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Ireland's best female comedian (stand-up or otherwise)

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    #32
    rednik
    Registered Users Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭rednik


    Linda Martin, always good for a laugh.


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    #33
    Skid X
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    Maeve Higgins is good, I would be struggling after that.

    Sharon Horgan is a very good comic actor and writer, if she counts?


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    #34
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Well Gina Yashere is female, Irish and funny!


    Actually she's not, she's just $h1t


    "My mum right, my mum is Nigerian right and does all sorts of wacky things right"


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    #35
    denhaagenite
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    Morag wrote: »
    http://www.taraflynn.ie/

    I thought nobody could hear you above the shouts of "Maeve Higgins is so lol I thought I'd piss myself". Wtf is wrong with us if Maeve Higgins is the best we can come up with?? She's a load of crap compared to Tara. She's a load of crap compared to a load of crap.


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    #36
    Ava_e
    Closed Accounts Posts: 241 ✭✭Ava_e


    Another vote for Tara Flynn. Saw Rosaleen Linehan (the mother of Graham Linehan) on stage a few years ago, she was fantastic.


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    #37
    Ava_e
    Closed Accounts Posts: 241 ✭✭Ava_e


    Skid X wrote: »

    Sharon Horgan is a very good comic actor and writer, if she counts?

    Pulling was absolute class.


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    #38
    Dr_Brian_Cocks
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    Bella from Fair City.


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    #39
    Skid X
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    Ava_e wrote: »
    Another vote for Tara Flynn. Saw Rosaleen Linehan (the mother of Graham Linehan) on stage a few years ago, she was fantastic.

    They aren't related. Although she was funny.
    Sorry, just to be clear, I’m not saying that Rosaleen Linehan is not well known in Ireland, I’m saying that she’s not my mother.

    http://whythatsdelightful.wordpress.com/2008/12/26/god-forgive-us/


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    #40
    PinkLemonade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 768 ✭✭✭PinkLemonade


    Duckworth_Luas wrote: »
    Well Gina Yashere is female, Irish and funny!


    Actually she's not, she's just $h1t


    "My mum right, my mum is Nigerian right and does all sorts of wacky things right"

    She grew up in Britain, has she ever even been over here?


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    #41
    TheUsual
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    That fine blond yoke Enda in the Daíl always makes me laugh.


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    #42
    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,068 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Skid X wrote: »
    Sharon Horgan is a very good comic actor and writer, if she counts?

    I hope so, because she's the funniest female Irish comedian that I can think of!


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    #43
    123 LC
    Registered Users Posts: 670 ✭✭✭123 LC




    tara flynn in this video is hilarious


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    #44
    pharmaton
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    I'm hilarious


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    #45
    TheUsual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    pharmaton wrote: »
    I'm hilarious

    Self praise is no praise.


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    #46
    marwelie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭marwelie


    Deirdre OKane, apart from being Ireland's funniest woman is also very very good looking, therefore she wins.





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    #47
    Dr_Brian_Cocks
    Site Banned Posts: 280 ✭✭Dr_Brian_Cocks


    ^
    NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO


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    #48
    Allyall
    Registered Users Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    Doing a google image search of Twink is pretty funny.

    http://www.google.com/ncr


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    #49
    Crooked Jack
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    marwelie wrote: »
    Deirdre OKane, apart from being Ireland's funniest woman is also very very good looking, therefore she wins

    seriously, niamh marron is actually brilliant. purdy too.


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    #50
    ColeTrain
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    starviewadams wrote: »
    Eleanor Tiernan and Maeve Higgins are funny enough,not many to choose from though.

    Can't think of many funny (current) Irish male comedians either in fairness.
    Legs.Eleven wrote: »
    Maeve Higgins.
    RayM wrote: »
    I saw Maeve Higgins recently - she was very funny. Eleanor Tiernan is good too. I haven't seen much of her material, but Aisling Bea seems quite promising.
    Timmyctc wrote: »
    Maeve Higgins imo. Usually really funny and has variation in her sets and doesn't just talk about being a woman (fu*king hate that)
    Skid X wrote: »
    Maeve Higgins is good, I would be struggling after that.

    Sharon Horgan is a very good comic actor and writer, if she counts?

    You should all be ashamed of yourself. She's about as funny as a corpse in a clown suit..


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    #51
    Meangadh
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    I like Deirdre O'Kane as well, and I think she's great in Moone Boy. She was hilarious in Fergus' Wedding.

    Don't really get Tara Flynn. Maeve Higgins can be ok at times. I'd like to see Aisling Bea at some stage, she seems good.

    I know Amy Huberman isn't a comedienne but she's a very good comic actress and some of her tweets are quite funny. Plus she seems like one of the nicest and prettiest girls in the world. The bitch. :pac:


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    #52
    AngryHippie
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    marwelie wrote: »
    Deirdre OKane, apart from being Ireland's funniest woman is also very very good looking, therefore she wins.

    She is not funny, not particularly good looking, her voice is like a box of glasses falling down a stairs and you....are a liar....blind.....or Deirdre O'Kane

    Pauline McGlynn gets my vote, does no-one remember scrap saturday ???????


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    #53
    Lenin Skynard
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    Absolutely love Deirdre O'Kane and Maeve Higgins, and the girl from Irish Pictorial Weekly.

    I'm not sure if this is a usual Irish-bashing AH thread or a usual woman-bashing AH thread but I can't get on board with either.


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    #54
    Oranage2
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    I personally don't find her funny but she seems the biggest right now and has a slot on the BBC and that's Mrs Browne.


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    #55
    Lelantos
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    There are no good Irish comediennes. Pauline McGlynn was brilliant, but now is more concerned with acting & writing.


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    #56
    jill_valentine
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    Meangadh wrote: »
    I know Amy Huberman isn't a comedienne but she's a very good comic actress and some of her tweets are quite funny.

    She's fabulous.

    Distressingly, when I googled to make sure she was who I was thinking of, the third result was for her listing on Wikifeet.

    You diminish us both a little more every day, Internet.


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    #57
    AngryHippie
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    Lelantos wrote: »
    There are no good Irish comediennes. Pauline McGlynn was brilliant, but now is more concerned with acting & writing.

    Scrap Saturday
    1996 British Comedy Award Top TV Comedy Actress Father Ted

    Numerous Comedy show appearances, including Bremner, Bird and Fortune, Just a Minute, Have I Got News For You, The Panel and They Think It's All Over.
    Shameless
    Threesome.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_McLynn
    And, the lady has written 7 novels (none of which I have read yet)

    But I don't think that any other Irish Comedienne can put her hand up to say she's up there with Pauline.

    Deirdre O'Kane definitely doesn't deserve a mention in the same sentence....Nor does Tranny O'Carroll


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    #58
    worded
    Registered Users Posts: 4,557 ✭✭✭worded


    More YouTube links pls,
    Could do with a laugh


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    #59
    AngryHippie
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vZKEyCfZe8
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmgTj_dHWfg

    Maybe you had to be there ?


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    #60
    Kold
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    Naming the best Irish comediennes is like naming the best Icelandic, crippled rappers or Kenyan, dyslexic swimmers. You'd have to have pretty good specific knowledge on a subject that no one else has ever been arsed to look up.


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    #61
    Panthro
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    Maeve Higgins is about as funny as a bag of rashers.


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