Mick Foley Ireland Shows

Source: PW Torch!

Mick Foley has announced a second U.K. (and Ireland - damn PW Torch!) Tour for his personal stand-up comedy show scheduled for February-March 2012. Eight dates are currently scheduled for the "Mick Foley Nights in Red Flannel U.K. Comedy Tour 2012." The list of dates is below from Mick Foley's website.

Feb 24 - London - Leicester Square Theater
Feb 25 - London -Leicester Square Theater
Feb 27- Birmingham - The Glee Club
Feb 28 - Cardiff, Wales - The Glee Club
Feb 29 - Sheffield -Memorial Hall
March 1- Liverpool - Olympia
March 2 - Dublin, Ireland (venue TBD)
March 3 - Belfast, UK - Empire

CMpunked wrote: »

My money is on the olympia.

Hmmm I think the Olympia is too big. I would say somewhere like The Button Factory.

Off his comedy tour Facebook,very much looking forward to this!

The DUBLIN show on 2nd March will take place at the fantastic O'Reilly Theatre on the grounds of Belvedere College. Tickets should be on sale next week. Check back here, follow @FoleyStandUpUK on Twitter and keep an eye on the official tour website. http://mickfoleystandup.co.uk/

His cousin probably cut him a nice deal to rent the place out!

tickets for the belfast show went on sale yesterday from ticketmaster outlets and from the venue itself (ask at the bar)

i got mine today

all details are up on the official site for each date in the tour about the meet and greet and photo opportunities with the man himself, different times etc for them all.
some before the show some after etc, i will be at the Belfast one and will be in awe all night long, FOLEY IS GOD

Got tickets for myself and my finaceé, cannot wait!

You can get one piece of your own merchandise signed by Foley,plus any other stuff that you buy at the gig according to reports of his shows in England.

Going to get my copy of Tietam Brown signed by him,if the lines aren't that big.

He apparently just switches between telling random wrestling storys to his standup routine with no real theme.Supposed to be good craic for wrestling fans.Quite looking forward to it now.

Anyone know what time to get there for the meet and greet at?

Enjoyed tonight. Support acts were top class. Mick was great. It's just a pity that some WrestlIng fans / event goers in Ireland are annoying losers and at times it can be mortifying to be Irish.

If there's anyone in wrestling that should have earned a bit of respect, it's Mick Foley. From what he's done inside both inside and outside of the ring. It couldnt have been made any clearer throughout the show that irrelevant and attention seeking yelling of random shíte was not wanted. Yet still, undeterred.. The idiots had to wreck everyone's buzz...

However he felt about it afterwards, mick was dead right asking said people to leave. Nobody paid to hear a bunch of eegits shouting out stuff like "Vader's gay". So yea, sarcastically slow claps all round to those guys if you're reading this.

Still a good show despite the shower of ruiners

CMpunked wrote: »

Dear God. What happened? Like, how did he handle it?
*Facepalm*

CMPunked.... gotta say but tonight was totally a let down but not by Mick or by the warm ups acts but all the muppets in the crowd. Maybe about 5 or 6 altogether.

We had 4 total twats in the row behind us (1 in a pantera shirt,1 in an NWO shirt,1 ginger guy that was probably a girl and a guy with a crap moustache) and from the first time the compare chris came out they just roared and shouted the whole time and so you missed alot of the jokes and punchlines cos of these guys.

I have to say that Mick was a total gentleman and deserves so much respect for the enjoyment he has give us all over the years but tonight has really shown a bad light on us Irish fans. You could see how upset and annoyed Mick was.

To answer CMpunked's question,Mick was very quiet when he was trying to handle the situation. He spoke to these muppets in the crowd,he asked them if they didnt want to be there then to please leave and let everyone else enjoy it but as the night wore on the muppets kept shouting more and more. After about 4 or 5 times of asking people to be quiet he singled out afew people (including the twats i mentioned) and pulled out his wallet and offered to give them their money back if they would leave but of course the chickens wouldnt say anything and just kept muttering under their breath.

I gotta ask,why was there no security to deal with these people? I mean,if your in a cinema and people are talking then staff would come and chuck you out so you dont spoil it for everyone? These assholes that were shouting were doing it from before the first warm up act,why were they not chucked out or told to wise up then?

I was there with 4 friends and we all sat afterwards in fibbers in pretty much disbelief as to the lack of respect that was shown and to make things worse,the 4 assholes that were sitting behind us shouting all night were in the bar and were laughing about it! So if these guys are reading this then cheers for wrecking a night i was looking forward too for ages

Would be ironic if those feckin geebags were the ones complaining and giving out that he wasn't doing a Dublin show on the last tour!

***WARNING! VERBOSE RECOUNT OF FOLEY'S DUBLIN GIG!***



As ever, Mick is a true gentleman and a charismatic, humble guy; but the show really didn't come together. As others mentioned the low point of the show was the ~5 hecklers who would should out random foley-esque references. Unfortunately Mick isn't an accomplished comedian so he couldn't deal with them very well; he couldn't just power-on through the heckles, ultimately halting his anecdotes (one right before the punchline) to chastise/reason with a heckler, before having to set up his gag again. He'd offer to give them a refund right out of his wallet; he'd talk to them with civility, and it didn't work at all. It went on for far too long and felt like you were back in school, when the teacher was giving out. He did bring it back up (how the night hadn't gone great) and apologised, which was also death.

The meet & greet started about 6pm and the show ended at 11pm - a horrible idea - as you're potentially (and likely) having people hungover in the crowd. The starting time was late, come about 8pm there was no alcohol in the venue (and was replenished during the opening acts). They initially announced no intermission, and then changed their mind, the whole operation seemed very last minute.

The MC was an irish comedian Chris Brooker, who came out with and Edge t-shirt and theme, and did wrestling gags (ruining his undertaker t-shirt that his girlfriend threw on, while misusing his wrestlemania seat) hit and miss but i did appreciate him trying to make wrestling jokes and the crowd ate it up.

There were two warm up acts, a wexford fella (Mick Thomas) living in NY; who talked about his daughter being his favourite.....then a real yank (Tim Guage) who had a yank routine about taking his kids to the beach by himself (carrying everything, taking his son to the piss-stained public toilets) and being at an age that he's now bald and can't fart because sometimes it's more than that. Universal fart humour. Both guys were on form and quite funny, got good laughs and lightened the mood. Great job guys. Actually met the bald US comedian just outside the auditorium before he went on stage. obviously i didn't know who he was, he was right to say the toilets weren't up these stairs. Also wandered into the backstage by accident trying to get back to the auditorium; backtracked like Hawk during a Vader promo when i saw flashlights starting to move in my direction!

The real problem was that this was a pro-wrestling crowd, used to hollering whatever/whenever they want, trying to get the performers' attention. But this is a comedy gig in an auditorium with 500 seated people. So 498 are silent/attentive, every heckle can be heard. Mick also had a 'special song' to play for hecklers, but even patiently waiting and hassling the sound guy from the stage, it never came on. I tweeted Mick about it, maybe he can tell us! Bar the few scattered muppets in the crowd, Foley couldn't ask for a better, more receptive audience. His comic timing isn't great, some of his punchlines fell flat and his anecdotes could be more interesting than funny; but whenever he paused, he'd get a laugh and a round of applause. He does mostly whisper into the mic, or maybe it's a comedian stressing-importance thing.



Reading a review from last year's gig, seems like he had all new material, so I'll share some of it here.

The funniest parts of the show were cheap shots at TNA (he told a story about Velvet Sky motorboating him, was shocked as a married man, but had an entire TNA crowd as witnesses - literally dozens of people); he initially came out to his WWE music, then re-did the entrance mocking Brodus Clay, dancing! He also stopped halfway through the show to peel back his left sleeve to reveal his crib notes, which got a raucous cheer. Surprised only a few people got the reference and shouted "THE DOZENS!" of Foley fans.

Pretty much the whole set was wrestling (that and complaining/apologising about hecklers); he mentioned getting pumped listening to a Tori Amos song before his WM2006 match with Edge (Kane interrupted Foley in a meditation tent at the venue, having heard what he was listening to, said "remind me never to **** with you"); Dynamite Kid drinking at a bar and telling a fan (Jericho) who was sheepishly approaching him to "don't even ****ing think about it!"; recounted a story about getting a h---j-- from a hitchhiker while her boyfriend was in the back sleeping (I didn't like this at all, but he did explain it at the end of the set that it was his wife roleplaying). He sidetracked talking about black comedians and their impressions of white people "hey there feller! Cut the malarkay!" which was quite funny.

He did recount the Hell in a Cell match with Undertaker (and how his wife gave out to him for not ringing home straight after the match - something he does every time - except this one, he was unconsious) and said the worst bump of the night was not getting chokeslammed through the cell, but having the chair follow him down and smash him in the face. He compared it to real sports (where they'd stop if someone was unconsious) to wrestling (where Vince would say "buy him some time"; sending terry funk out there to get chokeslammed out of his shoes. Foley noted he never saw Funk, just "what are these shoes doing in the ring?"...So when his tooth came out of his mouth and pierced his penis, sorry - nose, Taker leaned in and said (Foley warned us about breaking kayfabe) "hey there feller!" which got a big laugh. He said Taker said (in his best Taker impression) "Go home".

He noted that when he was commissioner, he didn't have days or hours to read the script; as commish he had to know what everyone else was saying but he loved working live tv shows and having to improvise. Another anecdote was circa 2000 when he saw Vince backstage just before a show talking to Jericho, reminding him to call Steph a "dirty disgusting (etc) trash bag ho"; Foley looking at him weird and saying "Vince, that's your daughter" and Vince replying "In this business I'd do anything for a pop". Which got some kind laughs and a round of applause. Whenever Foley's punchlines didn't work he'd just get a round of applause.

His last joke's punchline died/abruptly stopped as he went *straight into* a very short Q&A without missing a beat, it was really very odd. Someone asked about being a wrestler ("don't do it"), what was the sorest move (Foley couldn't understand him and so - next!) next autobiography (maybe 1 person cheered) and said he's written one but that's why it isn't out (Mick was generally not that quick on his feet with comebacks etc)...funniest rib (story about Owen -- during the attitude era the godfather got his ho's from local bars, and owen convinced tv news reporters that they worked for the WWF, and were being interviewed on TV, and blackjack mulligan saw and broke it up. "and that was owen" was the punchline).

To end the night he mentioned 'when people asked me about this tour i'm gonna say it was great - except for dublin' (which got gasps) and then he backtracked and said 'except for a few people in dublin'. He also mentioned his experience affecting him coming back (negatively) but the compere/introducer did mention he'll definitely be back (....dunno about that mate!). After mick apologised for not dealing/having to deal with the hecklers, he did a schtick about torture, and getting motorboated by Velvet Sky (saying it was like being punched by Vader, but in a good way) and torture was not being threatened with something, but being threatened that something great was never going to happen again. He brought out the two warm-up acts; and then left the stage (cursing this show); got a standing ovation/applause but the mood was still very sour after the complaining he did, as everyone awkwardly left.

So it was memorable, to say the least! Anyway I didn't mean it to go so long, but sure, hope you got a good feel for the show. I gotta stress that most people were absolutely lovely, attentive and had a great time, but the parting thought/mood was disappointment and sourness from Mick, and from the Dublin crowd about the few scattered '****' in the crowd. Hey, at least I was there for the first and last Dublin Foley gig!

TL;DR? Everyone tried to have a good night but it was ruined/soured by a few hecklers & Mick couldn't deal with them.

It was the same few people; I'm sure it would've been a different story if Foley hired security. Sure hindsight is 20/20 but chuck the first heckler out and the rest fall in line.

There were a few scattered "shut up!" etc in the crowd but nothing much; more applauding Mick's chastising.