Galway Comedy Festival is bursting at the seams with comedy brilliance, all part of a 70-strong line-up of international stars, homegrown comedy greats, and emerging talent, playing 69 shows across 16 venues over 7 days and nights. You’d best start planning your week of ‘carefully curated craic’.

Al Porter
Following up his sold-out tour in 2023/24, Al’s back with AL PORTER ALGORITHM where his unique brand of exciting, energetic and fun loving comedy meets his most relatable stories ever!

Why does Instagram think he needs to get assessed? Can you learn to love renting in a house share? Can his parents deal with empty nest syndrome? Why is his brother the golden child? And much more!

One of few Irish comics ever nominated for a Perrier Award (like Tommy Tiernan and Dylan Moran before him) Al’s 2023/24 show “Now” was critically acclaimed with reviews like, “Gloriously upbeat! No self pity… Irrepressible stand up storytelling (Chortle) and “Dazzling…Brilliant and very funny” (The Scotsman)

AL PORTER’s ALGORITHM is trying to find a formula for living in a world on fire! Just like online, in life, you’ll see more of what you pay attention to and Al’s always on the look out for the upside!

Aideen McQueen
Comedian and Gaeilgeoir Aideen describes herself as “a woman who’s been through just enough therapy to monetise her emotional chaos”. Fresh from a triumphant run at Edinburgh Fringe, Aideen is Galway-bound with her latest show, Waiting for Texto, about online communications’ tendency to create misunderstanding. Scottish Field hailed the show as having “many laugh out loud moments as the situations she finds herself in are well observed and comedically perfectly delivered”.

Eddie Mullarkey
Galway Comedy Festival is full of mirth and mischief, but we take supporting local talent very seriously. Galwegian Eddie Mullarkey is a rising name in Irish stand-up, thanks to his deft, top-notch crowd work and interaction as well as his engaging storytelling approach to observational stand-up. They say laughter is the best medicine, and if so, then Eddie’s cheeky and seductive wit will heal all your ailments.

DOORS: 20:30 | SHOW: 21:00