david o’doherty

My stand-up gig

This was my first and, I’m glad to say, only ever stand-up comedy performance, recorded exactly a year ago today for a Vodafone campaign. I still reckon that, on a minute-by-minute basis, I might actually be the highest grossing comedian of all time. (Eat shit, Seinfeld.) But I’m not in a rush to ever do it again.

Published: Unpublished, summer 2007

Readers Letters

Dear Eoin,

I’ve never been lucky when it comes to love. My first husband Michael was great with the kids and the sex was fantastic. But one day he ran off with my best friend Tracy and the contents of our bank account.

I found new love with Dan. He was great with the kids and the sex was fantastic. But one day he ran off with my brother-in-law Pete and the contents of our lingerie drawer. Read the rest of this entry »

EOIN BUTLER: KING OF COMEDY

Well okay… that might be a slight exaggeration. This is a stand-up comedy routine I performed at the International Comedy Club in Dublin earlier this month. It was filmed as part of a Vodafone marketing campaign, the point of which still kind of eludes me… but anyway. To paraphrase Blackadder, my routine starts badly, trails off a bit in the middle and the less said about the end the better. Read the rest of this entry »

TEMPORARILY OUT OF SERVICE

I’ll explain all in due course. Sufficed to say, I’m doing the devil’s work. Normal service should resume tomorrow. Thursday at the latest.

THIS IS FUNNY

Just spent a long, long afternoon in Dublin with the maestro of low key musical whimsy David O’Doherty. I doubt anyone’s ever used the words David O’Doherty is a harsh task master in a sentence before, let alone in that order. But I’m taking the plunge here and now: David O’Doherty is one harsh task master. He really is. That is all.

#12 WITH A BULLET…

There was a parcel from comedian David O’Doherty waiting for me when I arrived home in Ballyhaunis on Saturday morning. “Hey Eoin,” he wrote. “As Ireland’s twelfth ranked tastemaker, I am sending you a copy of this book I wrote with my friend Claudia and Mike from Daddy…” Read the rest of this entry »

READERS LETTERS

Dear Eoin,

I’ve never been lucky when it comes to love. My first husband Michael was great with the kids and the sex was fantastic. But one day he ran off with my best friend Tracy and the contents of our bank account.

I found new love with Dan. He was great with the kids and the sex was fantastic. But one day he ran off with my brother-in-law Pete and the contents of my lingerie drawer.Read the rest of this article here.

READERS LETTERS

Dear Eoin,

I’ve never been lucky in love. My first husband Michael was great with the kids and the sex was fantastic. But one day he ran off with my best friend Tracy and stole all our money.

Then I found new love with Dan. He was great with the kids and the sex was fantastic. But he ran off with my brother-in-law Pete and the contents of my lingerie drawer. Read the rest of this entry »