Comedy festival kicks off today for five days of laughs
BRAY Comedy Festival opens today ( Wednesday), with five days of laughter ahead at venues around Bray.
Headline act Tommy Tiernan is well and truly sold out, but there is still plenty to tickle the funny bones.
This is the fifth year of the festival, with today ( Wednesday) kicking things off with two show. The opening gala features
Karl Spain, Kevin McGahern,
John Colleary, impressionist Al
Foran and Après Match’s Barry
Murphy, in the Martello. In the
Harbour Bar on the same night, it’s ‘Born in Bray’.
The festival continues on
Thursday, with the one and only Tommy Tiernan at the
Esplanade, but tickets can’t be got, so comedy lovers can head to the Martello for the best new act competition.
Follow that with something
Weirdly Wonderful – this year’s
Edinburgh Comedians’ Choice winner, Paul Currie & his quite specifically chosen guests –
Zenjiro all the way from Japan
(& BBC3) and the envy of every comic with his 4 million downloads and a summer of sell-out gigs, Tony Cantwell.
‘Giz A Laugh’ creator and the woman who brings us joy,
Shardon and Chanto, Enya
Martin adds Bray Comedy Festival to her continual sell out appearances.
They sold out last year, so they had to be back – Father
Michael and Kathleen in all their dysfunctional coupled glory. Scott Carpurro (Mrs. Doubtfire, Star Wars: Phantom Menace, BBC’s That Gay Show) is the special guest during the Best New Act Final.
Kids will want to take their folks to This is Your Trial. Their folks will want to take them to Family V YouTube. Grannies may get a shock at Bingo Loco, but everyone else that heads to this psychedelic, BIG prize giving bingo rave will just want more.
Other acts include Comedy Gold at O’Sullivan’s, Sing Along Social at the Harbour, Fr Ted Friday at the Martello, Gearoid Farrelly at Dockyard, and Dublin Comedy Improv at the Harbour Bar.
Go to braycomedyfestival.ie for tickets.