily be aimed at the student population of The Rebel capital but is open to any fan of comedy. We will host some of the best new and established comedians working in Ireland today.
The people behind the comedy come with a good pedigree; they have been responsible for the running of The Craichouse Comedy Club For the last 3 Years and in that time it has become Corks premier comedy venue for new and up and coming comedians. We’ve helped launch the careers of local comedy icons such as Maeve Higgins, Eleanor Tiernan, Kevin Goldsmith, Johnny P, and Ross Brown and more. They are also on a first name terms with every new and up and coming comedian in Ireland today. This allows them the expertise to bring only the best comedians for the students of Cork.
They have also had successful runs in the 2004, 2005 and 2006 Kilkenny Cat Laughs Comedy Festivals, where more than 300 people filled the seats each year. And this year held the inaugural “Craic me up” comedy competition to find the best new comedian in Ireland.
The good people at Gas will also be giving a very new comedian an open spot every Tuesday night thus continuing out commitment to showcasing emerging stand-up comedians, so if you think you are brave enough why not try out. So if you like your comedy Raw and in your face then GAS is the place for you, sure it is bound to be gas.
All gigs have the following details.
Time: 9pm sharp
Venue: Liquid Lounge, Marlboro Street, Cork.
Price: €7/5 for students.
The Line Up
Tuesday Sept 25th
Neil Hickey
Neil Hickey began his stand up career just over three years ago, and in this short time he has performed his thoughtful, warm and witty brand of humour in all the major comedy venues across Ireland. A native of Dublin, Neil is a regular performer in the city’s most established comedy clubs, including the International Comedy Club, The Comedy Cellar, The Capital Comedy Club and the Laughter Lounge. In 2005 Neil won the Bulmers International Newcomers Comedy Comp and as a result supported Bill Bailey in Dublin’s famous Olympia Theatre.
Following this, Neil made his Irish television debut appearing on RTE’s Liffey Laugh stand up show, and then rounded off a fantastic 2006 by winning the Irish heat of the Amused Moose Laugh off Comp. More recently, Neil was selected to perform at the 2007 Irish Just For Laughs Montreal Showcase, and performed as part of the official line up for this year’s Kilkenny Cats Laughs Comedy Festival. Neil Hickeys stand up career looks like it will continue blossom for many years to come.
Tuesday Oct 2nd
Sharon Mannion
Sharon made her stand up debut at the Kilkenny Cat Laughs Festival 2005. Since then she has been gigging regularly in The Hapenny Inn (also as M.C), The International, Bankers, Capital Comedy Club, Crawdaddys, (Dublin), Cuba (Galway), Empire (Belfast), Comedy Den (Limerick) and various clubs around the country. She was a finalist in last year’s Best Stand up newcomer competition at the Bulmers International Comedy Festival, and she appears regularly with the Hapenny Laugh and The Craic Pack improv comedy troupes. She was also Runner-up in the 2007 Funny Women competition. A rising star, she’s one to watch.
“Sharon Mannion seems to have stolen Tommy Tiernan’s soul” Chortle.co.uk
Tuesday Oct 9th
Ross Browne
Ross is a very funny, self indulgent, I love me and so do all the girls in Ireland kind of comedian. He is also a part-time wrestler, so hecklers beware.
The Craichouse had a front seat to the blossoming career of Ross and the success of the club is in no small part due to the excellent job that Ross does as M.C. A ball of energy that is not afraid to do anything to get the crowd going, he’s a sharp dressed man with an equally sharp tongue who will be the next big comedy superstar to come out of Cork.
Tuesday Oct 16th
JOHN CAPLIS
John has been performing comedy on the Irish comedy circuit for over three years now. He made his first appearance as a nervous open mic at the comedy club in Scholars Bar UL during his days there as a history and politics student.
Luckily for John it went well and since that first night nearly three years ago he has gone on to perform in all of Ireland’s main comedy clubs including The Laughter Lounge in Dublin, The Empire in Belfast and City Limits in Cork.
In the last year he has also supported Des Bishop, Neil Delamere and Jim Eoin. Across the water he has performed at the world famous Comedy Store in London and currently runs and hosts monthly comedy clubs at Riddler’s Bar in Limerick City and the Kenyon Comedy Club in Nenagh Co. Tipperary, which hosts top acts from all over Ireland. John describes his stand-up routine as a “fusion of anecdotes from his working life which includes reading funeral notices on pirate radio in Limerick city to picking fruit in obscure remote Australian towns.
Tuesday Oct 23rd
Gar Murran
In September 2006 Gar won the Bulmers Comedy Competition held in Dublin and the prize for this was to support Puppetry of the Penis for two nights in the Olympia Theatre to over a thousand people and he has not looked back since. He has performed in The Laughter Lounge, The International Bar, Comedy Cellar, Capital Comedy,(Battle of the Axe) Ha’Penny Bridge Inn in Dublin, The Roisin Dubh, The Cuba Club, and DeBurgo’s in Galway amongst others.
Tuesday Oct 30th
Fred Cooke
County Meath has already given Irish comedy two Perrier Award winning legends in Tommy Tiernan and Dylan Moran. Fred Cooke is hotly tipped by those in the know to join their coveted ranks in a couple of years- so see him here first. Having started out in comedy by running gigs while he was still in college, Fred has already gone on to support such acts as Jason Byrne, Ross Noble and David McSavage. His career seems to be following a similar trajectory to that of Jason Byrne, as his off the wall, high octane, manic brand of surreal genius has seen him become a crowd favourite amongst Irish audiences as well as being in insane demand in the country’s third level institutions. He has played all over Ireland and Britain and has even performed in New York, Australia and even Barcelona and Madrid. Catch him here so you can tell all your friends you were a fan before he became huge.
Tuesday Nov 6th
Keith Farnan
Having appeared on Irish Television in the second series of the Liffey Laughs, and the BBC Comedy series, One Night Stand, Keith Farnan is beginning to make an impression on a wider audience with his intelligent and charming onstage persona. With performances in the Edinburgh Festival “Best of the Irish” and the Kilkenny Cat Laughs Festival, and having played across Ireland and the UK, Keith is rapidly building up a reputation as one of the most energetic and entertaining of the new Irish acts to watch.
As a regular host of Ireland’s biggest comedy venue, the Laughter Lounge, as well as a frequent headliner in Ireland’s oldest venue, the Comedy Cellar, he has honed his ability to weave audience interaction with sharp observations to create a mesmerizing set. He has also enthralled American audiences in some of the biggest clubs in New York, performing with comedians and writers from Saturday Night Live and ESPN as well as appearing in the New York Underground Comedy Festival.
“Possessed of Talent, Focus and Energy.” Hot Press.
“Irelands latest Comedy Star ” Irish Examiner
“Keith Farnan is an absolute natural” Chortle
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Line up for The Craichouse comedy club:
All gigs have the following details.
Time: 9pm sharp
Venue: Slainte (formally the vineyard) Market lane, Patrick street, Cork.
Price: €7/5 for students.
Sunday September 23rd
Darren Shine (Des Bishop’s, Joy in ‘Da Hood, Network 2)
Chris Kent (Cuba, Galway/ City Limits/ Laughter lounge, Dublin)
Johnny P (Kerry comedian of the year ‘06, ‘07)
Donnchadh O’Conaill (Chortle student comedian of the year ‘06, London)
Sunday September 30th
Abie Bowman (Jesus: The Guantanamo years)
Colin McCarthy (Cuba, Galway/ City Limits/ International, Dublin)
Alan Hurley (UCC student comedian of the year ‘05 )
Sunday October 7th
Breen Crotty (Craic me up semi-finalist)
Dylan Holland (Basement comedy comedy club, Galway/ Neptune comedy club, Dublin)
Eoin Keegan (Craichouse Craic me up Winner ‘07)
Sunday October 14th
Niamh Marron (Bulmers comedy competition finalist ‘07)
Pat O’Shea (Des Bishop’s, Joy in ‘Da Hood, Network 2)
Dave Coughlan (UCC student comedian of the year ‘06)
Sunday October 21st
Eoin Keegan (Craichouse Craic me up Winner ‘07)
Johnny P (Kerry comedian of the year ‘06, ‘07)
Kevin Loughlin (Comedy cellar, Dublin)
Sunday October 28th (Jazz weekend)
Musical night of comedy
All comedians will be playing musical comedy
Alan Hurley (UCC student comedian of the year ‘05 )
David Duff, (aka Christ with a k)
Jamie O’Shea (Des Bishop’s, Joy in ‘Da Hood, Network 2)
Eoin Murphy (Craichouse craic me up finalist ‘07)
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