paddy courtney

LADIESH AND GENTLEMEN…

Urrgh… My hangover this morning (afternoon? No, right now is first thing in the morning for me) is directly proportional to how drunk I had to be to get on stage last night. (Last night was the stand-up thing I referred to in a previous post.) All told, it really wasn’t that bad. I learned a couple of things. (1) If you curse, people will laugh. (2) If you shout a curse, people will cheer. As it happened, I was very lucky in that my set was bookended by quite possibly the two worst comedians of all time. That definitely made me look good. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »