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Now displaying: September, 2015
Sep 25, 2015

Colm O'Regan is a stand up comedian and best selling author of the series of books "Irish Mammies" which sprang from the twitter account @irishmammies. He is also a columnist with The Examiner and a radio columnist with The BBC World Service. He runs a monthly stand up comedy club called Inn Jokes at The Patriot Inn, Kilmainham. As well as that, he has an impressive beard and will possibly be a Dad by the time you read this. It wasn't until I chatted to him for the podcast that I found out we shared a similar background in that we both grew up on a dairy farm. Did I mention he has a very impressive beard?

Sep 18, 2015

I first got to know Des Bishop when I was running a comedy club on Thursday nights in The International Bar called The Mad Cow Comedy Club. He was a new act doing ten minute slots. Then I gave him a twenty minute slot and he bombed so I told him I was demoting him back to ten minute slots. Amazingly he thanks me for this now for giving him a reality check. I loved having this conversation with him because as I find with a lot of my guests that I've known throughout the years I find out more about them in that one hour than I have while bumping into them at various gigs. Des has gone on to do a load of TV work including, Joy In The Hood (which gave a break to my previous guest Willy White) and In The Name Of The Fada and wrote the best seller book My Dad Was Nearly James Bond.

Sep 10, 2015

eeThis week's podcast comes from the Electric Picnic. I talked to Irish comedian based in London Jarlath Regan who hosts the An Irishman Abroad podcast. I also spoke to comedian/actor and former Southend United goalkeeper Terry Alderton who many of you will know from Eastenders in which played cab driver Terry Spraggan. I spent a whole summer rehearsing and acting alongside Terry in the stage version of The Shawshank Redemption back in 2013. Finally I spoke to 25 year old Scottish veteran comedian Daniel Sloss. Daniel has been performing stand up comedy since he was 16 and was the youngest comedian to perform a solo season in London's West End aged 19. Follow @joerooney1 and @castawaymedia

Sep 3, 2015

I've known Willie White since he came on the scene after appearing on the Des Bishop show Joy In The Hood.

He and Eric Lalor arrived on the scene at the same time and although they have very different styles both have established themselves as reliable solid stand ups.

Willie has incredible charisma and presence onstage but I would love to see him do more personal stuff as he has a unique story to tell and can bring a comic angle to even the most harrowing firsthand experiences as you will hear on this podcast.

Perhaps it's a miracle he has come so far from where he was but I believe he can go on to even greater things.

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