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

rednik · 13-06-2013 11:39PM

Linda Martin, always good for a laugh.

Skid X · 13-06-2013 11:40PM

Maeve Higgins is good, I would be struggling after that.

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

Duckworth_Luas · 13-06-2013 11:44PM

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"

denhaagenite · 13-06-2013 11:45PM

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.

Ava_e · 13-06-2013 11:47PM

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

Ava_e · 13-06-2013 11:49PM

Skid X wrote: »

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

Pulling was absolute class.

Dr_Brian_Cocks · 13-06-2013 11:49PM

Bella from Fair City.

Skid X · 13-06-2013 11:50PM

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/

PinkLemonade · 13-06-2013 11:51PM

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?

TheUsual · 13-06-2013 11:51PM

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

My name is URL · 13-06-2013 11:54PM

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!

123 LC · 13-06-2013 11:58PM

tara flynn in this video is hilarious

pharmaton · 13-06-2013 11:59PM

I'm hilarious

TheUsual · 14-06-2013 12:52AM

pharmaton wrote: »

I'm hilarious

Self praise is no praise.

marwelie · 14-06-2013 12:58AM

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

Dr_Brian_Cocks · 14-06-2013 01:00AM

^
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

Allyall · 14-06-2013 01:02AM

Doing a google image search of Twink is pretty funny.

http://www.google.com/ncr

Crooked Jack · 14-06-2013 01:15AM

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.

ColeTrain · 14-06-2013 02:11AM

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..

Meangadh · 14-06-2013 03:17AM

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:

AngryHippie · 14-06-2013 04:23AM

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 ???????

Lenin Skynard · 14-06-2013 05:17AM

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.

Oranage2 · 14-06-2013 05:51AM

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.

Lelantos · 14-06-2013 06:10AM

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

jill_valentine · 14-06-2013 06:16AM

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.

AngryHippie · 14-06-2013 06:24AM

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

worded · 14-06-2013 06:25AM

More YouTube links pls,
Could do with a laugh

AngryHippie · 14-06-2013 06:30AM

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

Maybe you had to be there ?

Kold · 14-06-2013 06:47AM

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.

Panthro · 14-06-2013 07:48AM

Maeve Higgins is about as funny as a bag of rashers.

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

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