Funny Irish Comedians

An oxymoron. No such thing as a funny Irish comedian.

Nah, in fairness Kiely and your man Conan O'Brian from America were pretty funny and witty when they had a bit of a double act going on the Late Late there last week. The best Late Late in many many years.

Tommy Tiernan is not bad at times also.

Dara O'Briain used to be good, not so good now in my opinion.

The rest: waste of time

Good list except Emma Doran is as funny as a dead puppy

I saw John Colleary live in the Stags Head and he was brilliant. It was a good crowd and nice small basement venue. Some people are just naturally funny and he has that gift. Likewise Jimeoin is just naturally funny. Michael Redmond ( aka Father Stone) is similar. Just naturally funny people. Pat Short and John Kenny too are like that. I think to see D'Unbelievables live at their peak in the 90s would've been amazing.

People criticise Jason Byrne a lot and I've never seen him live but on the Doireann Garrihy podcast he was hilarious. He was just talking about growing up in Ballinteer and his dad and it was just very funny.

Dylan Moran "Monster" standup is world class standup material. It holds up with some of the best stand up sets ever like Pryor or Eddie Murphy. He has a unique style and character but with proper jokes. He probably peaked then though.

Tommy Tiernan and Hector are excellent on their podcast. I only listened to the first few though. Hector has brilliant stories and Tommy's good at riffing.

Dara O'Brien, David O'Doherty, Aisling Bea, Chris Kent, Ardal O'Hanlon, Andrew Maxwell, Eleanor Tiernan, PJ Gallagher, Maeve Higgins, Joanne McNally are all pretty decent but not amazing. We really produce a lot of good standard comedians. Worth seeing live but I wouldn't class them as amazing.

Jarlath O'Regan is ok. His material is very cliched I find. Just about Irish culture and drinking and mammies a lot. Likewise Des Bishop. There's a guy David Nihill on Tiktok who is similar also. Too much about being Irish. Foyle, Arms and Hogg are similar also.

Ed Byrne and Neil Delamere irritate me for some reason.

Daithi O'Se isn't a comedian but I find him very funny.

Yes Chris Kent is great,I'm going g to see him open for Frankie Boyle tomorrow night at a sold out (2500 seat) show.

I haven’t seen Colgan live, was great in ‘Hardy Bucks’.

I only listed young comedians I’ve seen live, I get that there are ones who put up online sketches but doesn’t translate to thr stage but I enjoyed that lot.

see tiernan for the first time in the 90's, he was absolutely on fire, he certainly has declined since, ive very little interest in him anymore, even though his tv show can be good

I'm not sure on that

yea definitely one of the hardest forms of art, takes some balls to stand on a stage, seen a newbie bottle it on one of their first gigs, felt for the poor chap...

Bernard Casey, have seen him a couple of times. You'd need to let a good bit of time between gigs though or his Nephew/Local Gossip characters could get repetitive.

Mike Morgan, saw him a few years back in the Hibernian Hotel in Mallow (his hometown) and he was very good.

John Colleary was very funny when I saw him support Tommy Tiernan. He was who we talked about on the way home, not Tommy although I do love the THL Podcast he does.

Laura O'Mahony, another Cork comedian is very good - she's doing a podcast with Olympic walker Rob Heffernan called RedRaw, well worth a listen.

John Colleary might be the best stand up in Ireland.

I agree Dylan Moran is a bit of a genius..

New comics have it much tougher these days. They have to come up with new material extremely fast to stay relevant and with modern recording it’s hard for them to “polish” their act in various venues.

Dylan Moran is like him in style.

I saw a lot of these comedians on an rte sketch show called No Worries If Not and they were appalling.