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SO A PRIEST, A RABBI AND A MINISTER… ETC. ETC.
Tripping Along The Ledge productions, in association with EoinButler.com, are proud to announce my first, nay, only ever stand-up comedy set will take place in the Ha’penny Bridge Inn on Tuesday, May 19th. It’s to tie-in with the Carlsberg Cat Laughs Comedy Festival, which takes place in Kilkenny later this month.
Basically, myself and two other non-comedians have been railroaded into undergoing an intensive, like, one hour crash course in how to do stand-up. I was kind of given the impression that participants were only expected to turn up, that everything else would be taken care of. Not quite, unfortunately. This morning, I was told that I’ll need to have about ten minutes of usable stand-up material already worked out when I turn up for the workshop on Monday. As if that’s the easy part. What are the highly trained professionals going to do? Colour coordinate my fucking outfit?
Anyway, it’s on the Ha’penny Bridge Inn on Tuesday, May 19th at 9pm. There will be no encores.
May 15th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Ha’penny Bridge on a Tuesday night, man if you’re not better than 3/4 of the other comics on their straight off the bat then….theres’ no hope for ya at all.
May 15th, 2009 at 11:33 am
maybe bring a little glove puppet with you eoin, take the heat off you kinda thing…everyone loves a crap ventriloquist
May 15th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Jesus, that sounds terrifying.
May 15th, 2009 at 11:48 am
@ Dee – I was leaning towards a jester’s hat kind of thing, but the glove puppets could be an idea!
@ RP – yeah but fuck it, its Ha’penny Bridge Inn on a Tuesday night. I image it’d be a one man and his dog type of audience.
May 15th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
So are there tickets available??
May 15th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
No idea Matt but considering we’re talking about three non-comedians performing unfunny standup, you’d have to imagine that, if they are, they’re going like hot cakes.
May 18th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
funnily enough that place can gather a crowd on the oddest nights. Lots of people like a bit of schadenfreude of a Tuesday it would seem.
May 18th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Well they’re in for a jumbo portion of it tomorrow night Darragh!
May 20th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
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